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The Beginner's Guide To Mindfulness Meditation

With Tim Yatras

Welcome to this beginner's introduction to mindfulness meditation! This course consisting of 10 lessons is made for anyone who wants to dive into the world of meditation, focusing on the field of mindfulness. Meditation is a challenging practice and takes time to master, which is why we hope these guided lessons can help you at the beginning of your own practice, all accompanied by soothing soundscapes to help focus the mind on the here and now. Through these 10 lessons, we'll be exploring different aspects of the mindfulness meditation practice, giving you the tools you need to help calm the mind and continue the practice on your own afterward. Thank you so much for taking this step towards a more balanced version of yourself, and for sharing that experience with us!

Gain a fundamental understanding of mindfulness meditation for a solid, lifelong practice.

10 Days

5.6k students

4.7 stars

12 min / day

English

About this course

Counting Meditation

Body Scan

Breath Sensing

Meet your Teacher

Tim Yatras

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Wollongong NSW, Australia

After meeting in Germany in 2016, Kathrine and Tim have become close friends, and have teamed up to create this course. Kathrine will guide you through these meditations, with Tim providing the musical backing. Kathrine Shepard is the woman behind Akiko Yoga. She is a professional musician, vocal coach and yoga teacher from Oslo, Norway. Alongside her musical career, she has always been passionate about teaching the things dear to her heart. After growing her own yoga practice, Kathrine's mission became to share the power of this beautiful practice with people far and wide, to hopefully spread a bit of light, balance and positivity around. Having already taught yoga both in-person and online for quite some time, She completed her Yoga Alliance approved RYT 200Hr in June 2020 at RainbowLight Yoga and began her certified teaching journey. Tim Yatras is an Australian musician, composer, and producer currently based in Brisbane. He has over 15 years of experience in ambient, meditation, and relaxation music, and also has a Diploma in Sound Production. Tim uses natural, spiritual and scientific influences, and the best analog and digital equipment to create a mesmerizing musical experience.

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10 Days

5.6k students

4.7 stars

12 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Mindfulness

Meditation is a practice in awareness. It teaches us to stay in the present moment, just "being" with our mind. Through meditation, we can learn a lot about ourselves. We can learn about thought patterns that are deeply embedded in us, and we can learn how to deal with them. In meditation, the goal is to find silence, to not judge yourself or hold onto any thoughts or feelings that may appear, but just to stay in the present moment. This first session will introduce you to the concept of meditation.

Lesson 2

Let The Breath Lead The Way

This second session will further explain the importance of the breath. It will also begin to introduce you to different breathing strategies.

Lesson 3

Tidal Waves

Meditation is all about being in the present momeht, and calming the mind that often wants to wander into the future or the past. We can see our thoughts as waves. Sometimes the ocean is chaotic, many waves are produced with little time in between. Other times the water is still. This lesson will explore the concept of letting our thoughts come and go, and watching them pass by, like waves.

Lesson 4

Sail Away

Calming the mind is a task that takes a lot of practice, as our minds are constantly working. In lesson three, we spoke about our thoughts being like tidal waves. In this lesson, we expand upon this and offer some different techniques.

Lesson 5

Breath Count

Counting the breath is a tool used to focus further on the breath. In this lesson, we further explore the breath by bringing the attention inward, and offer new ways to use the breath to aid in meditation.

Lesson 6

Look Inside

Our inner world tends to be very rich, and through practices such as meditation, we can start to separate all the layers from each other, seeing them more clearly for what they are. In this lesson, we focus on calming the mind, calming the nervous system, breathing and focusing on being present.

Lesson 7

Shine A Light

Each time you meditate, the practice will grow. It will get easier to calm the mind and to feel more at peace. This lesson includes a body scan with a visualization of a bright white light illuminating your body, filling you up with light and love.

Lesson 8

Dedication

By now, you are gaining more and more tools to practice meditation on your own. Today's lesson revolves around dedication. Dedication in the sense that when we sit down to meditate, we should take a few moments to acknowledge how lucky we are in our lives, and dedicate the positivity, the light, the love and serenity that we create during our practice to something, or someone.

Lesson 9

Notice

Lesson nine takes all the tools of the previous lessons and combines them into our first full meditation practice together.

Lesson 10

Aware

The final lesson of this 10-part introductory meditation course combines all of the tools found in previous lessons. After completing this course, you will be well equipped to continue your meditation journey on your own.