Meditation Time

I have been thinking about who the Amaria ideal client is and I decided to illustrate snippets of "The Amaria Life". Since it is January and everybody is trying to stick to their new year's resolutions, I really wanted to do an illustration of ladies doing yoga or meditating.  I came across a photograph by Jeremy Papasso of some people participating in a prayer for rain in Colorado and I absolutely loved it. Here is the original photograph.

And here is my illustration done with colored pencils, markers and acrylics inspired by his photograph.

I have styled the ladies in the following items:

Organic Cotton Yoga Top by Eleven44

Organic Cotton Racerback top by Matter Yoga

Smoky Quartz Karma Bracelet by Amaria

Mother of Pearl Leather bracelet by Amaria

If you love this illustration you can get it in my Soceity6 Shop.

I also would love to share some great websites with meditations. Check out Deepak Chopra's 21 day meditations and Meditation Oasis. If you have any recommendations on books, CDS, websites on guided meditations please feel free to share.

Zafu Pillows and Meditation Spaces

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The practice of meditation is the practice of controlling ones thoughts and learning to focus your thoughts is the key for meditation. I have been practicing my meditation literally on the floor in my bedroom. I have been needing to organize my sacred space and was happy to take a zafu pillow making class this past weekend with my friend Amy Darrow at Blue Tree Yoga. She spoke to us about different forms of meditation and we learned more about how to create a sacred space or meditation room.

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I learned that your meditation room should be a room or space that you can walk into and instantly begin to feel relaxed in. Everything in the room – the colors, the items, the decorations should help you with your daily meditation. Therefore, your deliberations for your own meditation room are important and vital for continued success with meditation.

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So when I saw the post by Design Sponge featuring meditation room ideas I thought it was perfect to share those ideas with you all and these sacred spaces ideas from Flourish. Enjoy and I hope that you too can organize your sacred space at home.