Harmonize In This 9 Minute 'Sita & Ram' Meditation

What is it to be rooted and spacious simultaneously? Sita is from the Earth and Ram is from the Heavens. Inspired by the Hindu epic Ramayana, the main character Hanuman reminds us to be of the earth and of the sky. To feel that space in our heart where they come together. To feel the vastness that our heart can hold, even with the seemly opposites forces often at play like open and close. This 9-minute meditation offers the mantra ‘Sita & Ram’ on repeat to guide you into your heart center.

Transcript

Namaste and welcome back.

In this segment,

I'd like to offer up really just a moment to get quiet and to get still.

I wanted to offer up a form of a meditation using a mantra,

Sita and Ram.

We want to find really this great unification in our being with our earthen self and the self that's here and embodied and the part of our self that was here before we were born.

It's here now and it will be here when we go.

What it is to draw this Sita and Ram together in a sense in wholeness within our own being.

Some people call it meditation.

You want to sit up tall and find a comfortable seat.

With meditation,

We want to be a student of our own body.

Finding a seat on the floor or a seat in a chair or some place where we know we can rest in and get quiet and get still.

I'm sitting up on a couple of blankets here and on a cozy sheepskin so you can find what works for you.

Sit up tall in your spine.

Close your eyes.

It's really simple as we inhale,

Sita.

And as we exhale,

Ram.

Inhaling,

Sita.

And exhale,

Ram.

You can kind of linger on that mmm part of the Ram.

As we sustain this for a few rounds,

A few minutes,

Let's keep grounded through the hips,

The sits bones,

And lengthen up through the crown.

Elbows soft,

The jaw soft.

Inhaling,

Sita.

Exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

So if you notice that your mind is pulling you in a bunch of different directions,

And as you notice that,

You can just gently guide it back to inhale,

Sita.

And exhale,

Ram.

The jaw soft,

Rooted through the hips,

Extending through the crown of the head.

Elbows hang heavy.

Sita and Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

And exhale,

Ram.

So you're more than welcome to extend this meditation a few more minutes,

Even really up to an hour,

If you're feeling the spaciousness and the quiet and that great unification.

And when you're ready,

Bring your hands to prayer at the heart,

With a slight bow of the brain to the heart,

Feeling that great sense of union that lives right here at your heart,

Where the right meets the left at the sternum.

Reviews

This is such a perfectly guided meditation. Jai Siya Ram 🙏