Welcoming yourself,
Welcoming your body,
Welcoming your breath,
This space,
This field of energy
is a place of welcoming,
A place of permission,
A place that welcomes possibility,
Creativity,
A space of divine freedom that has the capacity to welcome all that you are,
Just as you are,
An invitation to offer this space,
This freedom to the breath,
To the body,
If you notice anywhere where relaxation,
Physical release and opening is available,
Then inviting that possibility,
That availability,
For things to be,
To come to rest,
Just as they are,
Noticing,
Welcoming the quality of this invitation,
This space of permission and freedom,
As we invite the breath now to sink a little deeper down through the spine and into the sense of contact on the chair or cushion
and down,
Dropping down into the earth below,
Into a sense of rootedness,
Of earth,
The trunk of your body rooted in the earth,
Held by Mother,
Mama Gaya
and to the degree that that feels available,
Really relishing the sense of being held,
The sense of being able to drop down and be held by Mother Earth
the breath,
The body,
The earth,
Always here,
Always available,
As anchors for our awareness
always available as objects to rest our attention into,
To find peace,
Stability,
Nourishment
and from this place of grounded,
Embodied,
Breathing awareness,
We can allow ourselves to open up,
To expand,
To include the field,
The spaciousness
the boundless quality of divine freedom that's already here,
Already available,
Already alive as the fabric of our experience,
The divine ground of our being
this divine freedom that we are,
It's our very nature,
Our essence,
It's not generated or created by us
it is prior to any effort,
Prior to any attempt to arrive at or achieve any particular state
and it's this quality of boundless freedom that means that whenever there is that striving,
Seeking,
Generative energy arising to get somewhere else or achieve something else
that too is welcome,
That too is included as this field of openness,
Of divine,
Seamless,
Shining presence
everything is included,
Because this freedom is prior to anything that arises
it's already here,
It's this,
Just as it is
welcome
at times there can be the feeling of being quite small and overwhelmed,
Strong emotions,
Strong stories,
Strong sensations in the body
and yet this freedom is always here,
Just in the background
and when our own capacity feels overwhelmed
that's when the opportunity,
The invitation to surrender our own limitations,
Our own efforts to control and contain our experience
can all be given up,
Dropped into this field that has the boundless capacity to receive everything
no matter how intense or subtle,
How strong or quavering
there's nothing that this freedom does not receive and welcome,
Just as it is
unconditional freedom
nothing is required
you don't need to do anything,
Achieve,
Attain anything
this freedom,
This divine freedom is already here
it's already fundamentally all that you are
and all that you experience
no boundary,
No separation
the subject and the object,
The awareness and experience
all is received,
All is welcome
just as it is,
Boundless divine freedom
the freedom for this to be just as it is
and as expansive as this freedom is
it also has a very imminent quality to it as well
a visceral,
Sensitive,
Vibrant and alive
it's the openness,
The spaciousness within each cell
it's the subtle immateriality of each atom
it's the vibrant void,
The dancing emptiness
and it is that emptiness that gives it the capacity to offer the freedom
for each atom,
Each cell,
Each aspect of our being
to be free
to be holy and completely alive,
Just the way it is
as inviting sensitivity
inviting the viscerality
finding that seamless sensitivity
where awareness and experience,
The formless and form
meet and merge and dance together
as one
the breath gifting this quality of unconditional allowing
complete permission
divine freedom
flowing with the breath through the body
embodying this divine quality
revealing the divine fabric that is this body,
This being,
This breath
opening to and including in our inner adventure
the sensations,
The feelings
the thoughts that swirl and subside back into the body
rediscovering on our quest,
On our adventure through the body
that what is salt,
What we seek for,
Is already here
divine grace,
Divine freedom
divine truth,
Divine love
it's already here
it is this breath,
It is these sensations
it is this experience,
Just as it is
nowhere to go,
Nowhere to get to,
This is it
finding your roots once more
welcome home
welcome back down to ground
the divine ground of your being
and the physical ground that you sit upon
not to
divine earth,
Divine breath
everything is welcoming you home
welcome home
and inviting a little movement
maybe just the fingers and toes at first
gradually opening to the small muscles,
Spine
bringing yourself through movement
into a sense of completion,
Of closing,
Of this practice
an invitation to offer ourselves a little bow
of gratitude
