I believe that the goal of meditation is to learn how to tune into the thought frequencies that are best for us. I teach highly effective guided forms of meditation which can help you clear out old energy, or debris, from your inner/energetic body and connect to your Higher Self.  In all my meditative practices, I focus on balancing and expanding our body’s energy.

One-on-One Meditation Sessions: These are the most personal and specific type of meditation that I offer for my private students. This one-on-one experience will help move old, extraneous and unnecessary energy out of your energetic body, freeing up your physical body to heal faster, and helping your mind achieve greater clarity. I draw upon my life experience and gifts as an Empath to tune into your energy and help you connect with the experience that is most healing for you. This type of meditaiton is highly charged in conjunction with a healing physical activity, such as private yoga class or connecting with nature (hike, swim, walk).

Group Meditations: These guided meditations work well in small groups of 8 or less . We begin by introducing the practice of Light and Chakra based healing meditations that cleanse and clear our physical, emotional and energetic bodies. I may also introduce elements of Shamanic Meditation by exploring through the Middle, Lower and Upper Worlds, or by seeking out our Spirit Animals or Guides.

Prenatal Meditations: These are guided meditations designed to help you connect to your baby and prepare your body for birth. These are available as free downloads on iTunes and on Podomatic.

 

Personalized Birth Meditations: By working with you during your pregnancy, I will create a series of meditations that you can use to help facilitate the emotional and physical response aspects of labor and birth. You can use these meditations at home during early labor and take them with you to the hospital for second stage labor and birth. By attenuating your mind to a specific vision, goal or mantra developed specifically for YOU,  you transform your birth experience into a powerful expression of strength and focus.

 

 

 

 

My Meditation Story

My very first meditation experiences were spontaneous. Usually after a long savasana, I would travel up to other worlds in mind, imagining all sorts of amazing and miraculous things. These were quite lovely experiences, often repeated in states of quietude: in nature, in deep contempalation.

Sometime around 1998, I became really interested in shamanism. I read all I could about ecstatic dance, states of trance as induced by drumming, and cultural rituals which surrounded these inward-outward journeys of consciousness.  I took a class with Sandra and Michael Harner, authors of “Way of the Shaman” wherein we learned how to enter the Middle World, the Lower World and the Upper World. And I  started shooting a documentary set in the dance music world that explored how music affected the human brain.

Around the same time, I began exploring guided meditations in a small class setting. My friends and I had amazing trips in that class and would passionately discuss our experiences afterwards. I began to meditate on my own, sometimes listening to drums to induce the required state, and at other times, accessing it after a sweaty, challenging yoga class. I loved these deeply intense experiences, and it was easy to lose myself for up to an hour or longer in these alternate worlds I visited.

Since these exepriences were all “in my mind,” however, I wondered if they were “real,” or the product of an overactive imagination. To confound things even further, a few experienced meditators told me that I wasn’t really meditating during guided meditations and that, in order to meditate, one needed to sit in a particular seated position and meditate on a mantra or one’s breath. Discouraged, I began to seek out quiet, silent meditation techniques, but nothing ever felt quite right. I began to dread meditation and feel like failure.

A few years later, I took my first yoga teacher training. We were asked to arrive early so that we could meditate silently for about twenty minutes. “Finally!” I thought. “I’m going to learn how to meditate the right way. Twenty minutes of silent meditation was followed by meditation on a single subject or thought form for another ten to fifteen minutes. I felt horrible. I just couldn’t meditate like the others seemed to do.  I felt stupid and like an even greater failure.

I let go of meditating for a few years after that, figuring it wasn’t right for me.

It wasn’t until recently that I took a meditation class with Lorin Roche. He explained to us that meditation for Westerners (house-holders, his teachers called us) was very different from meditation designed for monks living in isolation. We weren’t to feel bad if we couldn’t abide by meditation guidelines designed for monks. In fact, it was ludicrous to think that we could all meditate in the same way. His point of view really freed me to promote my natural talents as a guided meditation instructor.

I have now returned to the root of my very first meditation experiences, which were always filled with intense vibrancy, bubbling spirals of energy, and incredible travels beyond the confines of my mind.