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YOGA SHALA

WELCOME TO SOUL PAGES
The Amandari journal
Reflections on Mindfulness & Yoga
from past classes
for your inspiration


My Thoughts are not Me - we think what we think is real.
Based on Anahat sitting session May 29, 2019 After the past week, we know that mindfulness meditation helps us to achieve a peaceful,...
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Day 6 - Freedom of Choice: Other Meditation Anchors
After a week of small, bite sized meditations and some background to each, we’ve practiced various methods. Today's meditation includes a...
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Day 5 -Grateful for Difficult Times
So I was man-down this past week, feeling really ill and sore, with a few upsets mostly caused by other people, but life in general...
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Day 4 -Making Sense of Our Senses
Hi everyone! This is day 4. More than half way. I hope you'll stay with it. You can do it! :) This is definitely a meditation you can...
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Day 3 - Metta Meditation
There is so much to say about Metta Meditation, but its difficult to squeeze it all into 5 minutes without causing a total overload. So...
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Day 2 – Samatha – Breathing Meditation – Mindfulness of Breath
Just as we detox and clean our body through diet and drinking lots of water, we can detox our mind. We’re all aware of disease caused by...
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Day 1 - Living with Purpose - Setting an Intention
5 minute Setting an Intention Meditation It was a bit of a toss-up between starting with the traditional mindfulness breathing practice...
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Preparing: Making Space for Meditation
Hello lovely people! So we're starting tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to joining you for the next 7 days. It'll be easy and relaxed -...
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The 7 day Challenge Explained
What is Mindfulness Meditation? Congratulations! You’ve signed on for the meditation challenge. What will we be doing during those 7...
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Boddhicitta - about Being a Heart-Warrior
Boddhicitta is a sanskrit word which means “heart-mind” In Chinese, the written character for the word 'heart' is the same as for the...
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Sleepwalking? Or Designing your Future
I happened to come across an article recently called “Sleepwalking + Designing for a Healthy Future.” It was an interview with the...
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Balancing Meditation & Life
"Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you ... Look...
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Sitting in Awareness Meditation
As the first class, after taking a break for a while, we’re starting with something simpler. It's a meditation called variously Sitting...
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Feeling at Home
Unpacking boxes in our new house, and starting to get my head around teaching again, I came across a copy of Rumi’s famous poem “The...
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Zen and The Human (Dis)Connection
When I sat with the concept of moving classes onto Zoom, and how to maintain the Human Connection, I thought about connection from a Zen...
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