So let's do a practice.
Is everybody okay to go into a practice?
So let's train together here.
So I want to start by just offering some energetic,
Alignment and anatomy that I have found is incredibly helpful for this vehicle of life called the human body.
It allows us to plug into support in a very.
Direct,
Particular way that I found is very,
Very helpful.
Not only to regulate and support the nervous system,
But also just to really allow yourself to bring your whole being into presence.
In a very open way.
I'm a very visual person.
I'm shown teachings in a very visual way.
So I'll describe them that way.
I have learned over time that many people are not visual.
And so if I give you a suggestion of a visualization,
And that doesn't work for you,
Please don't worry about it.
Just intend that it's there.
Allow.
That support,
That image to be there.
Even if you can't see it or feel it.
Again,
Your intention is everything.
So we're going to start by plugging into a bigger body by connecting with Mother Earth.
Because she is always there for us in her incredible generosity and love.
And I invite you to drop your grounding cord from your two sit bones and tailbone.
Plugging deep down into the earth.
You can visualize that as a column of light.
Or deep roots.
A tale.
Or perhaps psycho.
Skirt or a Something goes around your waist and then drops wide and rooted down into the core of the heart,
Womb,
Space of Mother Earth.
Really plugging yourself into that resource,
That ground,
That warmth.
And feeling her life force.
Coming up and nourishing your body.
And also through your grounding cord,
You can release.
Anything that doesn't belong to you,
That isn't connected to this moment,
You can compost and release any dissonance or disorganization in your energy,
Your field,
Your body.
Just hand it over.
She is delighted to receive it.
Giving yourself this felt sense that you don't have to hold yourself.
All by yourself anymore.
Letting your upright,
Vibrant spine soften into that grounded connection.
Let the golden bowl of your pelvis sit into that grounding cord.
Which helps you sit like a mountain.
Upright and disciplined and clear and incredibly relaxed.
And once you can really feel,
Sense,
Know that your grounding cord is here,
I invite you to allow it to get even more bright.
Or wide.
Or deep.
And it's through this that we connect with again.
This bigger body of Mother Earth.
A second.
Support.
Is to imagine a sphere of grace.
A sphere of light.
Presence.
All around you.
Some people visualize it like a golden egg.
Or like a pearlescent field of light Truly,
I invite you to trust whatever your awareness,
Your intuition shows you.
It could be any color or symbol or sound.
Trust what you're shown It's this sphere that holds your higher self.
And the wisdom of your awareness in your human body.
Gathering all of your presence into this space is incredibly supportive.
And healing.
And clarifying because if all of you is present in your body and in your awareness of your energy body.
You are very aware of what's coming and going.
And there's a sense of safety and protection.
That we all long for as a human.
A sense of being held.
I invite you to notice what happens when you allow yourself to be held.
By something that has your highest good in mind.
By a space that's full of.
The wisdom and compassion that is innate.
To who you are.
To use Tibetan language.
Some of you know the three kayas.
Nirmanakaya,
Sambhogakaya,
And dharmakaya.
They represent the three aspects of reality.
From the relative to the ultimate when we connect to our grounding cord.
It supports the nirmanakaya,
Which is just the human relative level.
Of being in a body,
Being connected to gravity.
Being here in form.
The sphere of grace around you.
Helps modify,
Connect,
And support the Sambhogakaya,
Which is your higher self.
The weaving of the space between being a human and being divine.
And how we organize our energy body in order to be here.
As a human.
In relationship with the relative world.
And with the divine world.
And the third support that I want to invoke in this practice is connecting to your central channel,
Which is how we connect to the Dharmakaya space.
The ultimate reality in this human body.
The central channel is a column of light.
That runs inside of and behind your spine.
It's what?
Allows you to connect to your ultimate awareness.
To the vast bright space of presence.
And it's the channel through which the power of the light that I am comes in.
And moves.
You can visualize it or feel it as a column of light.
Inside your spine.
But also this vast,
Bright space.
Behind you.
And some people actually experience it as a deep,
Velvety,
Rich,
Dark space.
Depending on how they're wired.
And either is perfect.
It has the energetic signature of silence.
Stillness.
And space.
And it holds your being.
And guides your being your entire life.
And so we feel it as the support that we can literally just relax back into.
And be infused by.
It's where your life force arrives.
In your body.
And there's a thousand teachings on this and they can be quite complicated and nuanced and For our purposes,
I invite you to keep it simple.
In the sense of what feels like a direct experience that you can connect to.
Or practice connecting to.
So now we're connected to all three kayas.
In this body.
We're connected to these three profound supports.
And resources.
In this life.
And in the time we have before lunch,
I invite you to just keep practicing.
Allowing.
Intending and receiving their support.
And the connection that these three portals offer you.
And when they feel clear,
Or one of them feels clear,
Or even if you just have a felt sense of them,
Then you can let the image go.
And just rest.
And open awareness.
Rest in presence.
All three of these support that.
And when a thought carries you away,
Or a strong memory comes.
Or contraction arises in your nervous system.
The way,
One way,
That you can connect back to the ocean of your awareness.
Or let that cloud just be there and then dissolve into the sky of your open mind.
Is by connecting to these resources.
They each in their own way offer.
That capacity.
So when you notice you're caught,
You might notice that your awareness has moved up and forward.
I haven't ever found it to be different if I catch myself thinking.
One,
I celebrate,
And two,
I notice,
Oh,
My energy went up and forward.
And see if you can allow your awareness.
Release back.
Back into your central channel.
Or gather back into the sphere of grace of your awareness.
And drop down into your grounding cord.
You might find that very quickly you are once again just an open presence.
And you can lovingly witness with so much kindness.
The wave of your experience from this deep ocean.
Of presence that you can find.
In these spaces.
You can allow it to be there,
You can allow it to show you what it's trying to show you.
You can allow that energy to move through,
To heal,
To liberate.
From this vast space.
In and around your body.
And your awareness.
So as you go to your lunch,
So lovingly prepared for us,
I invite you to just continually return to this.
Support is light,
Is resource.
Again and again,
Let it be what looks out of your eyes.
What holds you?
What guides your steps?
And when you notice you're thinking,
Habituating.
Just keep opening back into that support and see what happens.
Thank you all so much.
So grateful to be with you.
Enjoy your day.
Enjoy yourself.
It's so beautiful here.
