Meditation & Yoga with Melissa Abbott

Golden Tara #3 of 21 Tara’s Practice and Commentary

The Practice of Golden Tara 
#3 of the 21 Tara’s 
Golden Tara is all about realizing your life purpose. She is all about the 6 paramitas or perfections. Generosity, joyful effort, discipline, calm, patience, and meditation. It is thought in Vrajayana Buddhism and this female enlightenment Practice that integrating and realizing the 6 Paramitas, is a sign of enlightenment or awakened awareness. The Blue Lotus of the 3rd emanation represents Self Born Wisdom and the blue pearls are wish fulling, increasing or merit granting jewels of non dual or Tantric awareness. This golden Tara increases life force both physically and spiritually, aiding those that do the Golden Tara practices to bond with the inner perfections and the strength, love and compassion of Tara.
Melissa Abbott gives an audio teaching and commentary of this powerful feminine enlightenment Practice. The path of a woman can look very different from a man’s or patriarchal experience and the 21 Tara’s Practices are exceptional and extraordinary. This 60 min listen would be best done in a quiet place where you can check ncentrate and imbibe fully. #tara #21taras #goldentara #goldentarart #sixparamitas #bluelotus #bluepearl #goldengoddess #wishfullfilling #rigpa #selfbornwisdom #vrajayanabuddhism
the third emanation of the 21 Tara PracticesGolden Tara is all about realizing your life purpose. This Tara represent’s the 6 paramitas or perfections. Generosity, joyful effort, discipline, calm, patience, and meditation. It is thought that integrating and realizing the 6 Paramitas in your practice is a sign of enlightenment or awakened awareness. The Blue Lotus represent Self Born Wisdom and the blue pearls are wish fulling, increasing or merit granting jewels. This golden Tara increases life force both physically and spiritually, aiding those that do the Golden Tara practices to bond with the inner perfections and the strength, love and compassion of Tara. #tara #21taras #goldentara #goldentarart #sixparamitas #bluelotus #bluepearl #goldengoddess #wishfullfilling #rigpa #selfbornwisdom #vrajayanabuddhism

Golden Good Luck Bringing Tara Meditation and Sadhana Practice

Golden Good Luck Bringing Tara #16 of the 21 Tara’s Practice Om Tara Tuttare Tare Mangala Siddhi Swaha 
Connect to your inner synchronicities and inner goodness with this long Good Luck Bring Tara Meditation or Sadhana Practice with Melissa Abbott
Tamboura and Singing Biwls in Background
 

Red Swift Courageous Tara Practice

Red Swift Courageous Tara PracticeThis is an overview and practice Sadhana of  Red Swift Courageous Tara, the first of the 21 Taras Practice. When you get overwhelmed, angry, or downright livid about the the state of our world these days, that is a signal that you do indeed have valid concerns. These are very transforming times we live in and on the spiritual level, how exactly do we work within ourselves and the energies at large. How do we work to change things. The truth is, that it all starts within. Any kind of Goddess Practice ( your choice) can be very uplifting not only for yourself but sets up a ripple effect in the world around you. The 21 Taras Sadhana or Practice is from Tantric Tibetan Buddhism and was brought to Tibet, firstly,  by Padma Sambhava about 1200 years ago and then again 200 years later by the Bengali scholar Atisha. It is a feminine enlightenment practice where prayers, mantras, visualizations are installed within the practitioner,  in a practice Sadhana. Each one of the 21 Taras Mandala, works with different energies that we may come up against in our daily evolution. Red Swoft Courageous Tara is perfect for the energies of right now as we come to terms with many social injustices such as Supreme Court rulings, school shootings, and the war in Ukraine. Thank you for listening and just know, this practice is not just for you, but when you practice it, it gravitates out to everyone around you. Check out my website melissaabbott.com or email me if you are interested in my upcoming 21 Taras practice group coming up online and in person in the Boston Area during the Fall of 2022 melissa@melissaabbott.com
Namaste, Melissa 

Consciousness as Vibration Yoga Nidra Immersion

Consciousness as Vibration
Yoga Nidra Immersion with Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Bath by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com recorded live May 31, 2022 after a Baptiste Simple Power Flow Yoga Class
Cape Ann Power Yoga
186 Main St., Gloucester, MA USA
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Power & Peace Simple Flow 60 and Consciousness as Vibration Yoga Nidra Immersion 15 with Singing Bowl Soundbath was off the chain evocative and beautiful. What a fantastic immersive experience while overlooking beautiful Gloucester Harbor at sunset time. So much gratitude to get the opportunity ( Thank you Elizabeth Huntsman DeAngelis ) to bring this class every Tues Nite @7pm EST this summer 2022 to the Cape Ann Community in person and via Zoom to anyone anywhere. It’s Regular Class Rates and Drop in is $15 so make it a summer night date, bring your friends. Resonate Relax Renew 
 

Mother’s Day Feeling into Vast Awakened Awareness Yoga Nidra Immersion

Mother’s Day
Feeling into Vast Awakened Awareness Yoga Nidra Immersion with Crystal Singing Bowl Soundbath
Recorded Live on Mother’s Day, May 8, 2022 at Blue Yoga Group http://bluehotyoga.com/ by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com after a 26and2 Hot Hatha Yoga Session. 
Taking time to check into our deepest  nature and embodiment during the end of a beautiful yoga class, creating and connecting to the Vast Awakened Awareness which spreads illuminating goodness like ripples on a pond, within and out. Resting in the open space and aliveness, receiving wisdom, love, and self acceptance into your connected radiant yoga practice.
 

Green Tara - The Enlightened Female Buddha History and Practice Sadhana

Green Tara
 The Enlightened Female Buddha
History and Practice Sadhana
 
Includes short Mantra Repetion and MeditationOm Tare Turare Ture Swaha
Recorded by Melissa Abbott with Tamboura and Singing Bowl Soundbath.
In this 45 Min Practice Session you will Learn the Green Tara Mantra and Meditation Practice. Luminous Green Tara comes from the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric Tradition. Tara helps you to overcome fears, poverty of mind and spirit, remaining present to life’s difficulties, you can give her anything. We will be invoking her with Mantra and meditation allowing you to heal your past and create a new paradigm. She is known as the Great Mother, the giver of enlightened consciousness, helping you recognize your own true nature, which is, in reality, her own true nature. 
Have Your Japa Mala and Natural fiber meditation shawl ready and a Quiet Place to Practice. melissa@melissaabbott.com
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Light body, Synchronicity, and Auspicious Blessings Yoga Nidra with Singing Bowl Sound Bath

Light body, Synchronicity, and Auspicious Blessings Yoga Nidra with Singing Bowl Sound Bath
Recorded Live by Melissa Abbott www.melissaabbott.com on March 25, 2022 at Hot Yoga on the Island in Merritt Island, FL www.yogaontheisland.com
Have you ever experienced synchronicity with the natural world? The appearance of an animal, natural phenomenon, a certain element, or a place that has special significance to you? 
In this Yoga Nidra Meditation we encounter our auspicious symbols with our crystalline light bodies and encounter the nectar of their meaning on a deeper blessing level. 
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Mandala of the Five Dakini’s Meditation - Full Practice

Mandala of the Five Dakini’s Meditation
Full Practice
This is a recording of a complete 5 Dakini Meditation Practice Session at the end of a 6 week study (recorded by Melissa Abbott during a zoom call at my friend Jo Haight Sarling’s home in Cocoa Beach, FL.), from a book study and meditation practice group studying the book “ Wisdom Rising” The Mandala of the Empowered Feminine, by Lama Tsultrim Allione. In the first 5 weeks we have studied the individual practices, attributes and states of each of the 5 Dakini’s. Sounding their Seed Syllables and embodying their attributes in meditation as a way of transformation burning through encumbered states of being, resulting in a more expanded unencumbered wisdom consciousness of each Dakini, week by week.  This is a Tibetan Buddhist Tantric Practice brought from India to Tibet about 800ad by Guru Rinpoche or Padma Sambhava. 
the Mandala as a cosmological system, and through the Mandala we experience the encumbered and transformed unencumbered states of the Dakinis (which are aspects of the sacred feminine). The Mandala being the one ground and the practice is an uncovering of our own enlightened awareness and transformation into enlightened presence.
Its been a beautiful journey learning the 5 Dakini Practices with all of the participants around the world including UK, Switzerland, and Argentina. Thank you for your involvements, synergy, focus, love, and interest. Special Thanks to Jo Haight Surling for having the practice at her home in Cocoa Beach and helping me coordinate the process. There really is something special about practicing in a group.
The Five Dakini’s practices work with transforming encumbered energies ( Samskaras) such as  procrastination, neediness, envy, jealousy, anger, fear etc into “The Wisdom Energies of the Dakinis evolved/transformed/manifersted to an unencumbered view”. The mandala/circle, elemental energies, directional energies, visualization, seed syllables, Uccara, etc are used in the Dakini practices.
Ultimately, the absolute level is beyond gender, how on a relative level men and women get to the ultimate level may be very different paths. Women have long thought they have to act like men to attain anything in this world. The cultural messages truly effect and disempower women on so many levels.
The Dakini is a messenger of spasciousness, a force of truth, a transitional primal power, a fierce compassion for change and upliftment.  I believe the recognition of feminine empowerment holds a key to cultural evolution and that awareness of practices line the Five Dakini’s .
I highly recommend you get the book and read it, until you get the book, tho, it is all right to come and practice and get a taste of it and see if it is for you. It is exciting work
I ask that we practice not only for ourselves but for the benefit of all. 

Green Karma Dakini Practice

Enlightened Feminine Empowerment Green Karma Dakini Meditation Practice
This is a portion of the Five Dakini Practice that assists you to transform encumbered states of consciousness, such as jealousy, competitiveness, envy, speediness, workaholic tendencies, and ambition, to all- accomplishing wisdom. 
You will visualize the Green Dakini and intensify your encumbered states to a powerful expanded and empowered dissolution of non-striving. 
This is from the practices of the Five Dakini’s from the “ Wisdom Rising” book by Lama Tsultrim Allione.  These practices come down to us from a Tibetan Tantric Buddhism female practitioner named Machig Lapdron and are over 1000 years old.  The Five Dakini’s practices work with transforming encumbered energies ( Samskaras) such as  procrastination, neediness, envy, jealousy, anger, fear etc into “The Wisdom Energies of the Dakinis evolved unencumbered view”. The mandala/circle, elemental energies, directional energies, visualization, seed syllables, Uccara, etc are used in the Dakini practices.
Ultimately, the absolute level is beyond gender, how on a relative level men and women get to the ultimate level may be very different paths. Women have long thought they have to act like men to attain anything in this world. The cultural messages truly effect and disempower women on so many levels.
 
 The Dakini is a messenger of spasciousness, a force of truth, a transitional primal power, a fierce compassion for change and upliftment.  I believe the recognition of feminine empowerment holds a key to cultural evolution and that awareness of practices line the Five Dakini’s 
recorded live in Cocoa Beach, Florida at a friends home Jan 19, 2022 by Melissa Abbott
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Gifts of Wisdom and Strength, New Years 2022 Yoga Nidra

Gifts of Wisdom and Strength, New Years 2022 Yoga Nidra
 
Recorded live Dec 27, 2021 at www.steamhousenh.com in Epping NH USA after a Hot Power Vinyasa Yoga Class with Melissa Abbott MelissaAbbott.com. AJ Butler assisting on the Singing Bowls background soundscape.
In this Special New Years Yoga Nidra Immersion you are given Gifts which are tools to use in the upcoming year. Gifts from yourself to yourself. The Gifts of Wisdom and Strength. There are 5 Gifts. Find a comfortable place to lie down and take some time to listen on headphones if possible and receive your gifts. Wrap a blanket or shawl around yourself to contain the Shakti or energy of this deep inner work. Yoga Nidra is an ancient practice accessing your psychological self and transforming, transmuting, and relaxing into a powerful integrative process. Very good to do before bedtime.
Enjoy the Bliss - Melissa Abbott