Renounce and Rejoice

Hello, and welcome. This will be a guided meditation and relaxation with a focus on impermanence and also non grasping as its antidote. The last closure is called Abi Nivesha translated to the fear of death, which is one that makes most logical sense to most of us. But not when it can breed the host of worries and anxieties that come along with it when we're just trying to protect ourselves when we're not in in danger. The stresses, the worries, the anxieties, all of it come from this self protection.

When, the yogic teachings tell us there is really there is no certainty. And so becoming comfortable with uncertainty or letting go, can be very uncomfortable. So, that's why we have our tendency, to hold on to even things and to people and to hoard. Many of us are hoarders I can speak for myself of, having and not getting rid of things that I've had for way too long, for fear of, insecurity. And the insecurity that comes from we're not enough or we're not gonna have enough.

So the yogis always do the opposite and practice and non hoarding and letting go of the fruits of our actions. So it's not only for selfish reasons, but we do everything then to, again, experience our unity with all of life. So a wonderful meditation and relaxation technique was devised thousands of years ago called yoga, Nidra, and it's accredited to yogi Nidra, a yogini, way back in the Vedas. But, it takes place lying down on your back or however, it's comfortable. Then little by little moving up the body and squeezing and releasing the different body parts so that we can allow all the stresses from our body to dissolve and be in a state of deep relaxation between worlds.

Kind of exploring and releasing our fears around what happens when we are not in a state of action all the time and awareness. So let's go ahead and get started. Lie down on your back on your way, grab pillows, grab blankets, making sure that you're really comfortable. This meditation is usually done for twenty minutes. Today it'll be for around five.

And I hope During the week, you'll be able to have time to practice it longer if you can. But once you're settled, allow the body to become comfortable, again, giving it what it needs, blankets, pillows. As you begin to lie down, we just worked with our senses in the last meditation. So, again, it's beginning to draw inward way from the physical, as you tune into the breath, and then we're gonna move through the body, tensing and releasing every part of the body until it comes into a deep state of relaxation. Many time that's done for twenty minutes, so I hope you take this practice and maybe practice it for twenty minutes, in a different time.

Today, we'll be practicing it for around five minutes in total. So as you continue to lie down and feel your body on earth, the gravity that pulls you down to its connection to the material world into your body, you can begin to find your breath. And sometimes I like to feel like I'm breathing through the soles of my feet using it as a body scan all the way to the crown of the head and then allow it to wash all the way through the head, through the torso, through the pelvis and legs, and out through the toes of like waves versus washing through the body where you can even scan and see where you're particularly holding. And then see if as we go through the meditation, you can release. I mean, if you have an eye pillow or if it's bright where you are and you have a scarf or something to lay over your eyes, it can be nice.

To bathe yourself in darkness. So we'll start with the feet. You can begin to squeeze the feet, the ankles, tense the toes, even lift them up for. A moment holding the breath even in that moment of retention. And then exhale to let go. Feeling the feet relaxed.

Every toe. And then you can begin to move a little bit further up the legs, move towards the knees and the thighs and begin to contract that lifting the thighs, lifting the legs. Tensing them for a moment holding, holding, holding, holding, holding. And then exhale to release, even letting out a little sigh. Sometimes it's nice to release tension from the body.

Then you can move up into your buttocks area and even your whole pelvis and see if you can squeeze and contract the pelvic floor, the buttocks, tensing them up. Holding for a moment. And then exhale to release. I'm feeling a nice release of energy in the pelvic area that's our root and sacral chakra with the water, this. And then moving up towards the naval.

You can begin to tense the naval. And your lower abdomen, squeezing the belly tight. A lot of us hold, a lot of tension there in our guts, in our bellies, squeezing, and then releasing, allowing the breath to circulate, prana, drug digestion, deep breaths in and out of the belly, regulating our emotional system. And then moving up into the heart, a little higher up towards the solar plexus and your arms and your shoulders, and you can squeeze everything tight. Holding everything in.

And then exhale and release. I need a little bit more awareness in there. You can lift the you can press back into the head and slide the shoulders down and away from the ears at shoulder blades even hug around the back body, and the chest and the lungs and the arms can all release like rivers where that Anahata flows. Down through the hands where we can offer ourselves back out. Okay.

Couple moments there. And then moving up towards your face, your throat, squeeze your face, and all of those organs of the senses, the eyes, the nose, the ears, lifting the face squishing it really tight. You can even lift the head. And then mindful of your head begin to release it, softening, the eyes and the face and your beautiful features, my ears, can hold so much in our face in between the eyebrows, allowing the eyes to melt back towards the temple skins, releasing the face, the jaw where we can all hold so much. Your mouth and your tongue, the forehead and the brows, the skull.

I even like to have an energetic squeezing of the brain where we hold so much stress. And then exhale allow it to be flooded with blood and energy. I'm gonna commit to lying here for about five minutes. Owing the body to completely relax, coming into the breath, to where you're somewhere between worlds, not necessarily leaving the physical plane. And Nikita talks a lot about inaction in action.

And as we travel through the different layers of the body, there's the bliss body. Nanda. It's always at the core. You can definitely allow yourself to drift off if you drift off. Pasking in who you are beyond the physical.

Nikita says yogi becomes rooted there shaken, unshaken, even in the midst of sorrow. And then you wanna gently begin to make your breathing a little bit more aware, keeping your body completely still. I'm getting to know this expression of yourself. Identifying with it a little bit more than your external roles. Massolff, that knows it's unity with all of creation.

And then make the breath a little bit more audible, a little bit more aware, more conscious. So all of our actions, reactions can become more conscious, all the words that we say from this space. The piece. Then move your fingers and toes and come back into your individual form without losing connection with the universal. You begin to bend one knee into your chest and the other one hugging your knees in towards your chest.

Holding our life, dear, of course, but without it leading to so much of our neurosis. Roll over onto your right sides for a moment. And then rise back up to sit, finding your seated meditation. And sitting up nice and tall and as an instrument since it's the harmonium. But our very lives can be harmoniums from this inner piece we can experience more external harmony with the world around us and really live in a way that breeds more happiness and freedom, liberation to all beings as we realize our liberation is intertwined with the liberations of everything and everyone.

So we're gonna end with the mantra, which means may all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts, the actions and the words of my own very life contribute to this happiness and this freedom. So please sing along with me. Maybe you'll chant it internally or whisper it the first time, but then We wanna allow the whole universe to be wrapped in this cosmic hug. So we offer our blessings, our prayers, not only for ourselves, as a pari Graha is. Our generous spirit Living our lives to benefit others.

No. Fun two. Together, just jump in whenever. To hi. Suki no, ma'am, to feel free to harmonize using your unique voice.

On to Chantoo, Chantee, shantee, shantee, shantee, shantee, shantee, shantee, shantee, entire practice by bowing down to one another with great reverence. To all of these practices that are healing salves. Thank you, everyone, and I'll see you soon.