So you might close your eyes and as a way to begin just feel your body from the inside

out and notice your posture and notice if there's any way you'd like to subtly adjust

how you're sitting so that you're as awake and relaxed as possible so your body has a

quality of perhaps sitting tall so you have a sense of balance and also importantly

a sense of ease so you might even notice if there's some muscles that can soften a little

relax a little just as you're sitting here right now. We'll take a few very conscious

full breaths so let's inhale deeply, filling the lungs and then a slow out breath, slow

enough you can feel the sensations of releasing the breath and another full deep in breath

and then a slow out breath, feeling the sensations of letting go, letting go, letting go and

again breathing in, breathing in fully you might even hold the breath for a moment once

you're filled up and then a very slow out breath relaxing outward, softening down the

length of the body, letting go, letting go and in a natural way the breath will come back

into its own rhythm just feel a sense of ease so that as the breath comes in like a balloon

expanding you can just naturally open to receive it and as the breath goes out you can gently

sense that releasing, riding the breath with your awareness, sensing the increased

presence that's here just in these few moments of breathing consciously and bring that presence

if you will to the heart area so you can take some moments to reflect on what brings you here

just to reflect on what your intention is, your deepest intention for the evening

so you're listening and feeling into that aspiration that really has to do with your aspiration

for any given moment including this moment right here what really matters what matters most

about how you experience this moment sensing what you care about and we'll bring our voices

together chanting just expressing that caring in our community here our Sangha here if you'd like

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