Cherie Byrd, Blog

Embodied Meditation: Introduction to the Middle-School Program        June 1, 2016 Dear delightful friends, Over the 35 years that I’ve been in clinical practice I have heard one comment over and over, many times a year. People will find themselves at the end of their session feeling transformed and cock their heads in wonder and say, “Why don’t they teach us these practices when we’re in school? My life would have been so different.” I KNOW, if only. So here I am out digging in the garden a couple of weeks ago and that same question echoed thru me out of the blue, and I paused wondering why. The response came in loud and clear, “Because it’s now time for you to do it, start with the middle-schoolers.” REALLY? What a great idea!  This project is now consuming me day and night… researching what is happening with meditation in schools, lots of studies mostly with TM and Mindfulness with a couple of big celebs behind it.  ...

Embodied Meditation: Beyond Mindfulness, Embodying the Brilliance of Wholeness I've been teaching meditation since the early 70's and no matter the style of meditation one adapts, the first thing meditators experience as they sit there is their never-ending mind chatter. This is not an outcome of the meditation practice, but an indicator that they (their mental and emotional energy bodies) are not anchored in their bodies, but are energetically dissociated floating somewhere above their body.  Embodying these aspects of oneself, combined with grounding to the earth and coming fully into the present moment completely changes the dynamics of meditating. When our consciousness is fully present and coherently integrated we are ready to expand our consciousness, engage our heart intelligence and be the brilliant being we were born to be.   The path to brilliance is marked with:   ·        Grounding and centering   · ...