Finally, a meditation DVD designed with Deaf people in mind! InnerSight, hosted by Pam Cavazos, who has been a sign language interpreter for over 20 years, is a meditation DVD for Deaf people. This relaxing and visually attractive DVD is peacefully presented in ASL with voice-over and captions, so it’s accessible to everyone in your life. Pam Cavazos offers a non-religious approach to meditation by showing us how to manage our own energy through a visual process of self-discovery. She calls this “InnerSight” which is the name of this DVD.
Pam Cavazos is from the San Francisco Bay Area and has spent several years studying and teaching meditation. Her natural enthusiasm shines through in this DVD as does gentle nature and natural talent. ASL consultation was provided by Tim Finnigan, who is an ASL Sign master, and deaf from birth.
I have personally viewed this DVD in its’ entirety. I discovered the use of captions helped me follow some of the signs I was unfamiliar with, such as “grounding cord,” or “having a golden sun.” I found the Daydream meditation at the end not only beautiful in it’s simplicity, but profoundly moving! My focus became soft and I sat watching for at least 15 minutes while my body and mind went into a trance-like state. Very relaxing. Find out how to purchase this DVD at: http://www.deafmeditation.com/
This is the only visual meditation media made specifically with Deaf people in mind!
Visual Meditation by Myss.com, is by far one of the best visual meditations I’ve seen online. It is a rhythmical geometrical flash program based on the Chakra Model that reviews the seven power centers in your body, called chakras. The visual meditation provides an ethereal shadowed body amidst soothing colors, shapes and forms as the dissolving text explains how the state of each chakra reflects the health, psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being of a particular area of your body. Caroline Myss, Ph.D., the creator of this program, works in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition.
Ralph Marston, creator of The Daily Motivator provides a number of motivational and inspirational flash programs on his website. They can be found on the side bars surrounding his brief inspirational thought for the day. I found his visual meditations to be quite beautiful and soothing. Copyright ©2007 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. All rights reserved.
You might enjoy these four free online movies created by Lisa Hepner, author of “All I Ever Really Needed to Know About Life, I Learned from a Rubber Band.” 1. What Is Peace; 2. Keys to Peace; 3. Living From the Inside Out; and 4. 10 Things You can Do To Create Peace. By signing up at PeacefulEarth.com, you can sign up to receive a Peaceful Moment every Monday, which is a short online movie with an affirmation, meditation or practice combined with a beautiful photograph and music. Copyright ©2003 Lisa Hepner.
Soul Currency Meditation is a one-minute visual meditation showing beautiful photographs with captioned affirmations that claim to help you relax into the truth of your being. This website is created by Ernest Chu, spiritual abundance teacher, and author of “Soul Currency.”
10 Ways, by Getty Images, is simply amazging! It is an interactive website that can be very visually meditative. For example, try out the Information link. You can click on the photos over and over and they will always be different. I found myself mesmerized and my view went from hard to soft focus after a while. 10 ways was created by five leading web designers as a way to create Interactive experiences that explore what makes visual language so powerful and where it can take us. Once you enter the sight, click on any of the following to further explore light, information, memory, space, captions, emotions, color, truth, time and transformation.
I am bookmarking this post for future reference! Thank you.
Left by Belle on August 4th, 2007
wow!!! The last link you’ve provided was addicting! Almost like a game…
Left by Josh on August 4th, 2007
Belle,
Glad you saved it. These are great places to visit. The DVD is really good. Check it out!
Josh,
I too, became addicted for several housr poking around on the 10 Ways sight! Very fun. Glad you liked it too.
~ LaRonda
Left by LaRonda on August 5th, 2007
Y’know, this reminded me of something I’ve been asking myself for a long time - you know those hypnotists that you see on county fairs, etc.? - can deaf people be hypnotized? Of course, I was too chicken to go up to a hypnotist and ask him/her to to hypnotize me. Ha.
Left by Sunflower on August 5th, 2007
How very interesting! I’ve started up traditional zen meditation. Now you’re supposed to meditate with eyes sort of open (not really focusing though) so that helps, but I’ve been interested in the intersection of deaf/meditation so I’ll definitely check out this dvd…thanks for the pointer.
Left by BEG on August 6th, 2007