Healing Light Meditation
What you’ll need: A yoga mat, blanket, pillow, or comfortable chair
About the Class
This short meditation practice uses breath and visualization to help you feel a greater sense of well-being. You can practice Healing Light Meditation from the comfort of your home or office.
Tara, a certified yoga therapist, will share tips to help you find a comfortable seated position. Then, follow along as Tara provides simple prompts, positive thoughts, and gentle breathing instruction. Soothing instrumental music helps promote a calm, peaceful feeling.
How is meditation helpful?
Meditation can help us stay calmer and more grounded when facing challenges, such as a cancer diagnosis, according to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Worry, stress, fear, and anxiety are all normal responses to a diagnosis. It’s easy to get caught up in thoughts about the future. Meditating helps us sit quietly and turn inward. Through stillness, we can observe our thoughts and then let them go, without self-judgment.
As our thoughts pass by “like clouds in the sky, we start to feel a greater sense of peace within,” Tara notes.
Through regular practice, meditation can help us pause before reacting in life. We can see ourselves and others more clearly.
What is the best time of day to meditate?
Meditating can be beneficial any time of the day. Meditating in the morning can help you set the tone for your day. At night, practicing meditation can help you fall asleep. Choose what works for you.
When we turn within [through meditation], we can start to access our heart center. This is where our true nature resides, deep within our soul — these feelings of peace and presence, love and compassion, and joy and bliss.
About Tara
Tara is a trauma-informed yoga therapist (C-IAYT, TIYT) and the creator of LOV Yoga, a yoga and wellness business. She was inspired to start LOV Yoga because of her own deep connection with cancer as a caregiver and through losing her husband to melanoma in 2016. Practicing yoga and mindfulness during that time helped Tara find a sense of healing within. Tara has over 1,200 hours of accredited yoga training and 8 years of teaching experience, largely focused around cancer care, grief, trauma, and perinatal support.
