Welcome Let's take our time to settle ourselves.
Maybe let's.
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Consider our posture for a moment in awe.
Position of our body.
See if you can feel the ground.
Feel some connection to the ground even if your feet aren't touching the ground Can you notice?
What happens is you let yourself arrive.
The body becomes heavier.
Pelvis in particular.
Starts to root.
And feel how your spine is in relationship with your pelvis.
Tailbone up through sacrum.
Up through the small of the back,
The waist.
The back of the diaphragm and the ribs.
Behind the heart.
The back of the collar,
The shoulders.
The back of the throat.
Right up to the occiput.
Where the atlas supports the skull.
Just feel into the body if there's any movement that would be helpful,
Maybe some circling or some wriggling or some swaying.
So that there's less of a sense of being rigid.
More of a remembering.
Fluidity.
Notice the palms of your hands and your fingers.
Perhaps there's a softening or an opening.
That is.
Possible.
Might even be a shaking.
Letting go of tension.
Just woken up from a night's sleep and yet still our hands and our fingers can feel tense.
The same with the soles of the feet.
Maybe pointing and flexing of the toes.
Ankle,
Pressing the feet into the floor.
Opportunity to remember the aliveness.
Of the body.
And then coming to your jaw.
Your mouth and your tongue.
Perhaps just being with what's here,
It's not unusual for there to be tension.
What does it need?
Does it need some touch?
Would it be?
Helpful just to hold your jaw with your hands.
Feel the warmth of your palms.
Hence your face.
And letting yourself settle down into your question.
Create some space for the brow.
How does it want to move?
How does it move you?
How does it move through you?
Perhaps we don't need for it to change,
Maybe we can just.
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Allow it to be here and be interested.
Notice it.
And noticing your eyes.
Maybe your eyelids are down.
And that's your instinct to practice with eyes closed.
Maybe your eyes can be open.
And so you look downwards just ahead of yourself your gaze can soften.
The eyes can be quite hungry.
For stimulation.
If you notice that,
Just let them.
At them.
Let the eyes do what they want to do.
Perhaps our practice is just to notice.
To notice that we are noticing There can be a longing for a practice to feel a certain way.
Or a confusion that perhaps it should look.
A certain way.
Maybe we have well-trodden neural circuits that tell us about perfection and control.
And getting it right.
Maybe that's what you're noticing.
An intention to simply notice.
And to notice that you are noticing.
It can look different to how we expect.
We touch the essence of something.
And then we wrap our thoughts and our definitions around it.
We make it into something.
Something solid.
If we let that go and sit and notice again.
Can we contact that?
Spark that moment of essence.
Before we've wrapped it up.
To make sense of it.
Contacting something before the thinking.
For the cat arising.
To go rising.
Maybe coming into heart space rather than head space.
Maybe opening.
Rather than trying to catch.
How is it to just be?
And how is it to notice that?
Coming back to the body.
Aware of the spine.
And the pelvis.
Palms of your hands.
The soles of your feet.
It's all your mouth.
And your scalp coming back into some movement if movement feels nourishing.
Offering the fruits of our practice to ourselves,
To each other and to all beings.
Namaste.
