Gain a calm mind, relaxed body and refreshed spirit through daily meditation practice.
Begins January 24, 2022
Before becoming a meditation teacher I struggled for years with trying to meditate because my mind raced like the Indy 500 speedway. I was a type A+++ and sitting still made my skin crawl.
Then I found a teacher who changed my mindset and in the process changed my life. I learned that all the really important things in life are an inside job. Like peace, compassion, kindness, courage, love and so many more qualities. Meditation helps you cultivate these qualities in yourself and in your life. The benefits of meditation show up in your life in numerous ways.
I have always loved life… but not until I started to consistently meditate did I fall deeply in love with the full spectrum of life.
Make friends with your mind and find your calm
Power of the Pause is an uplifting, inspiring, and informative course that will help you make meditation part of your daily life to reduce stress, increase clarity, and promote happiness. This course is designed for real life and real people trying to juggle everyday challenges.
Meditation can help you find inner peace, creativity, inspiration, harmonious relationships, fulfillment, better health, more self-awareness, and so much more. The mainstay of the program is breath awareness and silent sound meditation, both of which direct your attention inward and help you to reconnect with your center point of peace.
Meditation is not just spiritual fluff or hippy dippy woo woo – it works at a physiological level to change the structure of the brain. For example, it strengthens the neural connections related to logic and rational assessment and weakens the neural connections related to fear and anger.
This results in greater self-awareness, emotional control, and puts space between our immediate judgments and responses. Thousands of clinical studies have been conducted to date that verifies meditation’s benefits.
Whether it is through a sweaty yoga practice, a gratitude meditation, or a conversation over tea about passion for life, my mission is to lead people towards their bliss.
Teaching yoga and meditation for 30 years, I am continually inspired by the beauty of the human spirit, the ability of the body to heal, and the innate unconditional bliss that lies in each of us. I have certifications in meditation from The McLean Meditation Academy and The Chopra Center.
For the last 20 years I have had the pleasure of teaching 1000’s of people to meditate at my studio and now I am excited to share this experience online with you.
I can relate to the beginner who finds the practice of meditation challenging or intimidating and wants to give up. Because I understand what it takes to make meditating feel easy and natural, I can show you how to meditate in the most simplistic way. In my course you will find that I am patient, supportive, encouraging, and inspiring, My light-hearted teaching style is fun, refreshing, and entertaining. I am attentive and in tune with my students and have a way of making everyone feel comfortable and capable.
The Power of the Pause is a 4-week program that begins on Monday, January 24, 2021 at 7 pm.
We meet once a week as a group by Zoom. If you are unable to make it, a recording will be available so you can watch it at your convenience.
During each 90 minute session, we will experience meditating together and exploring new techniques each week. Marsha will also share valuable information on meditation.
You aren’t alone on this journey. There will be time for questions and answers during the live calls as well as the opportunity to email Marsha with questions. You also have access to the private Facebook group so you can connect with others.
Reducing accumulated stress can help you enjoy life more and feel more content at work, at home and in all the relationships that matter to you.
Lowering psychological stress
can help reduce the likelihood of many common health problems and can even help you sleep better at night.
Meditation will make you more productive. Reaching a state of inner ease can lead to greater productivity, faster response times, more accurate decisions and better results at school, work and play.
Reducing accumulated stress can help you enjoy life more and feel more content at work, at home and in all the relationships that matter to you.
When you spend more time looking inward you will naturally be guided to new levels of wisdom, power and intuition. Eckart Tole says, “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
The yoga teachings talk about this inner calm that resides in all of us. Inside each pause is a refreshing dose of peace. As a result of heightened awareness you rediscover inner resources of peace, joy and well being and realize that is our natural state.
The Power of the Pause introduces you to a powerful, yet simple-to-do method you can use every day. In the class, you’ll:
After a week of practicing we will now explore:
Energy is the “Fuel of Life”. Learn to use it to:
Be still and be available to:
This course is for beginners or anyone who wants to get back on track with meditation.
If you are a more seasoned meditator then you might be interested in my “Peace Out” course coming in January.
Meditation is as easy as breathing. The hard work is to continue doing it. It only works if you use it. Meditation is not a switch you turn on and then be done with, you must keep flipping the switch of consciousness ON and practice daily.
This is really the nuts and bolts of it, isn’t it? Meditation is the practice of becoming aware of our thoughts, thought by thought. We can get lost in thought, like a kind of daydreaming, and float away. Or literally fall asleep and actually dream. But meditation is the opposite of this. It is absolute awareness: full attention, full presence to whatever is in front of us or within us, right now, just like it is. Meditation is full of exercises for practicing this. You will find that the benefits are so great that the practice is worth every minute. By awareness of the breath, concentration, focusing the mind, and other techniques, you will learn to befriend your thoughts and discover peace of mind.
Stillness is what meditation teaches. It’s something that we have to practice. If a new meditator is having trouble sitting still there are many exercises that are designed for just this condition, like focusing on the breath, for instance. Don’t forget that almost everyone when first meditating feels that they cannot become still, or quiet the mind. This is a normal stage in developing your meditation practice.
Right away, you will feel more present. This one thing changes everything. You become more conscious of how you deal internally with yourself, and your world. By meditating, everything from your work to your relationships, your business, your inner self-esteem and your sense of contribution to the world becomes richer. You can learn to be happy, fulfilled and feel whole. By being more present you become more focused and on purpose in your life. Your direction becomes clear and possible. You will find your attention to everything you do is better and less distracted and life becomes inspired!
Yes, it is most important that you are comfortable. We do prefer sitting in an upright position as opposed to laying down since that usually leads to sleep. It can be in a comfortable chair or couch, you don’t have to sit cross-legged on the floor.
No, meditation is a spiritual practice that will enrich and deepen the beliefs and understandings of followers of any religion. If you are not interested in the spiritual aspects you will still obtain great benefits, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Well, the good news is that it doesn’t really take all that much time. As soon as you pick up the basics by practicing for five or ten minutes each day.
Meditation benefits are almost immediate. The numerous health benefits that result from meditation are another great reason to adopt the practice. Certain benefits can start making themselves felt very quickly after people start sitting. A sense of calmness and peace of mind are common experiences, even if this feeling is fleeting and subtle.
From improving heart health to relieving back pain to boosting our memory, meditation offers a wide range of health benefits. Additionally, it helps us relax, decrease our stress levels, deal with anxiety, and sleep better. With this in mind, it’s not a surprise that the meditation statistics show how this ancient practice is growing in popularity both in the US and in the world.
People are becoming aware of how our stressful lifestyles negatively affect our physical and mental states, so they’ve started looking for new ways to get peace of mind. And meditation is just perfect for helping you achieve inner peace. By meditating we can find our way home again, and get back to ourselves. We can experience clarity and real peace. We are all searching for truth and meaning, and meditation will take us there – directly.
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