We're arriving at a meditation that's honoring vitality,
Our own body's ability to come into balance and to create energy from energy.
So how do we do that while we're just sitting still?
We do it by awareness,
By alertness.
It's very easy to go to sleep in our life,
In our relationships,
In our job,
Certainly in our meditation,
Literally sometimes,
But also figuratively.
So as we come seated,
Any way that you can sit with a tall spine,
That's very important on this round.
We want a lot of space between the vertebra,
A little tiny dip in the chin,
The sense that you can push the sky through the crown of the head.
And this moment we're going to take the hands and spin the palms up.
You'll bring the thumb and the pointer finger in toward each other.
This mudra,
Chin mudra,
This sense of awareness,
So the hands look like this.
And you can rest the backs of the hands on the knees or the thighs.
Close the eyes.
We'll take this opportunity,
Fully inhale,
Active breath,
Active,
Active,
And fully exhale.
Vitality comes from this full cycle of breath,
Of life.
We'll honor the three cycles of inhale,
Inhale honoring the beginning,
Honoring creation,
Creativity,
The spark.
So pulling the breath in,
Paying full attention to that moment the breath first draws in.
Longer through the back of the neck.
What is it that you're creating,
What spark is alight within you?
No answers in the seated posture.
Just open to the question.
Each initiation of that inhale is our opportunity to be as awake as possible,
Alive as possible.
It is our quality.
From that spark,
That initiation,
That creation,
Creativity from the Brahma,
We go to Vishnu,
We go to sustenance.
So in this next few minutes we'll focus on what the breath feels like when it's full inside the body.
The lungs are full,
They're opening out,
Opening down,
Opening up.
Each inhale at that moment of being complete,
Replete,
Full of breath,
Just melting into that for each round.
What does it feel like to be utterly enough,
To have enough and to be full?
Next,
We'll bring that attention to the exhales.
So we begin to empty the breath out,
Becoming empty,
Finishing something,
Completing,
Sitting without for a moment,
Meaning at the base of that exhale just pausing.
So in this time together,
The next few moments giving full attention to your exhales.
The essence of Shiva,
Destruction,
Completion,
Reabsorption.
Bring that full cycle,
Inhale,
Becoming full sustenance,
Then emptying.
Attention to all three parts,
Inhale.
In the fullness,
From fullness empty back out.
Keep going,
Vitality in the filling,
The vigor that that fullness creates,
The energy from the emptying,
The releasing.
You can keep these attentions on the three parts of the cycle.
Press pause here and simply allow yourself another 10 to 15 minutes.
If you move back into the world,
Moving back with a sense of awakening,
Wakefulness to your life and the cycles that sustain us.
Hands to prayer if you're moving out into the world.
Om.
Namaste to your light,
To your cycle.
Om.
