Meditation & Yoga with Melissa Abbott

Summer Forest Bathing Yoga Nidra

Summer Forest Bathing Yoga Nidra
with Singing Bowl & Gong Soundbath
 
Recorded live at Blue Hot Yoga bluehotyoga.com in Swampscott, MA USA  by Melissa Abbott after a 75 min Hatha Yoga Class on July 2, 2023
Join Yoga Instructor Melissa Abbott for a transformative experience in her recorded live session of Forest Bathing Yoga Nidra Meditation with Healing Singing Bowl Soundbath. Immerse yourself in the soothing sounds of the Singing bowls and gong as Melissa guides you through a Yoga Nidra Meditation.  Let the healing vibrations of the singing bowls wash over you, promoting inner peace and rejuvenation. This unique combination of imaginative forest bathing, yoga nidra, and sound healing will leave you feeling refreshed, grounded, and connected to the natural elemental world. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to nourish your mind, body, and soul. Tune in now and embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing. 🌿🧘‍♀️🎶 #MelissaAbbottYogaandMeditation #ForestBathing #SoundHealing #MeditationJourney #yoganidra #singingbowls #chougong #melissaabbottyoga
 
 

Summer Solstice Yoga Nidra and Soundbath 2023

Recorded live June 21, 2023 at Blue Hot Yoga www.BlueHotYoga.com in Swampscott, MA after a Hatha Yoga Class taught by Melissa Abbott with Crystal Singing Bowls & Chou Gong Soundbath accompanying the Summer Solstice Yoga Nidra Meditation.
The Summer Solstice is a time of Spirit and Expansion. The longest day of the year where the golden sun can magnetize and elevate your life within and without. Take  some time to go within and find your peace in a quiet place.
Summer Solstice is the three days when the sun 'stands still' and nature seems to hold its breath while we bask in the light of summer! 
Just as the sun pauses during this season, take some time to pause yourself allowing radiant rejuvenation and integration.  Listening on head phones is so great. Enjoy!
Happy Summer , Shubha Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com

Black Tara Who Destroys All Negativities Sadhana Practice

Black Tara Who Destroys All Negativities Sadhana
In this podcast, I am continuing  my exploration of each of the Tibetan Vrajayana Buddhist practice of the Twenty-One Taras.
Each of the Taras in the Mandala, provide ways to uplift ourselves and empower our journey in life. The practices are layers of teachings. The mantras are vibrational  tools for transformation. There is great liberating and healing power to meditate on all the aspects of this beloved female Buddha. This particular Tara,  the Tara Who Destroys All Negativities, is the 7th emanation of the 21 Taras. She provides you with the understanding of the malicious motives of both your inner complexes and those of others. This has the ability to allow you to guard yourself from taking in or creating negative energy. She helps you to overcome obstructed circumstances in your life and potential threats. These threats ( both inner and outer) are considered a type of demon in this tradition and are known as Maras. If you are honest with yourself, about your inner demons or Maras, the practice of this Tara sets up a beautiful vibrational dynamic to smash or cut through them.
When you perform this sequence for yourself and others, you set up a powerful and vibrational reorientation of your being which is not only extremely protective from outside influences but also safeguards you from your own mental patterning.
In this podcast, I discuss, teach and practice the sequence aiming to give you insight into the layers of this practice and how something so ancient as this can be just as vital in modern life.
If you are interested in studying more about the Twenty-One Taras email me: melissaabbott109@gmail.com for upcoming schedule of in person and zoom groups.
Kind regards,
Shubha Melissa Abbott
 

Spring Equinox 2023 Radiant Lakshmi Yoga Nidra

Spring Equinox 2023
Radiant Lakshmi Yoga Nidra
Recorded LIVE Mon March 20 by Melissa Abbott at SteamHouse Hot Yoga in Epping NH steamhousenh.com 
Welcoming the Spring Equinox 2023 with being transported into a hidden world of pure serenity and tranquility where you will open up to the rejuvenating power of Lakshmi light, and allow it to cleanse and restore your mind, body and spirit.
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Thank you for listening and Happy Spring 2023,
Shubha Melissa Abbott

Dark Red Victorious Tara Practice - 6th Emanation of 21 Taras

Dark Red Victorious Tara Practice - 6th Emanation of 21 Taras
This Sadhana Practice, is so Healing and Protective. It helps you access your deepest inner stories and samskaras.
In this Feminine Empowered Practice of Dark Red Victorious Tara we delve into The Vrajayana Tibetan Practice of calling upon the various emanations of the Compassionate and Uplifting 21 Tara Practices. This week we are investigating the Sixth Tara, Dark Red Victorious Tara. 
Dark Red Victorious Tara comes to your aid when you are experiencing emotions in your body such as unease, fatigue, irritation, or apprehension. She helps as you start to decipher those obscure feelings as emotions—anger, sadness, trepidation. Your understanding allows you to monitor this procedure before you inadvertently transmute those interpretations into assumptions, decisions, or activities. So in other words, she keeps you from believing the old stories and patterns which run your life like a broken record. Reciting her Praise and Teachings, Making Offerings and Chanting her mantra is a special and transformative experience. 
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Thank you for listening, Shubha Melissa Abbott
 
 

16 Jnana Siddha Yoginis Yoga Nidra

16 Jnana Siddha Yoginis Yoga Nidra
In this Feminine Empowered Yoga Nidra we invite the 16 Jnana Siddha Yoginis into our sphere of meditation. These Yoginis are from the Shaiva Tantra Tradition of Northern India where they were a popular practice over a 1000 years ago in the Swat Valley, high in their Himalayan Mountains of Kashmir. The Yoginis are messengers of a transitional primal power, the goddess, fierce compassion for change and upliftment and actually beyond the grasp of the conceptual mind. They are related to the elements and all the guises of our being.
The Jnana Siddha Yoginis Practice help us recognize our own energies to push us through our blockages, samsara's, patterns, or issues. They are a source of our ability to love ourselves more deeply and feel the preciousness of our lives.
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The Yoginis are elemental, inherent, pure, and true. 
Much Love, Shubha Melissa Abbott

Red Hum Sounding Tara Sadhana Practice

Red Hum Sounding Tara Sadhana Practice
Red Hum Soundng Tara is the 5th Emanation of the 21 Tara’s and her Sadhana, practice, mantra, teachings, and history are very powerful. In this podcast I touch on her history and meanings while then delving into the Visualization Techniques and Practice. Learn about how she started out as the goddess Kurukullā in the Roots of tribal Hinduism and was later was adopted by Tibetan Buddhism and became Red Hum Tara, one of the 21 Tara’s. She is often referred to as the Tara of Magnetizing because of this power to summon and bring together any and all resources to benefit those around her. Furthermore, she is a figure of protection, offering individuals the strength and courage to take control of their lives and create a better future for themselves.
Experience Sacred and Embodied Journeys within with Melissa Abbott.
Yoga Nidras, Non Dual Shaiva Tantra Meditations,  21 Tara Practices, Dakini & Yogini Practices with healing singing bowl soundbath with Tambura.
Designed to empower the feminine, connect to your pure potentiality, clear your consciousness, process, protect, increase longevity, heal from within, connection, vitality, improve sleep and wellbeing. Using age old visionary meditation techniques  from Shaiva Tantra, Yogini, Dakini, Japanese Reiki, and Vrajayana Buddhist Sources.
To support my Podcast by contributing $10 Essence Nature Level Membership a month on Patreon and get added to my 21 Tara's study group via Live Online Zoom Calls or YouTube recordings.  We will investigate the Feminine Enlightenment practices of the 21 Taras including the meanings of the mantras, the secret inner teachings of the Praises, the Dzogchen teachings, the history, the visualizations and the Tara meditation techniques and prayers.https://www.patreon.com/Melissaabbott/membership
Thank you for your support and listening,
Melissa
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White Tara Longevity, Health, & Purification with Rainbow Protection Lights

White Tara Longevity, Health, & Purification with Rainbow Protection Lights
Vrajayana Buddhist White Tara Sadhana ( she is separate from the 21 Tara’s Practices) and how to perform it. White Tara Sadhana is a spiritual practice of Tibetan Buddhism dedicated to the goddess White Tara, an embodiment of compassion, healing, and serenity. The practice involves invoking her presence and purifying one's own body, speech, and mind. This can be done through meditation, mantras, visualization, and other practices connected to White Tara.
White Tara is also known as Sita Tārā, the cool one who brings in healing light, energy, and longevity. In Sanskrit Sita means white or pure and it is also the name of the planet Venus. She is the foremost female bodhisattva of compassionate activity, the supreme representation of mother goddess energy and the collective manifestation of all enlightenment, eternal life, and healing love. White Tārā brings in the long life activating energies of life, fire, strength, vitality, and evolution of wisdom awakened awareness.
This is an overview of the practice including the Six Protection Lights Practice, explanation of the Mantras and variations for different situations, Iconography, Visualization, Meditation,  a Short Sadhana Practice. You might have some obstacles, illness, or toxic circumstances in your life that could cause untimely death. Maybe there is a loved one or friend who is very ill. If these situations are because good karma has been exhausted, it is important ot create merit to prolong life now and have longevity in future lives as well. This Sadhana practice  may be for you. 
Listen with headphones in a quiet place. Includes Healing Singing Bowl Sound Bath and Tambura backgrounds.
Much Love, I am guided to share this practice at this time, Shubha Melissa Abbott

Yellow All-Victorious Tara Sadhana Practice

 Yellow All-Victorious Tara is the 4th emanation of the
21 Tara’s.
She embodies the potential to protect you from danger, purifies disturbances of life energy, and transforms the fear of death.
She is known to safeguard you from harm, cleanses turmoil of inauspicious circumstances and unforeseen events. She ignites or activates the vital energy of life, and changes the dread and fear of passing away. She is known as to be of the long life Taras and activates longevity by those who do her practice.
In this podcast we will discuss her history, praise, deeper meanings and the layers of her empowered feminine compassion and empowered support for those who practice Yellow-All Victorious Tara Sadhana. Listen in a quiet place, headphones are best.  Gentle Meditative Spoken word with healing singing bowl sounds and Tambura drone. 

White Soothing Tara Sadhana Practice

White Soothing Tara Sadhana Practice
White Soothing Tara is the 2nd Emanation in the Empowered Feminine 21 Tara Mandala Practices of Vrajayana Buddhism
White Soothing Tara is one of the 21 Taras and known as the second emanation of Tara, or female emanations of enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism.
Her name Drolma Loter Yangchenma represents her innate capacity for giving knowledge through song, melody, or words. In sanskrit she is known as Saraswati and Vrajasaraswati. 
In addition the white color of Great White Soothing Tara has the power to calm profound disturbances such as illnesses and negative imprints. These are long-standing or deeply ingrained patterns that can be difficult to overcome and she employs her pacifying and soothings effects on these circumstances. Tara's peaceful expression reflects her ability to dissipate negativity and penetrate the innermost parts of the heart.
Recorded in Gloucester, MA in my home studio on Jan 26, 2023 this recording is an explanation of her practice, the inner meanings of her visualization, offerings, praise/invocations, prayers, mantras, meditation and dedications. Why you might practice her sadhana such as breaking out of old patterns and transformative energy of Great White Soothing Tara.  This one includes her practice with short mantra repetition practice. 
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Much love to you, Shubha Melissa Abbott