Light Space Sky Yoga Nidra LIVE at Steam House Hot Yoga available on Podbean Spotify iTunes YouTube

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Light Space Sky Yoga Nidra

LIVE at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates

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by Melissa Abbott on Oct 7, 2019 after a Hot Flow Vinyasa Class. This 15 min Yoga Nidra is perfect to do after a Hatha Yoga Session or at anytime during the day or night when you need to let your body and brain relax. To sign up for Melissa’s Yoga Classes: www.steamhousenh.com

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Melissa Abbott is a Hot Core 26/2 Yoga Teacher in Southern NH and Northern MA who also practices Tantric Yoga Meditation, Barkan Hot Vinyasa and Vinyasa Flow at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates, 75 Railroad Ave., Epping NH and Blue Yoga Group, 644 Humphrey St., Swampscott, MA.

Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation is available on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, and YouTube. Please subscribe and leave feedback. Check out Melissa’s website at www.melissaabbottpodcast.com

To request information about History of Hatha Yoga Workshops (Lecture & Slideshow)for your studio or trainings or Tantric Yoga Meditation Workshops please email melissaabbott109@gmail.com

Three Bindu Yoga Nidra recorded Live at Steam House Hot Yoga

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5CD738E1-4E3D-48D1-B25E-3D0548A524F1Three Bindu Yoga Nidra recorded Live at Steam House Hot Yoga www.steamhousenh.com  Sept 23, 2019 with Melissa Abbott as your guide.

The Three Bindu Meditation is a Trika Tantric Yoga Visionary Meditation used to activate the embodiment, life force energy, and awareness centers within the meditator.

This session was made after a Hot Vinyasa class, where the Yoga Nidra Savasana Meditation is used to calm the body and brain after an intense physical workout. The Three Bindus Meditation is usually a longer more involved session given in a seated position. This practice was modified for a simple Yoga Nidra which will leave the student refreshed, enlivened, and relaxed.

Three Bindu Meditation is a powerful healing practice that can be used in timing to the moon. In standard Tantric practice this is used the day or evening before the full moon or can be used at anytime to awaken your primary energy centers Head, Heart and Gut. You can use this as an opportunity or doorway to deepen or intensify your own expanded awareness using the liminal or twilight state of Yoga Nidra Meditation helping you to repose in your true essence nature. Our essence nature is one Bindu, one Universal Consciousness but can refract through the prism of our bodily awareness to Three Bindus or primary points of awareness.

Upcoming Workshop with Melissa Abbott:

AA3768E3-C4C7-4591-9E3D-68485A2F5550“Back to Yoga School” The History of Hatha Yoga at Blaze Hot Yoga, 800 Islington St., Portsmouth NH – Saturday September 28, 2019 12:30-2pm Slideshow of the Roots and Beginnings of Hatha Yoga from early Ascetics, Tantras, Early Classical Writings to Modern Day Postural Yoga in the West. How did Hatha Yoga begin and why? How did it get to the West? What are the connections and relationships. We will end the workshop with a classic Visionary Tantric Yoga Meditation using some early yogic techniques using the breath and mantra from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. A 1000 year old Tantric meditation manual. This practice will help you connect the dots to early practices to your own present you practice. sign up: www.blazenh.com .

Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation Podcasts are available on Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, and iTunes. Please subscribe and leave a review or comment. Check out: www.melissaabbottpodcast.com 

 

LIVE from Steam House Hot Yoga “Limitless Clarity Yoga Nidra” Meditation

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85FC9703-F166-4C88-9E5F-A26802843A80.jpegC88587A7-885B-4752-B0D5-4120B66E31B0LIVE from Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates in Epping NH “Limitless Clarity Yoga Nidra” Meditation. Recorded after a Monday Evening Hot Vinyasa Class on Sept 16, 2019 by Melissa Abbott. Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates www.steamhousenh.com has a Yoga Nidra Session every Monday Night after the 4:30pm 60 min Hot Vinyasa Class.

Yoga Nidra Meditation is the perfect way to end an intense Vinyasa Workout as it allows your body and brain to normalize and cool down. It works on the subconscious mind/body connection with your nervous system to process your feelings, thoughts, and emotions to heal within and develop mental willpower, improving your ability to be emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually centered, thus restoring wellbeing.

You can practice this Yoga Nidra anytime during the day or night when you have 15 minutes available to meditate. It is especially good before bedtime or anytime you want to wind down.

Please enjoy this live session and if you live in the Northern Ma, NH, or ME area please come to class. You can find more of Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation Podcasts www.melissaabbottpodcast.com

Melissa Abbott’s Visionary Tantric Meditation & Yoga Nidra Podcasts are available on: Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, and iTunes. Please subscribe and leave a review.

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Back to Yoga School with Melissa Abbott click link to sign up:

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Back to Yoga School with Melissa Abbott

Learn the beginnings of Hatha Yoga and Meditation with the Ascetic Holy Men Communities and how the Tantra Movement influenced how we know Yoga and Meditation in today’s world! 1 hour slide show illustrating the early codification of Hatha Yoga and it’s fluid development into today’s world. At the end we will do a 1/2 hour Tantric Yoga Meditation with early practices from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra that will give you a tangible connection with the ancient practices and your current Hatha Yoga and Meditation Practices. Yoga Teachers and Dedicated Students will not want to miss this!! Sign up today!! #seeyouthen

Blaze Hot Yoga & Pilates, 800 Islington St., Portsmouth NH

Sept 28 12:30-2pm

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Stupa of Sanchi 50-25 BCE

Here we see an early depiction circa 25-50 BCE of an Ascetic Hatha Yogi as part of a carved Stupa. He has his hair in Jata ( dreadlocks), has a Yoga Strap or Bata, Water Pot, and Hut as well as other early iconography. The very first writings that called Hatha Yoga, Hatha Yoga are in the Dattatreyashashastra ( a text written by a sage Kapila thought to be 13th Century CE. Learn more about what we know about early Hatha Yoga and why, what, where and when at “Back to Yoga School” with Melissa Abbott signup: http://www.blazenh.com , 800 Islington St., Portsmouth, NH or signup: MINDBODY App – Sept 28 12:30-2pm #hathayoga #yogahistory #asceticyogis #yoga

If you are a Yoga Teacher or Yoga Student this workshop is a Must!

Vast Unbounded Awareness Within Yoga Nidra

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Join me in experiencing the “Vast Unbounded Awareness Within Yoga Nidra” during this podcast.

The Practice of Yoga Nidra is a practice of Yogic Sleep that will guide you to a place between wakefulness and sleeping. Listen to the sound of my voice and completely relax becoming aware of your breath in an easeful and gentle manner as you are guided within experiencing your own vast energy awareness.

Join me weekly:

LIVE Yoga Nidra Session after a 60 minute Barkan Hot Vinyasa Class at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates in Epping New Hampshire, Monday Nights @4:30pm-5:45pm – check out the Mindbody App for my other weekly classes @ steamhousenh.com

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I would like to invite you to:

“BACK TO YOGA SCHOOL WORKSHOP” Sept 28, 2019 12:30-2pm @ Blaze Hot Yoga & Pilates in Portsmouth, NH http://www.blazenh.com

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So excited to be offering this History of Hatha Yoga Workshop to you, especially all Yoga Teachers & Students There are a lot of new translations and research done on early Hatha Yoga beginnings, especially in the last couple of years. We will discuss Dattatreyashastra ( early Ascetic ), Hatha Yoga Pradipka, Shri Tattva Nidhi and Yoga Karuntika ( Mysore Lineage), Gorakshanath and Nath lineages from Bengal and how these early documents of Hatha Yoga influenced what streams of yoga came to the West including Calcutta Lineage, Krishnamacharya ( Mysore School ), Sivananda of Rikkikesh and his students who came to the West. What postures/asanas came from where and how they have evolved.Wouldn’t you like to know where some of your favorite postures originated? How have the Hatha Yoga traditions evolved from Early Tantra to the various streams that of how Hatha Yoga came to the West during the last 120 years. We will have a Slideshow presentation and finalize the session with a Tantric Yoga Meditation from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a 1000 year old compendium of meditation instructions from Shaiva Tantra which influenced what we know as Hatha Yoga today. You will leave the workshop with a sense of History and Connection to your own present practice.

Thank you for listening to Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation Podcasts. Please subscribe and leave a comment on these Visionary Tantric Yoga and Yoga Nidra podcasts. They are available freely on Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube.

Namaste, Melissa

Back to Yoga School

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So excited to be offering this to you, especially Yoga Teachers! You will be glad you took this course. There is a lot of new translations and research done on early Hatha Yoga beginnings. We will discuss Dattatreyashastra ( early Ascetic ), Hatha Yoga Pradipka, Shri Tattva Nidhi and Yoga Karuntika ( Mysore Lineage), Gorakshanath and Nath lineages from Bengal and how these early documents of Hatha Yoga influenced what streams of yoga came to the West including Calcutta Lineage, Krishnamacharya ( Mysore School ), Sivananda of Rikkikesh and his students who came to the West. What postures/asanas came from where and how they have evolved. Wouldn’t you like to know where some of your favorite postures originated?

BACK TO YOGA SCHOOL with Melissa Abbott featuring a Slideshow illustrating the Roots of Tantra and Classical Hatha Yoga to present day Contemporary Hatha Yoga in North America. Have you ever wondered How did Yoga begin? We will explore the how, when, where, and why of Hatha Yoga and its Tantric connections and then we will trace the various streams of how Hatha Yoga came to the West during the last 120 years. We will include a Guided Tantric Yoga Meditation from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a thousand year old compendium of Meditation Instructions from Kashmir Shaivism which influenced in may ways what we know now as Hatha Yoga. You will leave the Workshop with a sense of History and Connection to your own present Practice.

Meditation & Teaching of Verses 22-24 Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Expanded Awareness Meditation with Ham Sah Mantra & Easy Kumbaka Breath Retention

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Meditation & Teaching of Verses 22-24 Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Expanded Awareness Meditation with Ham Sah Mantra & Easy Kumbaka Breath Retention

Today we are doing a bit of a longer seated integrated meditation and teaching from The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Verses 22-24, Expanding Awareness using the Natural Mantra Ham and Sah (the natural sound of the Breath) and combining with a very gentle breath retention technique called Kumbaka. This integrated Visualization, Mantra, and a Breathing Technique that can deepen your meditation practice to more expanded states of consciousness. 

This practice is well known amongst many past Sages, Saints, and Masters who have used this practice with great love and success and because of this it is known as a “go to” practice and because so many evolved and awakened masters have used this practice, it is known to have enlivened or awakened energy which isn’t in your run of the mill mindfulness meditation practices.

UPCOMING LIVE WORKSHOP: with Melissa Abbott

Sept 28 12:30-2pm Blaze Hot Yoga & Pilates, 800 Islington St., Portsmouth, NH – to sign up: www.blazenh.com – BACK TO YOGA SCHOOL with Melissa Abbott featuring a Slideshow illustrating the Roots of Tantra and Classical Hatha Yoga to present day Contemporary Hatha Yoga in North America. Have you ever wondered How did Yoga begin? We will explore the how, when, where, and why of Hatha Yoga and its Tantric connections and then we will trace the various streams of how Hatha Yoga came to the West during the last 120 years. We will include a Guided Tantric Yoga Meditation from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a thousand year old compendium od Meditation Instructions from Kashmir Shaivism which influenced in may ways what we know now as Hatha Yoga. You will leave the Workshop with a sense of History and Connection to your own present Practice.

Check Out my teaching schedule at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates, 75 Railroad Ave., Epping, NH www.steamhousenh.com You may want to catch my Barkan Hot Vinyasa Class with a LIVE Yoga Nidra Session EVERY MONDAY NIGHT 4:30pm-5:45pm and visit the website for my other classes.

Please leave subscribe, leave feedback and a rating on my podcasts which are available on Spotify, Youtube, iTunes, and Podbean.

Namaste, Melissa Abbott

LIVE Point of Light Yoga Nidra at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates, Epping NH

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This short and powerful Point of Light Yoga Nidra was recorded live at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates, 75 Railroad Ave., Epping NH after Melissa Abbott’s Barkan Style Hot Vinyasa Class on Aug. 5, 2019. Every Monday Night at the 4:30pm Class there is a 15 minute Yoga Nidra in Savasana after class. There are different imaginary and visionary Yoga Nidra Meditations every week. To find out more information or to book a class: www.steamhousenh.com New Student Special $30 for 30 days. 

Yoga Nidra is particularly effective after a Hatha Yoga Class, although it can be done at any time of day or night. In the Yoga Tradition, it issued to restore and cool down the body after an intense Yoga Session and ensures the body can absorb the benefits of the yoga asanas.

Yoga Nidra promotes deep relaxation and rest that isn’t found in your average meditation practice. During a Hatha Yoga class, the students activate their life force energy of Prana Shakti in the postures. A long deep guided Savasana style Yoga Nidra increases the benefits of a Hatha Yoga session. Yoga Nidra is known to activate the relaxation response and improve the functions of the nervous and endocrine systems in the body. A Yoga Nidra session promotes the repair and regeneration, relieving muscular, mental, and emotional tension decreasing anxiety and improving mood, sleep, and life. It is known to enhance memory, creativity, improve sleeping patterns, and cultivates positive body awareness restructuring the Mind/Body/Spirit balance within. It is used extensively for chronic pain, grief, anger, PTSD, and deep relaxation. Very good for blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, improving heart rate and levels of of adrenaline and cortisol. Yoga Nidra develops focus and mental willpower and brings inner peace, joy, and well being to practitioners.

Before doing this meditation, make sure to lie down on a bed, couch, or yoga mat on the floor. You may place a soft pillow under your bent knees on under your head to make yourself as comfortable as possible. It is best that you remain completely still during the entire Yoga Nidra session but if for some reason you need to adjust something to make yourself more comfortable feel free to do so. The important thing is that you are able to let yourself completely relax during the session. Some people place and eye pillow over their eyes or make sure to wrap a blanket or shawl over themselves, not only to keep warm but to contain the mediation energy or Shakti during the session.

It is my pleasure and privilege to lead you through the Yoga Nidra Session. You can find more Visionary and Imaginative Yoga Nidra and Tantric Yoga Style Meditations at Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditations available on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, or Podbean. Please leave a review, subscribe, and rate the podcast. If you have any questions or concerns email melissaabbott109@gmail.com . Thank you for listening.

Many Kind Regards,

Melissa Abbott

Expanded Golden Pillar Meditation Dissolving Your Triggers

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Expanded Golden Pillar Meditation Dissolving Your Triggers

A powerful foundational Tantric Yoga Meditation Practice taken from the illuminated 1000+ year old spiritual masterpiece, “The Pratyabhijna-Hrdraya” also known as The Recognition Sutras. In the Recognition Sutras or The Heart of Recognition, the author, Rajanaka Ksemaraja, gives us useful and practical ways to embrace the whole of our experience of the expanded center, so we can release and surrender our identification with our psychological self, our unresolved past, stories we tell ourselves, mental constructs, and samskaras. Those things that get us triggered and stuck with revolving mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual patterns. In essence this we can move on from our conditioning and touch more deeply within ourselves.

This meditation became alive for me a couple of years ago when I took a Recognition Sutras course with Christopher Hareesh Wallis. I had actually been interested and studied this text on and off since 1991. It wasn’t until his translation of the actual practices in Chapter 18 that this text spoke so clearly to my actual meditation practice. I started implementing them into my daily meditation sessions and the result has been stunning clarity to embrace the whole of reality.

Recently, While on retreating July 2019 with Christopher Hareesh Wallis at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, we worked with this Meditation practice. This is my interpretation of his teachings via Ksemaraja of 1000 years ago. I hope you will experience that the radical acceptance to the nature of reality means surrender to what wants to move though you. This practice has the ability to help you relax out of identification with your stories and patterns and stop clinging to aversions and self images.

Christopher Hareesh Wallis is the author of Tantra Illuminated and The Recognition Sutras.

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