The energies of Arrive. The energies of Centre. There's a guided meditation here for you too as you wish.
Arriving and centring into the contours of our physical form.
Centring into the essence of the deepest inner truths we hold.
Arriving and Centring is a practise I experienced with one of my long time yin yoga teachers, Sarah Lo. A useful way to expand our feelings of body. How we experience sitting, in physical form, within an entire cosmology - which can seem so very peculiar or abstract when we have not had direct experience of this sense of connection. This enduring vastness.
It resides within each one of us. Without exception.
We arrive into the landscape of body.
We centre into the inner beingness - perhaps we could call this grounding in our Buddha self. Or tapping into the well of sustenance within. Our inner power. It whispers and willows much further than the constraints of body.
Given life comes with inevitable suffering, this is one of the four noble truths from Buddha, we need practises that help us repeatedly go beyond the illusion that we are just body, flesh and bones.
Anatomist Gil Hedley calls people who choose to explore the inner world this - somanauts.
We crack open the layers of body, flesh and bones as deeply sacred tools to discovery.
We become brave adventurers and travellers.
Life is about balance of course. So we travel in, we travel out. An never-ending spiral of travelling and unravelling. The infinite flight of the bee - who flies in figure 8.
In modernity, our feeling of body may have been over-ridden, ridiculed, defiled. We over-identify with it and it can become maddening, restrictive.
Instead we learn to listen. Listening is an art.
We must anchor our practises in the feeling of body. We tend and befriend and indeed become true and honest collaborators with our flesh and bone.
Our mobility is our nobility. Dextrous in mind and body and learning to fly in our dreams.
When movement is hindered - we humbly remember the feeling of freedom. The imaginal realm has no limits. Go there more often. In an intentional way.
What is it to practise again and again - arriving and centring?
It’s nuanced. It’s ever changing - meaning it also has the capacity to help us continually grow and evolve. Especially when we land in those stagnant, despondent, murky feelings of stuckness.
We live from the star bursts. The quantum leaps.
The liminal.
The hum of the hive
We tap into the inner beingness, to swirl the congruent energies again within.
To remember.
We intend and then we attend.
Then pay attention to what magic might unfold.
Intention and attention.
I do hope you enjoy this 15 minute guided meditation and journey into your within.
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You can be sitting in a chair, seated on the floor, lying on your bed, sofa. Experiment with what feels resonant.
Find what works for you and let the words, voice, tone and intention flood your being.
In warmth,
Ciara