Swag Bags to the first 40 guests filled with giveaways and discounts, fabulous Raffle Prizes, drinks, appetizers, and more.  We’d love for you to join us to celebrate our new retail location and allow us the opportunity to introduce ourselves to you in person if we haven’t already met face-to-face.  We’ll answer your questions and show you some of our newest products.  We hope you’ll find time to just pop in and say “Hi!”.

7506 Grandview Avenue, Arvada  CO  80002
We are right across the street from Penzey’s Spices and Silver Vines Winery
303-422-1452

7506 Grandview Avenue, Arvada CO  80002  (303/422-1452)  –  Across the street from Penzey’s Spices and Charlie’s Flybox.

And then enjoy some time walking the streets of Olde Town to make a pleasant evening of it, visiting some of our other new neighbors like Silver Vines Winery, Arvada Beer Company, or Mannekin Frites.

We have recently begun to add some specialty in-store items that will not be sold on our website.  That’s because these items are unique.  We have already brought in zafus, eyebags, and neck wraps that are made locally.  Each one offers a unique fabric pattern that will (in many cases) not be available again.  We are looking at several other items to bring into our store as well.  These items are mentioned on Facebook – so follow us and stay informed!

By the end of the week you will also see more Manduka.  We’ll be carrying more items from this great manufacturer.  In addition to the recently added Black Mat Pro the following products will be ‘hopping’ on in:  Pro Lite mats, mat bags, mat wash, and more.  Keep your eye on our website for these new products.

Is there anything you are looking for?  That certain item to make your yoga, pilates, meditation, or fitness practice a little more comfortable or a little more challenging?  Let us know!  Just email us at info@rollingsandsharmony.com.

We look forward to helping you find the perfect meditation cushion or yoga mat for your needs…or any other item that you might be looking for for yourself or a loved one for the holidays.

See you soon!

If you want to stop by before Thanksgiving, please call ahead to make sure we will be ready for your visit at the new location. We are planning to be open on Black Friday, November 25th if you wish to get a jump on your holiday shopping.

Our move will be quick so we expect minimal delays in any online orders. We will continue to do our best to have orders shipped on the same business day or within 24 hours. We thank you for your patience and understanding during our transition.

Stay informed of our move, change of hours, our Open House, and any other upcoming events and sales by following us on Facebook or Twitter. Our new address will be 7506 Grandview Avenue, Arvada Colorado 80002. We look forward to seeing you at the new store if you’re ever in the Denver area.

Some of the new features available for use right now:

• ability to sort products alphabetically, by price, by bestselling items and more – to make your shopping easier
• ability to shop by price or brand
• ability to see a list of New Products
• ability to create an account to add items to a Wish List
• ability for our Wholesale customers to create an account and see our listed Wholesale prices
• ability to shop on your Smart Phone using our easy-to-read mobile website
• now offering a Newsletter as another way to stay informed of our new products and ways to use the products we offer

We also now have more space to add more product images to help make your decision-making easier.  We hope you find that our new design and features makes your shopping experience with us even more pleasant.  We are consumers, too, and are always looking for ways to provide you, our customer, with detailed product information and images, ease of use when searching for the items you desire, and confidence in purchasing your items while in our store.

Due to the efforts involved in making this transition, we had to divert our resources away from our blog to transitioning the store – so we thank you for your patience.  We plan to begin posting new blog posts as soon as we feel that everything is perfect on the new site.

Thanks for visiting our Rolling Sands Harmony store, we hope you enjoy shopping with us.

Breathing Meditations

by HowToMeditate.Org

Generally, the purpose of breathing meditation is to calm the mind and develop inner peace. We can use breathing meditations alone or as a preliminary practice to reduce our distractions before engaging in a Lamrim meditation

A Simple Breathing Meditation

The first stage of meditation is to stop distractions and make our mind clearer and more lucid. This can be accomplished by practising a simple breathing meditation. We choose a quiet place to meditate and sit in a comfortable position. We can sit in the traditional cross-legged posture or in any other position that is comfortable. If we wish, we can sit in a chair. The most important thing is to keep our back straight to prevent our mind from becoming sluggish or sleepy.

We sit with our eyes partially closed and turn our attention to our breathing. We breathe naturally, preferably through the nostrils, without attempting to control our breath, and we try to become aware of the sensation of the breath as it enters and leaves the nostrils. This sensation is our object of meditation. We should try to concentrate on it to the exclusion of everything else.

At first, our mind will be very busy, and we might even feel that the meditation is making our mind busier; but in reality we are just becoming more aware of how busy our mind actually is. There will be a great temptation to follow the different thoughts as they arise, but we should resist this and remain focused single-pointedly on the sensation of the breath. If we discover that our mind has wandered and is following our thoughts, we should immediately return it to the breath. We should repeat this as many times as necessary until the mind settles on the breath.

Benefits of Meditation

If we practice patiently in this way, gradually our distracting thoughts will subside and we will experience a sense of inner peace and relaxation. Our mind will feel lucid and spacious and we will feel refreshed. When the sea is rough, sediment is churned up and the water becomes murky, but when the wind dies down the mud gradually settles and the water becomes clear. In a similar way, when the otherwise incessant flow of our distracting thoughts is calmed through concentrating on the breath, our mind becomes unusually lucid and clear. We should stay with this state of mental calm for a while.

Even though breathing meditation is only a preliminary stage of meditation, it can be quite powerful. We can see from this practice that it is possible to experience inner peace and contentment just by controlling the mind, without having to depend at all upon external conditions.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subsides and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. This feeling of contentment and well-being helps us to cope with the busyness and difficulties of daily life. So much of the stress and tension we normally experience comes from our mind, and many of the problems we experience, including ill health, are caused or aggravated by this stress. Just by doing breathing meditation for ten or fifteen minutes each day, we will be able to reduce this stress. We will experience a calm, spacious feeling in the mind, and many of our usual problems will fall away. Difficult situations will become easier to deal with, we will naturally feel warm and well disposed towards other people, and our relationships with others will gradually improve.