Mantra: Diving Deep Into Meditation
How does the use of mantra support spiritual awakening? Stella Wuttke, Ph.D., and Marty Wuttke, Kriya Yoga teachers, share how mantra is used to develop a more profound meditation practice and how its vibrational power supports healing of the mind and body and deepens spiritual awareness.
Marty Wuttke is an ordained minister for the Center for Spiritual Awareness. He is a pioneer in the field of bio and neuro-feedback with over 35 years of experience and is the founder of the Wuttke Method of Neurotherapy, now the Infinite Potential Institute. He consults and teach neurotherapy nationally and internationally, as well as meditation and the yogic science of consciousness.
Dr. Stella Wuttke is a psychologist, neuro-scientist, and sound therapist. She acted as a principal investigator for a state-funded EEG project on brainwave patterns associated with visual perception and was lab-director of the neurofeedback laboratory at the University of Jena, Germany. Stella taught at the undergraduate and graduate level at universities in Austria, Germany and the UK. She co-founded, with her husband Marty, the Wuttke Infinite Potential Institute in Santa Barbara, California which offers the neuroscientific, non-invasive methods of neurofeedback, energy medicine, sound therapy and meditation training
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THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: The program today about the last four limbs of yoga, dharana, dhyana, meditation, and samadhi and how mantra supports the deepening of our meditation experience was very in-depth but also easily accessible . Marty and Stella's long time study with with Roy Eugene Davis, their deep knowledge of Kriya Yoga and their study and knowledge of what is happening in the brain with meditation really helped me understand how mantra works. My other take-away was the reminder of the importance of a regular practice of meditation. With an intermittent practice, we won't get the positive, physical changes in the brain.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I really enjoyed being able to discuss mantra, as well as the inner limbs of concentration, meditation, and samadhi with Marty and Stella. I appreciated the strong science background that each of them have, and how they brought it into our discussion. The Max Planck quote about how physical matter is really composed of energy was inspiring, and helped me to understand more about the power of mantra, sound vibration, since our bodies are actually made of vibrating energy, like all matter. The information about the physical changes of thickening in the frontal cortex of the brain that occur over time in meditators is an inspiration for my continued meditation practice.