Hmm… so the yoga isn’t going anywhere yet as is evident in my highly, highly infrequent posting on this blog. I still don’t have a regular practice and I can probably say I’m back to square one or close to it. I could give many reasons for this, yet they don’t really matter, point it, yoga isn’t happening.

But at least I’m trying my hand at meditation. I was recommended Eric Harrison from the Perth Meditation Centre and he’s very good at giving practical classes on meditation minus any religious or fancy jargon.

I had my first class last night and what I realised was that I was already familiar with meditation. The techniques I had used in shavasana were the same techniques we learned last night. We used 3 different meditation objects, listening to sound, body scanning and breath count. I remember being guided through a body scan and being told to keep my mind on my breathing during shavasana, but I also incorporated breath count and listening to sounds to my own shavasana practice. I would slip into a meditative state without consciously knowing it.

So now I’m aiming to incorporate more meditation into my daily life while things settle down and I can get back to some sort of routine that includes yoga.

By the way, Eric’s book “The Art of Awareness” is very good, practical guide to learn how to meditate.