Take some moments to adjust how you're sitting, so you're sitting in a posture that supports

the meditation.

So coming into stillness, and as a way of collecting the attention, we'll just take a few very

conscious, long deep breaths together.

Let's inhale deeply, a slow, deep full breath, filling the lungs, and a slow out breath.

So slow that you can actually feel the sensations of releasing.

And again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest, the lungs, and a slow out breath.

Letting go, letting go, and once again, inhaling deeply, you might even hold for a moment, feel

that fullness, and then a slow, gentle out breath, softening down the length of the body

as you release the breath.

Letting go, letting go.

Letting the breath resume in its natural rhythm.

See if you can relax with the inflow, relax with the outflow.

Noticing the quality of presence that arises just after a little bit of intentional practice.

Just sense yourself being here.

With a gentle kind of listening, let the attention come to the heart.

You might just drop the question in, what is my intention for being here this evening?

What really brings me?

Take your time just to feel that quality of sincerity or innocence that comes when we connect

with what really matters to us.

Feeling the heart, we chant together as community.

The simple mantra, ohm, this sound current of connectedness, if you'd like to let the

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