Chair yoga

Posted on February 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged chair yoga, Good for you, Meditation, Memory, poses, Relaxation, Stretching, Virus, YogaLeave a comment

Can’t find a photo in the free media library of chair yoga but anyway….

I finally made it back to our yoga class after weeks of virus and feeling very ill. I was shocked at how tired it made me feel. I think I’ve lost muscle strength and did most of the poses on the chair. My balance has got worse so I clung on to the back of the chair for support for standing poses.

Yoga relaxation was good tonight, we had to imagine a place only we knew to be our secret retreat to rest our minds and bodies. I chose a place far back in my memories. I won’t say where, but I have got an ideal place to visit in my mind.

Look after yourselves. X

I struggle

Posted on August 12, 2024August 12, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Awake, Cat, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2028, Insomnia, Meditation, Peace, Relaxation, Thinking, TiredLeave a comment

What brings you peace?

Last night I wanted a peaceful night’s sleep. I was tired and it was hot. I don’t sleep well these days

I tried to do some relaxation techniques but they didn’t work. I tried listening to the radio on low, but no use. Then I came downstairs and put the TV on quietly. Sometimes that works. Finally I found an app that plays the sound of waves, with video up to 11 hours. It promised peace and rest. I must have had it on too loud, I listened for a couple of hours. The only thing that happened was that I nodded off for a few minutes, then the cat jumped on the bed and woke me up again. Argh! Finally I came downstairs again and fell asleep in exhaustion.

I try and meditate

Posted on September 8, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 'the', dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2053, Meditation, Relaxation, Sleep, Thinking, Yoga4 Comments

How do you relax?

I try to meditate at yoga, but I often lose the imagery and fall asleep instead! Somehow the words of different visualisations deeply relax me. Luckily I’ve never had to be woken up, and usually I wake up as soon as the teacher tells us to bring some movement back to our bodies.

I was also given advice about using the word ‘the’ to take your mind off your worries. Basically thinking the word ‘the’ over and over has no context, you can’t attach other ideas onto it. So as I say you lose the worries and you can relax.

Meditation

Posted on January 26, 2023January 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Aches, Art, golden, Healing, Help, Light, Meditation, pains, Relaxation, Sketching, Thinking, Vision, YogaLeave a comment

At my old yoga class from twenty years ago, we used to meditate about a golden healing light that you could conjour up to relax and help heal aches and pains. Recently I remembered this, so when I am trying to sleep and struggling to stop circular and intrusive thoughts, I close my eyes and try and notice the flow of blood in the back of my eye. Sometimes I catch sight of a sparkly gold light flowing in waves across my vision. I don’t exactly know what it is, I think it’s linked to my pulse, but it’s definitely a visual thing, not imagined. I then think the words ‘golden healing light’ over and over as I watch the waves of light wafting across my vision. I don’t know if this would be of any help to anyone, but it’s an interesting phenomenon.

Wild

Posted on November 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Frogs, Life, Meditation, Nature, Poem, Poetry, toads, Water, Weather, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Wild birds

Wild land

Flowers and sedges

Bullrushes

Frogs and toads

Dragonflies

Watery world

Weathered fences

Water voles swim

A meditation on Westport Lake

Doodle, drawing a line

Posted on November 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Contours, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Life, Lines, Meditation, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

Draw round anything with a thin pen and you get an interesting effect. It’s something I do occasionally as a meditation. Trying to keep a little distance from coloured splodges or around lines that I have already drawn or doodled. Somehow the lines remind me of the contours on a map, because they seem to join things together. Mostly I look at the back of my pictures and see if the ink has bled through it. I’ve written about this technique here before. It’s a way of creating something a little more abstract.

Freedoms

Posted on October 22, 2022October 24, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, freedom, Fun, Kaleidoscope, Life, Meditation, PatternLeave a comment

I like the freedom of playing with pattern and colour. This is my way of chilling, relaxing, meditating. Using a kaleidoscope style of drawing app on my phone. I cannot remember how I did this, it’s a few weeks or months ago since I drew it. Maybe I need to use things like this on teeshirts? Or on bags, but I’m good at prevarication, I need to give myself a kick I think…

Nights are drawing in

Posted on October 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colour, Drawing, Life, Lines, Meditation, Moon, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Drawing for the prompt of ‘nights are drawing in’, I wanted to create a moonrise and I used a previous meditation drawing. I added colour and form, then used a texture app to emphasise the original lines from the drawing, #bandofsketchers.

Spiralling

Posted on October 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink pen, Drawing, Meditation, Memories, Pattern, Sadness, Shape, Sketching, Spiral, ThinkingLeave a comment

This drawing is another meditation. As I spiralled around drawing complex patterns I thought about aspects of mine and my siblings life. By thinking about her as I drew I could concentrate without getting too upset. I let myself think about how things could be different, and that she may have been spared. I don’t know if it was a comfort but I had been watching a programme about quantum entanglement and the possible multiverse. I am not an astrophysicist and I have no idea if this theory would have any effect on variations of people/places/times, but it gave me a little strange comfort.

Meditation finished

Posted on October 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, black fine liner pen, Curves, Drawing, Meditation, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

Curves filled in with lines, then the blank spaces walled off with black. I think it looks a bit like a script but it’s unintentional. I left the blanks because it making the patterns stand out more. I could add more black lines or adding colour to it, but for now I’m calling it finished.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Meditation