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TIPS ON TEACHING MEDITATION

Here are some effective tools and techniques to enhance your group classes and private clients mindfulness and meditation practice. Tips are from San Francisco/Marin Co-based Sherri Baptiste: born into a lineage of teachers at the forefront of yoga training in America. She is the founder of Baptiste Power of Yoga™. For meditation products visit: www.powerofyoga.com


Meditation is a powerful technique that anyone can use. Physicians, psychologists, and other professionals endorse meditation as a powerful tool for relieving stress, maintaining health, and promoting creativity and vitality.

1. Find a Quite Place.
Help your students to create a space in their homes, and to set a daily time on their busy schedules, that is set aside just to sit and and practice meditation. When teaching a group class design your class, leaving five to ten minutes at the end to meditate. Space should be warm and draft free, with phones turned off, and lighting and music soft and unimposing.

2. How Often and How Long.
Begin with three to five minutes for beginners, and let it grow to twenty or more minutes with a consistency of practice. Practice a minimum of three times a week with the ideal being daily. Meditation evolves over time, and when conditions are right meditation will flow. Encourage your students to be patient in the process, and to practice without any expectations.

3. Sitting Techniques.
You may want to give different choices on how to sit. One most common is to sit comfortably in a cross-legged position on the floor, but many may need your help in getting comfortable. They can use a small firm cushion or folded blanket under their sit bones with legs and knees resting on the floor. Or have them sit at the edge of a hard chair, with feet on the floor, resting the hands on the thighs, or knees with palms up or down. Sitting straight is a key that will heighten awareness, and the quality of the students breathing.

4. Breathe Influences Everything.
Instruct your client to breath smoothly and evenly, using the lower, mid and upper lungs without forcing. Use a gentle tone in your teaching, and guide them into a breath that is gentle and uninterrupted in quality and flow. You might say: ’the breath rolls in like a wave and out like a wave’...with a sense of expansion on the inhalation, relaxation on the exhalation. The use of breath in meditation will really help them in the process.

5. Cultivate the Mind.
Perhaps the biggest challenge is in working with the mind, but the harvest and rewards can be the richest and most empowering for daily life. As the student sits, encourage them to notice their thoughts and to step back from those thoughts watching them for a moment as they pass by. Then bring them back to their breathing, using it as a tool, to calm the active mind and to direct the consciousness into new and deeper levels of awareness and insight.

6. Going Deeper.
At certain points as you guide, use words and phrases such as:
• feel the stillness of your body
• relax more inside the throat
• notice the body breathing
• begin to listen to the breath with intimacy
• Observe and notice any areas that may still be constricting, and then simply let them go, letting these areas completely release

7. Look Within To Discover the Universe.
• It is at this point we let go of dialogue, leading them into the silence and space between the thoughts. Meditation goes beyond mindfulness techniques, it’s a spontaneous flow, and energetic quality, when all the conditions are just right it will simply flow. Now sit here for the next few moments in stillness and silence. The ideal here is to BE in the moment as it unfolds.

8. Bring them out of this practice slowly; use a soft tone of voice, and have them place their hands on their chest for three deep cleansing breathes, eyes should open slowly. Encourage them to practice often.
...Namaste’
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