Sublime

I would like you to develop basic gentleness and kindness in yourselves as artists and in your audience, whoever they may be.

When you breathe in, the air enters your body and calms all the cells of your body. At the same time, each “cell” of your breathing becomes more peaceful and each “cell” of your mind also becomes more peaceful. The three are one and each one is all three. This is the key to meditation. Breathing brings the sweet joy of meditation to you. It is food

There is something simple about me, and the monastic practice allows me to be happily simple.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk

down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs

to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”

when someone sneezes, a leftover

from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.

And sometimes, when you spill lemons

from your grocery bag, someone else will help you

pick them up. Mostl

Welcoming Breath and Ask for More, in conjunction with Thank the Monkey and Worry Time.

I cue through starting with Tadasana and have my clients lift their internal arches while rooting through the triad in the feet. Then, begin yin breathing with an inhale up the insides of the legs, drawing the breath up the front of the spine to the top of the head, then exhaling down the SBL.

When I wake up in the morning, I give myself time to get acquainted with myself. I touch my shaven head to remind myself that I am a monastic practitioner and that I have another day to live in peace and harmony with myself. I massage my face, acknowledging my eyes and giving thanks to my eyes, acknowledging my nose and giving thanks to my nose, an