Traveling the Path

Did You Know You Could Experience Meditation Without Sitting Still?

Seeing Your Way Through

The Path to Moving Meditation envisions a lifelong journey to greater states of awareness, higher levels of compassion. Those of us who serve as founders and members of the Path’s education team pass forward insights we have gained from our many teachers, mentors and disciplines, combined with our well-integrated personal experience. We point to a distant horizon, and we help you travel along your path. This path is filled with Joy. It is sacred with purpose and meaning – for you and each of us. 

Education on the Path

We train movement professionals to teach their various practices more mindfully, eventually even as moving meditations. We look forward to expanding our offerings to everyday movers as well, who can travel this path for personal growth, without necessarily teaching others. 

Professional Training for Instructors & Coaches 
Mindful Movement Instructor Training, Levels 1, 2, 3 
Moving Meditation Teacher Training, Levels 4, 5

Personal Growth for all Movers
The Art of Self Coaching through Mindful Movement

Milestones Along Your Path

Your path starts by simply moving the body. The human body with all its bones, muscles, joints, ligaments, and tendons is designed to move. We start moving as babies and maintain our body in motion to the end of our days for the healthiest life possible.

A mobile body leads to an active mind and a resilient emotional nature. Getting off the couch or out of your chair may be your beginning to this Path! Or you may already be in motion, well-primed to now move mindfully.

This is the stage for which our organization currently provides Instructor training, Level 1. 

The Mindful Movement stage of the Path consciously connects the mind to the body. You want that connection to be as healthy and strong as possible. You eliminate violence to your body, judgement from your heart. You make room for Joy! You leave heaviness behind. 

While moving, you screen out a hodgepodge of interrupting thoughts, as well as unnecessary emotional uproar.

In Mindful Movement, you find yourself so fully engaged, you have no room for any outside thoughts for the entire session. In fact by the time you finish, you are so refreshed and restored, you feel as if you’ve come back from vacation!

Moving mindfully, you attain inner stillness in the midst of motion.

This is the stage for which our organization will soon be providing guidance for all movers, including professionals.

When you find that still point within this way of moving mindfully, you get in touch with that aspect of your Self that is always watching. It calmly observes your moves, your sensations, your emotions, and your thoughts. You’re accessing your Observer Self. 

From the standpoint of this impartial Observer, you can understand all the aspects of your Whole Self: body, mind, and emotions. In Self Coaching, you develop the ability to direct your activity — both outer and inner – with great effectiveness.

This is the stage for which our organization will provide Teacher trainings.

Eventually, you are seamlessly syncing up your body, mind, and heart with your inner Observer, especially while in motion. Your Self Coaching skills effortlessly guide you through safe, exciting, creative ways of moving that are responsive to the circumstances of the moment. Your mind shifts into a higher gear. 

“When I have experienced Moving Meditation, my mind has a steady, bell-like clarity. The heart-felt Intention I set at the beginning of my movement session for Continuity of Consciousness has illuminated and guided me to the end, filling me with insight and discoveries. I am fully in the moment, and no two moments are the same. I feel fully connected to my body, to the music and to my students. My movement naturally unfurls itself, effortlessly blending choreography with improvisation. 

“My being feels as if it’s radiating light through my eyes, my voice, my hands, every pore. I am overwhelmed with Joy and feel like hugging everyone around me… except that I’m usually too sweaty!” 

Renée Tillotson, Legacy Founder

Moving meditation with a chosen intention enhances our ability to focus the mind for still meditation. Cultivating awareness of our Observer Self also strengthens our ability to meditate. We see sitting meditation as the next phase of the Path.

Science shows that the heart rate slows and the electrical activity of the brain shifts to more rarefied levels, such as alpha, theta, and gamma waves. 

As we become women and men of sitting meditation, we discipline our minds and purify our hearts. Wise beings who do so can attain abstract planes of thought and penetrate deep levels of reality inaccessible to others. 

Eastern traditions, especially, have developed very specific systems of meditation that progress through mindfulness to eventually cultivate single-pointed mental focus. Some traditions employ prayer as a meditative practice. Meditation allows us to direct our consciousness.

The Path’s phase of Integration incorporates both our still and moving meditations with compassion in daily life. Activating the loving heart while focusing the mind on a profound theme can transform us. 

Dedicated meditators through the ages have attained exalted states of wisdom and compassion. Where others see separateness and discord, they see unity… a unity that calls for treating all beings with respect, even with the love that one would have for one’s own mother! 

The brilliance of our Compassionate Integration not only ascends to great heights of consciousness, but also comes back from these elevated states of awareness, bringing loving clarity into our life and sacred work in the world. 

Eventually, the ascent to and descent from a high meditation becomes seamless. Our Heart Mind hums with a steady song or visualization of the Good, the Good for all. It seeps into all our thoughts, words and deeds. 

According to many wisdom traditions, as our Line of Life’s Meditation grows stronger, our Continuity of Consciousness can extend beyond the boundaries of life in this body. 

Such a person maintains unbroken consciousness along this blessed Line of Life’s Meditation. Such a one illuminates the Path for all those of us who have not yet found our whole way, and yet who strive to find and follow it!