Follow Along Version - Minimal Instruction
Finding Center
6 Breaths Three for refining center. Then three breaths for Releasing through your hips, knees, and ankles. Hang from above – directly over 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 Remember the beauty that was beheld by your ancestors. Assess the seasons, follow the topography.
Lifting the Ocean into the Clouds
6 Repetitions Become water from an ocean between your knees, to the clouds over your head, to the rain coming down the mountains, pausing at high meadow and valley lakes, fast moving mountain rivers, big plateau lakes, long snake like rivers for thousands of miles until returning to the ocean.
Inhale deeply and quickly as your reach upward. Sigh as your fingers fall like rain.
Expanding like the Sun
9 Breaths Three breaths focused on embodiment, three on your breathing muscles and timing, and three on self-expression - like Kelp in an Ocean, while watching the Sun on the water.
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. Reach into the Sky, following the Sun across the Sky.
Stirring and Exploring Your Qi Ball
9 Circles Each Way Stir the Contents of Your Cauldron. Play with momentum.
Dredging and Clearing
3 Breaths for each direction.
Standing like a Tree, Breathe Like a Baby
3 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 feeling into your Kelp’s rootedness in the Sea Floor or Land and feel grounded.
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.