Practice Report: Student check in
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 4 years before Jun 15, 2018
devaPriya Yogini 5 years ago
Om Yogi Madhvacharya Namaha
This morning I guided the practice of two of my dedicated female students who took up the kundalini practice a couple months ago. When they first started, I taught them everyday for 4 weeks at 4am and now we meet once a week so that I can check their practice, review their questions and give them encouragement.
Today the air was fresh and clean, we were focused and reminded of the helpful mantra “prana shows the way” as we progressed through various asana and breath infusion. The environment was dark and silent. We were located in a room I teach in often at my unity church and the energy was pleasant and welcoming.
This is a mother/daughter duo so they are at different stages of life.
Mom struggles with the breathing somewhat but is advanced at meditation.
Daughter is more advanced with the breathing and asana and struggles with distracting thoughts during meditation but also does intricate subtle body work on herself.
I use a high vibration singing bowl to begin the meditation, instigating their awareness of naad sound although the mother hears it all the time and the daughter much of the time, they still like our traditional use of the bowl.
After a 45 min practice and 45 min meditation I read to them verses 2, 3, and 4 from Michael Beloved's Meditation Expertise and then we discussed their meditation issues. We have gone over these verses many times.
I think due to the mother’s advanced age and commitment to spiritual awareness she is able to let go more and reach levels of meditation that sound very much like the cit akasa.
Due to the daughters age she is more capable of performing advanced breathing and postural work but less ready to release all thought.
The greatest thing is their attitude and belief in the program.
This is their best attribute and why they bother with this at all.
Truly they are Yoginis and unstoppable at this point.
After our session I returned home and sat for continued meditation and worked with neutralizing the buddhi organ, senses and memory banks in order to experience my own true form.
Jai Shri Radhe
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Great to hear someone who is beginning to understand the Patanjali ashtanga yoga system.
chris_hall1951 4 years ago
Namaste blessed devaPriya Yogini!
I was a student in the Yogini class along with these two students, who she is talking about, they are absolutely incredible individual's.
I knew them before they were her personal student's, what she say's about them is correct.
The Yogini has her commercial classes, private and public, but she also has her private, private classes.
These two student's, are in the private, private category.
She is a magnificent Teacher and they are magnificent student's!
Obeisances to Mata devaPriya Yogini!
From personally knowing, being with her on and off, I can truly say that she is a stupendous personality, a dynamo of yogic practice, truly a modern day yoga Prodigy!
