Everything You Need for Your Outdoor Meditation Area
The world feels like a crazy place nowadays, so you are probably seeking ways to cope. One of the best methods to find peace in your life is via meditation. Living in the Sunshine State, lets you enjoy the great outdoors year-round. You can truly fashion your own private outdoor oasis with minimal effort. In this article, we will explore everything that you need for your outdoor meditation area.
During meditation, you want to calm and tantalize your senses. Basically, you are striving to achieve balance and harmony. You can do this by internalizing and by creating the perfect outdoor meditation area that calls to your soul.
It is All About Comfort
To enjoy your meditation session, you need to be comfortable. You will want to have indoor/outdoor rugs, cushions, throw blankets, and meditation mats handy. To create shade and privacy, you can use drapes attached to your pergola or across trees and other outdoor yard structures. The sun is harsh, so try to think about positioning when arranging sunshades and other items.
Transition
You do not have to have a meditation place set up every day. Instead, you can pick a nook of your yard where your meditation place becomes transitory. Use throws, cushions, and fabric roofs that you can put and take down as needed. You can use outdoor storage chests or patio furniture that has storage capabilities to house your items. Or, you could simply pack them back to your home or she shed every day. Please remember, your outdoor mediation space does not have to be transitionary. You can create a permanent space such as in a Florida screen enclosure, sunroom, paver patio, or beneath a pergola but the weather is often unpredictable so be prepared for a storm by always having a place to secure and store your items.
Landscape Your Meditation Space
You can landscape your meditation space for year-round enjoyment. Pick and choose your plants based on the following:
- Smell: Choose wonderfully aromatic flowers and herbs such as gardenia, jasmine, lavender, or lilac. The blossoms of such plants automatically soothe your senses.
- Touch: Many plants such as Lamb’s Ears, Fountain Grasses, and Irish moss are very touchable. People find the texture comforting and relaxing. In many ways, they are fascinating to focus on during meditation.
- Sight: You want to tantalize your eyesight by choosing brightly colored flowers that attract birds, butterflies, and bees to the meditation space. You can plant them in pots or landscape the area with the various plant life. Always choose varieties that do not require a great deal of maintenance.
Container gardening is a perfect way to bring plants into your meditation space that require truly little maintenance. You can also move the pots around to form different feelings and looks.
Stones
Most people consider stones an essential part of any outdoor meditation space. Create a labyrinth of pavers or bricks. Place a sculpture as a focal point in the area. Fashion a rock garden or some rockeries in the region. Many people enjoy forming a cairn marker amid their meditation site. The rocks create strength and provide much-needed stability in your private Zen garden.
Sound
Sound is crucial to achieve a meditative state, but it must be the right sounds. The hum of a lawnmower or the loud blast of a leaf blower is very distracting. Focus on ways to bring harmonious sounds into your oasis. Wind chimes or water features are wonderful ideas. The trickle of running water is mesmerizing in its simplicity. Also, planting flowers that attract birds and bees are great ideas because you can enjoy the flutter of the bird’s wings and the buzz of the bees which many consider nature’s true music.
Decorating the Meditation Space
Ideally, you should minimize the space to avoid creating distractions. Things to include are bells, altars, singing bowls, crystals, artwork, meditation beads, and stones are all popular choices. Candles can bring much-needed light to the oasis along with a fire pit, decorative lanterns, or string lights.
Focusing on Privacy
You want your meditation space to feel private and to avoid the prying eyes of the neighbors. A privacy fence is a nice option. You can also fashion drapes on a pergola or choose to landscape the space with privacy plant life such as towering bamboo or sweet verbena which grows fast to create a great privacy screen.
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