The Magical Art of Meditation
“This practice is user friendly. It can spark interest in the beginner while adding depth for the experienced meditator. Like a good animated film, everyone gets something different and at the level they are at, with everyone enjoying the experience.”
The Practice of Living Awareness Meditation is a new, practical, effective, and immediately accessible form of meditation. Almost all meditation techniques taught today were born hundreds or thousands of years ago. Over the centuries, these excellent practices have brought many people profound gifts and results. However, humanity is needing and ready for a new form of meditation—one that springs like fruit from the parent vine. The Practice of Living Awareness Meditation is that.
Consciousness and the personal subtle systems of human beings have evolved. I believe this difference must be acknowledged in meditative practices as well as in all areas of health and well-being. Donna Mitchell-Moniak
The Practice of Living Awareness Meditation is a practice that leads one effectively through the stages of breath, alignment, and withdrawing to the center of oneʼs being. From there, and only from there, is true yogic concentration possible. This is more than focus or meditative stability. It is the doorway into luminescence, tranquility, the sublimation of the outer senses, and the development of illumined awareness. True meditation and all higher meditative states are then possible, but not before this level of concentration. The techniques of The Practice of Living Awareness assist one in establishing the essential foundations of breath, withdrawal, heart-full sentient awareness, alignment and centering so that a new level of lighted-mind can be lived in meditation and every day in life.
What Makes This Practice Unique?
The uniqueness is in the instruction and guidance.
I love Donna’s teaching style, both the spiritual teaching and the technical aspects of the Practice. I love that there is always more to learn, to revisit, and go deeper into.
Instruction in meditative training is imperative if the person is to learn a technique and achieve its results. Practitioners are led to and through a comprehensive understanding of themselves as human beings. Every part (body, breath, chakras, senses, mind, emotions, reality, and illusion) is used as a point of entry and revelation. Just as in training for a sport or learning to cook, there are particulars that, if known and understood from the beginning, will bring success. Likewise in meditation.
The Practice helps me reach a level of peace, serenity, detachment that I would not otherwise attain. I have greater insight and “around-sight”. It has fostered my sense of oneness and connection with everything I experience.
Those who have achieved stabilized, profound, and repeated states of meditation had very clear, detailed instruction. We cannot just sit and expect our mind to stop churning; or merely count breaths and expect rhythm to permeate our life. Instead, we can find and then rely on a method that makes sense to our mind, uses our sensibilities, and brings order to our subtle fields. This creates the ground-of-being for our meditative practice. The Practice of Living Awareness is such a method.
With Donna’s help I’ve experienced my essential nature, which is no small thing. Donna’s instruction is profound and deeply informed by her understanding of the human makeup and essence. From her I understand myself better and how to work with my mind so that it less interrupts my meditation. This allows me to go farther with my meditation.
Three Levels
The Practice of Living Awareness Meditation, like its parental roots, has three levels. We suggest that even practiced meditators begin at the beginning of this meditative training. Those who have done so report significant benefits. Beginners to meditation will find a gentle, effective method that can be taken into everyday life and circumstances as well as in one’s sitting practice. Increased awareness is the result of this training, able then to be lived and used fully.
- I. Entry level (live Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 8:15 a.m. ET) Podcast of the live meditation is posted on those days as well.
- II. Intermediate (live Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday mornings at 8:55 a.m. ET) This is not a public meditation. Application is necessary to this and Generative levels of the Practice of Living Awareness. Feel free to inquire.
- III. Generative (live Thursday and Friday at 8:55 a.m. and on Saturday at 9:55 a.m. ET)
Meditation retreats happen in Boulder, Milwaukee, Toronto, and at Spirit Fire in Spring and Fall each year. All are welcome.
The Practice of Living Awareness is a rich blend of:
- The use of the subtle
- The use of the obvious
- The inherent magnetic and luminous nature of Consciousness and one’s innate desire for betterment in the forms of tranquility, creativity, self-empowerment, spiritual development, and directedness.
Benefits of This Form of Meditation
The Practice of Living Awareness Meditation offers expanded realizations of the macro- and microcosm through techniques that extend and refine the senses, develop centeredness, and bring alignment and focus in one’s life. These offer the possibility to change rapidly through an elevation of the personal view. With The Practice of Living Awareness, a true experience of Oneness becomes reachable.