Life is Full of Abundance

Wayendyer says that abundance is not something we acquire. It is something that we tune into. Welcome to our class today about tuning into abundance and noticing the fullness of life all around us. For today's class, you'll want to have two blocks nearby and find yourself in a comfortable seat. And gently bring your hands up to the heart in prayer, opening the three center fingers so that your pinky and your thumbs remain connect and the heels of the hands are together in Lotus Mudra. The Lotus Mudra is a Mudra of possibility of opening and in and of itself abundance.

You can pull that Mudra right to the heart as you sit up tall and close your eyes. You'll take a full, expansive, abundant deep breath in, and a complete exhale tuning in to the rhythm of your breath. And noticing noticing. And there's a mantra here that will repeat to ourselves life is full of lavish unfailing abundance. Life is full of lavish unfailing abundance.

Continue to breathe into this mantra noticing all the ways that life is full of lavish, unfailing abundance. One of the most beautiful ways to explore this mantra, this idea is to take a walk outside in nature. And no matter what time of year it is, watching the sunshine, flowers bloom, little sprouts coming through pavement, noticing that abundance is in our very nature, our birthright, of all living things. A few more deep breaths in here, settling into the intent the intent of noticing that life is full of unfailing lavish abundance. We start in this way noticing outside ourselves because sometimes it's a little bit easier to notice outside and soon we'll pull it inwards.

Bring the hands to the prayer and draw those hands to the heart. We'll take one last deep breath in here. And as you exhale bow into the heart. Gently release your hands and lift your head, let your eyes blink open if you had your legs crossed switch to the other side. So switch the cross of the legs.

And the next breath you take in will sweep your arms all the way up to the sky And the exhale will settle the hands right back into the heart into Lotus Mudra. Two more like that, you'll inhale arms sweep up. You can even look up if you like and exhale right on back. One more just like that. Good. Now, lotus from the heart blooms open up towards the sky as you breathe in.

As you exhale, the right hand comes down and the left arm will reach up and overhead for a big side body stretch. You can take a look up and underneath that arm if you'd like. One more breath in here. And rise all the way up, left arm reaches to the sky as you breathe in, and then sweep across the body so left hand comes to the right knee and your fingers come behind you into a twist. So your eyes are open now noticing what is around go, in your home, outside, traveling, wherever you might be, let your eyes blink open to a sense of comfort, of noticing all the ways in which you are provided for. Slowly come all the way back to center, let your arms stretch up to the sky, inhale.

And the left arm comes down, left hand comes down, right arm reaches up and overhead as you exhale. A couple breaths here. Now you're turned upwards towards the sky, towards the clouds to the sun, inhale lift all the way up, and exhale right hand slices across, touches the left knee as your left fingertips walk back into a twist. Good. Take a deep breath in allowing the crown of the head to lift a little bit taller.

And as you exhale twisting a little deeper. Good. Noticing the breath flow. Noticing the earth supporting you beneath you. And slowly unwind let your arms reach all the way back up to the sky as you breathe in. Lotus Mudra comes right back to the heart as you breathe out.

Release your hands, sweep your knees together, and start to make your way up onto your hands and your knees to tabletop position. Let the wrist be underneath the shoulders, and the knees be underneath the hips or even a little bit wider. And you'll take a deep breath in, let your heart reach forward and your sit bones reach up. And as you exhale scoop in and round the back, look up towards the naval. Moving through cat cow on your own breath here, Knowing that you can dial up the pace or slow it down, providing that you stay with the breath itself a few more just like this.

So nice. And if there's any other spinal movement here that you'd like to take, like, turning side to side or anything else that you desire or are called to. Big barrel rolls with the ribs that's invited as well. So good. And then you'll find yourself in a neutral spine. So the lowest ribs pull in, the shoulders are away from the ears, and you'll send your right foot back with the toes curled under pressing back through the heel. So, calf stretch here, pressing back, holding for a moment, breathing. And you'll shift forward. Let your right heel raise up in line with the right hip. Look over your left shoulder and step that right foot outside the mat, so you cross the body and you're looking over towards the right foot over your left shoulder.

Take a deep breath into the side body. Maybe that right hip swings out a little bit more. Good. And then take your right foot all the way up in line with the hip, turn your right toes all the way out to the right and step the right foot up in line with the left knee as you walk your hands in and rise up into gate pose. Your arms will extend out to the side as you breathe in. And as you breathe out, right hand slides down the right leg, left arm reaches up to the sky or up and overhead.

Rise all the way up arms stream upwards. You'll do this one more time with the possibility of turning the right toes upward to the sky. So on the right heel, toes turning upwards to the sky, right hand reaches down the leg as left arm reaches all the way up and overhead. And inhale rise all the way up, exhale release back down to the mat, resume your cat cow as a way of resetting and preparing for the other side. A neutral spine with your lowest ribs drawing in, let your left foot go back behind you pressing through the left heel.

So back to this calf stretch, and you can dial up the intensity or release the intensity you get to choose you in control. Shift yourself forward and lift that left heel in line with the left hip. Look over your right shoulder and step that left foot over to the outside of the mat so you're looking over your right shoulder towards the heel, the side body is stretching, and you can amplify that by letting that left hip swing to the left a little bit. And then inhale take it back up to center, swing the foot all the way to the outside, in line with your right knee and walk your hands up for gate posts. Arms reach out to the sides as you breathe in and pour yourself up and over the left leg as you breathe out.

Rise all the way up, and this time you have the choice of turning the toes upwards towards the sky, as you take your left hand back down onto the leg, right arm reaches all the way up and overhead. Few breaths here. Good. Rising all the way back up, bringing the hands back down to the ground. Bring the left knee back to a neutral tabletop position, and then you breathe in, bring your heart forward, as you breathe out, curl your toes under and shift yourself all the way up and back to downward facing dog. And that's our first downward facing dog, so you can spread the hands, feel into it, begin to pedal out through the heels, move through the head a bit. Good.

And you'll shift yourself forward into plank pose as you breathe in. And downward facing dog as you breathe out. A few more just like this. Good. When we bring our attention to noticing abundance, it is nothing short of rewiring the brain. Every time we notice the way that things are going well outside of us and within us, we're strengthening the neural pathways of an abundance mindset.

From your downward facing dog, take a long slow walk all the way up to a forward fold, Your feet can be about hip distance apart. Hold your elbows and rock a little side to side here. Release your hands and bend the knees slowly ascend all the way up to a standing position. Head will be the last thing to rise and when it does lift the shoulders up to the ears as you breathe in and release them back and down as you breathe out. Sweep your arms all the way up to the sky inhale grab your lotus Mudra at the top of a reminder as you bring it to the heart and exhale.

Inhale stretch your arms out and up. A forward fold as you exhale take yourself up and over yourself as you fold into uttanasana. Inhale at the heart lift and the gaze go slightly forward for our to uttanasana the half lift and step back to plank pose as you exhale. One big breath in here. Lower towards the earth as you exhale, you can always drop your knees on the way.

Inhale up into cobra. An exhale lower down. You can press to the knees or curl the toes under. And take plank to downward facing dog. Right leg rises up behind you as you inhale.

And exhale step the foot up and in between the hands. Keep your back heel lifted, crescent pose. Starting from the floor up, right toes forward, back heel lifted, heart shining upwards, arms up to the sky. If you love that lotus Moon, you could take it here too. Mhmm.

There's a balancing aspect to this. Right foot can walk a little bit further out to the right if you'd like, breathing deeply here, arriving in this pose crescent. Locating your two blocks, you'll take one to either side of your front foot. Hands can be on the blocks and you'll take a big step forward or a little step forward rather with your left foot into pirimid post, spinning the back heel down. So a slightly shorter stance than what you were doing before. The back heel down, inhale let your heart reach forward and up.

Draw the right hip back and fold in as you exhale. Can let the head come to release here. Feeling a big stretch through the back of the right leg. Shift yourself forward into the right foot, bend your left knee, take the left foot all the way back to where it was before, and you can continue to use these blocks or turn one on their turn one on its side. Place your left hand onto the block, right arm will start to raise.

As the right arm raises, your gaze starts to turn in that direction. So much about this class and about this idea is opening in all directions. So opening your eyes, noticing, noticing everything around you, notice the abundance that is persistently meeting you as you walk through life. Last few breaths. Right hand comes down to the block.

Left knee will lower down to the ground. You can continue to lose use your blocks here, breathing in, bringing your heart forward and up. And as you exhale, walk in hands or block back, right leg straightens as you fold over your right leg. Another nice hamstring stretch in Artahannu Minasana. You might take a breath in to reach and lengthen, and then exhale to fold right on over your leg.

And here we begin the ascent walking your blocks forward, stamping your right foot forward. Lifting your back knee up and taking a big hop leap into warrior three by bringing your blocks forward. That heel is in line with the hip once again. It can be on your fingertips, hands could be at the heart lifted, if you prefer. Yeah, the great leap into the unknown chest reaches forward, heart reaches forward, a breath in.

And forward fold as you breathe out. Left foot lands next to the right, you fold right on in. Inhale lift up halfway, breathe in, and exhale fold forward breathe out. Reach your arms out and up. Inhale. Lotus comes to the heart as you exhale.

Inhale sweep the arms up. Forward fold as you exhale. Half lift to breathe in, and fold in as you breathe out. Hands plants step back to plank pose, take the breath in, lower down as you breathe out. Cobra or upward dog if you'd like, if you're ready, and downward facing dog.

Left leg will rise up behind you as you breathe in. And as you exhale, step the foot up and in between the hands, stay on the ball of the back foot as you extend your arms up towards crescent pose. Notice you can walk the left foot out to the left so that you're standing more on train train tracks than a tight rope. You have more foundation and more spaciousness here. You're deepening your breath with a straight right leg and a bent left knee. So good.

And searching for the blocks, placing them on either side of the front foot, you'll take about us, one foot step forward with your right foot All of your toes are turned forward, both hip points are turned forward into pyramid pose, hands placed beneath the shoulders, breathe in and reach your heart forward, and fold in as you exhale. Head towards the knee, the left sit bone and left hip can wrap back just a bit more, and you are always invited to put a little bend into the front knee if it feels too intense for this moment. Shifting your attention forward, your gaze forward, bend into the left knee, step your right foot back, Bring your right hand onto the block or the floor so that the left hand can start to reach upwards to the sky. So again, taking the gaze in all directions to really take in the full extent of the world. The study of abundance is often compared to that of turning on a radio and tuning into a frequency.

In the book, abundant ever after, The author talks about abundance as something that we tune into. The left hand will start to come down to the block, right knee will come to the floor, coming up onto the highest points of the blocks lift your chest forward and fold over your left leg. Left sit bone reaches back, left foot is flexed, and you bow in. So if the radio is off, you don't hear anything. If you turn the radio on, you have choices of what you tune into. The antenna moving, the dial moving, changing what your focus is so that you can change what is surrounding you.

Right now, we're asking to tune in to the frequency of abundance. Stamp the left foot forward, curl the back toes under, take a nice optimistic gaze forward, walk your hands or blocks forward as you leap in to warrior three. The right leg lifts, the toes are turned down, little pulling in through the belly, and the the left leg can be bent or straight. You get to decide that. Last breath in, a forward fold as you exhale.

Half lift to breathe in touching the shins or the mat. And fold all the way in as you exhale. Sweep your arms out and up to the sky breathe in, and the hands float to the heart as you breathe out. So good. Take a seat on your mat, bringing the soles of the feet together and the knees wide.

You have a choice of how close you want the heels towards your pelvis You could have them nice and far away. You can snuggle them a little bit closer. And you can hold the feet, maybe a little pressure of the thumbs right into the center ball of the foot, and you'll breathe in leading the chest lift. And as you breathe out, you can slowly fold forward. The moment of surrender, the moment of letting go, head releases, you could even let the shoulder blades spread away from one another. If there's movement here, you can slowly start to move a little side to side.

And slowly start to rise up out of the forward fold, draw your knees together. And start to make your way onto your back. As you arrive on your back, you'll draw your knees up into your chest, giving them a squeeze and allowing the lower back to release onto the mat. Noticing the way that the mat and the floor meet your body as a way for you to release and soften into that. Take a deep breath in and let it go.

You'll allow your knees to separate away from one another and reach the feet upwards towards the ceiling for happy baby pose grabbing the outer edges of the feet and allowing the toes to turn out beyond the shoulders. In your happy baby pose, you have again this option of remaining instillness or gently rocking side to side. Allow the throat and the jaw to soften as well. Allow both knees to collapse back into your chest, squeezing them in imprinting the lower back, breathing in, and gently allowing the knees to move to the right as you breathe out. In this twist, the knees release.

They stack on top of one another, and your arms can open wide with the palms turning up. This mudra with the palms turning up often signifies the willingness to open, the willingness to receive. There's a little bit of softness in that. Right? Fingers are together, palms are soft, shoulders are relaxed, and your gaze goes right over to the left fingertips. And breathe here.

Gently draw your knees back up to center, taking a moment right back in the middle drawing your knees in releasing the lower back down onto the ground, a little softness through the head, neck and shoulders as well. And then the knees start to tip up and over to the left as you make your way into the twist. Stacking your knees and taking the gaze over to the right hand. Remember, both palms are turned up, gesture of receptivity, and the shoulders are soft. Everything releases here as if to say, I am, I'm ready to receive. I am noticing the world around me.

I am focused on what I want. Then gently draw your knees back up into your chest, hugging the knees in and in When you're ready, you can start to stretch your legs long on the mat. Hands can be by your sides or on your body. As you close your eyes and you start to release your attention. Even your attention on the breath, the breath can be natural.

So all attention can soften here, and along with the softening of your attention and your mind, the body softens as well. The shoulders release, and the hips settle, and everything lets go. As you drop into Shavasana. Begin to take a deeper breath in and a complete breath out. And gently begin to move your head side to side and move your fingers and your toes.

Allow your arms to stretch up and overhead. Bend your knees. Roll over to your side. And slowly when you're ready, make your way back up to your seat, the place where we started. You'll allow the hands to sweep to the heart into Lotus Mudra.

You can keep your eyes open or let them close as you deepen your breath. Our return to our intention in Mancha noticing that life is full of unfailing lavish abundance. As you lift up tall through the crown of the head, you can consider the spine like an antenna shifting forward and back and side to side tuning you into the radio station to the frequency of your choosing, the frequency of abundance. Last few breaths here. Press all of your fingers together into prayer.

You'll take a deep breath in and bow into the heart. Thank you for sharing your practice with me today.