Meditations and Visualizations - Yoga with Aria

Reconnecting back with the heart and root chakra, we now visualize the second chakra expanding, where our baby is right now. We visualize one thing that we've always wanted in our lives. Using a color meditation, we practice drawing that goal into our lives. Prenatal mamas are invited to visualize your baby's birth. Post natal mamas are invited to draw in health and vibrancy into our lives. We bring this desire into our hearts by using our breath. www.ariamayland.com Follow: @YogawithAria Subscribe: ariadreams on iTunes Facebook: Yoga with Aria Recorded Live at the Shiatsu Massage School of CA. November 2011

Reconnecting back with the heart and root chakra, we now visualize the second chakra expanding, where our baby is right now. We visualize one thing that we've always wanted in our lives. Using a color meditation, we practice drawing that goal into our lives. Prenatal mamas are invited to visualize your baby's birth. Post natal mamas are invited to draw in health and vibrancy into our lives. We bring this desire into our hearts by using our breath. www.ariamayland.com Follow: @YogawithAria Subscribe: ariadreams on iTunes Facebook: Yoga with Aria Recorded Live at the Shiatsu Massage School of CA. November 2011

After a deep breath meditation, we connect to our baby (or our desires). We begin by awakening and strengthening our root chakra. We follow with visualizing the heart chakra as a brightly lit sun, filling the center of our chest, relaxing us. We create the intention for the heart chakra to connect with both the first and second charkas, today. www.ariamayland.com Follow: @YogawithAria Subscribe: ariadreams on iTunes Facebook: Yoga with Aria Recorded Live at the Shiatsu Massage School of CA. November 2011

After a deep breath meditation, we connect to our baby (or our desires). We begin by awakening and strengthening our root chakra. We follow with visualizing the heart chakra as a brightly lit sun, filling the center of our chest, relaxing us. We create the intention for the heart chakra to connect with both the first and second charkas, today. www.ariamayland.com Follow: @YogawithAria Subscribe: ariadreams on iTunes Facebook: Yoga with Aria Recorded Live at the Shiatsu Massage School of CA. November 2011

While in Savasana, we visualize our body as an energetic being more than a physical being. As we switch our awareness from the physical to the energetic, we visualize our bodies as made up of light: white, golden, or any light, bright color. We visualize our first and second chakras, which for prenatal mamas, is our baby's home. For post natal mamas, this first and second chakra area is the area that worked so hard. We honor this area with gratitude and love. As we visualize this expansion in the first and second chakra centers, we visualize something that we want to manifest in our lives. This could be a physical goal, a non-physical goal, or an emotional, non-measurable goal. We attach a color to this goal: any color within the spectrum of the rainbow. We visualize this color as outside the body, floating a few feet away from us. As we magnetize this goal into our lives, we feel this color be drawn closer and closer to us. In this way, we draw in what we want in our lives, we envelop it, and we make it a part of ourselves. The second part of this meditation is very helpful for prenatal mamas. We fast forward to the day of our baby's birth and visualize our most ideal birth experience. www.ariamayland.com

While in Savasana, we visualize our body as an energetic being more than a physical being. As we switch our awareness from the physical to the energetic, we visualize our bodies as made up of light: white, golden, or any light, bright color. We visualize our first and second chakras, which for prenatal mamas, is our baby's home. For post natal mamas, this first and second chakra area is the area that worked so hard. We honor this area with gratitude and love. As we visualize this expansion in the first and second chakra centers, we visualize something that we want to manifest in our lives. This could be a physical goal, a non-physical goal, or an emotional, non-measurable goal. We attach a color to this goal: any color within the spectrum of the rainbow. We visualize this color as outside the body, floating a few feet away from us. As we magnetize this goal into our lives, we feel this color be drawn closer and closer to us. In this way, we draw in what we want in our lives, we envelop it, and we make it a part of ourselves. The second part of this meditation is very helpful for prenatal mamas. We fast forward to the day of our baby's birth and visualize our most ideal birth experience. www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live in my City Yoga class. We begin in a seated position, getting in touch with our breath, lengthening our spine as we feel the tailbone root down and the crown of the head lift up. We explore the nature of our breath, expanding our breath out to the sides of the ribcage and feeling the fullness of our inhale, and feeling the complete feeling of emptiness of our exhale. We place one hand over our heart, and one hand over our belly (or for post natal mamas, second hand on our baby.) We visualize our heart chakra as the petals of a flower, opening up petal by petal. As we use the energy of our heart chakra and visualize the light of the sun, we use the energy of the heart to connect with and stabilize the root, or the base chakra. www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live in my City Yoga class. We begin in a seated position, getting in touch with our breath, lengthening our spine as we feel the tailbone root down and the crown of the head lift up. We explore the nature of our breath, expanding our breath out to the sides of the ribcage and feeling the fullness of our inhale, and feeling the complete feeling of emptiness of our exhale. We place one hand over our heart, and one hand over our belly (or for post natal mamas, second hand on our baby.) We visualize our heart chakra as the petals of a flower, opening up petal by petal. As we use the energy of our heart chakra and visualize the light of the sun, we use the energy of the heart to connect with and stabilize the root, or the base chakra. www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live at my City Yoga class. The class began with moms sitting in a squat position on a block, knees out to the sides, feet flat on the floor. Elbows are bent, and gently pressing the inner knees and inner thighs open, hands are together at the heart center. Though this position is not necessary at all to enjoy this meditation, this position will help you open up your root, or first chakra. www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live at my City Yoga class. The class began with moms sitting in a squat position on a block, knees out to the sides, feet flat on the floor. Elbows are bent, and gently pressing the inner knees and inner thighs open, hands are together at the heart center. Though this position is not necessary at all to enjoy this meditation, this position will help you open up your root, or first chakra. www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live at my City Yoga class. In this meditation, we focus on energy rising up from the sacrum towards the crown of the head, and then back down. We use our heightened intuition to choose a color from the chakra system (rainbow colors) that resonates with us and infuse the healing energy color into our breath, our meditation and more specifically into the area where our baby is. www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live at my City Yoga class. In this meditation, we focus on energy rising up from the sacrum towards the crown of the head, and then back down. We use our heightened intuition to choose a color from the chakra system (rainbow colors) that resonates with us and infuse the healing energy color into our breath, our meditation and more specifically into the area where our baby is. www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live at my pre/post natal yoga class on July 27, 2011. It is the closing meditation, immediately following savasana, or final resting pose You will be guided into clearing out old energy by visualizing light surrounding you and your baby. This is a powerful meditation that will help prepare you for labor. Thanks for listening. For more info: www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live at my pre/post natal yoga class on July 27, 2011. It is the closing meditation, immediately following savasana, or final resting pose You will be guided into clearing out old energy by visualizing light surrounding you and your baby. This is a powerful meditation that will help prepare you for labor. Thanks for listening. For more info: www.ariamayland.com

This meditation was recorded live at my pre/post natal yoga class on July 27, 2011. If you have a block, you may follow the instructions at the beginning about how to sit down in virasana (hero pose) with a block. If you don't have a block, just sit in any comfortable position. This meditation is designed to help you slough off old energy, so if you're feeing kind of icky today, maybe tense or stressed or just not quite right, this is the meditation for you. Thanks for listening. For more info: www.ariamayland.com