December 12-15, 2025
at Little Yosmite Lodge on Hoyau Creek
http://www.artofawareness.me
https://airbnb.com/h/littleyosemitelodge
Meditation in The Sierra Forest near Yosemite N. P.
Tag: meditation
Artist’s Biography
Neika Embry Whittemore
Sierra Art Trails, 2025
Artist’s Biography
I believe a body of work is like a person. Much more is available in being with the art than reading the ‘pedigree’ details. I will leave that to the art historians and the critics.
I would like to offer some of what I recall – so as to hopefully qualify for this show as an artist because I would love to be included in this show. It would be a great honor, just sayin’’ :
Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO, 1972 Full Scholarship
My work is in private collections too numerous to track.
I have been in many art shows, competitions, group shows and noname galleries – during 1972 through 1992 – also too numerous to track.
I have always been creative – even to a fault – and applied that naturally in every aspect of my existence.
Current Evolving Work since March 2023:
1.6 acres in North Fork, CA
An environment entitled:
“I am Painting from a Flower”
Sierra Art Trails, 2025
Yosemite Foothills Open Studio Tour
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
October 10, 11 & 12 – 10am to 5pm. Open studio, gallery and grounds, entitled:
“I Am Painting from a Flower”
Art, desserts & hot beverages for purchase daily.
59803 Cascadel Drive
North Fork, CA 93643
Neika: 415 570 3028
https://airbnb.com/h/littleyosemitelodge
ART OF AWARENESS
Preview Exhibit at Stellar Gallery
40982 Hwy 41, Ste 1, Oakhurst,CA 93644
559-658-8844
September 6 to October 12
Gala Reception – Saturday, Sept, 13th, 5-8pm
http://www.sierraarttrails.org
Meditation
” is the disentangling of awareness from it’s own activity.”
~ Rupert Spira
Samyamah
The Third Quarter of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali describes the second stage of Enlightenment; Exalted Consciousness. There are no techniques in the book to accomplish this. The Third Quarter is a treatise on the mechanics of this growth; it is not a how-to manual. I have found the Yoga Sutras to be a “road map” of the stages of human consciousness. Nothing will replace the power of direct embodied experience.
Samyamah is a process which is described by the Sages as “the Bestower of Union”. The qualities of Focus, Resonance, and Stabilized Enlightened Consciousness -together -carry human consciousness to Exalted Consciousness and Unified Consciousness.
The Technique of Samyamah is given by a Sage to her student at the point when the student arrives in Stabilized Ascendent Consciousness. The giving of Samyamah is an in -person event. It is passed on from one open heart to another – energetically and with resonance and focus. If the student has not stabilized Ascendent Consciousness, this technique is a waste of time and can actually have the opposite effect. It is the relationship of the Mastery Teacher and her student that discovers the timing together.
Samyamah is then applied to various objects for the purpose of stabilizing Exalted Consciousness and Unified Consciousness.
There is always more……..
~ Neika
Beauty
The Beauty in a single fragrant flower of this Earth holds the capacity to draw me to Life
on this planet once again – one million times
And then, in one soft breath
I am to leave the Beauty of your eyes……
~ Neika
on creating….
Dianna Lucas Creating Sound Bath Ceremony
“If we are not creating something, we’re fixing something, including ourselves. It is vitally important for our soul’s expression to keep the doors to creativity open. If we’re not lit up and living a big life, then we are just treading water and the people around us will reflect our own misery.”
Neika 2019
Samyamah
The Third Quarter of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali describes the second stage of Enlightenment; Exalted Consciousness. There are no techniques in the book to accomplish this. The Third Quarter is a treatise on the mechanics of this growth; it is not a how-to manual. I have found the Yoga Sutras to be a “road map” of the stages of human consciousness. Nothing will replace the power of direct embodied experience.
Samyamah is a process which is described by the Sages as “the Bestower of Union”. The qualities of Focus, Resonance, and Stabilized Enlightened Consciousness -together -carry human consciousness to Exalted Consciousness and Unified Consciousness.
The Technique of Samyamah is given by a Sage to her student at the point when the student arrives in Stabilized Ascendent Consciousness. The giving of Samyamah is an in -person event. It is passed on from one open heart to another – energetically and with resonance and focus. If the student has not stabilized Ascendent Consciousness, this technique is a waste of time and can actually have the opposite effect. It is the relationship of the Mastery Teacher and her student that discovers the timing together.
Samyamah is then applied to various objects for the purpose of stabilizing Exalted Consciousness and Unified Consciousness.
There is always more……..
~ Supriya
ART OF AWARENESS 