Stillness & Meditation

Stillness and Meditation Practitioner

Stillness and mediation are about cultivating the ability to calm the mind and body long enough to feel peace. It is about cultivating peace but also about realizing that at your core, you are peace itself. Even in the midst of life's storms there is a center of calm. I will help you find it and from there, go out into the world with greater confidence and commitment. The practice is both literal and figurative. We will actually practice sitting still and feeling the body's natural vitality, while simultaneously discovering the stillness and peace that lie within.

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What To Expect

1 to 2 Hour Length Sessions

Longer sessions allow us to take our time to move deeper into topics. The initial session is free to establish rapport. Further sessions are offered in 7 or 12 session packages.

Cultivating Self Awareness and Presence

With this practice you have the opportunity to work directly on confronting what is troubling you in an open space, free of judgment.

Posture, Mobility, and Expression of the Body

We work with the body to reestablish it's natural coping mechanisms that have been covered due to long periods of stress, tension, trauma, and prolonged states of “fight, flight, or freeze.”

What Is Meditation?

Meditation is ultimately about getting back into one’s body through the cultivation of stillness, both stillness of the mind and stillness of the body. Using our breath as an anchor we patiently turn our awareness to feeling our bodies, to where we hold tension, and to where we feel anxiety, sadness, excitement, etc. Meditation and stillness are not just about cultivating peace. They are about discovering that at heart, you are peace.

Cultivating stillness in this way, we move back into the body in order to know the difference between feelings which are fleeting, temporary, ungrounded, and stemming from trauma or other forms of environmental stress, and sensations which are pure, grounded, balanced, and life sustaining.

Meditation creates the ability to recognize the difference between consciousness, awareness, and thinking. A still mind creates the ability to realize that there is a state of being which has nothing to do with all of the thoughts that come and go throughout the day. Stillness of mind engenders the ability to know that one is more than their thoughts. It engenders an understanding that there is a state of being which is more grounded than the fluctuations of the mind.

A still body leads to a sound mind. A sound mind allows one to move in the direction of their fears, anxieties, and unhealthy emotions where the act of feeling into one’s suffering with pure non-judgmental attention, transforms it into something more grounding and life sustaining.