Around 7:30 p.m., Victoria situated herself towards the front of the room and prompted all guests to take their seats, remove their shoes and close their eyes to relax into the CARAVAN meditation experience
Relax, release and return encapsulated the theme of the meditation as guests were asked to focus on their breathing- inhaling their desires and exhaling the stresses in which they brought into the evening. Victoria also advised guests to maintain an up-right posture and to use tactile sensation as the focal point of their concentrations.
“RELAX, RELEASE, RETURN”
“Let’s just touch base for why we meditate and what meditation is,” Victoria says, opening up the event to a discussion following the 20-minute meditation.
“We are reactivating our parasympathetic nervous system to bring our body away from fight-or-flight and back into homeostasis,” Victoria says. “What are the first four letters of homeostasis? ‘Home.’ The definition of homeostasis is an, ‘organism’s optimal condition for living’- that can’t be a coincidence.”