About
With a bachelors degree in science from the University of Waterloo, Bernie Clark has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1998.
His combination of passion with scientific investigation creates a wholly unique approach that keep his students coming back. Calling Vancouver, Canada his home, Bernie regularly conducts workshops and teacher trainings through the year on top of his normal yoga and meditation classes at the Semperviva yoga Studios.
Bernie Clark's natural curiosity fuels his ongoing studies into mythology, comparative religions, and psychology. These avenues of exploration clarify his understanding and deepen his appreciation of the ancient Eastern practices of yoga and meditation. His teaching, workshops and books have helped many students broaden their own understanding of health, life and the source of true joy.
Bernie's yoga practice encompasses the hard, yang-styles, such as Ashtanga and Power yoga, and the softer, Yin-styles, as exemplified in Yin yoga. He is the author of YinSights: A Journey into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga, The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga, and From the Gita to the Grail.
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Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 11: Stabilize
Though powerfully distracting stories may attach themselves to emotions and feelings, stabilize your meditation by recognizing and returning to the present moment. Tune in to the power of emotions and feelings by connecting to the deep source that contains and surrounds all that is.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 10: Witness
Recognizing and returning to the "Here and Now" takes on a new dimension when you merely witness your emotions and feelings. See how stepping back from your daily drama gifts you with the insight that you are neither your feelings nor your emotions, but something more.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 9: Listening
Sounds come and go as you move through the world, but you can ground them in your practice by intensifying your attention to them. Awaken your practice and feel it deepening when you bring new life to the sounds that surround you.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 8: Intensify
Sounds come and go as you move through the world, but you can ground them in your practice by intensifying your attention to them. Awaken your practice and feel it deepening when you bring new life to the sounds that surround you.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 7: Receive
By learning how to listen in a new way, you can harness the power of sound to return you to the “Here and Now.” This meditation teaches you to listen without reaching out and “grabbing” sounds. See how conversations and connections change when authentic dialogue is alive in your world.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 6: Returning
Eyes blink, lungs breathe, heart beats, and the mind wanders—that’s just what it does. These short practices are available any time throughout the day to bring the “monkey mind” from distraction and wandering back to the present moment.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 5: Enliven
Sensations arise, dwell, and pass through the body with a raw texture that enlivens your practice. Observe the “monkey mind” as it jumps from branch to branch, and see what happens as your attention returns to the pure experience of sensation.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 4: Recognize
Unlock the power of meditation by learning to “recognize and return” when your mind wanders. This practice introduces you to the power of physical sensations and their capacity to anchor you in the "Here and Now", the home of clarity and awakening.
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 3: Restoring
Throughout the day, restore your well-being with these brief, guided practices. Feel the changes as your body learns to relax on-the-go with these portable “Moments of Calm.”
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 2: Settle
Get intimate with your own state of being as you dive deeper into the relaxation response. Unmask the tensions within your body, and settle progressively into a relaxed and alert state of mind as you turn inward to ask, “What’s changing inside my body?”
Here and Now: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Day 1: Commit
Commit to a life of presence and well-being by learning to be in the "Here and Now" with this 21-day meditation guide. Unwind the nervous system, and prepare the mind for meditation with this relaxation practice.
Bernie Clark
Yin and Yang for Your Hips
This practice from Bernie Clark uses both long-held yin yoga postures as well as more dynamic yang-style asanas to bring health into your hips. We need stress in our joints to keep them healthy, our hips are no exception.
The Balanced You
Day 20: Air
The three marks of existence - suffering, impermanence and selflessness - are motivating factors for many of life's decisions, whether or not we're conscious of it. In this opening Yin practice with Bernie Clark, he invites us to explore these characteristics of human life as we move through liberating hip openers and spinal flexion and extension. Get ready to go deep.
The Balanced You
Day 12: Air
Bringing awareness of the present moment of your thoughts, patterns, and physical manifestations can create an overall sense of calm and peace. This meditation on mindfulness is a reminder that it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
The Balanced You
Day 4: Air
Have you ever watched your mind? This soothing meditation invites a retreat from competing thoughts to restore peace within.
Bernie Clark
Relaxation Response
In 1975 Herbert Benson wrote the book The Relaxation Response. As a cardiologist he noticed that his patients with high blood pressure felt worse with the medication he prescribed. Just visiting him raised their blood pressure. Stress was the cause; the cure – relaxation. He, reluctantly at first, began working with TM meditators because they claimed to be able to reduce their blood pressure. He found out that they were right. These meditators decreased their heart rate, metabolic rate and breath rate, which Benson termed the Relaxation Response. He also discovered that the relaxation response can be triggered easily, quickly and anywhere. That is what we will tap into in this short, effective practice.
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