Welcome to my meditation website, my name is Vanessa and I teach both the ancient methods of meditation, as taught by Sages and Swamis of the past and also the more modern techniques of Energy Enhancement. Both intertwine yet each can be taught separately depending on personal inclination.

I teach from my home centre in West Sussex (outside Brighton), at the Patanjali Yoga Centre in Battle, on retreats and workshops in Brighton.  This May 2008 I will again be giving workshops for the Brighton Fringe Festival, whereby I give an introduction to meditation.

                               MEDITATION FOR EVERYONE

                                                    Sunday evening May 4th 7-8 pm.

Wednesday lunchtime 7th May 1-2 pm.

(Tickets £6 concession £4)

Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton

Besides giving regular classes in meditation and yoga.  I work in the area of yogic healing focusing on personal individual health concerns whereby I use a combination of yoga/meditation/breathing/relaxation and reiki.  With the regular practise of yoga and meditation, wellbeing and harmony is brought back to the body, mind and spirit.

I firmly believe meditation is for everyone and everybodys life can be enhanced by a short daily practice.  Meditation is easy, it is our natural birthright but the hard part is to get yourself to sit down each day and do it. As a meditation guide I offer encouragement and support and well as offering a variety of meditation techniques to allow for personal choice.

Talks, courses and workshops are on demand and I am available to give free personal guidance over the internet for those wishing to progress on their spiritual path.  I also provide a combination of meditation/yoga/reiki together with person centred art therapy and counselling, to give an all round environment for Self development.  My book 'Hidden Path' provides an excellent background to the way I work.

Come  and meet me  personally at  the  book  signing  of  ‘Hidden Path’

 

Saturday 17^th May 2008

From 10.30 a.m.

 

The Mint House.

94 High Street,

Hurstpierpoint,

West Sussex BN6 9PX

Tel. 01273 832694

 

By the kind invitation of David & Gill Johnson

 

Meditation helps with healing and can be used with conventional, alternative or on its own.

 

• To combat stress and tension, increase health and well-being
• Using the universal energy to cleanse the body and energy fields
• Becoming the observer of negative thought patterns and allowing change
• Connecting with silence and stillness, to calm and nourish
• And ultimately allowing a spiritual awareness to develop

Swami Rama gave ten clearly observable effects of meditation. They are:

1. Good physical health and quick recovery in the case of illness
2. A sense of renunciation of useless things
3. A proper sense of proprotion in life
4. Strenghtening of faculties of experience
5. Forgiveness
6. Loss of sense of separation
7. Freedom from greed, envy and malice
8. Freedom from fear
9. Increase in self confidence
10. Gloominess diminshes. You see the bright side of things

These are the symptoms of bright meditation and these are the qualities that are most difficult to obtain in any other way. With meditation they come naturally as hunger is satisfied from just eating. If one of thse effects is observable, then you are enjoying a good meditation.

Meditation is so much more than this.  As one sits in meditation, silence and stillness reveal themselves to you and in that silence and stillness Consciousness (the ultimate creator of all) is unveiled.  It is an enriching and rewarding connection that is life changing and life enhancing. No longer do you need to be draw in by life experience and encounters, you can remain at peace in its presence.  Meditation is about increasing your awareness of this consciousness, it is a journey of self discovery and delight.

A recent testimonial from a student:

I started meditation because my mind was out of control.  I simply could not shut it off.  Thoughts would go round and round in my head non-stop.  It affected my sleep.  Because I was tired and increasingly stressed, it affected my work.  I would find myself running worrying tapes over and over again like they were on some kind of loop.  I would worry about the past, the present and the future.  I was very hard on myself. 

To begin with I found stilling the mind very difficult. How hard could it be I thought to sit down and stop thinking for a few minutes?  I found it very hard at first but Vanessa is a wonderful, patient, understanding teacher.  She has been there herself and experienced all her students' difficulties. Her gentle guidance, plus the discipline of physically going and being with her in her energy field each week, gradually started to achieve results.

 

I am now much more peaceful and calm than I was.  I live in the present moment much more and experience it fully.  I am excited about life again.  I have glimpses of joy.  I have only scratched the surface of the deep peace and bliss available to all of us.  I am extremely aware of all living things and our connection with them and the earth.  Meditation is still difficult sometimes but I am not so hard on myself these days.  No meditation is ever wasted. 

 

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