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Right now just take note of what state of relaxation you're in.
What you've done so far.
Where has that put you?
Notice what your body feels like as it settles in and finds deeper and deeper comfort.
Notice how you're breathing.
Notice what content might be in your mind.
Recognize that on all those levels what's there isn't just random.
It's the result of what you did in the last couple minutes.
It's the result of what you did over the course of the evening,
The afternoon,
The day,
The last week.
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So much of what yoga is all about is starting to notice and maybe eventually work with subtlety.
Things that might ordinarily be easily overlooked or have that mundane character,
Seemingly mundane.
When really there's something kind of miraculous about all of it.
As mundane as something in your body or something in your life might seem,
It is quite miraculous that it's there at all and that it feels like something.
To me that's indicative of something like life or intelligence.
Maybe not in the exact same sense that an animal is alive and intelligent but not necessarily any less of an intelligence,
Just a different kind.
That's happening all day long in our bodies.
That's happening all day long in our entire environment.
It's all life.
And that's another thing at the core of yoga.
Starting to realize that life is everywhere and life is very worth studying.
It's kind of like a biology in a literal sense.
Study of life.
All of its instances.
So just notice how as you lie here,
Even though you're resting,
There's as much living happening inside of you and around you as ever.
Still so much intelligence expressing all these different varieties and types of intelligence.
So in a way,
What we'll do is we'll just kind of take a little bit of a break.
And in a way,
What we'll do in the next couple minutes is combine a couple different versions of that intelligence.
One of them being your mind and your attention.
And the other being your ability to sense your physical body.
And we'll see if we can employ that to get the body to be even more relaxed.
So take your attention to your toes.
Maybe even just right there in that moment when the attention went from wherever it was before and landed on your toes.
Something happened.
You could feel something,
Maybe even something almost physical,
Like something touched your toes.
Open communication with your toes.
Recognize your toes.
Move through that same process for the bottoms of your feet.
Opening communication.
Recognition.
Invitation.
Invite the bottoms of your feet to relax.
Getting better at that process.
We can go a little bit quicker.
Open communication.
Recognize.
And invite relaxation.
Do that for the tops of your feet now.
And your ankles.
Your lower legs.
Your knees.
Upper leg.
Hips and pelvis.
Your spine.
Your belly.
The contents of your abdomen.
Your ribcage and chest.
All the contents of the ribcage and chest.
Your spine and shoulders.
Your upper arms.
Elbows.
Your forearms.
Risks.
Your hands.
And your fingers.
As you move through that process with your face and all the features of the face,
See if you can detect a slackening or softening of the expression on your face.
And no matter how relaxed that expression becomes,
No matter how relaxed the whole body becomes,
If one were to open up your eyelids and look at your eyes,
There is still a knowing,
Watching,
Deep and wise awareness detectable in your gaze.
Now sense the body in its entirety.
Bottom to top.
Back to front.
Side to side.
The whole body is being communicated with,
Recognized and invited to relax as fully as it can.
As fully as it wants to.
Let the intelligence of resting and relaxing express itself in your physical tissues,
Bones,
Muscles,
Organs,
Skin.
And then also in the breath itself.
Let the intelligence of relaxation.
Stands alone.
Its own sovereign intelligence,
Intelligence of relaxation.
Let it influence your breath.
Let relaxation be a living thing inside of you.
In your body.
In your breathing.
And also in your mind.
Synergy of intelligences.
That of relaxation.
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What and where is the space that the sound filled?
Let's take a few deeper breaths.
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Slowly start to bring the body out of its restful.
Stillness.
Just gentle stretching and movement.
We just activating as much as we need to.
Finish this practice.
Get to our beds.
Release into full deep sleep.
So with that in mind,
You can start to make your way up.
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Bring the palms together.
Just take a moment to reflect on all that was your day.
Let's bring a close together with three arms together breath in.
Gently side all the way out inhaling for three.
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