Meditation for Joyful Living Classes

"If there is to be Peace in the world there must be Peace within your own heart"

Barbara will be a gentle guide helping  you to develop the discipline of your practice in an open hearted joyful way and touch the deepest part of your soul.

Barbara McKell teaches simple and powerful meditation methods that anyone can learn to improve all aspects of their life and manage stress. She has been trained in Deepak Chopra’s Primordial Sound Meditation, Sehaj Meditation, Biofeedback, Imagery, Dr. Norman Shealy's Biogenics and various Buddhist meditation practices.

Her personal meditation practice brings her to a place of exquisite awareness and a desire to awaken others to the benefits of meditation. Through stillness, sound and guided imagery. By helping particiapants dicover the method most suited for their regular practice, she will mentor students in many of the deepening practices designed to help experience harmony, balance, wellbeing and bliss on a daily basis.

Meditation should be effortless, simple and very powerful. It is extremely healing to the body and the mind. It enables a person to experience life more fully.

The techniques that Barbara teaches can be used every day. They can be used with the eyes closed to reduce stress, bring about deep rest and increase clarity of mind. Use with the eyes open to allow you to remain in the present moment and bring the deep experience of peace into every part of your life.

Meditation is a practice and you are invited to come and practice with Barbara every Monday evening. It is extremely helpful to have this ongoing support and guidance when learning meditation.

Meditation offers:

Heart based devotion and spiritual awareness Increase peace, joy, calm and happiness.

Reduced stress

Improved health

Improved relationships

Improved awareness and concentration 

Access to greater creativity & higher intelligence

Stress, anxiety and depression are epidemic in our society.  Cortisol, a stress indicator, is secreted into the blood and increases its levels in the body as your stress levels heighten. The human body is designed to produce a fight or flight response whenever in the presence of stress. Persistent high levels of stress can cause a lot of harm to the body.  Stress, fatigue, depression, anxiety are all symptoms of a society running on overload. Learn the benefits of meditation before you burn out. Through specific practices, you will learn how to control the stress repsonses and activate the healing response. Meditation brings you back to your natural state of relaxed awareness and center calm.

Cost $25 each session or $100 for 5 prepaid sessions To register for the Monday sessions call Barbara at 519-823-2162

Class dates are listed on the events calendar