Meditation and Movement for Self-Healing

By Catherine Ayano Nixon

Meditation and Movement for Self-Healing provides a set of 25 activities for those who want to learn more about the practice of meditation. The movements are simple and offer an alternative to other ways of meditating. The accompanying illustrations help the reader to learn the movements on their own and with their own body in mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982253288

Catherine Ayano Nixon

Catherine Ayano Nixon is an artist living in the Lowertown Arts District in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has worked as a Yang Style Tai Chi teacher for 20 years and also works as a certified yoga and meditation teacher and Pilates trainer. Meditation has been a foundation for her life and studies for more than 30 years. Catherine uses the practices in this book for her own self-development and to support others in theirs.

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Interior Image Credit: Catherine Ayano Nixon

ISBN: 978-1-9822-5327-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-5328-8 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date:   11/10/2020

CONTENTS

Introduction

How To Use This Book

What Is Meditation?

Breath Awareness

A Seat For The Breath

Seated Cloud Hands

Mountain

Water Mountain

Shifting Cloud Hands

Mindfulness

Belly Breath

Ocean Breath

Ocean Breath Shifting Cloud Hands

Walking In Place

Walking Forward, Walking Backward

Self-Calming

Name That Emotion

Cat-Cow

Body Check

Heart Opener

Warrior

Concentration

Concentration Combination 1

Concentration Combination 2

Concentration Combination 3

Alternate Nostril Breathing

Yoga Nidra

Self-Knowledge

Facing Your Fears

Forgiveness

Aspirations

Affirmations

Healing

Bibliography

… Therefore the sage takes care of all people

And abandons no one.

She takes care of all things and abandons nothing…

Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Many wonderful people helped me to write this book, including all of my family, particularly my encouraging and supportive parents, James and Yasuko Nixon, who reminded me that I knew what I was doing and that I could draw. Lisa Mathieson and the Lowertown Drawing Circle gave me essential input for the artwork in