Are You Intimidated by Meditation? Let me make it Simple for you ...

Written By Leanne de Groot
 

Body Fuel Fire & Chill blends the ancient principles and practises of yoga with mobility and meditation in a way that is both completely authentic and relevant to the lives and needs of modern people.

The “Fire” piece of my class aims at connecting and creating a stronger, more flexible, and supple body that is less prone to injury and illness. Beginners to advanced (yogies, runners, weightlifters, couch sitters, weekend warriors, desk jockeys all welcomed). If you are curious enough, no matter your current lifestyle, you can gradually become the best-equipped person to understand the incomparable mechanics of your own body and to move in ways to best suit your body’s uniqueness.

The “Chill” portion of the class allows you to still your mind so that you can look at things in multiple perspectives. This quieting of your mind provides you with clarity about the options and choices available to you in demanding and difficult situations.

I use and prescribe meditation as medicine because most illnesses today are diet and lifestyle-driven, with burnout trending as a major complaint in my clients. Burnout is the result of living in flight or fight mode without the balancing portion of our innate “rest, digest, and heal” mode. As a result, our modern bodies are unable to flourish and we suffer from sleep disorders, digestive problems, hormone imbalances and all the downstream problems that come from living an unnourished life and an incessant pushing to keep going.

I don’t need to review multiply scientific evidence on the benefits of mediation as medicine as I have personally experienced it and I get to witness daily, how a regular meditation practice can restore balance, bring energy, healing and joy back to our everyday lives.

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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