Welcome,
Welcome to your guided meditation.
I'll be sharing with you today one of my guided meditations in my Live Your Yoga mentorship program with the theme around the yama brahmacharya brahmacharya being the yama of moderation,
Or in a traditional sense,
The withdrawal or sustain of intercourse or intimacy with another,
With yourself or with another,
The practice of moderation.
Find your way into a comfortable seated position,
Preferably sitting up onto a bolster block or cushion,
Something that will elevate your hips higher than your knees to offer support to the hip and knee joints.
As you bend your knees,
Bring one ankle in front of the other.
Shift your shoulders up over your hips,
Place your hands onto your thighs just above your knees,
Face down.
Shoulder blades,
Scapula bones move towards one another to support the heart as you lift your chest up towards your chin.
Begin to slightly tuck your chin towards your chest.
Bring all your awareness to your breath.
Within the practice of moderation,
We begin to learn how to distribute our energy accordingly.
So we bring the balance between the masculine side,
The doing and the feminine side of being.
Allow your awareness to come to the entire right side of your body,
The right side of your face,
Shoulder,
Arm,
Ribcage and leg,
The entire right side of your body.
Become heavy and weighted through the right side.
As you begin to then shift your awareness to the left side,
The left side of your face,
Shoulder,
Arm,
Ribcage and leg.
Heaviness weighted down through the left side of your body.
As you bring the awareness from the right side to the left side directly into center,
From the crown of your head to the base of your spine,
The center channel,
The base of your spine through the crown of your head.
Keep your awareness with the center line as you focus your awareness now to the top of your head.
As you inhale,
Draw the breath down like a snake of energy from the crown of your head,
Weaving left and right to the very base of your spine.
And as you exhale from the base of your spine,
Bring the breath back up through the crown of your head.
Inhale,
Draw from the crown of your head snake-like energy weaving left and right all the way to the base of your spine.
And with your exhale breath,
Weaving back up through the center and through the left channel,
Through the right all the way to the crown of your head.
With your own breath,
From the top of your head,
Inhale down weaving left and right snake-like energy all the way to the base.
And with the exhale,
Weaving back up and through the crown of your head,
Uniting the left side and the right side of the body.
When you notice your mind has shifted to thought,
Come back to the breath.
As you inhale,
Draw from the crown,
Left and right all the way down to the base,
And from the base all the way up and through the crown of your head.
We find balance in doing and being so that as we bring the awareness to times of taking action and times of rest,
We can moderate where we put our energy,
When we put our energy where.
So that when we choose to consciously withdraw from intimacy,
We withhold that creative life force within ourselves.
And it's in this way that we can use our creative life force energy to connect deeper to our practice or spirituality,
To create more within our business,
Our career or our life.
And when we practice brahmacharya,
We bring the awareness that we know when to put our energy where.
There's times for rest and digest and times for doing and taking action.
With every inhale,
Draw the breath from the crown of the head,
Weaving left and right through the central channel of your body,
All the way to the spine.
And as you exhale,
Bring the breath back through the center line and through the inhale down all the way back up to the top.
Inevitably,
The mind will distract you and thought will come.
As soon as you are aware,
Allow the thought to go,
Let it free and bring your awareness back to focusing that as you inhale,
You come all the way down to the center line,
Leaving left and right balance between the masculine and the feminine to the base of your spine.
And as you exhale,
Coming back up through the center line and through the inhale down,
Leaving snake like energy all the way up to the top.
Stay balanced between the left and the right.
The connection to your feminine energy and your masculine energy.
The next time you exhale to the top,
Release control focus solely on the breath of breathing in and out of your nose,
All the awareness to the space above your upper lip as you watch your breath.
Stay heavy in the left and the right side of your body.
May you remember the importance of being and doing knowing when it's time to rest and when it's time to take action.
It's in this way that we don't need a space of depletion.
Rather,
We find the balance between.
Hands to heart.
Namaste.
