Breathing With, II

12/28

It is you; you are the light around these familiar intimate things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Overview:
Arrive & Settle
Gather & Begin

Enter In: Deepening explorations from previous weeks
Settling into Ground & Heart > brief review of four breath forms that we explored in our first round of Breathing-Being With (11/23) > review of Lunar Hums (week 2, 11/9);
Two min with each of the following:
Lunar Hums
(open attention)
Wind Breath
(open attention)
Breathing With breath
(open attention)
Rest

Questions for Reflection & Reflexion: Breathing With
What am I breathing with right now?
Stream of consciousness writing-drawing-being

What is:
-- in grief,
-- in the midst,
-- in awakening,
-- in wonder,
-- in _____

Deepen: the next layer, and the next...
Begin with the Breathing With breath from above > allow to naturally guide you into unfolding as much/as little as is organic to this very moment > keep tuning into your body & desire as you unfold and then fold into return > let your body lead as you follow pace, asymmetry, qualities of unfold/fold/fold/unfold > find places of still point to pause along the way; Rest

POEM: Poem to Myself by Rob Soley

Poem to Myself

Sink down into the center of each flowering moment.

What if the moment does not flower?

Sink down into the center of the moment.

What if I can’t find the center?

Sink down into the moment.

What if the moment is gone?

Sink down.

What if I can’t sink down?

Then be still.

The moment will find you.

The center will surround you.

The flower will bloom within you.

—Rob Soley —

Questions for Reflection & Reflexion: Breathing With, II

What is breathing with me?
What is breathing me?
Stream of consciousness invitation to write-draw-move-be...can revisit the previous reflections/reflexions and/or be in open-ended discovery of what emerges in these questions.

Sharing: Thank you for all you offer into our shared space. Thank you for all the ways you beautifully receive and resonate with one another.

Closing & Moving into the week:
Stay tuned for email with options to schedule a 30 min call with Jeni;
POEM When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver (below).
Gratitude and Goodnight!

OL

Go for a walk (and/or other way of moving in natural landscapes): Breathe with the spaces between.

Allow the spaces to teach your breath and body: shapes of depth, of breadth, of being with, of possibility.

IL

Refer back to your responses to the Questions for Reflection & Reflexion above.

Enter your own depths. What is your body showing you right now? Sense - Listen - Follow

DL

Dear Friends,
We are in the threshold of a new solar year. Be in, breathe with, yourself in this potent space of in-between.

Offer the generosity of your attention to breathing-being:
Here I Am ~ Here We Are.

WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, "Stay awhile."
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
"and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine."

~ Mary Oliver

Thank you for your Presence here.

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