Welcome!
In this, my first public course on these topics, I’m sharing with you some of the breathing and meditation methods that I’ve used and enjoyed during my nearly fifty years of study and practice.
The course is made up of 26 lessons.
And there are 2 bonus features that reinforce and develop the key learning points.
Easy-to-learn lessons
The lessons focus on both purpose and practice. The way(s) individual methods can be used to manage your physical and/or emotional states positively are explained, and the activities are taught and demonstrated step-by-step. You can watch, listen, and even join in with us!
Efficient practice
All the methods taught can add value even if only practised for a few minutes per session. This makes it easy to fit your breathing and meditation practice into your schedule.
Combining breathing and meditation
Whilst each lesson focuses on a specific breathing or meditation method, you will also learn how to combine these to create an integrated practice.
Choosing what’s best for you
The different methods taught affect our emotional and physiological states in different ways, enabling you to choose which one(s) you want to use in specific situations, and which to introduce into your lifestyle and personal practice.
Benefits for every aspect of your life
Done well, controlled breathing and meditative practices can add value into any, or all, parts of our personal and professional life experience.
Changing your practice according to your needs
Because the course provides instruction in a range of methods, you can change your practice as and when it feels right to do so.
The 26 lessons:
Breathing
- How to make breathing exercises a safe, regular part of your life practice and the benefits you can gain by doing so.
- Different ways of focusing on your breathing and your body.
- The 1-4-2 breathing pattern.
- Diaphragmatic breathing.
- The Physiological Sigh.
- Nasal breathing (i)
- Nasal breathing (ii).
- Silat Fitrah breathing exercise with movement
- Silat Fitrah breathing exercise variation ii.
- Silat Fitrah breathing exercise variation iii.
- Silat Fitrah breathing exercise variation iv.
- Breathing to enhance your communication.
Meditation
- How to make meditation part of your life practice and gain the benefits.
- Learning to be still – and relaxed.
- Meditating by focusing on your body.
- Meditating by focusing on your breathing.
- Meditating by noticing your thoughts.
- Meditating by focusing on specific stimuli.
- Looking at Space.
- Listening to Silence.
- Practising moving meditation.
- Practising silent meditation.
Looking & Listening exercises
- Opening the curtains.
- Using Nature and art.
- Focusing on someone else.
Managing your vision
- The essential principle: where you look, your attention goes.
- Understanding and using vertical and peripheral vision.
- Looking over ‘the shoulders’.
- Letting the light in.
Bonus features!
- Interview with Guru Tua Chris: additional thoughts, insights and advice.
- An excerpt about breathing and meditation from the best-selling book, The Brain Always Wins, by Dr John Sullivan and Chris Parker.
Your Instructor
Instructor Bio:
As a direct result of Bapak’s influence, Chris started a daily meditation practice in the same year. His experiences with Bapak also inspired him to begin learning about communication and influence. This, too, turned into a lifelong activity.
Controlled breathing exercises were added to his daily routine in the mid 1980s. The initial motivation for this was illness, rather than the inspiration of an exemplary teacher.
Over the years, Chris developed his own approach to sharing the art, which Bapak named Silat Fitrah.
Whilst the martial aspects of Silat Fitrah focus on the use of blades and the threat of multiple opponents, Chris has always prioritised an holistic approach to his training, referring to what he teaches as a Life Art.
This interrelated mix of meditation, controlled breathing and Silat influences every aspect of Chris’s life and continues to be a source of great learning.
Currently, he enjoys the great pleasure of teaching the Silat Fitrah Learning Community alongside two wonderful and talented individuals: Guru Eddie Quinn, the lineage holder to the art, and Guru Katherine Hill.
Chris Parker
Guru Tua
