Take a few moments to fuel your sitting posture from the inside out, so you make whatever

subtle adjustments will help you to sit in a way that's upright, so the posture supports

the quality of being awake, balanced, and it is. We'll start together just with the simplicity

of breathing consciously, taking a very long and deep and full in breath, and then a slow

out breath, very consciously releasing and feeling the sensations of letting go, and again inhaling

deeply, and a slow out breath, letting go, letting go, and once again inhaling deeply, filling

the lungs, filling the chest, holding for a moment, holding, feeling that fullness, and again

very slowly releasing the breath, softening down the length of the body, letting go, letting

go, letting the breath resume in its natural rhythm, feeling that increased presence, that awareness

that's attending with the in breath, a kind of inflating, opening, receiving, with the out breath

that they're releasing, settling, relaxing outward, and with this more collected

attention, bringing a quality of listening to your heart, sensing the state of your heart

right now, physically, emotionally, and as you listen and feel that part of your being

just a sense, what is it that matters to you, what brings you here tonight?

What is your intention?

Thank you for listening for the most true or sincere intention.

We'll bring that caring of the heart to the chanting, the mantra is simply Om, that mantra or a sound

current of connectedness. We'd like to bring the palms together so that you can chant from a quality of

care, of tenderness. We'll do three, three chanting together of own beginning by inhaling deeply.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

And just to listen, sensing the space in the room, the sounds, the soft sounds that are right here.

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