Elemental Meditation Course Overview

Chad Woodford, a yoga teacher with over 20 years of meditation practice and recent study in the Himalayas, leads a four-week mantra meditation course starting in February. You get a personalized mantra based on your astrology and dharma, weekly live sessions with recordings, and check-ins at one week, one month, and five months after.
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Meditation is my favorite practice and my favorite thing to teach. So I am offering a 4-week meditation course in February where we will go through all the elements of this meditation technique and really break it down and start to establish a consistent meditation practice together. My name is Chad, and I'm a yoga and meditation teacher. I've been teaching different styles of yoga for over a decade, and I've been meditating for over 20 years. With different styles, breath awareness, Qigong, and some other techniques. And until recently, I was living in India studying some advanced yoga and meditation techniques with different masters in the Himalayas. And so I've come back to share some of these techniques with you, which I have found to be the most powerful and the most accessible that I have experienced. So what is meditation? It's gaining mastery over the mind and the self. In meditation, we're shifting from an identity with the mind to identifying with our higher self, our awareness, our consciousness. And meditation is a technique for quieting the mind and accessing this deep stillness within, where the more we allow the mind to become still, the more we have this greater access to an infinite field of potential within us. Meditation is also a process of truly knowing yourself, moving towards unity, moving towards wholeness, moving towards integration, and accessing your inherent bliss nature, coming into a deeper experience with reality, really. The benefits of meditation are many. With a consistent meditation practice, you will feel calmer, you will experience greater clarity and focus, You'll become less reactive, more adaptable in your life. You'll have more compassion and acceptance both for yourself and for other people. You will gain greater access to your intuition, that small quiet voice that is always guiding you towards your best decisions. You'll start to move to a place in your mind where thoughts come from, and you'll start to consciously choose your thoughts instead of being at the mercy of what feels oftentimes like an onslaught of thoughts. Thoughts that are just coming from somewhere. And ultimately, we'll be planting seeds of intention in this deep field of silence that we're accessing through meditation. And these seeds can grow into greater clarity, greater creativity, greater fulfillment, and greater joy. So the style of meditation that I teach is a mantra-based technique, and that's because mantra meditation is the most accessible but also the most powerful technique. In this technique, we are using a feature of the mind, which is that it's wired to repeat, and we're giving it a special kind of thought that it can kind of hone in on, and we're using that to slowly soothe and take the mind deeper into silence. So the course is a 4-week group course. Where there's weekly live instruction and practice sessions that we do together. And in these sessions, I'll be sharing step by step the different aspects of this powerful meditation technique that you can easily weave into your daily life. You'll have access to recordings of all the sessions, of course, and you'll also have a private session with me where I will give you a personal mantra for your meditation that is based on your astrology and your personal dharma. You'll also have access to a thriving online spiritual community that goes along with the course, which is so essential to maintaining consistency in practice. And we'll do regular check-ins with the community throughout the course and after the course for 1 week, 1 month, and then 5 months after the course, just to check in and make sure you're, you're still maintaining that essential consistency. Meditation is The most important and nurturing thing you can do for yourself and for others in your life. When you meditate, you become the best version of yourself. In fact, meditation is the key to true liberation and bliss. So if you're tired of being at the mercy of your thoughts, join me in the course. It only takes a month to develop this essential habit that will completely transform your life if you let it. I'll see you there.
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