Embodied Living: Recent Episodes
Sue Tupling
A simple exercise and breathing technique to help engage the diaphragm and begin to strengthen vagal tone. This helps to counter the effects of undischarged trauma and bring us into coherence.
A 30 min yoga nidra practice with guided visualisation storyline. A more advanced practice
A simple 20 min guided meditation inspired by Jon Kabat-Zin. Based on observation of and awareness of breath and body. Great for beginners and advanced meditators to encourage interoception and stillness of mind
A short 10 min practice of breath awareness. Following the breath navel to throat to increase focus of mind and subtle awareness
Antar mouna means inner silence. This 20 min meditation is slightly more advanced practice for those who have already mastered kaya stairyam meditation. The practice withdraws the senses and helps to focus and concentrate the mind and control thoughts and thought processes.
A 25 min guided practice systematically taking you through the six bridges of the body. Areas that are highly enernvated and are quick to hold tension and slow to release it. Together with some relaxing music this practice can help you to relax on a deep level
A longer guided practice of abdominal breathing. It takes you through extending the breath to a regular count of 4:4 equalising inhalation and exhalation
listen to my recent interview with Stuart George of BBC Radio Stoke about how the recent spell of warm weather contributes to our happiness
Teaching points from week 1 of the 8 week emotional wellbeing course. Overview of anxiety and depression, Western view, self relations view. Embodied Living principles and the concept of the 'three minds'.
Sue Tupling of Embodied Living appears on BBC Radio Stoke. Sue said, "
I love BBC Radio Stoke, I was on prime time this morning with Perry Spiller. Really like the guy, especially as he got my name wrong. He asked some wonderful and insightful questions about happiness because today was international day of happiness. Hopefully I gave him some food for thought for his show and he plugged me as big on yoga. I do work hard to try to add value to these shows (I feel incredibly grateful to be asked on) and give listeners some food for thought, to challenge their concepts of happiness. Perry pretended to be a whimsical radio presenter (playing to the audience, he was fun) but I appreciate his ability to listen and the depth of his questions. I'll post the recording below, in case you're remotely interested."
This 6 min practice involves holding tension asymmetrically in the body and then consciously releasing it. It is fantastic for anyone who holds tension and anxiety in the body and who finds relaxation difficult.
This 9 min guided practice takes you through the breathing method of nadi shodana. It involves a controlled practice of breathing through alternate nostrils and balances the nervous system, helping you to self-regulate
This is a great relaxation for those who find it hard to relax. It consists of holding and releasing tension in your body and leaves you feeling relaxed
A short meditation inspired by Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, and Swami Anandananda's teaching. On space. 16min
A short 25 mins simple yoga nidra meditation. Yoga Nidra is a practice which leads awareness through many levels of mental process to a state of supreme stillness, receptivity and insight. Like all yoga practices it is the persistant practise that brings about real transformation and joy. It can be considered a form of meditation. However, in meditation you remain in the waking state of consciousness and gently focus the mind whilst allowing thought patterns, emotions and sensations to come and go. In comparison, in Yoga Nidra you leave the waking state, go beyond the dreaming state into a state similar to deep sleep, whilst remaining awake. It is a very powerful state for your brain to be in! Enjoy this simple recording
Our unconscious mind has a blue print of our body in perfect health and in disease. It is this mind that generates patterns and habits of living that often, we are not in control of. Take back control of your health and wellbeing and get the bodymind out of its less-than-helpful patterns of ill-being and replace them with wellbeing. And you will change your system at genetic level. And reboot your system to restore energy and vital lifeforce. Approx 20 mins practice - but do it for 21 days consecutively to install a new unconscious pattern.
A short practice to encourage coherent breathing at a rate of 5 breaths per minute to encourage maximal HRV and physiologial and emotional coherence
A 15 min guided relaxation exercise, focused on taking your awareness to different parts of the body, using the breath awareness and, in particular, the exhale to let go. This exercise focuses on those 'bridges' of the body, the motor areas that are quick to hold tension and slow to release, and will help you to let go of key areas of tension and experience a deep relaxation of mind and body, quickly.
The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is regarded as a healing mantra. It is addressed to [god] and considered as one of the most potent Sanskrit Mantras. Along with the Gayatri mantra it holds the highest place among the many mantras used for contemplation and meditation
The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra
Om trayambakam yajaamahe
sugandhim pushtivardhanam
Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan
mrityor muksheeya maamritaat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamrityunjaya_Mantra
Meaning/Translation
We meditate on the [god] which nourishes and increases the sweet fullness of life. Like a cucumber from its stem may we be separated ("liberated"), not from immortality but from death.
For more information on the vast system of yoga: http://www.myyoga.org.uk/
Meditation is a powerful way to help you increase focus and energy and raise your performance when under pressure. On a deeper level it can help you to connect to yourself and be more at peace in the world. Here is a 7 min guided meditation on counting the breath that you can do anywhere, anytime. Enjoy!
A short beginners Antar Mouna meditation: ideal for building focus and concentration and regaining control of thoughts. It takes you through a systematic process of withdrawal of the senses. Duration: 16:48 min