As I’ve mentioned before, I found yoga during university which was a particularly challenging time in my life. Yoga was my saving grace and ultimately connected me to my dharma (a Sanskrit word for purpose). I completed my first yoga teacher training with Modo Yoga right after I graduated university and it catapulted me onto this lifelong path of healing. 

While at my yoga teacher training I remember approaching one of the co-founders of Modo Yoga, Jess Robertson, teary eyed after a lecture she gave. I went up to her and asked “How do you practice forgiveness?” and without missing a beat she said “I practice Metta Loving Kindness”. She scribbled down the practice into my notebook and I have been working with it ever since.

Metta Loving Kindness is a profound meditation technique that gave me deep compassion for myself and the most difficult people in my life. It is not a one and done kinda deal. You have to really sit with and work with this meditation over a prolonged period of time. (Jess prescribed me one month, but it turned out to be more like a few years for me to find forgiveness for certain people).

This recording is my own interpretation of the Metta Loving Kindness practice that Jess gave me over eight years ago. I will be forever grateful for this teaching that has been passed down through countless teachers and students and now I pass it down to you. 

In preparation for this meditation I recommend that you set yourself up in a silent and peaceful place. I recommend that you allocate time to journal after you complete the meditation as it is sure to bring up some strong feelings that you will want to sit with and process after. If you complete the meditation, I’d love to hear from you. 

May you be happy. May you be peaceful. May you be free from suffering. May you find the ease and the joy of well-being.

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