Term 3 class on offer, starting 14 July 2022:
Mixed-level Mantra & Meditation Class
THURSDAYS 6pm - 7pm @ The Breathing Room
10-week term starting July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, 18, 25, September 1, (no class Sep 8), 15.
1hr Class Payment guidelines:*
10-week term prepaid $100 Valid one term
or $10 casual
Resetting the daily balance through the varied tools of Yoga!
OM shanti Peace OM
Email cate@nowforyoga.com or call Cate on 0401307082 for bank details.
I look forward to working with you in your mantra & meditation practice, using the voice and music to still the mind, dwell in the open heart, to find the space within.
Mixed-level Mantra & Meditation Class
THURSDAYS 6pm - 7pm @ The Breathing Room
10-week term starting July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, 18, 25, September 1, (no class Sep 8), 15.
1hr Class Payment guidelines:*
10-week term prepaid $100 Valid one term
or $10 casual
Resetting the daily balance through the varied tools of Yoga!
OM shanti Peace OM
Email cate@nowforyoga.com or call Cate on 0401307082 for bank details.
I look forward to working with you in your mantra & meditation practice, using the voice and music to still the mind, dwell in the open heart, to find the space within.
MANTRA
Yoga Mantra are phrases of words in Sanskrit, the ancient language of India, that carry seed sound vibrations to steady the mind and open the heart, experiencing the spaciousness of (unconditional) love.
We can incorporate reciting or singing mantra (and English affirmation) in our Yoga practices
to positively and joyfully affect our everyday wellbeing.
Benefits include:
quietens the mind
calms restlessness in the body
improves resilience in the face of everyday challenges
sleeping like a baby!
stress relief and management
accesses heart space for increased self-love, compassion, forgiveness
whole body/mind integration
understanding the ego tendencies
letting go of hurt/ trauma
increases creativity
increases focus
cultivates witness mind
healing inhibition
effective way to change negativity into positivity
easier to access meditative mind
connect to higher Self
Mantra recitation is a bhakti or devotional Yoga practice, and can be practised alone or in a group, said or sung, out loud or mentally.
As we say or sing Mantra, there is a calming of the conscious mind. It becomes easier to transcend this busyness of everyday thinking, leading us to rest in our meditative mind, the aim of all Yoga practices.
By repeating Mantra and English affirmation, we are cultivating personal and worldly spiritual upliftment.
Mantra is also a very practical tool, bringing us into the Now, and taking our senses inwards, the first step in meditation, so that we can connect with our own Self on a very real level, to witness our current state of Being.
Practising mantra in a seated position, chair or floor, spine tall, we are adopting the physical posture of Yoga called easy meditation pose - sukhasana.
If working with sickness or injury, we can lie down in deep relaxation pose - shavasana.
Practising mantra is also a pranayama -a breathing technique, as we learn over time to harmonise breath and mantra.
Devotional singing in particular works actively on the throat and heart chakras, allowing blockages to dissolve, our life force to flow, and building trust in our inner knowing over time.
Yoga Australia offered free 20-minute morning meditations in Covid-19 times.
Discover Cate’s OM Namah Shivayah meditation from 24 June 2020.
Discover Cate’s OM meditation from 18 August 2021.
Discover Cate’s Gayatri Mantra meditation offering from 29 September 2021.
Discover the 2020 and 2021 series here.
Yoga Australia Mindful in May 2022 free 20-minute morning meditations.
Discover Cate’s Unconditional Love Mantra meditation offering from 13 May 2022.
We can incorporate reciting or singing mantra (and English affirmation) in our Yoga practices
to positively and joyfully affect our everyday wellbeing.
Benefits include:
quietens the mind
calms restlessness in the body
improves resilience in the face of everyday challenges
sleeping like a baby!
stress relief and management
accesses heart space for increased self-love, compassion, forgiveness
whole body/mind integration
understanding the ego tendencies
letting go of hurt/ trauma
increases creativity
increases focus
cultivates witness mind
healing inhibition
effective way to change negativity into positivity
easier to access meditative mind
connect to higher Self
Mantra recitation is a bhakti or devotional Yoga practice, and can be practised alone or in a group, said or sung, out loud or mentally.
As we say or sing Mantra, there is a calming of the conscious mind. It becomes easier to transcend this busyness of everyday thinking, leading us to rest in our meditative mind, the aim of all Yoga practices.
By repeating Mantra and English affirmation, we are cultivating personal and worldly spiritual upliftment.
Mantra is also a very practical tool, bringing us into the Now, and taking our senses inwards, the first step in meditation, so that we can connect with our own Self on a very real level, to witness our current state of Being.
Practising mantra in a seated position, chair or floor, spine tall, we are adopting the physical posture of Yoga called easy meditation pose - sukhasana.
If working with sickness or injury, we can lie down in deep relaxation pose - shavasana.
Practising mantra is also a pranayama -a breathing technique, as we learn over time to harmonise breath and mantra.
Devotional singing in particular works actively on the throat and heart chakras, allowing blockages to dissolve, our life force to flow, and building trust in our inner knowing over time.
Yoga Australia offered free 20-minute morning meditations in Covid-19 times.
Discover Cate’s OM Namah Shivayah meditation from 24 June 2020.
Discover Cate’s OM meditation from 18 August 2021.
Discover Cate’s Gayatri Mantra meditation offering from 29 September 2021.
Discover the 2020 and 2021 series here.
Yoga Australia Mindful in May 2022 free 20-minute morning meditations.
Discover Cate’s Unconditional Love Mantra meditation offering from 13 May 2022.
discover the Vimeo Chant Video Series here: 2020-present
Jo Mall Kahn, from Edo & Jo:
Kirtan is a sangha [coming together for spiritual upliftment]...authentically sharing what we are going through...A part of the process of singing kirtan is to connect to our vulnerability, not trying to be perfect, but accepting me as I am, this is the only thing we can do.
Maaji Bornstein from Radiant Light Yoga:
Every aspect of ourselves may serve as a doorway to the infinite. Just as our bodies become powerful conduits for the transformation of our beings, we can use the power of sound through the instrument of the voice to awaken, purify, and uplift ourselves on the deepest level.
Krishna Das:
Practice isn’t only while we’re sitting down chanting. It begins like that, but gradually we are digging down to a deeper place
in our own hearts that we live in. If we close down, it becomes more obvious to us than it was before. It hurts more. […] We are developing a deeper centre of gravity that allows us to more easily let go of […] experiences. We need leverage. Practice gives us that.
Cate Geard from Now for Yoga:
Let the Way of the Heart
Let the Way of the Heart
Let the Way of the Heart shine through
Love upon love upon love
All hearts are beating as one
Light upon light upon light
Shining as bright as the Sun
We sing this Yoga song to remind us that we have a conscious choice to make in every moment.
In response to life situations, we can shift out of our heart, or we can let it shine through.
The more we consciously keep our heart open, the stronger it becomes as our trusted guide.
An open heart vibrates PEACE FOR ALL as its mantra.
Mantra practice, solo or in a group (kirtan), is a yoga practice, offering us a tangible way to connect deeply to our authentic voice/s, it takes us beyond inhibition - the shackles of shoulds and cannots.
For vibrant present moment living, letting the Way of the Heart Shine through is the essence of mantra practice.
Mantra practice helps us to connect to the universal heart.
This heart space is sometimes called Presence, Peace, Bliss, Love, God, ShivaShakti, Divine Mother - this energy has many names..
Another name learnt the other day, watching Moana with the kids is Maui, lord of the Wind and Sea.
Our own heart can guide us across the gulf of cultural divide, and through cultural shock, and in the end there is a way to exist beyond ego, beyond division, beyond extremism, beyond apathy, beyond suffering, beyond inhibition.
For me, Yoga is a trusted guide. Mantra practice is a vital aspect of Yoga - Union, one with all.
Let the Way of the Heart
Let the Way of the Heart
Let the Way of the Heart shine through
Love upon love upon love
All hearts are beating as one
Light upon light upon light
Shining as bright as the Sun
We sing this Yoga song to remind us that we have a conscious choice to make in every moment.
In response to life situations, we can shift out of our heart, or we can let it shine through.
The more we consciously keep our heart open, the stronger it becomes as our trusted guide.
An open heart vibrates PEACE FOR ALL as its mantra.
Mantra practice, solo or in a group (kirtan), is a yoga practice, offering us a tangible way to connect deeply to our authentic voice/s, it takes us beyond inhibition - the shackles of shoulds and cannots.
For vibrant present moment living, letting the Way of the Heart Shine through is the essence of mantra practice.
Mantra practice helps us to connect to the universal heart.
This heart space is sometimes called Presence, Peace, Bliss, Love, God, ShivaShakti, Divine Mother - this energy has many names..
Another name learnt the other day, watching Moana with the kids is Maui, lord of the Wind and Sea.
Our own heart can guide us across the gulf of cultural divide, and through cultural shock, and in the end there is a way to exist beyond ego, beyond division, beyond extremism, beyond apathy, beyond suffering, beyond inhibition.
For me, Yoga is a trusted guide. Mantra practice is a vital aspect of Yoga - Union, one with all.