Yoga Bio

Discovering the term ‘Meditation’

From a young age, I remember playing a ‘simply be’ game of silence. In my mind, I was silent for hours, sometimes days. Words were not present unless I wanted to daydream. I could hear people and listen. I spoke when I was told to and listened to people as needed – otherwise, I quietly listened to the universe. My mind always seemed vast, limitless. I knew the most amazing sounds, knowledge.

When I was about 12, I told my mother my game. She was perturbed, telling me I had to have words in my head; I imagined it, “So stop it”, she’d say. A puzzle I didn’t’ understand for years.

Intrigued about Buddhism, I found a meditation group in Britain to learn about meditation. ‘Ah’. I am an innate meditator born with a meditative disposition and mindfulness, and the challenge I’d find is ‘not to forget’. Through the years, I understood this to be true.

Buddhism, drawn from yoga, so I read the yoga sutras – the exact verse escapes me, but it said that some are natural-born with an innate prominence to meditation.

Practicing Buddhism – Sōtō Zen Reflection Meditation

The Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC), founded in the UK, has priories worldwide. I practice with Reading Buddhist Priory, the UK and the Lions Gate Buddhist Priory in Vancouver/Lytton, BC, for 30 years.

Becoming a Lay Buddhist

At Shasta Abbey, I took part in Jukai – taking the Buddhist Precepts a week-long ceremony to welcome people into the history and fold of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives.

Practicing Meditation

Learning about types of meditation, I discovered I naturally practiced transcendental and astral projecting meditation, both conducive to healing.

Vipassana Meditation

Vipassana, which means seeing things as they are, is India’s most ancient meditation technique. It was taught in India more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills. Vipassana Meditation is taught at ten-day residential courses during which participants learn the basics of the method and practice sufficiently to experience its beneficial results.

I am attending ten-day silent retreats at the Vipassana Meditation Centre in Merritt and the UK.

Astral Projecting Meditation

Astral projection enables the individual to explore the world in the astral body, almost detached from the physical body.

Instructing Meditation

I teach beginners to experts in yoga meditation and mindfulness.

‘Simply Be’ Meditation

For those who want to expand their focus, I offer a multi-level meditation that transcends one from an outward view to an inward view of themselves, connecting to their world and the outside world. The focus becomes integrated, acute, and more substantial with serenity, calm, balance and new perspectives to living a natural life.

Formal & Self-Directed Research

Through observations of a person’s movement and mobility, I see their character, thinking, perspectives, challenges, and abilities emerge.

Through first-hand experience and research, I offer yoga therapy for persons with the following abilities in the three stages of life.

• Arthritis & Joint Challenges

• Asthma

• Anxiety, Depression

• Chronic Pain

• Cognitive challenges; birth, injuries, traumas, or experiences

• Deaf and the Hard of Hearing

• Herpes & STDs

• Injuries; Cognitive and Physical

• Legally Blind and Partially Sighted

• Missing Or Non-Useable Limbs

• Pregnancy: natal, natural and caesarian care