Active Meditation Therapy
If you've always struggled with sitting still and quieting your mind during meditation, then active meditation is the perfect practice for you. There are numerous techniques to explore and experiment with, allowing you to find the one that resonates best with your unique needs. You may even discover that you connect with multiple techniques, each supporting you in releasing different emotions that have been stored within your body over time. Trust your heart's certainty when you find the right technique for you.
Active meditation takes you beyond the confines of the mind and into the realms of the unknown. It involves witnessing, observing, and becoming aware of your body, thoughts, emotions, and feelings. By simply witnessing these aspects of yourself, you create a separation from them.
Through a combination of jumping, dancing, breathing, and shouting, active meditation helps to awaken your senses and make you more alert than you would be in your ordinary state. As you engage in these activities, your body, mind, emotions, and moods begin to fade away. And in that state of waiting, true meditation occurs. It is in this space of waiting that the magic happens, and you transcend into a state of blissful joy.
Active meditation allows you to move beyond the limitations of traditional meditation practices and find a method that truly resonates with your being. It is a powerful tool for releasing pent-up emotions, expanding your awareness, and experiencing profound states of joy and transcendence. Embrace the practice of active meditation and open yourself up to the transformative possibilities that await you.
The Active Meditations we regularly work with are:
Dynamic Meditation
This meditation is a fast, intense, and thorough way to break old, ingrained patterns in the bodymind that keeps one imprisoned in the past, and to experience the freedom, the witnessing, silence, and peace that are hidden behind these prison walls. This meditation is done in the morning, when the whole of nature becomes alive, the night has gone, the sun is coming up and everything becomes conscious and alert.
Kundalini Meditation
This meditation is done at sunset or in the late afternoon; it is a highly effective way of unwinding and letting go at the end of the day. Being fully immersed in the shaking and dancing helps to ‘melt’ the rock like being, wherever the energy flow has been repressed ad blocked. Then that energy can flow, dance and be transformed into bliss and joy.
Nadabrahma Meditation
Nadabrahma is the humming meditation – through humming and hand movements conflicting parts of you start falling into tune, and you bring harmony to your whole being. Then, with the body and mind totally together, you ‘slip out of their hold’ and become a witness to both. This watching from the outside is what brings peace, silence, and bliss.
Vipassana Meditation
This method is based on a method of Gautama the Buddha. It is for practicing awareness, watchfulness, mindfulness and witnessing whilst watching the breath. Nothing is a disturbance in Vispassana, it includes everything such as thoughts, judgments, feelings, body sensations and impressions from the outside world. Watching whatever comes up then gently returning to the breath.
Nataraj Meditation
Nataraj is the energy of dance. This is dance as a total meditation, where all inner divisions disappears and a subtle, relaxed awareness remains.
Devavani Meditation
In this meditation a gentle, unfamiliar language moves and speaks through the meditator, who becomes an empty vessel. It deeply relaxes the mind and creates inner peace. It can be done at any time of the day. If done last thing at night, it also creates a profound sleep.
Gourishanker Meditation
If breathing is done correctly in the first stage of this meditation the carbon dioxide formed in the bloodstream will make you feel as high as Gourishanker, Mt Everest. This ‘high’ is carried into subsequent stages of soft gazing, soft spontaneous movement, and silent stillness.
Mandala Meditation
Every circle contains a centre. In the first three stages of this energetic and powerful technique ‘centering’ is the aim, through the creation of a circle energy. Then relaxation.
Whirling Meditation
Whirling is an ancient Sufi technique. While your whole body is moving you become aware of your very being, the watcher at the centre, which is unmoving. You learn to be an unidentified witness at the centre of the cyclone. This meditation is best done on an empty stomach and wearing loose clothing.
Chakra Breathing Meditation
This active meditation uses deep, rapid breathing and body movement to open and bring awareness, vitality, and silence to each of the seven chakra’s and into your life. The meditation is best done on an empty stomach.
No-Dimensions Meditation
This active centring meditation is based on Sufi techniques. Using the breath and a series of coordinated body movements followed by whirling, your energy becomes centred in the hara, the ‘life energy’ centre below the navel. From there you can watch the mind and experience awareness and wholeness – the body moving in all directions, the centre unmoving.
Prices
Active Meditation - 2 hour session £75
Includes:
30 minutes consultation
1 hour active meditation
30 minutes integration including heart warming herbal tea or cacao