The Exercise Room

I am excited to introduce a new page on my Meditation From the Heart website called the         Exercise Room!  Currently there are two meditation exercises to be found there.

The first is the Sum Faht Mudra Meditation. Here you will find, in written form, the guide for the 16 mudras that make up this meditation.

Help prevent heart attack mudra

Mudras are specific hand positions which activate various energies within the body. (For example - the photo to the right depicts the mudra that will be helpful to someone who is experiencing heart attack symptoms.)

It is good to hold each mudra for a consistent amount of time. I use an app called 'Insight Timer' because it can be set to ring a 'singing bowl' chime at any interval you wish. If it repeats once a minute then the mudra meditation exercise will be 16 minutes long; or once every minute and a half it will take 24 minutes. Also, you could count your breaths. For example taking 5 deep breaths for each mudra. The idea is to spend equal time in each position.

The Sum Faht Mudra Meditation is good for people who want to have something for their mind to focus on.

The second exercise shown is still-shot video of the 12 Brocades. The 12 Brocades is a chee kung style exercise which will help a person to build up physical strength while boosting the body's many systems: The immune system, the nervous system, the musculoskeletal system, digestive system, respiratory system, and the circulatory/cardiovascular system, to name a few.

My cat, Dante

You will see my cat, Dante, joining me during part of the 12 brocades.

In this video you will see both the front view and the side view of each position and my voice will guide you through it..It is timed at 30 seconds for each brocade. This good for learning purposes.

Once you have the 12 Brocades memorized it is best to do the positions with your eyes closed. I like holding each position for a minute. But you can challenge yourself to increase your time to two minutes each (or longer :-).

After doing the 12 Brocades it is recommended to go into a sitting meditation - bringing all your good work into the meditation.