Meditation teacher Vanessa Graham author Hidden Path

My name is Vanessa Graham and I welcome you to my website, this home page giving a brief overview. I teach meditation, yoga, reiki and self healing, I believe in empowering everyone to take part in their personal wellbeing and health. My journey is experiential, it has a fluidity to it; the goal is the journey not the end.

Meditation is life enhancing, with regular practice you becoming more content to be a human being living in harmony on our planet. No longer is it necessary to have continual demands to make you happy, you discover your true nature is happiness. To be a living breathing person is enough.

Breath awareness is very much a part of meditation, as it is easily accessible and provides an excellent point of focus for quietening the mind. Often people come to me with a problem they have to deal with. Physical illness - cancer, ME, fibromyalgia, lupus; personal traumas of bereavement and divorce or pain, stress and depression.

Meditation can benefit any problem, bringing peace and harmony into our life. To understanding how the mind works it is necessary to review how detrimental thought patterns can affect us. It is a matter of self realisation that we have a body and a mind but we are much more than that, we are a spiritual being. It starts to put everything into perspective. This realisation does not happen overnight and is not necessarily a requisite of meditation, it is a by product.

My journey began with meditation and that is my main focus of my life today which flows into my teaching of yoga. Over the years my journey has opened many doors. It has been a process of letting go and not doing, letting myself flow, with what is and not causing resistance. Living moment by moment and not looking to the future or back to the past.

I learnt hatha yoga in Spain and Argentina from Swamis Satchidanand and Devi Dyani on the energy enhancement courses. I was asked to teach yoga in my village so I started my classes. They are designed to meet personal needs with a meditative focus to them, creating space and fluidity in the joints.

After seeing the benefits of meditation and yoga dealing with health and mental concerns, I initiated a self healing class for those with specific needs. It encompasses a mixture meditation, yoga, reiki, chi kung and relaxation.

Yoga’s physical postures are designed to create a body that has ease and efficiency in action. To see yoga as just an exercise programme is to miss the point entirely. The Patanjali Yoga Sutras are guidelines as to how we can realistically become enlightened, it is a step by step guide. Starting with how to quietening the mind and eliminate its disturbancies. It is a science that can be put into action by ourselves. Yoga is working on our mind, our body and our self. This is the inward journey of Self Enquiry. Of who we really are and what is our purpose.

When I heard sanskrit spoken for the first time, I instantly knew it was a very special language, it is the original language that all languages arose. The same with the ancient teachings of Avaita in the Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. The oneness of everything, that there is no separation. What better way than go to the source of everything. It encompasses all religions and respects humanity.

Sanskrit is beautiful to look at and write down but it essence lies in its sound. Each vowel and consonant is a measure of Being. Sounding puts you in contact with the space that surrounds and permeates all. In fact space is the Creator, through meditation and sound you come closer to the original source.

Sounding on a more practical level enhances wellbeing and helps to remove blockages within the energy system. It is experiential you have to practice it yourself to enter the realm of Self discovery. I teach the correct articulation of these sounds, as this creates the correct vibrations in space.

Working as a Reiki Master the life force and energies are very much part of my work. Meditation and yoga have deepened this understanding I have always had a deep respect for the human body with it innate intelligence and ability to heal itself. This lead me in 2010 to take a course for Yoga Teachers on Yoga and Anatomy covering structural, functional and experiential anatomy for yoga.

I teach from my centre in West Sussex (outside Brighton), on retreats/workshops in Brighton and have taught at the Patanjali Yoga Centre in Battle. As well as meditation workshops for the Brighton Fringe Festival.

I work in the area of yogic healing focusing on personal individual health concerns using a combination of meditation, yoga, reiki, breath awareness, relaxation and chi kung. With the regular practise of yoga and meditation, wellbeing and harmony is brought back to the body, mind and spirit.

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.

REGULAR CLASSES/COURSES

Autumn classes recommence w/c 20th September 2010

One to ones in meditation, meditative yoga

and yogic healing

Reiki Initiations

Reiki Treatments

Meditation Class - Monday evenings 7:30 - 9pm

Meditative Yoga - Tuesday evenings 7:30 - 9pm

Self healing class - Wednesday afternoons 2.30 - 3.45p.m.

Feedback received :"I am finding the yoga/relaxation sessions very beneficial
on many levels. I have suffered from chronic pain for a number of years. I find
the combination of gentle exercises, meditation and relaxation are helping to
reduce my pain levels and are encouraging me to practise at home. I feel
supported and more positive about taking an active role in my healing."
Thank you Vanessa

email Vanessa@oshadhimeditation.co.uk

or telephone 01273 495554

Oshadhi Meditation Centre is situated in Henfield, a small sussex village in the South East of England close to Brighton (18 Km) and Gatwick Airport (30 Km)

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