Meditation, Open

Science has proved that meditating restructures our brain and can train it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress, and more.

In this class, you will discover that meditation also has benefits beyond what science has revealed. There are changes both subtle and profound understood only through direct experience. All you need to start is the willingness to sit and be with your own body, breath, and mind.

This class teaches you how to relax, focus and move into deeper levels of concentration. It teaches you how to relieve and eliminate anxiety, cope with the stress in your life and calm your self. You will be taught different methods of meditation from quieting the mind to focusing on the breath or an object or a thought to visualizations to affirming-type meditations. You will also prepare the body to sit comfortably and practice stillness.

Those who attend find that they are able to still the body and calm the mind by softening within and letting go of the internal chatter in the mind. This class is a life saver.

If you are late yet wish to attend, please come but enter quietly so as not to disturb others.

This is a donation-based class with a suggested donation of $5 minimum

Please arrive 5-10 minutes before the start of the session.

Michael is the founder of Rising Sun Yoga. He is a certified and registered Hatha and Iyengar-based yoga teacher and a martial arts instructor. He lives a holistic lifestyle - practicing yoga, meditation, smart eating, staying fit and having a healthy outlook on all that occurs in his life. Michael also believes that your thoughts are as powerful as anything else you put into, or let come out of, your self.

He is a practicing herbalist, an Iridologist, and a health consultant. As an experienced practitioner, he has continued his education in key health related areas, conducted extensive research through topic related books, etc., and has had the professional privilege of helping many people.

He also practices kinesiology, and lectures on health-related topics. Michael studied martial arts for 30 years before being introduced to yoga in 2000. Before then, he worked in the banking and software industries for 20 years.

Michael founded Rising Sun Yoga to bring people together in community as a center for education in body, mind, and spirit. His classes are filled with laughter and fun while giving you the opportunity to explore and stretch your boundaries.