Mindfulness practices, mantra, chanting, pranayam, breath focus, body scans, visualisation, journeying, prayer, and stillness practices are all forms of meditation found around the world in different societies and cultures. However you meditate, a regular meditation practice can change your state, awareness and ability to create space between event or stimulus and response.
Henny is an experienced meditation teacher, working with groups on a weekly basis, she guides meditators through gentle loving awareness practices, body and energy attunement and on visual and heart journeys to drop into different states.
Consistent meditation practice can allow our awareness to increase and the regular process of dropping into quieter states can assist us in our present moment awareness and give us time to respond rather than react to triggers. Over time meditation can change how our brains function and how we experience and live in our world.
As we increase the regularity of our meditation practice, we create new neural pathways, changing our experience and the lens through which we see our world. A regular meditation practice has been shown to change the frequency of brain waves and 90% of the time when we close our eyes, we drop down from our active Beta state into Alpha, which is a change of gear and can allow a quieter process. If we enter a deep meditative state, we go into the much slower Theta brainwaves. A Theta state can promote learning and memories to be processed, which we do not have access to in our more normal Beta state in the same way. Theta brain states can be where our stuff is sorted, our sub and unconscious processes, which we are not aware of in our normal conscious state. Meditation can be both a great self-help tool and really beneficial when coupled with other therapeutic modalities, assisting in processing and integrating change.
Being Aware of Being Aware
Meditation with a focus on becoming aware, and developing our strong witness, the part that notices and remains aware even as our experience of thoughts, feelings and sensations change.
At Home in my Breath
A spacious, gentle meditation that softly creates presence through our breath, watching thoughts without judgement as they come and go. Inhale – I am, Exhale – home in myself, Inhale – I am, Exhale – my breath.
Just as I am
A meditation to embrace ourselves as we are, with acceptance. Gently tuning into ourselves in the present moment, through our senses and breath. Words from Donna Ashworth – Speak Less, from Joy Chose You.
Mindfulness Reset
A daily reset mindfulness meditation moving through 5 simple mindfulness practices and spending time tuning in. A regular practice of this meditation can bring about a sense of loving awareness and acceptance.
Deep Listening
A gentle meditation using conscious listening, attunement to the body rhythms, ocean breathing, and tuning into our inner sound and guidance. With writing from Sat Dharam Kaur.
Expanded Feeling
A meditation to gently explore and tune into our feelings and sensations. Using curiosity about our many different sensations, and giving time for full body scanning and expanded feeling.
Inner Seeing
A meditation with gentle focus on seeing, image and visualisation. Introducing visualisation techniques and moving towards making space for inner vision and the sight of the mind’s eye.
Cues of Safety
A meditation to create internal messages of safety. With safe techniques for self-holding, and the journey into each breath becoming a message of safety. With ‘candle breathing’, for parasympathetic nervous system safety.
Inner Child Meditation
This gentle heart-centred meditation will allow you to connect to your younger self and help to establish a healing connection and healthy internal beliefs and self-talk.
Ho’oponopono Meditation
Henny guides us through the gentle process of Ho’oponopono, known as energetic medicine from ancient Hawaiian tradition. Four simple, mantras ‘I’m sorry; Please forgive me; Thank you; I love you’ are spoken from the heart to the many lives within to enter into the grace of Ho’oponopono.
Heart Radiance
A meditation attuning to the heart and its radiant qualities. With reference to heart coherence techniques and gently bringing in some of the qualities of self-love into the heart space, including self-acceptance, self-care and self-respect. And taking a moment for our hearts to radiate outwards to humanity and all hearts.
Balancing Ancestral Energy
A meditation to quietly reflect on our familial lineage, and the ancestral energy that comes from the gifts and wounds that these generations experienced. Allowing contemplation and seeing how this might show up in our own patterns today – and to both honour and release ourselves as we move forward.