Breathing Body Meditation

Meditation is the intimacy that heals the disparate aspects of ourselves and sets the stage for healing.

Transcript

Let's begin by bringing attention to the legs.

Feel both legs and feet supported by the floor,

By the earth,

By the quiet ground,

And feel how the legs experience themselves.

There's a tendency to create a picture of the legs in the mind,

Or have associations to the legs in the mind.

And see instead if you can simply feel the legs as they experience themselves.

Taking in the stillness of the floor,

Of the earth.

Allow the legs to feel the calmness of the floor.

Feeling how quiet the floor can be.

Simply opening to the quietness of the legs supported by the floor.

Feel the way the pelvis is supported by whatever it is you're sitting on.

Both sides of the pelvis,

The left and the right.

Notice if you're moving towards the front of the pelvis,

Or towards the tail.

And as the pelvis balances,

Receive the stillness of the legs and the ground.

With your breath in the background.

Let your palms rest on your legs.

And feel how the palms receive the thighs and the quietness of the earth.

And let your hands feel themselves.

Is it possible to feel the hands without adding anything to it?

If your attention begins to flow away from the hands into images and ideas in the imagination,

Simply come back gently to the feeling of the hands against the legs.

And let the hands and legs experience themselves.

Do your hands become more sensitive as you bring awareness to them?

Consider how the sensation of hands and legs is in flux.

The patterns of sensation that we feel in the hands and in the legs is changing.

Notice too how the softness of the breath can be felt in the background of the legs and the hands.

And let the legs and the hands live themselves in present time.

And now with the palms resting gently on the legs,

Allow your inner elbows to drop slightly as you feel the shoulder blades naturally flowing down the back body.

And as the shoulder blades drop,

Notice how the spine corresponds by lifting out of the ground of the pelvis.

And then feel the way the front of your armpits spread and lift as the collarbones widen.

And begin to notice where you feel your breathing.

Can you feel the breath in the nostrils?

The coolness of the inhale,

The warmth of the exhale in both the left and the right nostril.

When the left side of the pelvis is grounded,

We can feel the breath in the left nostril.

And when the right side of the pelvis is rooted,

We can feel the effortless breath in the right nostril.

Sometimes we can also feel the breath in the belly.

As the belly expands when the inhale arises,

And then as we exhale we can feel the navel drawing back towards the inner spine.

And it's up to you.

You can focus either on the breath in the nostrils or in the belly.

The legs are still,

The hands are experiencing themselves,

The collarbones are wide,

And slowly we're letting the attention stay yoked to the breathing.

Let your attention reside in the body.

With sensations appearing any way they want,

Allowing the life of the body in these moments to experience itself.

This is just the natural world of the body.

And feeling breathing is effortless.

Not trying to feel one way or another,

And no need to attain anything.

Simply feel the livingness of the body and the breath.

Again,

If the mind wanders away,

If the attention gets hooked or distracted with images or with thoughts,

Just come back to awareness of this posture and relax in the space created by attentiveness.

Feeling the breathing body underneath language as simply as you can.

This is the livingness of the body experiencing itself.

The breath coming and going.

And notice how the body recognizes awareness and how the breath begins to relax in the space created by attentiveness.

How the body begins to settle.

How the nerves begin to settle.

How the breath settles in the space created by attentiveness.

Attention becomes a support.

Noticing the body and the breath from a place of stillness.

Allowing attention to reside in the body with sensations appearing any way they want.

Allowing the life of the body in these moments to express itself.

So that what's moving through the body is just the natural world of the human body.

If there is comfort or discomfort,

No need to lean into or away from what you feel.

Just letting the sensation of the legs,

The pelvis,

The hands and arms,

Letting the sensation of the breath come and go in the spaciousness of awareness.

Allowing the body to experience itself.

Allowing the body to experience itself.

Notice any secondary judgments.

Notice any kind of criticism or comparison.

And just gently return to the feeling of the body.

To the experience of breathing.

To the livingness of the breathing body.

Arriving into your life.

Through direct,

Unfiltered and immediate experience of the breath and the body.

Really entering your life.

And as our attention naturally wanders away.

Catching hold of images and ideas.

Thoughts and old stories.

No need to judge.

Just gently return to the feeling of the breath.

And to the whole body experiencing itself.

The aliveness of this changing body.

Anchored by the breath.

Supported by attention.

Opening up.

And realizing.

Your life.

With simple,

Moment to moment,

Receptive awareness.

Your life.

With simple,

Moment to moment,

Receptive awareness.

Your life.

With simple,

Moment to moment,

Receptive awareness.

You

Reviews

Such a powerful meditation, thank you

Thank you

Profound ❤️

Beautifully grounded in the body. I love how Michael guides us back towards the relationship of awareness and the body. Gratitude and deep bows.

Pure body and breath meditation - calm and still.

The perfect meditation. No intrusive music, calm voice and ample silent periods. Will return to this often. 🙏

Thank you Michael 🙏🏻

Thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻When my thoughts were wondering, they went to contemplating how I was receiving this perfectly wonderful guidance, and yet your physical form is gone, and then your voice would bring me back to my breath, my breathing body, my awareness of my breathing body...very interesting. Thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

A wonderful call to presence

Very well guided awareness practice if the body. Thank you 💖

I did this lying down but it's probably better sitting. A very deep embodiment practice - exactly what I was looking for. My body experiencing itself.
Thank you Michael. RIP ❤🙏🌸

Revealing, thank you

Time flew by. Very peaceful and centering

🙏🙏🙏thank you😊

Really connected with the practice , thankyou 🙏🏻💞

Clear and calming. Thank you 🙏

Simple and beautiful!

Powerful and lovely

Beautiful! Thank you🙏🌸