Modern Meditations

The PADMA YOGA: MODERN MEDITATIONS television series airs across Canada on ONE: Body, Mind & Spirit channel.

This is a healing yoga series featuring therapeutic remedies for challenges we face every day. Each day Padma focusses on one challenge and offers yoga, meditation, breath work and yoga philosophy that all help to alleviate the struggle. Padma Yoga expertly guides you towards full health, freedom and love.

The series is produced, written and hosted by Padma and includes the yogis Paulina, Tanya, Meghan. This series explores a wide variety of yogic skills such as classical hatha yoga poses and sequences, healing breathing techniques, meditation practices and Padma’s signature “Sanskrit Word of the Day.”

The topic in each of the 26 episodes addresses a general challenge that people encounter in life, for example, frustration or life changes, and then identifies a specific example of each challenge, for example, parenting or loss of a job. Padma carefully selects specific yoga, breath exercises and meditations that directly remedy or help alleviate these troubles and support us in living a strong, healthy life with clarity and joy.

This series is available in beautiful DVDs from the Padma Online Store. Collect the whole set of 26 healing, therapeutic episodes. Padma shares her years of experience helping countless people get through and heal from a wide variety of daily challenges.

The therapeutic challenges in the series are grouped together into five themes: PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, FOCUS, MENTAL and SOCIAL.
Each theme makes up one DVD with the five specific episodes (except DVD #5 one which has six episodes).

DVD #1. PHYSICAL STRENGTH and BALANCE CHALLENGES:

Episode 1. Overcoming Chronic Pain
Episode 2. Relieving Joint Pain
Episode 3. Improving Digestion
Episode 4. Losing Weight
Episode 5. Maintaining Balance

DVD #2. EMOTIONAL and ENERGETIC CHALLENGES:

Episode 6. Freedom from Anxiety
Episode 7. Decreasing Hypertension
Episode 8. Overcoming Eating Disorders
Episode 9. Curing Anger
Episode 10. Overcoming Depression

DVD #3. FOCUS AND EFFICIENCY CHALLENGES:

Episode 11. Focusing a Scattered Mind
Episode 12. Adapting to Changes
Episode 13. Attaining a Goal
Episode 14. Stopping Incessant Worry
Episode 15. Performing Your Best

DVD #4. HAVING A CLEAR MIND CHALLENGES:

Episode 16. Living with Awareness
Episode 17. Not Feeling Overwhelmed
Episode 18. Facing Changes
Episode 19. Stopping Negative Self-Talk
Episode 20. Enjoying Satisfaction

DVD #5. LIVING WISDOM CHALLENGES:

Episode 21. Changing a Sedentary Lifestyle
Episode 22. Achieving Maximum Results
Episode 23. Having Patience
Episode 24. Building Self-Esteem
Episode 25. Staying Centered
Episode 26. Living with Freedom

Each episode features a SANSKRIT WORD OF THE DAY:

Episode 1. SANSKRIT- AATH, Now a Blessing

Episode 2. SANSKRIT- YOG, Spiritual Discipline

Episode 3. SANSKRIT- CHITTA, The Mind

Episode 4. SANSKRIT- VRITTI, Thoughts

Episode 5. SANSKRIT-VIRYA, Spiritual Power

Episode 6. SANSKRIT- SHAUCH, Purification

Episode 7. SANSKRIT- DRASHTA, The Witness Seer

Episode 8. SANSKRIT- SWAROOP, Your True Self

Episode 9. SANSKRIT- AWASTHA, Being Established

Episode 10. SANSKRIT- NIRODHA, De-Identification

Episode 11. SANSKRIT-  TAPAS, Efforts

Episode 12. SANSKRIT- SWADHYAY, Self-Study

Episode 13. SANSKRIT- DHARNAA, Concentration

Episode 14. SANSKRIT- SANTOSH, Contentment

Episode 15. SANSKRIT- PRANIDHAAN, Respectful Surrender

Episode 16. SANSKRIT- TANTRA, Union with Spirit

Episode 17. SANSKRIT- MANAS, Sense Perceptions

Episode 18. SANSKRIT- AHANKAR, Ego-Identification

Episode 19. SANSKRIT- AKLISHT, Helpful for Enlightenment

Episode 20. SANSKRIT- KLAYSH, Obstacles to Freedom

Episode 21. SANSKRIT- ASTAYA, Non-Stealing

Episode 22. SANSKRIT- APARIGRAHA, Non-Grasping

Episode 23. SANSKRIT- SMRITI, Memories

Episode 24. SANSKRIT- KALPANA, Imagination

Episode 25. SANSKRIT- SANYAM, Connecting with Perfection

Episode 26. SANSKRIT- VIVAYK, Discernment

Each episode features a DAILY WISDOM SAYINGS:

  1. Pay attention and acknowledge this moment.
  2. Yoga is to cause no harm to yourself or to any other person or animal.
  3. Your life has the pure power of health. Tap into it!
  4. Eat vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Avoid sugar, oil and white flour.
  5. Be Strong. Be Clear. Feel Excellent.
  6. The yogic secret to freedom from anxiety: Work, Rest, Work, Rest!
  7. Come back to what is constant and unchanging in yourself.
  8. Know that your true self is always pure and free.
  9. To stop anger: Cool your excess fire, Change your thought, Practice!
  10. You are always pure; the knower of your thoughts.
  11. Meditate for 20 minutes everyday, be happy and have a clear mind.
  12. Deepen your inner awareness. Know you are pure, free, forever.
  13. Once a day: Hold your attention in one place without wavering for 10 minutes.
  14. Relax and enjoy that you are not in charge of the universe. Remember you are free.
  15. Dedicate your actions to the source of your existence.
  16. Know that one self alone is.
  17. Pause and remember ,“I am Free”
  18. Breathe and Smile. Be a master of happiness.
  19. Whenever negative thoughts appear, replace them with the opposite, positive thoughts.
  20. Know that the spirit in you is pure and free.
  21. When you are established in non-grasping, wealth flows to you.
  22. Connect directly with the feeling of total success, and then act.
  23. Remember your power to pause, breathe and not to react.
  24. Close your eyes : You are pure, free, perfect space.
  25. You are prepared. Have no sense of attachment or fear when you perform your actions.
  26. At this moment, you have arrived. Allow yourself to just enjoy!

For show times in your region across Canada, please go to the ONE: Body, Mind, Spirit website Program Grid. SHOW SCHEDULE for Pacific Times= Everyday at 5AM; Monday to Friday at 7AM and 12 noon; Saturday & Sunday at 7:30AM

Costumes are supplied by Movement Global. These comfortable clothes are locally designed and produced in B.C. Take a look at the whole beautiful catalogue on the Movement Global website.

Props are supplied by Halfmoon Yoga Products. Get your own mats, bolsters, blocks, meditation cushions, yoga clothes and more from the Halfmoon website or at a local distributor of Halfmoon.

Get your DVD copies of the Modern Meditations series on the Store page.

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