Breathing The Body Landscape

In meditation, the breath reminds us of the whole. In this 20-minute guided meditation, we situate ourselves inside of our breathing body, releasing tension, finding attention, and giving ourselves an embodied sense of being in the vast inner landscape.

Transcript

Inaudible One of the most basic teachings of yoga is this idea of union.

That these parts of ourselves,

Our body,

Our mind and our breath can easily become disconnected.

And seem separate.

And the teaching of union is not that they need to be brought back together,

It's that waking up is a recognition that they are never separate.

That they couldn't be separate.

Feel how your body is set up in this posture of alertness.

And then see what can soften around that form so that you can really live there in the landscape of the body.

If something in your shape is uncomfortable,

Take a moment to really recognize what it is.

Consider what would ease that discomfort.

Make a quick and deliberate change in your posture and then allow yourself to be done.

So if the body needs something,

Fully give it to the body so that you can settle.

Allow the muscles around the jaw to soften.

Feel the space around the eyes.

Wherever you're feeling the flow of the breath,

Maybe in the chest or outside the nostrils or behind the navel,

There's a softening around where you feel the breath,

But also a sense that meeting that space is an expansion of what that inner landscape is.

The body is a landscape that's being breathed by the breath.

That the space of the breath is a space that you can step into.

Allow the tongue to rest toward the roof of the mouth and the back of the palate.

Allow the tongue to rest toward the roof of the mouth.

And when you feel yourself,

Even for a moment,

In the space where the whole view is present,

The whole body,

The whole of the breath,

The state of the mind there in the background,

Notice what that physically feels like.

So that when you need to return,

You have an embodied sense of what being in that space feels like.

Just focus on thedamage of wrecked framework in this sense of having that sense of.

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