There are many meditation practices that teach you to place your attention on something. I teach these practices too, and we often do them together in the live sessions. They are helpful, crucial even for most people to progress in meditation. They are practices for beginners as well as life-long practitioners. However, true meditation is arguably not something you do or progress in. True meditation is like a sixth sense that you become more sensitive too. You already have it

After doing many Yoga Teacher trainings and courses, I came to the conclusion that if one wants to learn about meditation as taught in the classical Yoga Sutras, one can better go to a Buddhist monastery than to most modern Yoga trainings. I say this not as a criticism, but as an observation. This is because meditation as described in the Yoga Sutras requires seclusion and sensory withdrawal, which is something that doesn’t really happen very deeply in most modern Yoga Teache

One of the most powerful, unused tools for meditation, is to work with the gaze of the eyes. Working with the gaze of the eyes is known by many Yoga practitioners as drishti. Gazing to the thumbs, to the tip of the nose, to the toes, depending on the pose. Also in Tibetan Buddhism, working with the gaze of the eyes is used. A gaze that is softly focused, and peripheral. Taking in the entire field of vision, wide open. This is often used as a means to enter a sky-like state of