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