I want to invite you to find a comfortable seat.
Sit in such a way that you can root down through the sit bones as you lengthen through each vertebrae of the spine.
A slight downward tilt of the chin as the back of the neck lengthens and the crown lifts even higher.
Remember the energetic alignment that occurs when you sit with a tall posture.
See if you can detect the natural rhythm of your breath without shaping or changing it just yet.
Does it feel subtle?
Spacious?
Or do you notice some constriction,
Tightness?
Is there somewhere that you can soften into the body to invite in more space?
To let the breath move a little bit more freely,
Fluidly.
Ever so gently start to take control of the breath.
Start to breathe for your body.
But do so in such a way that you're pulling the breath in the smallest amount,
Slowest way you possibly can.
Breathing to expansion but not to a place where it feels like you're trying to force the air.
And as you breathe the air back out,
Doing so in the same way.
Exhaling the air ever so slowly until you're completely empty.
Repeat that a few more times.
With each cycle,
Slowing the breath down even more.
Can you let your attention and awareness be only on that,
Only on your breath?
The thoughts will come in and they'll try to pull that awareness away.
Each time you notice that,
Just bring it back to the breath.
As the breath gets slower and smoother and even more subtle,
Where can you detect and sense the breath now?
Can you feel it all the way into the fingertips?
Can you feel it up to the crown of the head?
Can you feel it in the soles of the feet?
Can you use the breath to explore the very edges of your being?
See where the breath takes you.
Where else can you sense it?
On the physical form,
Can you begin to detect the breath beyond the body?
And then keep moving that awareness further away.
Can you detect the breath six inches from the body?
That subtle pulsation as the breath moves in,
Expands beyond the physical form.
And then it moves back into the body.
Can you perceive the breath a foot away from the body?
Twelve inches all around above the crown,
In front of the heart,
Down below.
Can you detect the breath in the entire space that you're in right now?
Can you move the breath to the physical borders of the room that you're sitting in?
And can you keep moving beyond?
Keep expanding the awareness of your breath,
Infinitely.
There are no barriers.
There are no borders.
There are no boundaries except those that we perceive in our minds.
I invite you to stay with this practice for a while longer.
Play around with these edges of perception.
Use the breath to move beyond.
I'll see you again soon.
