Founder of Yoke Yoga (here in Torquay and in South Melbourne), Chris Wilson is an avid meditation practitioner and teacher. Here he shares with us some of his insights into why Meditation is so essential and what it’s all about…

What is Meditation?

There are a lot of people practicing and talking about meditation. 
It’s something a lot of us feel we should be doing, but what exactly is it?

My thoughts on this is that meditation is a great way to directly experience the core meaning of yoga – conscious union with the infinite.

But what is the Infinite? One way to explore this is that we are all aware, or conscious. And we are all aware of something, it could be something we’re looking at, a feeling in the body, a thought pattern arising, an emotion etc. 
All of these experiences are arising in our awareness, much like a cloud moving across the infinite sky of our mind.

Meditation is to rest into the awareness that’s doing the observing, or to come back to the sky analogy, to become aware of the infinite sky of mind that is our essential nature.

The reason why we meditate, is that typically we are caught up in or velcro’d to the experiences that are arising. This shows up as suffering. 
Through meditation we gain some perspective, we will still have challenging thoughts and feelings, however the suffering around these experiences is lessened. Also when we sense into this deeper part of ourselves, (the infinite sky of mind) the feeling of this is spacious, easeful, much like the feelings of love!

Join me for a 10 minute meditation here: 

If you would like to dive deeper into your yoga and meditation practice we are running a Yoga Teacher Training in Torquay in May.

Check out all the details at

http://www.yokeyoga.com.au/