Meditation & Yoga with Melissa Abbott
Experience Sacred and Embodied Journeys within with Melissa Abbott. Yoga Nidras, Non Dual Shaiva Tantra Meditations, 21 Tara Practices, Dakini Dakini 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, Vrajayana Buddhist Sources.
Episodes
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Green Tara - The Enlightened Female Buddha History and Practice Sadhana
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
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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Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
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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Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Mandala of the Five Dakini’s Meditation - Full Practice
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
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.
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Green Karma Dakini Practice
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
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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Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Gifts of Wisdom and Strength, New Years 2022 Yoga Nidra
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
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
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Awakened Awareness Yoga Nidra Immersion with Sound Bath
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Awakened Awareness Yoga Nidra Immersion with Sound Bath
Recorded Live at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates steamhousenh.com Monday Dec 7, 2021 by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com with Singing Bowl Sound Scape after a Hot Power Vinyasa Class while in Savasana.This Yoga Nidra is a beautiful Awakened Awareness Meditation activating your own enlightened consciousness. Tune into your Awareness Consciousness in this soothing and affirming session taking you out of your thinking mind and experiencing a spacious understanding of your true inner being. Best done, lying down with headphones in a relaxed place. Enjoy
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Vibration of Gratitude Yoga Nidra with Soundbath
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Vibration of Gratitude Yoga Nidra with Singing Bowl Sound Bath
Recorded live at steamhousenh.com by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com Nov 15, 2021
Yoga Nidra Immersion is a style of guided meditation best done after a Hatha yoga session. Done in a supine position the student is guided to a yogic sleep which allows the physical body and brain to fully relax and restores the nervous system helping the student to fully absorb the physical Asanas. did ne at the end of a Hath Yoga Session.
It is known to be healing for stress, anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, healing grief and anger, lowering levels of cortisol, cholesterol, endocrine imbalances, and blood pressure.
Melissa Abbott conducts a deeper Inner Yogic Meditative Experience using Crystal Singing Bowls and Gongs as a vibrational sound immersion increasing relaxation restructuring the entire body within. Calming, Detoxifying, and Healing along with a Guided Meditation using 1000 year old Shaiva Tantra techniques and mantras from the Practices of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, Keshmahraj’s Revognition Sutras and Abinavagupta’s Tantrasara.
A integrative and blissful experience clearing the subconscious and relieving muscular, emotional, and mental tension.
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Fire Wheel Yoga Nidra Immersion with Singing Bowl Sound Scape
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Recorded Live at Steam House Hot Yoga & Pilates steamhousenh.com Monday Oct. 25, 2021 by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com with Singing Bowl Sound Scape after a Hot Power Vinyasa Class while in Savasana.
This Yoga Nidra is a beautiful Heart Based Meditation activating the Lunar Left Ida Nadi (relating to inhalation and objects of awareness) , the Central Sushumna Nadi (pure essence nature and Fire), and the Right Solar Pingala Nadi (relating to the exhale and the act of cognition) in a Caduceus meeting point at the base of the heart where all senses merge together creating an intensification/vibration of life energy transforming into a nourishing radiant wheel of Fire that uplifts the practioners natural vitality and transcendence.
Best Practice is to lie or sit quietly, observing yourself, listen to the sound of my voice, headphones are great, relax and enjoy this guided Yoga Nidra.
This is the set up meditation for a much longer practice of the Fire Wheel Meditation Sequence from Abinavagupta’s “ Tantrasara” Chapter 5, a 1000 year old Shaiva Tantra Text of Meditation Practices from Kashmir. The longer version is taught in retreats or in person. The set up itself is very affirming and a way to gather transcendent energy in the practitioner.
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Processing & Dissolving Triggers Yoga Nidra
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Dissolving Your Triggers Yoga Nidra
This Yoga Nidra was recorded live at Steam House Hot Yoga steamhousenh.com 75 Railroad Ave., Epping NH USA on Oct 18, 2021 by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com with Heidi James on the Singing Bowls.
This Yoga Nidra is a powerful technique to Process those things keeping you from being in the Flow of the Universe
A powerful foundational Tantric Yoga Meditation Practice taken from the illuminated 1000+ year old spiritual masterpiece, "The Pratyabhijna-Hrdraya" also known as The Recognition Sutras. In the Recognition Sutras or The Heart of Recognition, the author, Rajanaka Ksemaraja, gives us useful and practical ways to embrace the whole of our experience of the expanded center, so we can release and surrender our identification with our psychological self, our unresolved past, stories we tell ourselves, mental constructs, and samskaras. Those things that get us triggered and stuck with revolving mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual patterns. In essence this we can move on from our conditioning and touch more deeply within ourselves.
This meditation became alive for me a couple of years ago when I took a Recognition Sutras course with Christopher Hareesh Wallis. I had actually been interested and studied this text on and off since 1991. It wasn't until his translation of the actual practices in Chapter 18 that this text spoke so clearly to my actual meditation practice. I started implementing the expanded central channel into my daily meditation sessions and the result has been stunning clarity to embrace the whole of reality.
I first received this practice in July 2019 with Christopher Hareesh Wallis at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies during retreat.
This is my interpretation of his teachings via Ksemaraja of 1000 years ago. I hope you will experience that the radical acceptance to the nature of reality means surrender to what wants to move though you. This practice has the ability to help you relax out of identification with your stories and patterns and stop clinging to aversions and self images.
Christopher Hareesh Wallis is the author of Tantra Illuminated and The Recognition Sutras and his website is Tantrikainstitute.org where you can study Tantric Yoga meditation practices.
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Awakened Awareness Yoga Nidra Immersion
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Awakened Awareness
Yoga Nidra Immersion with Sound Bath
Recorded Live at Steam House Hot Yoga in Epping, NH USA
www.steamhousenh.com
by Melissa Abbott
www.MelissaAbbott.com melissa@melissaabbott.com after a Power Vinyasa Class on Sept 11, 2021 with Heidi James on soundscape singing bowls.
This Yoga Nidra was designed to awaken the inner consciousness. Mind/emotions/senses/thinking are here one moment and gone the next, they are ephemeral in nature. They arise and subside in a greater space of Self Awareness which is something far more fundamental than any ideas you might have about yourself. Having the realization that Awareness is not something that you do, but rather something that you Are, is a awakening of witness consciousness, a major step in personal evolution.
Make yourself comfortable, lying on your back with a natural fiber shawl covering you to contain the meditation energy. Headphones are recommended. Enjoy ❤️🙏🧘♀️ A Simple but Powerful Practice
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