Relax Into Joy: Divine Light Invocation for Transformation

Join Morgan for a powerfully healing standing meditation in the kundalini yoga tradition. Set yourself up in a space where you can stand and comfortably lift your arms, as I'll guide you through a simple movement practice to welcome in divine light. (If you have shoulder pain, only lift your arms as high as is comfortable.) We'll move through a gentle body tension-relaxation series in order to ground your energy and be receptive to pure consciousness. This is a practice especially appropriate for anyone dealing with a loss, such as a literal death, those of you who are helping a loved one in their last phase of life, or anyone experiencing a metaphorical death in the form of the spiritual rebirth process. This is also a strong energy protection practice appropriate for healers and those who work in hospice.

Transcript

Hello friends,

This is Morgan with Splendid Yoga.

Today I'm guiding you through the Divine Light Invocation.

This is a practice that I learned about through a book called Kundalini Yoga for the West and it's by Swami Sivananda Radha.

So this practice is especially powerful for when you are going through a pattern of rebirth and as you continue down the spiritual path you'll notice this is a process that never really ends.

This is a process that has lasted for lifetimes.

So we're talking about the process of death,

Sometimes both literally,

Sometimes through the loss of a loved one,

But also the metaphorical death of moving on from an era of your life so that you can grow into your next ascended phase.

But that transition can be challenging to say the least.

And so this is one of the practices that I've incorporated into my own rebirth process in order to relax into the joy of the process rather than suffer the resistance of the reality of what's happening.

So this is a standing meditation.

So stand tall.

If you're familiar with Tadasana,

The mountain pose in yoga,

You stand with your feet either hip distance apart or with the big toes touching,

Whichever feels the most stable.

You'll stack your joints on top of your heels,

Your knees,

Your hips,

Your shoulders,

Your skull,

All in its perfect alignment so that you can stand tall but without much effort and certainly no pain.

Now tense your feet as hard as you can.

Feel every degree of the tension of all of those muscles at the bottom of your foot.

Now you can relax but then repeat this several times,

Maybe even like a pulse.

But I really want you to notice the degree of tension versus the degree of relaxation.

So maybe each time you relax you notice you can relax a little bit more or maybe it gets harder to relax.

And when you create tension maybe you feel more muscles in the feet or maybe they get fatigued and you feel fewer muscles.

I'll give you a few more breaths to experience this.

Now relax your feet and land right in the middle of your foot.

You might need to rock forward and back,

Side to side to re-find the centering on top of your feet.

Now let's try that with the hands.

So relax your arms down to your side but spread your fingers out as wide as they can go.

Make your palm as big as possible and notice that tension,

Those muscles,

That feeling.

It rises up the arm.

So just feel that.

Feel that as the tension moves from your hand muscles into your wrist,

Into your forearm.

Maybe even you feel it up towards your bicep and your shoulder muscles.

Just notice that tension that you're causing.

You're choosing this from your hands upward.

And now just relax it.

Let them slowly relax and notice how that relaxation travels throughout the entirety of the arm.

Notice where you can really,

Even in the fingertips,

Just let them curl in.

Now we'll repeat that again several times.

You can hold it for a few breaths or you can pulse it between the tension,

The spread of the fingers and the relaxation.

But what you're tuning into is your own awareness,

Your own witnessing of the physical sensations that you can create in your body.

Notice especially that first moment of tension,

The first moment you feel,

I'm not relaxed.

Now we're going to deliberately spread out your fingers,

Get that same hand tension,

But also tension in your forearm.

So the muscles from your elbow to your wrist really tense those muscles up however you can,

However you have to.

And then can you relax in the same order in which you tense?

So relax the forearm muscles and then relax the hand.

So you're building the tension from the hand to the forearm.

Notice that building.

And then you're relaxing from the forearm to the hand.

And just feel that wave as it travels up and down.

Just a few more times.

Just watch it travel up and down.

Just let your hands relax.

If you need to shake them out,

Go ahead.

And now with the feet,

We're going to do the same thing.

So you're going to tense your feet and then tense your calves as well.

Can you?

The muscles below your knees.

Tense up those calves and then relax them in that same order.

Relax your calves,

Relax your feet.

Build tension in your feet,

Contract your calf muscles.

Without moving,

Just feel them.

Just think about it and then your muscles will do it.

And then relax your calf muscles and relax your feet in that order.

A few more times,

Letting the energy rise up.

You're in control and feeling the energy lower down.

Okay.

Now can we do the hands and the forearms and the feet and the calves at the same time?

So you tense the hands,

You tense the feet,

And you tense the muscles in the forearm.

So you're going to feel the feet and you tense the forearms,

You tense the calves,

But it all rises up at the same time.

And then you relax in that same order.

Relax the forearms,

The calves,

Then the hands and the feet.

And then again,

Just a few times until it feels easy to do both hands and feet,

Then calves and forearms simultaneously.

Upper and lower body contracting and relaxing.

Just one or two more times.

Okay.

Let's build this to the next level.

Let's start with the hands,

The forearms,

And now the biceps,

The triceps,

The upper arms as well.

Actively tense those muscles,

Contract those muscles,

And then relax the upper arms,

Then the lower arms,

Then the hands.

You see where we're headed.

Let's do this a few more times.

Let that energy travel from the hands,

Up the forearms,

Up the upper arms,

Down through the upper arms,

Down through the forearms,

Relax through the hands.

Just one or two more times.

Kind of see how we're doing this.

Yeah.

Okay.

Now release that.

And then let's do that with the feet.

Tense the feet,

Then tense the calves,

Then tense your thighs,

Your quadriceps,

Your hamstrings.

Feel your whole leg contract.

And then relax from the upper thighs,

Down the knees,

Down the calves,

Down the ankles,

Down the feet.

And then we build that back up again.

Just a few times,

Feeling the energy,

That tension,

That contraction,

Energy rise up,

And then relaxing in reverse.

Now we're going to do both those at the same time.

So hands and feet at the same time,

Calves and forearms at the same time,

Upper arms,

Thighs at the same time,

And then release,

Upper arms,

Thighs,

Forearms,

Calves,

Hands,

Feet.

Just a few more times.

Rising up,

Upper body,

Lower body at the same time.

Rising down,

Lowering down.

Got a few more rounds here.

Go ahead and release that rhythm.

And now let's start with the hands.

Tense the hands,

The forearms.

Feel that energy rising up the upper arms.

Now the shoulders as well.

Feel the shoulders contract all the way to the neck,

And then relax down through the shoulders,

The upper arms,

The forearms,

The hands.

A few more times.

Hands,

Forearms,

Upper arms,

Shoulders.

Relax your shoulders.

Relax your upper arms.

Relax your forearms.

Relax your hands.

One more time on your own.

Okay,

And release that.

And let's move to the lower body.

Bring tension to your feet.

Lift it up to your calves.

Engage your thighs.

And now your glutes as well.

Engage your hip muscles,

Those big hip muscles.

Squeeze them.

And now relax your glutes.

Relax your thighs.

Relax your calves.

Relax your feet.

Now again,

Tense up.

Feet,

Calves,

Thighs,

Glutes.

Release glutes,

Thighs,

Calves,

Feet.

Now we'll do both upper body,

Lower body at the same time.

So bring tension to your hands and your feet simultaneously.

Your calves,

Your forearms,

Your upper arms,

Your thighs,

Your shoulders,

Your glutes.

Relax shoulders,

Glutes.

Relax upper arms,

Thighs.

Relax forearms,

Calves.

Relax hands,

Feet.

A few more times on your own.

Tense and relax.

Okay,

Now release that rhythm.

Now let's contract your abdominal muscles.

So imagine you have a corset on.

They're pulling it tight.

Use just your abdominal muscles,

Especially that lower belly.

Hug that lower belly in towards your spine and then up towards your heart.

You lift it up.

You feel that gentle lift.

And then even your side belly.

Can you feel your side belly tensing?

Even your back.

Can you feel your back tensing?

And now slowly release that.

Relax that abdominal tension.

And now how about your neck?

Can you contract your neck muscles?

Can you bring tension to your neck?

Great.

Now relax that.

Now we're going to do the whole body.

So let's contract the muscles in your feet and your hands at the same time.

Your calves and your forearms and your thighs and your upper arms and your glutes and your shoulders and your abdomen and your neck.

Everything tensing.

And then release in reverse.

Release your neck and your abdomen.

Release your shoulders,

Your glutes.

Release your upper arms,

Your thighs.

Release your forearms,

Your calves.

Release your hands,

Your feet.

And a few more times in that order.

Keep your face relaxed,

But tense every muscle.

Rising up,

Lowering down.

As you're practicing this,

Now that the muscles know what to do,

Let's bring the conscious breath into it.

So as you're building tension,

You're inhaling.

It's a slow inhale.

You hold the tension.

You retain the breath.

And when you relax,

You exhale your breath.

And you may have been doing this intuitively all along,

But let's bring some conscious connection to it.

The breath and the tension of the body rising up deliberately together,

Relaxing and releasing deliberately together.

So you want to avoid any strain or pressure in the body.

This isn't about working out,

Right?

This is just about connecting to the feelings in your body and connecting your breath to those feelings,

To that consciousness.

Because this is how the spirit communicates,

Communicates through the feelings in our body.

First,

We have to learn how to feel it.

Slowly and gradually tense your entire body.

Keep your arms straight.

Maintain that full body tension,

But keep breathing here.

Now hold the tension.

Take a deep inhale and hold your breath.

Close your eyes.

Look in between your eyebrows.

Mentally repeat,

I am created by divine light.

I am sustained by divine light.

I am protected by divine light.

I am surrounded by divine light.

I am ever growing into divine light.

Exhale out.

Keep your arms lifted.

Breathe breathe naturally and imagine yourself standing in a shower of brilliant white light.

Watch it pouring down on you like a sparkly spotlight.

Watch it pour even through your body,

Filling your entire being.

When that feels complete,

Then lower your arms slowly.

Now keep your arms at your side.

Inhale and tense your entire body,

All of the muscles in the body.

The top of your inhale,

Hold that tension and your breath and mentally repeat the invocation.

I am created by divine light.

I am sustained by divine light.

I am protected by divine light.

I am surrounded by divine light.

I am ever growing into divine light.

Now exhale slowly and relax the tension.

Feel that warm glow of divine light throughout your entire body,

Outside as well as inside and acknowledge to yourself that every cell of your physical body is filled with divine light.

Every level of consciousness is illuminated with divine light.

The divine light penetrates every single cell of my being,

Every level of consciousness.

I have become a channel of pure light.

I am one with the light.

Send gratitude.

If there's someone in your life that you'd like to share this divine light with,

Even if that person is a version of yourself that you're ready to release,

Turn your palms to face outward and imagine that light streaming towards the feet of this person.

Let that light encircle their body.

Watch it spiraling upwards in a clockwise direction and enveloping their body completely.

Watch that spiral moving way into the sky,

All the way into the universe and taking their image along with it.

Watch that person merging with the source of divine light and becoming one with the light.

When that person has passed from your view,

Relax and feel gratitude for having the opportunity to help someone in need.

Come back to the sensation of your breath and feel your body in this space,

Your feet on the ground.

And before you go to sleep tonight,

Imagine yourself,

Your body and your bed surrounded by a spiral of divine light cocooning you in protection.

You're welcome to use the mantras that I repeated anytime throughout your day in order to call upon the sense of divine energy and protection and guidance.

And thank you for doing your work,

Your practice today.

Namaste.

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This was a different type of practice for me that I REAALLY enjoyed, with benefits to my mind, body, and spirit. 🙏