Meditation Classes
Master Higa teaches a unique method of meditation, unlike the other forms that would make you need to sit in a particular posture for hours with your legs twisted into a pretzel. Students in his class need only a pillow, and lay in a comfortable position.
Master Higa's meditation methods allow students to quickly reap the benefits of meditation. A half hour of meditation can be a invigorating as two hours of peaceful sleep.
Meditation has been useful for such conditions as :
- chronic pain
- anxiety and panic
- sleep disturbance
- gastrointestinal distress
- fatigue
- headaches
- job or family stress
- skin disorders
- high blood pressure
- stress factors in heart disease
Here is a student testimonial from Fran K.:
Friday, March 17, 2000: Private meditation session with Sensei Higa. He explained the divisions of the brain using a picture of the brain. He also explained how I would be channeling my breathing to follow various pathways through the brain. This is a healing meditation. Each of the breathing pathways would be done repeatedly, approximately 20 to 50 times in each direction.
I lied down on a mat with a pillow under my head. I closed my eyes and began breathing from the base of my neck, around to the front of the head and over the top center back to the base of the neck. I became more and more relaxed. At 5:10 PM, Sensei took my blood pressure and pulse while I was meditating. The reading was 131/99, pulse 73. I then breathed from the right temple crossing the forehead to the left temple. This was then reversed, going from left to right. Sensei then instructed me to go from the right to the left by channeling the breath directly through the center of the brain. This was also reversed, going from left to right. It was during this part of the meditation that I felt a slight twitching of my right ankle and foot.
Next, I breathed form the top center of my head down to my toes. Sensei explained that this was a very powerful part of the meditation. After a while, he told me to direct the exhalation breathes from the top of my head, down through my torso and down only through my right leg and toes. I felt like the breath was stopping at my right knee. Then, suddenly my right ankle and foot went into a very intense "seizure." The foot twitched so severely that it shook right off the mat. It actually frightened me, but I never opened my eyes nor did I stop the meditation. Sensei rushed to my side an knelt beside me. He assured me that everything was all right and to continue. The right foot and ankle twitched several times, but not as intensely as the first time. I no longer felt like the breath was stopping at the right knee, but rather that it truly was going down to my toes. My exhalation breaths became very strong.
Sensei took my blood pressure and pulse at 6:15 PM. The reading was 133/100, pulse 68. Sensei told me to breath easy. I felt so wonderfully relaxed, almost in a dream-like state. I enjoyed the feeling immensely. After awhile of this euphoric state, I was told to open my eyes. I lied there, eyes open, while we talked about the meditation experience. I felt so wonderful. I sat up and we continued to talk for awhile.
It wasn't until I stood up and began to walk, following Sensei to the front of the Dojo, that I realized the true healing of this meditation. I was walking differently that I had in 33 years! In April 1967, I shattered every major and minor bone in my right ankle. I have lived with lots of pain and have no cartilage in the right ankle. I started walking around the Dojo in circles. My ankle didn't feel as stiff and my hips felt like they were in better alignment. I felt like I was walking straighter and taller and not favoring my right ankle at all. It felt great. I demonstrated the strength and balance felt in the right ankle by standing on one foot, the right one, which I have almost never been able to do since breaking that ankle.
I was so overcome with joy and amazement. I truly was in awe. I left the Dojo praying that this wonderful peaceful feeling and the simple act of walking properly would last forever. I will be forever grateful to Sensei for sharing this healing meditation with me.
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