The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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We're going to begin our practice.

Just find your way of sitting or if you have another posture you're in, that's quite fine.

Any posture really that allows you to feel safe and present.

As we know, when we're stressed our hearts get tight and our body gets tight and we try

to control our life and this meditation guides us to relax the controlling.

To discover an open tender awareness that allows life to be just as it is.

The title is a kind and allowing presence.

So feel your posture, feel how you're sitting or whatever the posture is and feel from the

inside out the sensations of it.

For some people the image of a tree is really helpful.

The feel, the sense of groundedness, gravity, the weight on the surface and really rooting

into the earth, part of the earth, feel that stability, that support and also to sense

that rising up, sitting tall, feeling the space around you, the spaciousness that's

here that can hold little rises.

So with a sense of ease and alertness you might begin becoming aware of your breath.

We'll breathe together a bit extending the in breath now, inhaling deeply, filling

the chest and the lungs.

And then a slow out breath counting to five, releasing the breath slowly, letting go,

letting go.

And again an in breath counting to five, filling the chest and the lungs.

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