What prompted you to join New Earth Sanctuary meditation course?
I Googled Inner Peace when I was not in a good place and I found Shanti and chatted to her over the phone. My first experience of meeting her, she welcomed me into her home and she listened to me and how I was feeling. She explained how meditation could help me. That’s when I decided to learn meditation.
What are the benefits you received from the meditation course?
Shanti taught me breathing techniques, which I wasn’t very good at the time. My whole body would shake and I wasn’t able to stay still, but that was my starting point. When I continued to practice the full yogic breath, I started to stop shaking and started to respond to life a lot better.
When I left class , I would feel like a different person! For someone like me who suffers from anxiety, after meditation, I walk out with a clear chest, feeling calm and happy. All the problems that I thought I had, dissolved. I sleep well, I come home happy to my husband and loving to my children. Meditation has really helped me In all different aspects and for the rest of the week. When I feel like things are getting too much, I just remember my breathing and relax again.
Please describe Shanti’s teaching skills.
I like the way that Shanti is a very calming person, but also very down to earth, is human. We can have a joke, but she still teaches me everything I need to know. She is serious about what she teaches, but is still also very fun and interactive with her students. Its just good just to be here.
I always come back to Awakenings. I have tried different meditation places, but I believe that Shanti does what she does because she loves it. It’s a big part of who she is and I don’t think it’s a business to her, I think its her life.
Three words to describe Shanti.
Shanti is passionate, welcoming and loving.
Please describe New Earth Sanctuary.
The yoga studio is warm and inviting. As soon as you go in you feel as if you have entered a bubble. Even though its only around the corner from your home, you feel like you enter a bubble and its just so peaceful. Actually since meeting Shanti, I ended up getting rid of 50% of all the stuff in my home and put them on the nature strip, “free to good home”, and ended up buying salt lamps and extending my Buddha collection. Now my home is a bit of a mirror version of this studio, except my home has toys around. I brought a bit of New Earth Sanctuary back to my home.
Why would you recommend New Earth Sanctuary meditation course to others?
Well I do recommend people, even though I don’t attend as often as I used to. I recommend people to just go and see Shanti. I will give you her number, just go down thee and see her. I recommend Shanti because she saved me. If I hadn’t come to New Earth Sanctuary, I don’t know where I would be. I want other people to come along, because when I find something that helps me, I want to pass it on to others.