If you're not familiar with it, a guided meditation is a journey or visualisation that participants follow as a facilitator talks them through it. These can be very simple, like the meditation we do for relaxation and grounding at the beginning of a Tai Chi or Qigong class, or they can be more elaborate, like a story you are part of. These evening guided meditation sessions involve the more elaborate kind of meditation.
The session includes a check-in, where we each share a bit about how we're doing (this is optional and voluntary—you can pass if you want to), then after a break we go through the meditation, and then we finish by sharing whatever we wish to about our experiences with the meditation. The session takes around two hours.
I wanted to extend the invitation to join the guided meditation sessions to our larger community. There's no prior experience necessary to attend.
Thursday, May 7, 2020, 6-8 pm
Topic: Finding Guidance
This meditation takes place on the night of the Flower Moon—which is also the last supermoon of 2020! There should be great viewing that night! In accordance with the energies of this moon, we'll be working with a meditation that should help us blossom.
Sometimes, we want to know if we're on the right path, or we just want help, or to know that we're not completely off kilter. If you've been a part of New Age or meditation circles, you might have heard people talking about seeking guidance, or getting in touch with their guides. This meditation will focus on accessing intuition, your higher self, and benevolent energies in order to learn to find and understand guidance in almost any situation.
Friday, May 22, 2020, 6-8 pm
Topic: Finding and Creating Sacred Spaces
Sometimes, we need a place to settle into ourselves or connect with higher energies. According to feng shui, there are some arrangements of objects in our homes that make for optimal energy flow, and in nature, these arrangements happen quite spontaneously. There are many places where the terrain and plant life come together in order to raise the energies of a particular area. This may be a corner of your own balcony or yard; it may be a small area of a public park, or it may be a small area of your home.
This meditation will invite you to go within to find and create a sacred space so you know what one looks and feels like, therefore allowing you to locate or make one wherever you may be.
This meditation takes place on the night of the New Moon. This is a wonderful time for planting seeds of self-development: as the moon waxes or grows over the course of the following two weeks, so the skill or ability we learn at this meditation will be easier to develop.
How to Join
All meetings take place via Zoom. If you'd like to join, contact me at smithmk2@gmail.com or (905) 521-0043 and I will send you an invitation. If you've joined previously and you want to invite a friend, please do!
If you haven't been a part of our classes before and you're not coming in through a past participant, please get in touch with me ahead of time so I know you want to attend.
Fees
Cost is $20 per session.
This fee is flexible for people who have already studied with me. I know this is an uncertain time. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions or concerns.
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