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Guided Standing Meditation

by Ajahn Sucitto

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3.6
Type
guided
Activity
Meditation
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Everyone
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Standing meditation. Feeling the space, feeling the body.

GuidedStandingMeditationBalanceMusclesAwarenessMovementFlexibilityRelaxationHeartBalance And EquanimitySpatial AwarenessPauseBalance Of Effort And EaseKnee FlexibilityShoulder RelaxationHeart ConnectionArm RelaxationMuscle ActivationsStanding Postures

Transcript

Finding your way into standing seems so easy doesn't it?

Just getting those muscles to wake up so that if you're very steady on your feet you might need to lift yourself on your toes,

Get your feet active.

Waking up the sinews,

The muscles that support you.

Getting some flex into the knees,

Feet,

Loosen the shoulders.

Find some space.

Space quality,

Remember that.

So understanding,

Just acknowledge that you have some space around you.

You know,

You've finished your bit,

You're not going to have to be concerned about impacting anybody.

We don't have to do anything particular,

It's just the feeling of,

You know,

Give you some space.

We come into some movement,

You know,

And letting the movement as our bodies feel more complete,

You know,

You get a sense of,

Yeah,

It's all there now.

Bits aren't holding out.

Then it can subside into stillness.

And stillness here is not holding myself still,

It's a sense of balance,

Which is very acute,

Very sensitive,

And the body knows how to do this.

So you tune into that sensitivity to balance and let the physicality of your body respond to that.

What if it was appropriate,

What does that balance ask your body to do?

Does it ask you to come closer together or slightly further apart?

The key feature of balance,

It means there's minimal effort,

Minimal stress,

Minimal muscle,

Might be just enough,

You know,

But the quality of the beauty of balance is it means it's just the absence of pressure and stress,

That's its main feature.

And when our minds pick up that theme,

Then we begin to take in that quality into our heart.

That's why balance is a beautiful thing and a bodily thing,

One of the gifts the body gives us.

So do you need to soften?

Your arms need to relax.

How does that sense of balance,

What does it begin to tell you?

I'm just going to take a few these from you.

Here.

Here.

Yes.

Am Thank you.

Meet your Teacher

Ajahn SucittoPetersfield, United Kingdom

3.6 (61)

Recent Reviews

Chiquitta

September 24, 2020

Thank you for the instructions. Namaste

Ron

May 9, 2018

A very short and (on the surface at least) simple exploration of balance, this is easily one of my favorite movement-based exercises on IT. I have worked with it many times now and am continuously discovering new things with each return visit. Warning: ends a bit abruptly/inconclusively.

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