Without a doubt, the best time to do your practice is early morning… there’s a special energy at that time of day.
Many people give up at the first hurdle in their meditation practise.
This very simple guide to maintaining your meditation practise may help you stay on track!
How organised and disciplined are you? Do you find you’re really good at making “to-do” lists, but not so good at actually ticking things off it?
If you have never tried chanting a mantra before, you might feel pretty daft trying it for the first time.
Since the Beatles first travelled to India in the 1960s and were filmed meditating with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, it has become much more mainstream in the west.
My last blog post was about Ayurvedic doshas, and how your dosha might affect your meditation.
One of the main questions I am asked about my meditation practice is something along the lines of “but don’t you just sit there and think about all the things you need to do today?” Well yes, I do! I’m primarily a Vata personality.
Ayurveda means “science of life;” it’s a traditional Indian medicine system whose applications run far and wide. In Ayurveda, every person is treated as an individual. It is based on the principle that we are all made up of different proportions of the five elements: air, fire, water, earth and space. The proportions of these elements we have in us determine everything from predisposition to illness to skin type.