Looking for a strategy to help you face the challenges of the pandemic, e-learning and the holidays? Join University of Illinois Extension Educator Michele Crawford for Meditation Mornings.
Let your meditation practice support you through the stress of these challenging times. Research demonstrates just a few minutes of meditation a day can reduce stress and negative emotions, stabilize the mind, and increase patience, creativity and self-awareness.
Throughout this series, we will explore the yogic model of the koshas as a map to take care of our physical, energetic, psycho-emotional, wisdom, and bliss bodies. Kosha can be translated as “sheath” or “layer”. These layers work in two ways: they allow us to express our inner self, and they cushion the inner self from the challenges of the outer world. There are five koshas, which we will explore individually, practicing a different meditation for each. While we separate them for the purpose of study, they are all intertwined.
Each session will include
- Brief introduction to the theme
- A few minutes of breath work
- 5-7 minute guided meditation
New Theme: The Five Koshas
- Week of November 30 – Annamaya kosha (physical body)
- Week of December 7 – Pranamaya kosha (energy body)
- Week of December 14 – Manomaya kosha (psycho-emotional body)
- Two-week break for the holidays
- Week of January 4 – Vijnanamaya kosha (wisdom body)
- Week of January 11 – Anandamaya kosha (bliss body)
- Week of January 20 – Putting it all together (no practice 1/18 – MLK holiday)
Use the links below to register for the series at either 8am or 8:30am. Program dates are Monday, Nov. 30 – Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 and Monday, Jan. 4 – Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Space is limited. Register by Friday, Nov. 27, 2020.
8am registration – https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcuGsqjkjGdNUadKIuvgRfwD1K8X8llM2
8:30am registration – https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvcOqurD4vGdQaQoqCUR3K1jai0vlEZgUn
For additional information, or if you need a reasonable accommodation to participate, please contact James McCombs at jmccomb2@illinois.edu.