Bharadvaja & Aims of Life

Hi. Welcome to practice. My name is Ashley. For today's class, have a blanket, a block, and a strap. Anything else you desire, but definitely those three items. And we're gonna start out just as you see me here now.

In Vadrasana thunderbolt pose. Now if you get to this place and your knees are saying, no. You can come sit with a block between your ankles and more of a supported hero's pose instead. And as you settle in, either close your eyes or if you prefer, find a point to softly focus on. And lovingly trace a pathway up the length of your body as you breathe in.

And with each exh, how ease the breath down your back away from your ears. And so we find this sort of circular pattern of the breath inhaling up front body and exhaling down back body. And while you trace this pathway, layer in an intention for the practice ahead. Why this now? Once you have that gathered, join your palms together at heart center to seal in your intention.

And if you'd like, you can join me in an opening home. Nice full breath in. Blink your eyes open if you've closed them. Return your hands to your thighs and then root into your shins in how stand up on the knees reach to the sky. Ex, I'll sit back, twist to the right.

Route down in how bring it back up. And if you discover it sitting back is not where it's at for the knees to upright with the twist. Route down in how back up. And continue side to side flowing at the pace of your breath. No rush.

So in our journey today, We'll learn a bit about the sage, Bharadwajah. Take one more round each side. And the next one you find yourself upright pause there. Take your hands to the back body and turn your palms to face the wall behind you. Smooth bum down, lift your heart.

And as you exhale shift bum towards the heels, fold ribs towards the thighs and turn and gaze to the left. Press down inhale, rise up, reach up. Xhale, hips back, hands back, fold in. And continue side to side at your own pace. And you may notice that I'm not bringing my head all the way to the ground for some of our bodies that may be a point we can meet and return from. From others, we pause somewhere in the in between.

Work with what works for you. Take one more each side. And then pause briefly upright and come sit back. Had to look at you. Press into the earth, inhale reach up to the sky once again. And as you exhale, lower your right hand down by your side, shift your hips a little to the left so that right hand can meet the earth, reach.

Revolve open through your chest. Maybe you turn the gaze just briefly skyward and then back forward. Bend your left elbow, bringing fingertips near opposite ear, and then bring your torso upright. Rest, right hand on your thigh and gently guide left ear toward your left shoulder. Take both hands to your thighs.

You may say here, if you're feeling enough resistance through the side of the neck, top of the shoulder, If you're looking for a little more resistance and it's a kindness to your body, reach out through the heel of your right hand. And then exhale hand to the thigh. Roll your head center. And then lift your heart. Press down in how take both arms up.

This time as you exhale lower your left hand down. Inhale get a little taller. Shift your hips a bit to the right. And reach. And if it feels alright in your neck, turn open through the chest and maybe you allow your gaze to follow skyward and then gaze straight on.

Bend the top elbow being fingers near opposite ear. Root down, bring yourself upright. Rest left hand on your thigh and then guide right ear toward your right shoulder. Release the hand. And again, if you're at your edge here, honor this edge. Otherwise, press out through the heel of your right hand, and by right, I mean, left.

And return left hand to your thigh, bring your head just to center, lift your heart, and then bring your chin parallel to the earth. Make your way to you don't have to make your way to your knees, but should forward onto your hands now. Plant hands under your shoulders, knees, under your hips, and stretch your left leg back, tuck toes under. Rock forward and back on the ball of the foot, offering a bit of relief to the knee joint that's been bent so long, and added bonus a stretch to the calf and your hamstrings. Set your knee down and do the same on the opposite side.

So Bharativajal was not born a sage, but a human like you and I. Right. And in his human days, set the back knee down, lift your heart one time, open the chest and then push the floor away, round it out. Return to a neutral spine, step it back to a plank and then lift your hips, press your thighs back to your downward facing dog. So through Barad vijay's first lifetime, he was very certain that, you know, his purpose in life, his dharma was to understand from every angle the Venus. Walk your hands back to meet your feet.

Once you're there, draw your chest forward elongate through your spine. Xhale, keep the length in the spine, bend the knees and walk it back forward to your plank. Press it immediately back to your down dog. Inhale lift your right leg. Xhale right knee to left elbow.

Inhale take it back and through and do it again. Right knee to left elbow. And inhale back and through. One more time, right knee to left elbow, pause, bring me center, and then step foot forward between your hands. If it doesn't quite make it there on its own, grab the foot help it the rest of the way.

Put back knee down, pat it if it's tender, and bring your strap in reaching distance. Press down, inhale, rise up, reach up, and then exhale bring your hands to your heart. Take your right forearm parallel to your thigh. Bring left arm out to the left. Rotate left arm internally, so palm faces the wall at your back, slip forearm along the back waist.

And if it's accessible without pain or strain, grab your opposite inner elbow. For many of us, there's a bit of gap in space there. So you can take your strap around the eye of your elbow, swing the tail end around to help make up that gap in space. Right? Take your tailbone down, lift your sternum, broaden your chest.

Slowly, guide the right hand forward to help open the left side of the chest. And there may be a subtle revolve of your torso to the left, a okay. And then come back to forward facing, release the bind. Set your strap to the side for now if you were using it. And press down in how reach up.

Xhile hips forward, hands down. Tuck your back toes under lift your knee, snap it to your plank, glide forward. Use knees if you'd like the added support, lower all the way to the mat. Brush your toes back. Pull back with your palm, shine your heart forward.

And then exhale right back to the earth. Tuck toes under walks him in, inhale to plank or hands and knees. Xhale hips up and back downward facing dog. Inhale lift left leg. Xhale knee to right elbow.

Inhale take it back and through. Twice more. So we're out of a jaw studies and studies, and if you're not familiar with the Vedas, this is a text that is very dense, bring me center, step foot forward between your hands. Put back knee down, help the foot the rest of the way if it didn't make it on its own. Uncurl your back toes, press down, inhale, rise up, reach up.

Exhale hands to your heart. Bring left forearm parallel to your thigh, reach right arm out to the right. Rotate right arm internally, so palm faces the wall at your back. Sleep forearm along the back waist. If the eye of the elbow is there, hold it with your hand, if it's not, give yourself more length of space to work with.

So even if it's in its English translation, it's very, very hard to understand. Usually needs a lot of guidance, a good teacher. Bring your naval back, lift your chest. And then this time, guide your left hand forward in an effort to open the right side of the chest a little more. And again, you can welcome a touch of the open twist to the right with your torso.

And exhale unwind free your left arm, set strap to the side And then shift forward, hands to the earth. Tuck your back toes under, lift your back knee, step yourself to plank, rock forward, lower all the way to the mat once again, brush your toes back. Pull back with the palms guide your heart forward and up. Brush your hands straight back. From shoulder socket, rotate arms until palms face down. And if you can hold the length in your low back and do so, reach back through your feet so much They come away from the earth. Shalabasana, Locust pose.

Acts, I'll put everything down. Turn your head to one side. Take a beat. Bend the knees. Sway your shin side to side.

Come back center, put your feet down, head center. Bring hands alongside your rib cage, tuck your toes under, walk them in. Again, inhale to plank or hands and knees, and exhale back to your downward facing dog. Once you reclaim the balance of your breath, on an inhale, come hide it to be told as you exhale deep bend to the knees, look to your hands and walk or hop your feet to meet them. Inhale fingertips in line with toes or hands lightly to your shins. What allows you lengthen the spine?

Acts, how fold and bend the knees if you're feeling strain through the back body. Press down, inhale, rise up reach up, maybe look up and exhale hands to your heart. Despite all the deep study, Baradwajah dies and comes back again second lifetime. Press down, inhale, rise up, reach up. Xhale fold.

Inhale lengthen. Bend the knees enough to get hands down, step to plank. Shift forward, lower halfway, pause, set all the way down, stretch your toes back, pull back with your palms, either sticking with the strengthening work of cobra, or if it serves your body, press through to upward facing dog. Axile hips, up and back downward facing dog. And I say despite all his efforts, he came back again, because part of this journey of life, if you believe in many different life cycles, means that once you've found purpose and a few other little chestnuts, you break the cycle of reincarnation.

In how high did tippy toe, deep bend to the knees, look to your hands. Step or hop your feet up to meet them. Inhale, press the thighs back, reach your heart forward, exhale and fold. Press down, inhale, rise up, reach up, maybe look up and exhale to your heart, adding on. Inhale again, lift.

Exhale fold. Inhale lengthen. Ben knees enough to get your hands down, step back to plank or float back to chaturanga. Either up dog cobra, back to down dog, or you can shift it straight back to your down dog. Again, the vinyasa is there to serve the purpose of balancing body and mind. Whatever you do thoughtfully is a vinyasa.

Inhale, lift your right leg. And as you exhale hug knee toward your nose, stack shoulders over your wrists, and try to step the foot between the hands, stack knee right on top of your ankle. Pivot your back heel down, heel to arch aligned. If the right hip wandered, scoop your right cheek under till front knee tracks with your second toe. Press down, windmill yourself up and open to vera badrasana two warrior two.

As you continue to draw the right cheek under, you press your left thigh back. If that caused the pit of the abdomen to spill forward, invite it back in. Leave legs as they are. Slowly turn your chest parallel to long end of the mat and open your arms. Rotate front arms so palm faces the sky, reverse your warrior, Viparita Vira badrasana.

Pour weight heavy to the ball of your front foot as you straighten your leg. Keep the front leg straight, bring your torso upright. Stay heavy in the ball of your front foot. Shift your hips back and reach. When you can't shift or reach anymore, bring your right arm behind you.

Bend your elbows, interlace your fingers and rest your thumbs at your sacrum. That last triangular shaped bone just above your tailbone. Send tailbone toward your back heel, coil your abdomen in as you reach your heart away from the navel. And now broaden your chest so much the elbows get a little closer. From here, explore straightening through the arms. In the amount you can manage without pain or strain.

You may have noticed my ribs poked out. Can you keep the open space of the heart as you absorb your front ribs? Keep the space you've created, open your arms out, taking right hand to the earth or a prop. Pick the option that allows you even length through both sides of your waist. For Utita Trikonasana extended triangle pose.

So coming back in the second lifetime, if I were a barad vajau, and I like to imagine him, you know, hitting up the staples or office depot, some place like this, buying a lot of highlighters. A lot of like different color markers and pens to redouble his efforts and study. I don't think any of this existed at that time, but go with me here. Press down in how stand yourself back up. Acts, I'll bend your right knee.

Cart real your hands to the mat. Find the ball of your back foot. Step it to your plank and choose your vinyasa. What do you need? Inhale, lift your left leg.

X, I'll need to nose, float shoulders over wrists, try to step the foot forward between your hands, pivot your back heel down, heel to arch aligned. And I failed to mention this on the first side, but if going heel to arch is putting a lot of pressure through your outer hip, or it feels unsteady in your body, try going more heel to heel this time. Bring your left cheek in and under you, press down and windmill yourself up and open to Vira badrasana two, warrior two. And again, as you bring your left cheek under you, straighten your back leg. Lift through the pit of your abdomen and then keeping your hips as they are, try to square your chest to the long end of your mat.

Invite your gaze lovingly over. Your right fingertips and by right. Of course, I mean left. It wouldn't be a class with me unless I made you really think about what side you were on at least once. Rotate front arm, so palm faces the sky.

Reverse your warrior. Pore weight heavy to the ball of your front foot straight and through your leg. Keep the front leg straight, bring your torso upright. Poor weight heavier to the ball of your front foot as you shift your hips back and reach. When you can't shift or reach anymore, bring the left hand behind you.

Bend your elbows and rest your thumbs at your sacrum right above your bum. Use the thumbs as a little reminder to direct your tailbone toward your back heel. Allow that direction to bring the belly in as you reach your heart away from the navel. From there, straighten the arms any amount you can manage without pain or strain. Absorb your front ribs as you breathe into the expanse of your chest.

And then holding on to the space you've created open your arms out. Send left fingertips to the earth or a prop, right fingertips to the sky. Bring shoulders out of your ears, and if it feels alright in your neck, turn and gaze toward your top hand. So despite the redoubled efforts, Baradwajah dies, comes back third lifetime. Press down in how stand up, exhale, rebend your front knee, cartwheel your hands to the mat.

Find the ball of your back foot, step to plank, and through whatever vinyasa you need, you desire in this moment. So third lifetime, we've already, in my mind, gone the route of extra things to help with the studying, but maybe it's just distractions from the world. So Barat vajra becomes very reclusive. And in some stories, they say he went and like, lived in a cave, right the foot of the mountains for a while, and people were, you know, what is he doing? This person with their face always in a book.

And walk your hands back to meet your feet. Once you're there, bring fingertips in line with your toes, draw your chest forward, elongate through your spine. From your abdomen, take your hands to your hips, broaden your chest, press down. Stand your body upright. Take a walk to the top of your mat.

Bring hands together at your heart center, sit heavy to your heels, bend your knees, and then circle your arms overhead, utkatasana, chair pose. Hold the chair, interlace your hands behind you, straighten through the arms, open your chest, and then fold ribs to your thigh, straighten your legs. If you feel a little stuck in your shoulders, grab your strap. Give yourself freedom of space. You deserve it. Me too.

Reach your heart forward elongate through your spine. Reach your hands back like we did for locust, and then exhale fold it right back in. Bend at your elbows, separate your hands and slide them to the mat. If you're using your strap, set it off to the side. Reach your heart forward once again, bend knees enough to plant your hands, either step to plank, float to Chaturanga, or through any other vinyasa that will steady your mind and help you balance your breath. We meet him once again on his deathbed third lifetime, but this time we have a special guest star, Shiba shows up.

Inhale lift your right leg, exhale knee to nose, float shoulders over wrists, step right foot forward between your hands. Pivot your back heel down, heel to heel, or wider for added stability. Guide your right hip back in in, press down and with an inhale, rise up, reach up. Briefly straighten your front leg. Interlace your hands behind you. This is becoming a thing.

Sneak your knuckles this time around to the left side of your waist as best you can manage. And now heavy in your back heel to firm and straighten the back leg, revenge your front knee. And you may notice the belly wants to spill forward. Keep drawing naval back so that the back waist moves a little bit more against your forearm. Press bottom tip of the shoulder blades up and in towards your chest and broaden the chest so much that maybe the left elbow starts to hide behind you a bit.

Revolve your chest ever so subtly to the right. And then, re straighten the leg, bring your knuckles center, sweep the arms up as you rebend the knee, exhale hands to the earth, find the ball of your back foot, step to your plank and through your vinyasa. So Baraphaja is excited when he sees Shiva there. He's like, I must have done it. I've made it to liberation and I get a personal escort from Shiva.

This is wow. Inhale, lift your left leg, exhale knee to nose, step foot forward, pivot your back heel down, heel to heel, or wider for more stability. Guide left hip back, hug it in, press down, inhale rise up. Reach up. Straight in through your front leg.

Interlace your hands behind you. Switch to the less natural grip opposite thumb on top. And if you haven't already, bend your elbows. Sneek your knuckles around to the left side of your waist. Notice already if that caused the pelvis to tip forward.

Can you bring your navel back? Stand heavy in your back heel as you sit into your front leg. Nice. Continue to draw the tailbone down so back waist moves against the hand, lift your chest. Broad in your collar bones so much so that maybe the right elbow starts to hide behind you a little more. Slowly revolve ever so subtly to the left, broaden your chest.

And then restrate in your leg. Bring your knuckles center. Separate your hands, and as you reach up, sit back in. X how hands to the earth find the ball of your back foot, step to plank and through your vinyasa. So Shiva quickly lets Barabhijan know you have not reached liberation. In fact, you've done nothing but study, study, study, study and there's more to life than that.

He reaches a hand out the window and grabs a pile of dirt and sets it on Buradevijaz nightstand and is like, your first lifetime amounts to this dirt. Heart breaking. Bring your knees to the earth, shift your feet out in front of you. Stretch your legs out long. From here, bring your hands back behind you.

And bend your knees. Place your feet on the ground about the distance of your front hip points. Now if your wrists are saying, or your shoulders are saying, try turning your hands away from the midline to help open the chest and relieve some of the stress on the wrists. Grip the earth lovingly with your fingertips and then lift your heart, broaden your chest, spinning your outer arms straight back. Press down through your heels, coil the pit of your abdomen in, smooth, bum towards the back of the knees as you lift your heart and open your chest for a reverse tabletop.

Hammond sat your bum back down, shut your legs out long. Bring your hands alongside your hips, root down through the tops of the thighs, through your sit bones, lift your heart, and draw your chin ever so slightly back and down. Taking a brief moment in Dandasana staff pose. You are welcome to stay facing just as you are. I'm going to turn my body towards you so you can have a little better look at what I'm up to here.

Okay. So from your dandasana, shift your feet over to the left. I like so. And take your left shin, see if you can cross it over the arch of your right foot. Now for many of us, we're only hanging out on the right cheek and the left cheek is hovering a little to a lot off of the ground. If this is your experience, grab a block, set it at any height you need underneath your right cheek. So the cheek that was just connected to the earth we're gonna give its support so that the opposite side can descend. And we're looking for the place where the pelvis feels level. So your hip points are parallel to the floor.

Alright. Once you have yourself stacked, cleanly, root down in how reach your arms up. And as you exhale twist to your right. Now, if you've stacked yourself so high, that now your hand doesn't touch the ground, We call in a recruit of a blanket for a moment here. I'm going to put my hand on a blanket.

If you have a second block nearby, you can use that as well. Live through your heart center broaden your chest. You may stay right here. You might reach that formally propped right hand out to the side, rotated internally. So palm faces the wall at your back slip your forearm along the back waist.

If the elbow is there, hold it. If you're like myself and you're like, elbow, where what? Oh, look, a strap. How convenient. Take the strap over the eye of the elbow like we did before. And use the strap to make up the gap in space.

Bring your navel back, back waist into the forearm, lift through your heart center and continue to broaden across your chest. Roll your outer right arm back and in to open the shoulder head, and then keeping the shape of the twist, turn your gaze forward. Lean your left ear toward your shoulder blade, welcoming length from behind your right ear, down the side of your neck, and into the top of the shoulder. So this is a variation of Barad vajasana. Version one. Take one more breath in here.

And as you exhale, roll your head center. Lift your chest, free the bound arm, and then unwind your torso. Yeah. I can't see you, but I feel inspired to say nicely done. I think that amazing things were probably happening on the other side of the screen.

We have one more side to go. Alright. So come forward. And then shift your feet this time over to the right and come sit. And we have differences between the two sides. So maybe on this side, you sit level. In I get a little bit closer to level here, but my right cheek is still off the ground. Before we go anywhere, take a moment to cross either the front of the shin or the top of the foot over the arch of the bottom. If you're sitting crooked, Come sad a prop underneath your left cheek.

So again, the cheek that was touching the earth, elevate it so that the opposite one can descend. And again, we're looking for that place where the front hit points are parallel to the floor. Alright. Route down in how sweep your arms up and as you exhale open twist to the left. Take your right hand to your left thigh, your left hand can rest on the earth or prop behind you. Pick the option that lets you keep even length through front and back body.

Now, again, you are more than welcome to stay right here, hands as they are. If you'd like to explore the bind on the second side, reach your left arm out to the left, rotated internally, so palm faces the wall at your back, and then slip your forearm along the back waist. And that slip of the forearm may have turned you a little bit more to the left. If the eye of the elbow is there without pain or strain, grab it. If it's not follow my lead. We use our strap to create a little bit more length, strap over the eye of the elbow, boop.

And then Crawl hand towards the strap till you meet a purposeful edge in your body, lift your chest. Wah, revolves. Lift through the heart center a little bit more, smooth open through the left collar bone and wrap your left arm back and in, like you're trying to hide it a little bit more behind you. Keeping the twist, turn your gaze forward. And now lean your right ear toward your right shoulder blade welcoming the length from behind the left ear, the side of the neck, into the top of the shoulder.

Every time I take this pose, I feel like I'm on the cover of a romance novel, waiting for my lava to come back. Invite it in if it works for you. Meanwhile, Baradwajah is still back in his house. Shiva reaches his hand out the window twice more, another pile of dirt, your second life. A third pile of dirt, your third life. It feels a little harsh, but he's making a point, right?

And slowly bring your head up. Turn it center. So chin is in line with the sternum, release the bind and on. Wind. Take your strap if you were using it and set it off to the side. And same thing.

If you're sitting on a block or a blanket, move it off to the side, stretch your legs long out in front of you returning to your dandasana. And if you get here this time and you find that you're sort of sitting back towards your tailbone or you're collapsing through your chest, Give yourself a little boost. Come sit on the folded edge of a blanket, giving yourself enough of a lift below your seat to tilt the pelvis subtly forward. Send the inner thighs down and press the ball of your big toe forward as you draw the pinky edge of your foot back. Bring your hands once again alongside your hips, root down through the back of the legs, your sit bones, lift your heart, broaden your chest and bring the chin slightly back and down.

So just another subtle palette cleanser here in staff posts. And then keeping the integrity of the shape, bring your hands forward, gather your right knee and bring it in. Open your right hip. And if you discover that your knee is quite a distance from the earth, you can take a prop and place it underneath the knee to avoid stressing the joint. If the left leg wandered, bring it back to Dandasana.

And then press down in how reach both arms up. Keep your arms up as you exhale revolve towards your straight leg. Inhale get taller still. And as you exhale, offer your heart to your toes. If the foot is there without pain or strain, hold the foot. Also, if you're like, I have it, but You're rounding really back.

Lift your heart, maybe keep hands at the sides of the leg instead. Choose kindness. So, Shiva again reminds him there is more to life than studying Even if this is your purpose, even if this is your highest calling, your dharma, there is more to life than studying. I'm gonna let you come back another lifetime and let's see what you do with it. Reach your heart forward, release the foot if you have it, slide your hands back.

Take hand to outer right thigh, bring the knee up, stretch your leg out long. Gather your left knee this time. Open your hip And again, if the knee is hovering a good distance from the earth, prop it. Spend in or right thigh down and reach forward through inner heel and ball of big toe as you draw the pinky edge of the foot back. Really clean flat.

Press down in, how rise up, reach up, keep your arms up as you revolve to the right. And how get a little taller as you exhale offer heart to your toes. Either hold the foot. Or keep hands at the sides of the leg. Pick the option that allows you to stretch without the strain.

So with his fourth lifetime, Barabhaja doesn't leave town. In my mind, he's now going to coffee shops to do his work, you know, like we do these days. And he catches the attention of the villagers in a different way. They've seen him in previous lifetimes like, who's that person with their nose in the book? But now because he's in the world, people are engaging with him. What are you studying? What are you focusing on so much over there?

Reach your heart forward. Slide your hands back. Take your hand to your outer thigh, support your leg, draw your knee up. Bin both knees. If you're sitting on props, move them out from underneath you, set them to the side. Alright.

And then come lie on your back and take a moment to check-in. The body may be ready. You can go straight to your shavasana. After a pose with two sides, my body, often wants the balancing of a hug of the knees to the chest, a happy baby pose. If there's any other symmetrical finishing posture that will offer you ease, indulge.

And the amazing thing is Bharat vijay found that as he started explaining what he was studying to others, he gained a greater depth of knowledge, a greater understanding. He became a teacher. And by the time he was on his deathbed for his fourth lifetime, he was there surrounded by his community. Set your feet down if you brought them up. Take any position in the legs that feels best on your lower back as we settle in for Shivasana.

Walk your shoulders underneath your chest, adding to the lift of your heart, and then spill your arms long by your sides. Either close your eyes or if you prefer, find a point to softly focus on as you soften the mask of your face. Shiva shows up again and is excited to see Barad Vajah surrounded by so many loved ones. Having moved beyond just the focus on what he felt to be his purpose to actually enjoying the effort. Finding a way to support himself without being a burden to others.

And the combination of this purpose, which we call dharma, The pleasure, comma, and the wealth and again, it doesn't mean you have to be rich to be liberated, but to be able to support yourself in a way that you are not a burden to others and to maybe be able to give back in some way. We call this Arta. These are the first three of the Purus Artas, the aims of life. The fourth and final once the other three have been met in equal measure is Moksha, liberation. So Shiva says to Barad Vajah, you got it.

And if you want it, you're now liberated from the cycle of birth, life, death, rebirth. And Barafajal does something extraordinary. Instead of taking liberation, he actually requests to come back again and again in his body in human form to continue teaching others about the vedas. And I love this story so much because it reminds me that sometimes in life I get so purpose driven that I forget the joy that brought me to my purpose in the first place. And we were put in these bodies to experience the world.

To find joy, to find contentment, to offer up experiences that reveal self. And we don't wanna lean so far into the pleasure that, we end up broke and a burden to others in our life. So again, you don't have to be rich to be liberated, but do be mindful of accumulating the wealth you need to not be a burden without being so blinded by greed that we lose our purpose. And we continue this dance until we find ourselves liberated free from the cycle of some Sara or free from the habitual patterns that are keeping us stuck through this lifetime. Allow yourself to be here in Shavasana as long as you'd like.

If you have purpose or pleasure to attend to maybe you invite a bit of movement now to your fingers, to your toes. Inhale, take your arms overhead, stretch through your body. And exhale, bend your knees. Roll thoughtfully to your side and maybe pause there a breath or two. In your own time, press the earth away.

And make your way to seated. Bring your hands together at heart center. And if there's any words or word you'd like to close your practice with, feel free to speak that into the universe. And in your own time, lift heart, bow your chin. Thank you for sharing your practice.

Have a beautiful rest of your day.