The 8-limbed path of Raja Yoga leads to Samadhi. All of the preceding limbs of yoga prepare us for this. Establishing and maintaining a personal meditation practice is crucial if one is to make progress on the spiritual path. In this workshop you will gain clarification about what meditation is and isn't. Moreover, you will experience a variety of meditative techniques that come to form the essentials in your very own meditation tool kit. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.

Elesa Commerse is a beloved meditation teacher, known for her ability to demystify the practice and facilitate breakthrough experiences on the journey to authenticity. She has been teaching since 1977 and has been meditating for as long as she can remember (even though she didn't call it that).

Elesa is the founder of National Meditation Month (May) and is the Director of Wisdom Training for the Tias Little Teacher Training program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A graduate of the Temple of Kriya Yoga Meditation Teacher Training Program, Elesa holds two certificates in Advanced Yoga Studies for completing Donna Farhi's yoga teacher training program. Her website is www.thedeepcalm.com

"Elesa Commerse teaches from a place of deep acceptance that, for all her students, offers a profound healing. Her teachings are steeped in loving kindness and generosity. Her language, sensitivity, chanting and poetry touch places in our being that are so hard to reach, they nourish the innermost chambers of the heart."

- Tias Little, author of The Thread of Breath, River Flow and Freeing the Bird of Prana

"Elesa Commerse has been teaching meditation for my yoga teacher trainees and during my recent Women's Yoga Retreat, in New Zealand. Her teaching utterly transforms people. She is an exceptionally gifted and warm teacher who demystifies meditation in a way that makes it accessible for ordinary people facing the extraordinary challenge of leading a peaceful life."

- Donna Farhi, author of Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit; The Breathing Book; and Bringing Yoga to Life