{"id":6283,"date":"2025-12-30T18:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykdanu.com\/students\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:45:08","slug":"a-rebels-road-to-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykdanu.com\/students\/a-rebels-road-to-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rebels Road to Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you think of meditation, what kind of image comes to mind?<\/div>\n
Hippies, ashrams, monks and swami’s?<\/div>\n
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As a rebel and activist, I had never considered Meditation.<\/strong> That was hippie shit,<\/em> something people did dressed in white in ashrams. I was a questioner, activist, ass kicker, and heavy metal lover.<\/strong> Meditation, who the hell had time for that?<\/em><\/div>\n

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I was busy trying to change the world.<\/a><\/div>\n
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I didn\u2019t know anyone who meditated. My free time was mostly spent in tattoo shops and at gigs. Not really the typical meditation crowd.<\/div>\n
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I had been attending Yoga classes, but it was purely physical to me at that point. I was clueless about the more mindful, inner aspects of Yoga. It just made me feel good.<\/div>\n
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When I started Yoga teacher training, I was introduced to Meditation. In my teacher training I had learned that the whole point of the physical poses was to create a body that was able to sit in meditation like meditation was the whole point so I was starting to feel like a hypocrite.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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So I started looking into meditation classes at local temples.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
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I naively thought that Meditation would be easy. I\u2019d just sit cross-legged, put my fingers in some fancy ass mudra, and Bam enlightenment, right?<\/em><\/div>\n
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Reality check! I couldn\u2019t sit still, my mind was all over the place, and my back hurt. I was shocked, fuck, this was hard. Clearly, Meditation wasn\u2019t for me, nope, I was way too intense for that shit.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Yet in the back of my mind, \u201clearn to meditate\u201d<\/em> kept repeating. I wasn\u2019t the type to give up easily (I was hard-core after all).<\/div>\n
In my teacher training I had learned that the whole point of the physical poses was to create a body that was able to sit in meditation like meditation was the whole point.<\/div>\n
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It took me three years of hunting around to finally piece together a practice I could work with.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Eventually, I found a teacher who could answer all my questions (I had a lot).<\/div>\n
So I learned to meditate. In my first class, my teacher said, \u201ceveryone thinks during meditation it\u2019s part of the human experience\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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What? I was normal (that was a first). So I could cut myself some slack when my mind was all over the place?<\/em><\/div>\n
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Part of me was worried that all this Meditation would soften me up too much, that I would lose my edge. Can someone meditate, listen to heavy music, and get covered in ink? Yup, turns out you can.<\/em><\/div>\n
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So now I \u201csit\u201d almost every day (I am a rebel after all<\/em>)<\/strong> and It\u2019s made a massive difference in my life, one I am truly grateful for.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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My Meditation practice has given a tool to help with anxiety, improved my sleep, taught me how to respond instead of react in tough situations, and made me a kinder human.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If you have been curious about meditation but are feeling overwhelmed and unsure on how to get started you can learn more about my course Meditation 101 here.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n

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