Meditation
Timetable
Within you are infinite wonders, infinite secrets, the most mysterious knowledge, love as deep as the ocean and strength as solid as a mountain. Attain these through meditation.
Meditation is the heart and science of Yoga. It unifies the inherent power of body, mind and spirit.
At The Shanti Yoga Health Institute, 47 High Street, Southport, we offer regular sitting practice to enable you to release habitual patterns of tension and relax more fully into meditation. Provided in the room are cushions, mats and blankets and traditional western chairs with back support. No special clothing or equipment is necessary. Each session is intended to stand alone, and whilst attendance at previous sessions is not required, regular attendance is most beneficial, as benefits are cumulative. Research shows that 1/2 hour of meditation provides deeper rest than a night of sleep. 5 years of structured meditation, and you are likely 12 years younger biologically than someone the same age.
The Shanti Yoga Health Institute presents methodical, effective and comprehensive, mind-body training in the contemplative, holistic, secular path of meditation, suited for both beginning and advanced meditators in a supportive, local environment. This training unites the inherent healing power of the mind, body and spirit with the cosmos.
Through the practice of sutra meditation, mindfulness and vipassana meditation you'll learn skills which will positively impact every aspect of your life to help boost your immune system and ease stress. The Health Institute meditation provides the transformative essence of practical yoga science to help you discover and creatively express your life's true purpose.
THI meditation provides an extraordinary opportunity to transform the debilitating energy of anger, fear, expectation and disappointment into a powerful and beneficent force. Through a sincere willingness to use the principles and tools of yoga science and meditation, physical, mental and emotion
al disease begins to melt away.
Meditation provides freedom
It is a process through which the inherent happiness and freedom of being is released. It will introduce you to a way of living that is positive, intelligent and unreasonably happy.
Initially it provides a direct confrontation with habitual patterns of mind that cause the sense of self and all suffering.
Learn to meditate and watch your life improve
Each session is liberating and enduringly transformative. When we emerge off the meditation cushion, the transformation gets expressed in our conduct and actions. We can assume a great deal of control and responsibility over our own lives. With meditation we can re-create ourselves in terms of a new vision. It teaches us to be:
- Free from bondage to words, intellect, analysis, attachment to ‘I’.
- Free from past conditioning patterns and habits
- Free to change our thoughts, actions, images
- Free to chose a new way of acting and being in the world.
- Free to experience nature, others, ourselves.
Class times at Southport
| Monday | |
| 9.15-10.15am | Pranayama, Mindful breathing. Relax, breathe, heal |
| 11.30am-12.10pm | Nidra, Dharana, Dhyana. Relaxation and Meditation |
| Tuesday | |
| 12.30-1.15pm | Nidra, Deep Relaxation and Self Healing |
| 8.00-9.00pm | Kirtan, chanting |
| Wednesday | |
| 6.30-7.30pm | Nidra, Deep Relaxation and Self Healing |
| Thursday | |
| 12.30-1.15pm | Nidra, Dharana, Dhyana. Relaxation and Meditation |
