A rather special relaxation/meditation inspired by an other-worldly experience I had when I meditated that morning. It will help reset you to a degree you might not be familiar with...

This was lifted from a particularly inspired Yoga Solutions Live Broadcast (5/1/21 if you would like to hear about my approach to discovering your true nature). This is the practice section that ANYONE can do. I offer a practice that directly brings you into a direct somatic experience of consciousness embodied... When I first developed this particular practice as part of my teacher training program in 2011, I gave it the name 'Mahapranayamasana' ... Those of you familiar with the meaning of these much-used sanskrit words will know why. :-)

This began with some practical advice around how to settle, and what followed was a soothing process of guiding attention to, and letting go into … the whole body breathing rhythms that occur between the space within, the ground beneath, and the space all around and above you.

Some details specific to students that you might find useful....
Followed by a guided meditationon the head and pelvis that will bring you close to the true nature of being in your centra/true self

A gentle guidance into the deeper waves of movement that we can experience when our mind and attention is soothed by the breath in relationship to contact.

Trusting the Earth and the Breath from the deepest parts of ourselves

I begin with inviting you to find some organic movement - whilst looking for more harmonious relationships within the body - followed by a deep relaxation that connects the hands and feet to the sacred spaces within you...

The 'city of jewels' is one of the descriptions of the Solar plexus chakra in old texts... In one of my own meditations, I discovered a whole universe of infinite resource available from this sacred space within my body - on this end-of-class relaxation, because the class was centred on the solar plexus, I shared my insights and 'downloads' with participants...

This one begins with a little practice - a very open twist to awaken the ribs and their natural movements of breathing and support, followed by a deep guided meditation (reclining) on the ribcage...

A sequential guidance of attention during relaxation to help bring you to the universal experience...

In the settling down part I make sure that you organise things so that no part of you is under duress (easily un-noticed when we relax in a habitual way), and then take you through to an embodied experience of what happens when you have 'gathered your bones together'

This one is an excellent guide to experience the space available within when the body 'comes back together' in a unified and harmonious way . The outcome is the potential to open to and connect to everything around from a deep place.