Meditation & Yoga with Melissa Abbott

Spring Equinox 2023 Radiant Lakshmi Yoga Nidra Recorded LIVE Mon March 20 by Melissa Abbott at SteamHouse Hot Yoga in Epping NH steamhousenh.com  Welcoming the Spring Equinox 2023 with being transported into a hidden world of pure serenity and tranquility where you will open up to the rejuvenating power of Lakshmi light, and allow it to cleanse and restore your mind, body and spirit. Patreon Link: to join my upcoming 21 Tara Practices Study Group and support "Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation" Podcast and Goddess Studies: http://patreon.com/Melissaabbott   To find out about my In Person & Zoom Yoga, Meditation Classes, New Podcasts, and Events or Subscribe to my mailing list: https://linktr.ee/melissaabbott Thank you for listening and Happy Spring 2023, Shubha Melissa Abbott

Dark Red Victorious Tara Practice - 6th Emanation of 21 Taras This Sadhana Practice, is so Healing and Protective. It helps you access your deepest inner stories and samskaras. In this Feminine Empowered Practice of Dark Red Victorious Tara we delve into The Vrajayana Tibetan Practice of calling upon the various emanations of the Compassionate and Uplifting 21 Tara Practices. This week we are investigating the Sixth Tara, Dark Red Victorious Tara.  Dark Red Victorious Tara comes to your aid when you are experiencing emotions in your body such as unease, fatigue, irritation, or apprehension. She helps as you start to decipher those obscure feelings as emotions—anger, sadness, trepidation. Your understanding allows you to monitor this procedure before you inadvertently transmute those interpretations into assumptions, decisions, or activities. So in other words, she keeps you from believing the old stories and patterns which run your life like a broken record. Reciting her Praise and Teachings, Making Offerings and Chanting her mantra is a special and transformative experience.  Patreon Link: to join my 21 Tara Practices Study Group and support "Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation" Podcast and Goddess Studies: http://patreon.com/Melissaabbott   To find out about my In Person & Zoom Yoga, Meditation Classes, New Podcasts, and Events or Subscribe to my mailing list: https://linktr.ee/melissaabbott Thank you for listening, Shubha Melissa Abbott

16 Jnana Siddha Yoginis Yoga Nidra In this Feminine Empowered Yoga Nidra we invite the 16 Jnana Siddha Yoginis into our sphere of meditation. These Yoginis are from the Shaiva Tantra Tradition of Northern India where they were a popular practice over a 1000 years ago in the Swat Valley, high in their Himalayan Mountains of Kashmir. The Yoginis are messengers of a transitional primal power, the goddess, fierce compassion for change and upliftment and actually beyond the grasp of the conceptual mind. They are related to the elements and all the guises of our being. The Jnana Siddha Yoginis Practice help us recognize our own energies to push us through our blockages, samsara's, patterns, or issues. They are a source of our ability to love ourselves more deeply and feel the preciousness of our lives. Patreon Link: to join my 21 Tara Practices Study Group and support "Melissa Abbott Yoga & Meditation" Podcast and Goddess Studies: http://patreon.com/Melissaabbott  To find out about my In Person & Zoom Yoga, Meditation Classes, New Podcasts, and Events or Subscribe to my mailing list: https://linktr.ee/melissaabbott The Yoginis are elemental, inherent, pure, and true.  Much Love, Shubha Melissa Abbott

Red Hum Sounding Tara Sadhana Practice Red Hum Soundng Tara is the 5th Emanation of the 21 Tara’s and her Sadhana, practice, mantra, teachings, and history are very powerful.  In this podcast I touch on her history and meanings while then delving into the Visualization Techniques and Practice. Learn about how she started out as the goddess Kurukullā in the Roots of tribal Hinduism and was later was adopted by Tibetan Buddhism and became Red Hum Tara, one of the 21 Tara’s. She is often referred to as the Tara of Magnetizing because of this power to summon and bring together any and all resources to benefit those around her. Furthermore, she is a figure of protection, offering individuals the strength and courage to take control of their lives and create a better future for themselves. Experience Sacred and Embodied Journeys within with Melissa Abbott. Yoga Nidras, Non Dual Shaiva Tantra Meditations,  21 Tara Practices, Dakini & Yogini Practices with healing singing bowl soundbath with Tambura. Designed to empower the feminine, connect to your pure potentiality, clear your consciousness, process, protect, increase longevity, heal from within, connection, vitality, improve sleep and wellbeing. Using age old visionary meditation techniques  from Shaiva Tantra, Yogini, Dakini, Japanese Reiki, and Vrajayana Buddhist Sources. To support my Podcast by contributing $10 Essence Nature Level Membership a month on Patreon and get added to my 21 Tara's study group via Live Online Zoom Calls or YouTube recordings.  We will investigate the Feminine Enlightenment practices of the 21 Taras including the meanings of the mantras, the secret inner teachings of the Praises, the Dzogchen teachings, the history, the visualizations and the Tara meditation techniques and prayers. https://www.patreon.com/Melissaabbott/membership Thank you for your support and listening, Melissa For information on Melissa Abbotts Live and Zoom Yoga Classes, Yoga Nidra, Healing Sound Baths, and Reiki Events https://linktr.ee/melissaabbott

White Tara Longevity, Health, & Purification with Rainbow Protection Lights Vrajayana Buddhist White Tara Sadhana ( she is separate from the 21 Tara’s Practices) and how to perform it. White Tara Sadhana is a spiritual practice of Tibetan Buddhism dedicated to the goddess White Tara, an embodiment of compassion, healing, and serenity. The practice involves invoking her presence and purifying one's own body, speech, and mind. This can be done through meditation, mantras, visualization, and other practices connected to White Tara. White Tara is also known as Sita Tārā, the cool one who brings in healing light, energy, and longevity. In Sanskrit Sita means white or pure and it is also the name of the planet Venus. She is the foremost female bodhisattva of compassionate activity, the supreme representation of mother goddess energy and the collective manifestation of all enlightenment, eternal life, and healing love. White Tārā brings in the long life activating energies of life, fire, strength, vitality, and evolution of wisdom awakened awareness. This is an overview of the practice including the Six Protection Lights Practice, explanation of the Mantras and variations for different situations, Iconography, Visualization, Meditation,  a Short Sadhana Practice.  You might have some obstacles, illness, or toxic circumstances in your life that could cause untimely death. Maybe there is a loved one or friend who is very ill. If these situations are because good karma has been exhausted, it is important ot create merit to prolong life now and have longevity in future lives as well. This Sadhana practice  may be for you.  Listen with headphones in a quiet place. Includes Healing Singing Bowl Sound Bath and Tambura backgrounds. Much Love, I am guided to share this practice at this time, Shubha Melissa Abbott

Yellow All-Victorious Tara is the 4th emanation of the 21 Tara’s. She embodies the potential to protect you from danger, purifies disturbances of life energy, and transforms the fear of death. She is known to safeguard you from harm, cleanses turmoil of inauspicious circumstances and unforeseen events. She ignites or activates the vital energy of life, and changes the dread and fear of passing away. She is known as to be of the long life Taras and activates longevity by those who do her practice. In this podcast we will discuss her history, praise, deeper meanings and the layers of her empowered feminine compassion and empowered support for those who practice Yellow-All Victorious Tara Sadhana.  Listen in a quiet place, headphones are best.  Gentle Meditative Spoken word with healing singing bowl sounds and Tambura drone.

White Soothing Tara Sadhana Practice White Soothing Tara is the 2nd Emanation in the Empowered Feminine 21 Tara Mandala Practices of Vrajayana Buddhism White Soothing Tara is one of the 21 Taras and known as the second emanation of Tara, or female emanations of enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism. Her name Drolma Loter Yangchenma represents her innate capacity for giving knowledge through song, melody, or words. In sanskrit she is known as Saraswati and Vrajasaraswati.  In addition the white color of Great White Soothing Tara has the power to calm profound disturbances such as illnesses and negative imprints. These are long-standing or deeply ingrained patterns that can be difficult to overcome and she employs her pacifying and soothings effects on these circumstances. Tara's peaceful expression reflects her ability to dissipate negativity and penetrate the innermost parts of the heart. Recorded in Gloucester, MA in my home studio on Jan 26, 2023 this recording is an explanation of her practice, the inner meanings of her visualization, offerings, praise/invocations, prayers, mantras, meditation and dedications. Why you might practice her sadhana such as breaking out of old patterns and transformative energy of Great White Soothing Tara.  This one includes her practice with short mantra repetition practice.  melissaabbott.com melissa@melissaabbott.cm Much love to you, Shubha Melissa Abbott

Tattva Bhavana Yoga Nidra Meditation Recorded live at Blue Hot Yoga www.bluehotyoga.com after a classic hot Hatha Yoga Practice by instructor Melissa Abbott www.melissaabbott.com on Jan 4, 2022 accompanied by Crystal Singing Bowls.  In the Yogic Tradition of Shaiva Tantra Meditation Techniques, Tattva Bhavana is a beautiful relaxing practice which accesses the non dual state. Bhavana means feeling, Tattva means feeling into what is…. In essence, you are tuning into your consciousness awareness by softening your senses and opening up to your entire field of awareness. Be willing to see things with equanimity.  This is an early Meditation Technique that is just as fresh and new as it was 1000 years ago in northern India and Kashmir regions.  Enjoy  in a quiet place, Melissa

New Years 2023 Yoga Nidra Meditation with Melissa Abbott www.melissaabbott.com recorded live at Blue Hot Yoga www.bluehotyoga.com Swampscott, MA on Dec. 28, 2022 after a Classic 26 posture and 2 breathing exercises Hatha Yoga Class.  Set your Intentions for the New Year 2023 with this 15 min session. Find your gifts and use them as tools your transformation and evolution this upcoming year. Best to listen with headphones in a quiet space. Enjoy, Happiest of Happy New Year to you. Thank you for listening. Kindest regards, Melissa Abbott

Winter Solstice Yoga Nidra with Melissa Abbott Recorded live Dec 21, 2022 at Blue Hot Yoga BlueHotYoga.com in Swampscott, MA after a Hatha Yoga Class taught by Melissa Abbott with Crystal Singing Bowls accompanying the Winter Solstice Yoga Nidra Meditation. The Winter Solstice is a time of Spirit and winter rest, take some time to go within and find your peace in a quiet place.  Winter Solstice is the three days when the sun 'stands still' and nature seems to hold its breath while we enjoy our winter feast.* Just as the sun pauses during this season, take some time to pause yourself allowing radiant rejuvenation and integration.  Listening on head phones is so great. Enjoy!  Happy Holidays, Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com

Silent Radiance Yoga Nidra Recorded live on Dec 7, 2022 at Blue Hot Yoga, bluehotyoga.com 644 Humphrey St., Swampscott Ma where I teach yoga a few times a week and I have been doing Yoga Nidras with Singing Bowl Soundbath at the Wednesday 8:30am classes.  in this Yoga Nidra Immersion, you begin to sense the quiet presence that is held within, this sacred darkness you may start to sense within yourself as you are guided into a radiant infinite mystery, this womb of silent radiance.  I hope you enjoy this beautiful meditation, best listened to with headphones in a quiet place. much love,  Much Love, Melissa

Waxing Golden Crescent Moon Yoga Nidra Recorded Live at CapeAnnPowerYoga.com August 30, 2022 in Gloucester, MA after a Hot Power Vinyasa Class with instructor Melissa Abbott   The Waxing Crescent Moon Occurs a 8-9 days after the New Moon. It is Golden in color and known to increase life force, restoration, and support life purpose and intention. This Yoga Nidra with Crystal Singing Bowl Soundbath, rejuvenates and clears. A beautiful and powerful practice.

The Practice of Golden Tara  #3 of the 21 Tara’s  Golden Tara is all about realizing your life purpose. She is all about the 6 paramitas or perfections. Generosity, joyful effort, discipline, calm, patience, and meditation. It is thought in Vrajayana Buddhism and this female enlightenment Practice that integrating and realizing the 6 Paramitas, is a sign of enlightenment or awakened awareness. The Blue Lotus of the 3rd emanation represents Self Born Wisdom and the blue pearls are wish fulling, increasing or merit granting jewels of non dual or Tantric awareness. This golden Tara increases life force both physically and spiritually, aiding those that do the Golden Tara practices to bond with the inner perfections and the strength, love and compassion of Tara. Melissa Abbott gives an audio teaching and commentary of this powerful feminine enlightenment Practice. The path of a woman can look very different from a man’s or patriarchal experience and the 21 Tara’s Practices are exceptional and extraordinary. This 60 min listen would be best done in a quiet place where you can check ncentrate and imbibe fully. #tara #21taras #goldentara #goldentarart #sixparamitas #bluelotus #bluepearl #goldengoddess #wishfullfilling #rigpa #selfbornwisdom #vrajayanabuddhism the third emanation of the 21 Tara PracticesGolden Tara is all about realizing your life purpose. This Tara represent’s the 6 paramitas or perfections. Generosity, joyful effort, discipline, calm, patience, and meditation. It is thought that integrating and realizing the 6 Paramitas in your practice is a sign of enlightenment or awakened awareness. The Blue Lotus represent Self Born Wisdom and the blue pearls are wish fulling, increasing or merit granting jewels. This golden Tara increases life force both physically and spiritually, aiding those that do the Golden Tara practices to bond with the inner perfections and the strength, love and compassion of Tara. #tara #21taras #goldentara #goldentarart #sixparamitas #bluelotus #bluepearl #goldengoddess #wishfullfilling #rigpa #selfbornwisdom #vrajayanabuddhism

Golden Good Luck Bringing Tara #16 of the 21 Tara’s Practice Om Tara Tuttare Tare Mangala Siddhi Swaha  Connect to your inner synchronicities and inner goodness with this long Good Luck Bring Tara Meditation or Sadhana Practice with Melissa Abbott Tamboura and Singing Biwls in Background

Red Swift Courageous Tara Practice This is an overview and practice Sadhana of  Red Swift Courageous Tara, the first of the 21 Taras Practice. When you get overwhelmed, angry, or downright livid about the the state of our world these days, that is a signal that you do indeed have valid concerns. These are very transforming times we live in and on the spiritual level, how exactly do we work within ourselves and the energies at large. How do we work to change things. The truth is, that it all starts within. Any kind of Goddess Practice ( your choice) can be very uplifting not only for yourself but sets up a ripple effect in the world around you.  The 21 Taras Sadhana or Practice is from Tantric Tibetan Buddhism and was brought to Tibet, firstly,  by Padma Sambhava about 1200 years ago and then again 200 years later by the Bengali scholar Atisha.  It is a feminine enlightenment practice where prayers, mantras, visualizations are installed within the practitioner,  in a practice Sadhana. Each one of the 21 Taras Mandala, works with different energies that we may come up against in our daily evolution. Red Swoft Courageous Tara is perfect for the energies of right now as we come to terms with many social injustices such as Supreme Court rulings, school shootings, and the war in Ukraine.  Thank you for listening and just know, this practice is not just for you, but when you practice it, it gravitates out to everyone around you.  Check out my website melissaabbott.com or email me if you are interested in my upcoming 21 Taras practice group coming up online and in person in the Boston Area during the Fall of 2022 melissa@melissaabbott.com Namaste, Melissa

Consciousness as Vibration Yoga Nidra Immersion with Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Bath by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com recorded live May 31, 2022 after a Baptiste Simple Power Flow Yoga Class Cape Ann Power Yoga 186 Main St., Gloucester, MA USA want to attend a Live Class?  POWER & PEACE Every Tue Night 7pm EST zoom or INSTUDIO options sign up: CapeAnnPowerYoga.com  Power & Peace Simple Flow 60 and Consciousness as Vibration Yoga Nidra Immersion 15 with Singing Bowl Soundbath was off the chain evocative and beautiful. What a fantastic immersive experience while overlooking beautiful Gloucester Harbor at sunset time. So much gratitude to get the opportunity ( Thank you Elizabeth Huntsman DeAngelis ) to bring this class every Tues Nite @7pm EST this summer 2022 to the Cape Ann Community in person and via Zoom to anyone anywhere. It’s Regular Class Rates and Drop in is $15 so make it a summer night date, bring your friends. Resonate Relax Renew

Mother’s Day Feeling into Vast Awakened Awareness Yoga Nidra Immersion with Crystal Singing Bowl Soundbath Recorded Live on Mother’s Day, May 8, 2022 at Blue Yoga Group http://bluehotyoga.com/ by Melissa Abbott melissaabbott.com after a 26and2 Hot Hatha Yoga Session.  Taking time to check into our deepest  nature and embodiment during the end of a beautiful yoga class, creating and connecting to the Vast Awakened Awareness which spreads illuminating goodness like ripples on a pond, within and out. Resting in the open space and aliveness, receiving wisdom, love, and self acceptance into your connected radiant yoga practice.

Green Tara  The Enlightened Female Buddha History and Practice Sadhana   Includes short Mantra Repetion and Meditation Om Tare Turare Ture Swaha Recorded by Melissa Abbott with Tamboura and Singing Bowl Soundbath. In this 45 Min Practice Session you will Learn the Green Tara Mantra and Meditation Practice. Luminous Green Tara comes from the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric Tradition. Tara helps you to overcome fears, poverty of mind and spirit, remaining present to life’s difficulties, you can give her anything. We will be invoking her with Mantra and meditation allowing you to heal your past and create a new paradigm. She is known as the Great Mother, the giver of enlightened consciousness, helping you recognize your own true nature, which is, in reality, her own true nature.  Have Your Japa Mala and Natural fiber meditation shawl ready and a Quiet Place to Practice.  melissa@melissaabbott.com melissaabbott.com

Light body, Synchronicity, and Auspicious Blessings Yoga Nidra with Singing Bowl Sound Bath Recorded Live by Melissa Abbott www.melissaabbott.com on March 25, 2022 at Hot Yoga on the Island in Merritt Island, FL www.yogaontheisland.com Have you ever experienced synchronicity with the natural world? The appearance of an animal, natural phenomenon, a certain element, or a place that has special significance to you?  In this Yoga Nidra Meditation we encounter our auspicious symbols with our crystalline light bodies and encounter the nectar of their meaning on a deeper blessing level.  Melissa@MelissaAbbott.com

Mandala of the Five Dakini’s Meditation Full Practice This is a recording of a complete 5 Dakini Meditation Practice Session at the end of a 6 week study (recorded by Melissa Abbott during a zoom call at my friend Jo Haight Sarling’s home in Cocoa Beach, FL.), from a book study and meditation practice group studying the book “ Wisdom Rising” The Mandala of the Empowered Feminine, by Lama Tsultrim Allione. In the first 5 weeks we have studied the individual practices, attributes and states of each of the 5 Dakini’s. Sounding their Seed Syllables and embodying their attributes in meditation as a way of transformation burning through encumbered states of being, resulting in a more expanded unencumbered wisdom consciousness of each Dakini, week by week.  This is a Tibetan Buddhist Tantric Practice brought from India to Tibet about 800ad by Guru Rinpoche or Padma Sambhava.  the Mandala as a cosmological system, and through the Mandala we experience the encumbered and transformed unencumbered states of the Dakinis (which are aspects of the sacred feminine). The Mandala being the one ground and the practice is an uncovering of our own enlightened awareness and transformation into enlightened presence. Its been a beautiful journey learning the 5 Dakini Practices with all of the participants around the world including UK, Switzerland, and Argentina. Thank you for your involvements, synergy, focus, love, and interest. Special Thanks to Jo Haight Surling for having the practice at her home in Cocoa Beach and helping me coordinate the process. There really is something special about practicing in a group. The Five Dakini’s practices work with transforming encumbered energies ( Samskaras) such as  procrastination, neediness, envy, jealousy, anger, fear etc into “The Wisdom Energies of the Dakinis evolved/transformed/manifersted to an unencumbered view”. The mandala/circle, elemental energies, directional energies, visualization, seed syllables, Uccara, etc are used in the Dakini practices. Ultimately, the absolute level is beyond gender, how on a relative level men and women get to the ultimate level may be very different paths. Women have long thought they have to act like men to attain anything in this world. The cultural messages truly effect and disempower women on so many levels. The Dakini is a messenger of spasciousness, a force of truth, a transitional primal power, a fierce compassion for change and upliftment.  I believe the recognition of feminine empowerment holds a key to cultural evolution and that awareness of practices line the Five Dakini’s . I highly recommend you get the book and read it, until you get the book, tho, it is all right to come and practice and get a taste of it and see if it is for you. It is exciting work I ask that we practice not only for ourselves but for the benefit of all.