Follow Along Version - Minimal Instruction

Finding Center

6 – 9 Breaths   Left Right, Front Back, Up Down, Releasing into the central point between your feet.

A Moment of Gratitude

3 Breaths        One breath for Gratitude, one for intention, and one for connection (acceptance).

Wings of Here and There

3 Minutes       Reorient yourself into now, into embodied movement, and into embodied release.

Ancestral Whiskers

2 Minutes       Move from your center and feel the Land around you. Remember the beauty that was beheld by your ancestors.

Lifting the Ocean into the Sky

6 Repetitions Lift water from an ocean just below your knees to the clouds over your head, Follow the rain coming down the mountains, pausing at high meadows and valley lakes, then follow fast moving mountain rivers for thousands of miles until returning to the ocean.

If you feel like you need some extra cleansing, follow the rain down, along your skin to the ground. Bathing in the rain.

Expanding like the Sun

9 Breaths        Three breaths focused on embodiment, three on your breath muscles and timing, and three on self-expression, your relationship with the Sky, reflecting the Sun like the Ocean, or moving like Kelp in an Ocean of Wine.

Offer the Moon a Surprise

3 Repetitions each Side. Move gently but completely with your pelvis, ribs, and shoulder blades.

Elephant Bathes its Ears

9 Breaths        Focus moving slowly with imagined resistance. Imagine your big and floppy Elephant ears moving through water.

Stirring and Exploring Your Qi Ball

2 Minutes Each Way Stir the Contents of Your Cauldron. Play with momentum.

Standing like a Tree, Breathe Like a Baby

3 – 5 Minutes Find your Center, find stillness, become your breath.

Settle like Kelp in an Ocean of Wine

9 Breaths        Three breaths focused on embodiment, three on your breath muscles and timing, and three on self-expression, your relationship with the Sky, reflecting the Sun like the Ocean, or moving like Kelp in an Ocean of Wine.

Five Meditative Breaths

5 Breaths        Honor the Five Pillars in any order. Focus on only one if you feel that will help restore some Balance.

Closing - A Moment of Generosity

3 Repetitions             Extend all of your tendons and bones. Close your practice and your Meridians. Prepare for the normal world.