
Connect with the earth element during meditation using breath, senses, and affirmations to ground your practice, then explore optional homework like putting your feet on the ground and walking meditation.
Practice a guided visualization that uses the brain's creative capacity to imagine a forest hike, sit on a rock, and feel grounded by life giving water, rain, and vibrant nature.
Settle into a meditative space and observe the water element's qualities. Notice water's being, cooling, and cleansing as reflections of your non-judgmental inner awareness, your flow, and boundaries.
Practice a water element meditation that cultivates fluidity and adaptability through mindful breathing, wave-like inhale-exhale patterns, and affirmations, then deepen with the water seed mantra vom and final grounding phrases.
Use visualization to explore earth, water, and fire through a grounded posture and beach imagery. Sense sand, water, and sunset colors, then return with a grounding phrase.
Engage fire element with a mudra and focus, drawing energy to the solar plexus to strengthen personal power and vision, then chant the bija mantra ram to quiet the mind.
Contemplate the air element's light, dry, and mobile qualities as you settle the mind into internal wisdom, noticing how breath, movement, and thought reveal balance with earth and water.
Welcome to My Online Course to Understand the 5 Elements of Life through Meditation!
This is about creating a deep personal relationship with the Elements to improve your quality of life.
Earth - Water - Fire - Air - Ether
I created this course to help you learn how the 5 Elements show up in yourself, in the world around you, and in everyone you meet. Having an awareness of how the elements show up and interact becomes a vital set of tools to work within your life. The practices and information contained in this course pull from my 2 decades of experience in yoga & meditation.
WHY Study the 5 Elements of Life?
- A framework for understanding the world around you
- A way to gain a better understanding of YOURSELF
- Understand the WHY behind your behavior, likes, and dislikes
- Have a system to guide better decision-making in your life
- Use the 5 Elements to shift yourself from imbalance to BALANCE
- Deepen your meditation practice with practical skills for focus and attention
- The foundation knowledge needed to go on to a study of Ayurveda (The Science of Life)
- Strengthen your connection to the healing forces of NATURE
Topics Covered in this Course Include:
- WHY we need to Study the 5 Elements
- How the 5 Elements show up in the world around us & in Nature
- How the Elements work in Combination
- How to Calibrate your Awareness to notice the Elements
- Individual Variation & Self Understanding (Our Unique Element Make-Up)
- How the Elements move Into & Out of Balance
- Slowing down to the pace of Nature to cultivate Awareness
In Each Element Module, You Will Learn:
- The Qualities of the Element
- Where it shows up in the world
- Where it shows up in our body, personality, likes, and dislikes
- A visualization practice to connect to the Element
- A Contemplation practice to explore your personal relationship with the Element
- A Meditation Practice to strengthen your connection to the Element through Mudra, Mantra, Breath & Affirmation
- Off-the-mat "homework" assignments to connect with the Element in your daily life
Class Format:
Each Module contains both informational content and Practice Videos
You will find PDF Resources to support your learning process
Portions of the course were filmed during a live Zoom Session
Yoga Teachers:
Having an understanding of the 5 Elements is essential to conducting effective 1:1 private sessions
Learn what techniques to use to bring balance to your student through carefully selected meditation practices
PDF resources are provided throughout the course if you want to incorporate this information into your own classes
Continuing Education Credits: 5 and a half hours of Content!
I am a Yoga Alliance YACEP & a Continuing Education Provider with IAYT
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits Available
IAYT CEU credits can be earned through the CE submission process
Upon completion of the course, you will get a Certificate that can be submitted for CEUs
Course Access:
Once you join a course on Udemy you retain access to that information forever
This makes online learning Ideal as you can return to the information & practices as much as you like!
Questions?
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Let's Get Started Learning about the life-changing system of the 5 Elements
I will see you in the classroom :)
-Laura