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MEDITATION
the vitality in your pelvic floor. Feel the connection to the Earth.
2. From this foundation,
notice flowers sprout
from the soil with joy,
ease and openness.
Notice the colours
and fragrances. Fill
your sacrum with this
fresh vitality, joy and
ease.
3. Watch this vital energy
rise above the tops of
the flowers, through
your solar plexus, so
that you see within
you the trunks of trees,
their strength, their vibrant, green leaves
and how they rustle in
the wind. Allow the solar plexus to feel fresh,
alive
and
vibrant
while maintaining your
sense of rootedness in
the Earth.
4. Notice the tops of the
trees, how they dance
into the sky. Feel the
freedom of the sky
through your heart,
the light, the expanse,
the possibility. Feel this
through your heart

with joy, ease and
delight.
5. Above the sky is the
dark night, where stars
shine. In the twinkle of
their light, there is wisdom, an eternal truth,
beyond
the
ego/
mind. Feel this light
amidst the dark, starry
dance like timeless
wisdom through your
throat area. Feel the
effortless
expansion
there and simply be.
6. Still rooted in the thick,
moist soil through your
pelvic floor, notice
above the stars, in
their blackened sky,
the realm of permanent light, not subject
to the changes of day
and night, but that
simply is. This field of
pure
consciousness
flows through all. Feel
this light open your
mind through the third
eye area in the centre
of your head, where
thoughts dissolve into
expansive beingness.
Be with this light of
possibility.

7. While anchored in the
thick, vibrant Earth,
notice the top of your
head, your crown area
and how, through it all,
is oneness, interconnection. Be with this
oneness for sometime,
while being aware of
your seat. Stay in your
body.
8. In this fullness, watch
your whole body/
being be the entire
universe, everything
that is. You are the
world. Your body is
like a mountain, still,
vast, eternal, rooted
in the soil and open to
the heavens. Feel the
timelessness of your
being in the perfection of the now. Allow
every cell to resonate
in the eternal truths
of your infinite being.
Rest in the fullness of
who you are.
After some time,
movement slowly
to your body. Take
long breaths and
your eyes.

bring
back
a few
open

Parvati Devi is a yoga and meditation teacher with a In Lama Jetsun
Dawn Mauricio is the editor-in-chief of Parvati Magazine. playful, dynamic,
Catherine Rathbun received her traditional teaching name,addition to
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and centred internationally acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter, smilYeshe, from Ven. Karma Thinleyknown for herlineage master of the Sakya
ing and performer, are Tibetan Buddhism, in motivating. Drawing from her
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Kagyu traditions of a yoga teacher and holistic educator. Having
studied yoga and meditation is the founding teacher at Friends baldeep experience in yoga and meditation, she delivers an effective own
York University (1989 to 1997) and since 1987, Parvati developed her of the
yoga teaching style called YEMTM Yoga a Energy Medicine. Her beance a meditation centre in Toronto. With as reflection. Dawn firmly— she
Heart,of clear, precise instruction and mental background in dance current
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