Meditation & Yoga with Melissa Abbott

Becoming Shiva Meditation - Sounding the 12 Sanskrit Vowels with the 12 Chakra System

In this session, we will practice working with Verse 30 from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a 1000+ year old collection of Meditation Techniques from the Trika Lineage of Kashmir Shaivism. In this lineage there are 12 Main Chakras or energy centers in the body along the central energy channel known as the Sushumna Nadi, running thru the middle of the body from the perineum to above the crown of the head. We will Intone and use the 12 Sanskrit Vowels sequentially starting at the Base Chakra at the perineum and successively moving our imagination and visualization thru each energy center in this Guided Meditation. 
I am using Christopher Hareesh Wallis's translation of Verse 30 from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra for this practice. He is the author of "Tantra Illumination" and "The Recognition Sutras" and an internationally known Sanskrit authority of Tantric Meditation Practices as well as a Practioner Teacher.
It is said that anyone of the meditation practices of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra can be a transformative and enlightening practice. This particular practice assumes you have a certain focus and experience to really integrate its powerful energetic experience. You may have to work with it over time to develop the meditation chops to be comfortable with it. I made this podcast for those of you who have the determination and interest for it as well as some other students in a study group that I am working with under the tutelage of Christopher Wallis.
Please go to my website www.melissaabbottyoga to see study guide for the 12 Chakra System.

The One Heart Yoga Nidra

The One Heart Yoga Nidra Session is slightly shorter than other Yoga Nidra on this podcast. It is designed to break down the barriers between your thinking mind and your essential self to promote inner self awareness. I originally used this as a guided meditation savasana at the end of a Barkan Hot Vinyasa Class at Steam House Hot Yoga and Pilates in Epping NH where I teach Yoga.
This Meditation is perfect to do during your day as a meditation practice, perhaps after lunch or in the afternoon. You may also get a great deal of benefit from doing it after a Hatha Yoga Practice Session or before bedtime. At those times the body will be able to completely relax so that the transformative and healing benefits of Yoga Nidra can take root in your consciousness in the best possible way.
Benefits of Yoga Nidra include: Relieving muscular, mental, and emotional tension such as stress or anxiety. Memory enhancement, insomnia, increased creativity, and energy levels are boosted. Helps to heal the functioning of the Endocrine system and cultivates positive body awareness leading to the restructuring of the Mind, Body, and Spirit Balance within.
Relax, Rejuvenate, Renew, and Refresh with the Guided Meditation Practice. Carve out 18 minutes in your schedule, grab a blanket or a shawl to cover yourself and a pillow under your knees and experience all the possibilities. 
So much gratitude to lead your though this amazing practice. Much Love to You, Melissa

Yoga Nidra Immersion - Dissolving the Light of the Central Channel into the Crown

This Yoga Nidra Meditation Immersion comes from and is inspired by the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, Verse 28
"Imagine the Sublest possible form of Prana as Rays of Light Shining Upward from the Root of the Central Channel and Peacefully Dissolving into the Highest Center above the Crown. Spacious Awareness Arises."
This is an exercise from the Vijnana Bhairava, a 1000+ year old compendium of Meditation practices from Kashmir Shaivism. It is very important in both Tantric and Hatha Yoga to feel this line of connective energy from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. We tune into this Meditation during this Yoga Nidra Immersion Session. 
The Benefits of Yoga Nidra: Relieves muscular, mental, and emotional tension such as stress and anxiety. Enhances memory, sleep, increased creativity, and energy levels. Helps with the function of your endocrine system and cultivates positive body awareness. Less to the whole restructuring of the Mind-Body-Spirit Balance within.

Point of Light Yoga Nidra

Enjoy the practice of Point of Light Yoga Nidra in this 25 minute session. Find a quiet place to lie down on the floor or bed. You can also practice after a Hatha Yoga or Vinyasa session or even at the end of your day before bed time. Have a bolster or pillow handy to place under your knees and perhaps a blanket or shawl available to cover yourself. This will help to contain the Meditation energy of the Yoga Nidra Session.
The benefits of Yoga Nidra are known to help activate the relaxation response in your physical body as well as improve the functioning of your nervous and endocrine systems, which affects your hormones, endorphins, and immunity. Both Meditation and Yoga Nidra help your cells to regenerate and repair. This decreases any anxiety you have and improves your overall mood and life. 

Bridging the Third Eye to Crown Meditation

This short but powerful Meditation," Bridging the Third Eye to Crown Chakra" is a Visionary Tantric Yoga Meditation Technique from the Vijnana Bhairava, a 1000+ year old compendium of Dharana, Bhavana, and Meditation Instructions from Kashmir Shaivism. This meditation shows you how to make a bridge of light to your highest self and flood your entire body and being, all your senses with the Pervasive Awareness of Universal Consciousness.
 

Yoga Nidra with Luminous Spacious Awareness

Luminous Spacious Awareness, a technique from the Vijnana Bhairava, a thousand+ year old compendium of Dharana, Bhavana, and Meditation Techniques from Shaiva Tantra. We will explore inner void, emptiness, and luminous spaciousness in a Yoga Nidra Session. Yoga Nidra is a powerful technique best used after a Yoga Asana sessionor at the end of a long day. In the Yogic Tradition, Yoga Nidra is known to restore and cool down the body after an intense Hatha yoga workout and ensures activation of the nervous system and helps the body absorb asanas. It is known to improve sleep, good for chronic pain, deep relaxation, PTSD, alleviate anxiety, improve depression, lowers cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate, and levels of adrenaline and cortisol, heals grief and anger, develops mental willpower, and brings joy and well being to practitioners.

Meditation on Shiva Drishti, Becoming Enlightened Awareness

In this Visionary Tantric Yoga Meditation we practice our own Enlightened or Awakened State. The State of Shiva Drishti, the ground of all Consciousness. This Meditation is more than pretending you have the eyes of an enlightened being. This powerful meditation plants the seeds of Awakened Consciousness in the fertile ground of your mind so that your consciousness will shift, even if it’s just for a few moments to an Awakened State.

Meditation for Lucid Yogic Dreaming with Melissa Abbott

The Perfect Protocol for a Lucid Yogic Dreaming Experience using Visionary Tantric Yoga Techniques. Best Performed at Bedtime.

Yoga Nidra Connecting to Your Inner Durga & Letting Go of Obstacles by Melissa Abbott

Call upon the Goddess Durga in this Powerful Yoga Nidra Session to help you overcome your obstacles. Feel Her shimmering Presence as you are guided by Melissa Abbott, to a state between wakefulness and sleep called Yogic Sleep.

Transforming Your Body Images - Dehi Shuddha

Sometimes my Hatha Yoga students tell me about how much they dislike th way they look and have deep seated self hatred. Often practicing Hatha Yoga is a great antidote to this and still there is a tentative self doubt even in the minds and hearts of long time practitioners. Meditation Yoga can help you with this as well. Take some time for internal rejuvenation.
Transform Your Body Image with this 9 minute powerful Tantric Yoga Meditation Technique called Dehi Shuddha