Satya Meditation

Settle into yourself for a 15-minute meditative practice through Satya, truthfulness. We speak here about the courage it takes to become truthful with ourselves, and how this aids us in our practices, and journey through the 8 limbs of Yoga.

Transcript

Well hello hello to wonderful you.

It is great to have you here.

It's great to share space and have your support.

I'm gonna work through meditation today.

Going into the second Yama in yoga practice,

Which is Satya.

Satya translates to truthfulness and practicing our truth,

Being aware of our truth and holding space for our truth.

I'd like to just acknowledge that we have to kind of follow these steps of yoga practice and to not forget or to approach your next Yama,

Niyama,

Without kind of remembering our first step,

Ahimsa,

Compassion.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to look at yourself and your truths and all those things but it's absolutely crucial to find it while holding compassionate gentle space with yourself.

So I'd like to just hold some space for that.

You can get yourself kind of situated in your space however you would like to.

You're welcome to sit.

You're welcome to lay down.

It's encouraged that you have maybe some potential props.

They don't need to be yoga props but things that kind of maybe help you to sit up taller.

Things that are nice when you're laying down like a blanket.

Maybe something that you'd like to rest your head on.

Maybe you'd like to use a meditation eye pillow.

Whatever you think would work for you and the energy and the mood that you're in today.

I find that it's different all the time.

I'm gonna hold some space for you to get yourself kind of settled.

And then as you start to find this space,

Just find an exhalation here wherever you are with your breath.

Just let it go.

See what it's like to use that exhale to sink into yourself.

Let's find an inhalation here please.

Full exhale.

We acknowledge the breath first.

You find your breath first.

You use it for your practice.

You use it for your nervous system.

You use it for your brain,

For your awareness of space of the broom.

You use it for a sensation and release in your body.

See if you're getting a long gait out,

A few exhales.

I'm gonna ask you just to soften into yourself.

We'll see if you can kind of pull yourself out.

If you're laying on your back,

Maybe you feel that you kind of settle a little bit more.

Your flesh and muscle systems,

Your fascia,

Your bones just settle.

They relax.

They become what they are.

And if you're seated,

You build a comfortability with all the parts of yourself that are on the floor,

The chair.

You find ease.

Let yourself kind of puddle out.

Take up space.

See if you can feel the sensation in your body no matter what position you're in of kind of a widening.

Even your fingertips,

They become a little wider.

Your hips become wider.

It's visualization.

Your throat space,

Bigger,

Wider,

Softened,

Open,

Not guarded.

Allow your belly to fall as you find an exhalation here.

Let it go all the way out,

All the way out,

All the way out.

And then inhale.

Let's take another full exhale.

So coming into Satya,

Truthfulness,

Truth,

And facing the idea of truth.

I'd like to first acknowledge that finding truth is not always.

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I'd like to acknowledge that finding truth isn't always what you see and read or maybe what you're even told by those around you.

I'd like to hold a lot of space for the fact that approaching truth can be very scary and breaking yourself kind of down and open little by little is a very brave and vulnerable thing to do and you might find something in yourself that you really had no idea was there and I think it's important that we recognize that.

It might not be something you find in this meditation but as you bring yourself to a more conscious place around the idea of truth within yourself first and what you tell yourself,

How you go about your life,

Where you could change,

Grow,

Do better,

Let go of the things you think of others,

Like really looking at yourself.

And then little by little that translate to your truth in your relationships,

Truth about your life,

The external kind of world that you have put together for yourself.

And so I speak of this as meeting yourself where you are,

Meeting yourself how you are.

I think this is one of the best things that you can do as you know that you're here to grow to understand your truths.

And often we want to already kind of be somewhere else we already want to have that growth.

Maybe we don't necessarily want to do the work and that happens and then often years of your life go by and you don't even quite realize that you never really did that thing.

You may be procrastinated,

You put it off to the side,

You were afraid deep down to approach the work and to grow from it.

So I want us to have a lot of acceptance around just where you are today,

The thoughts you have,

The feelings you have,

Where you are in your practice.

You just meet yourself where you are and you start from there because there's no right time to start.

We all know that you just have to do it.

And in truthfulness I invite you to look at your relationships,

How you feel about them,

The stories that you tell yourself.

Sometimes what you might find is that the stories that you tell yourself about your relationships and what maybe someone does that upsets you,

That makes you feel uncomfortable or wronged,

Those are very valid.

There's a lot of time in our relationships that we tell ourselves stories about others that maybe aren't the full actual truth of the relationship and the dynamic.

Sometimes when you start to look a little deeper at yourself you can see and recognize that the relationship is just being mirrored and then how you feel so-and-so is doing this thing to you or they make me feel this way.

There's a lot of truth but sometimes it can't just be a story that we tell ourselves.

We maybe blow it out of proportion or make ourselves feel worse.

And so I want us to look at our truths internally towards our external relationships and some words that go along with this looking at your feelings of envy,

The lies that you've been told,

The truths that have not been said to you,

Maybe things in your family that you still don't know the answer to,

And maybe the lies that you tell others,

Maybe as a form of protection,

Maybe because you don't quite know another way,

Maybe because it makes you feel safe to create a different kind of life projection for yourself and also the lies that you tell yourself about you.

This might be around that you're not good enough,

That you're a bad person,

That someone is upset with you,

That you are not deserving,

It is unlikely that you are not good enough and it is very unlikely that you are not deserving.

Let's talk in truth about rewriting what you've been told to be or maybe what you've been told not to be,

The influences of the relationships in your life,

Maybe even dictating who you've become without even really realizing it,

Not only in your childhood systems and family systems but who you surround yourself with now.

You are the company you keep.

Let's talk about your truths in regards to things such as capitalism,

The work that you do,

The energy expenditure you give to others,

To a workplace,

A company if you work at one,

Maybe sit in that and that,

Does that workplace feel like you want to be there?

Does it suit the ideals of your life and what you thought your life would become and what you would hope it would grow into and become?

What would you change?

This is your truth.

Let's hold some space,

Some final space.

Just with breath,

Just with some easy thoughts,

Holding compassion,

Compassion for what has come up in this time.

Have some feel.

Let's find an exhalation here please.

Let's take an inhale in and breathe it in in a way that feels really nourishing.

Full exhale.

I'd like you to honor yourself for being willing to sit in maybe one of your first or maybe revisiting the idea of Satya for the first time in a while,

Revisiting the work of truth.

I'd like to hold space for the lineage of yoga and all of the knowledge that it carries,

All the things we know and all of the things we don't.

I'd like to hold some recognition and space for you and your practice,

For you being interested to take care of yourself in this way,

These more mindful practices,

How supportive they can be for your overall well-being.

Thank you for your support and for sharing practice space with me.