Episode Details

In this meditation, I guide you back to the foundational form of the practice.

This is a good place to begin if you are new, and a good place to return to whenever you feel the need to renew your practice. Each time we come back to the form, we gently re-establish our intention to live with awareness, presence and steadiness in the world.

We begin by settling into posture, allowing the spine to lengthen and the body to soften. From there, awareness moves naturally to the rhythm of the breath, the first act of life, always present, always available.

Through simple imagery and attention, you are invited to release tension, breathe with ease, and rest more fully into the body. As the practice deepens, we are reminded that we are more than the body, more than our thoughts and emotions.

Returning again to the centre of awareness, we rest in stillness, in presence, and in the quiet recognition of being.

This meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, helping you return to the foundations of breath, awareness and inner steadiness.

00:00 – Introduction

00:08 – A place to begin and begin again

00:21 – Renewing intention

01:18 – Ritual gesture

01:48 – Settling into posture

01:58 – Lengthening the spine

02:11 – The thread at the crown

02:28 – Relaxing the body

02:48 – Awareness of the breath

03:08 – The first act of life

03:38 – Breathing out tension

03:48 – Breath as vapour

04:18 – Breathing in life

04:33 – Breathing through the whole body

04:48 – Deepening relaxation

05:03 – Calm in the body

05:24 – The spine uncurled

06:00 – I have a body

06:48 – Sitting with thoughts

07:48 – I am more than thoughts and emotions

08:22 – The still point of the breath

08:58 – I am I

09:38 – Grounding in the body

10:19 – Closing bell

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