The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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We open our sitting with a very simple reflection on intention.

You might ask your own heart, you know what is my deepest longing? What's my real intention for practicing, for meditation, for being here?

Listening inwardly to what feels most sincere in you right now.

Sincereity is a sign that you're more at home and your intention. What matters?

Awakening often starts at being awake and present in our bodies.

We'll scan down the body with awareness, mindfully waking up as we go.

You might begin with the area of the brow, just softening the eyes.

You might imagine a smile spreading through the eyes.

Let the brow be smooth.

You might sense that same slight smile at the mouth.

Let the inside of the mouth smile, relaxing the tongue right down to the root of the tongue.

Letting the tongue just spread through the lower jaw.

Feel the inside of the mouth awake, the gums, teeth, tongue.

You might be aware of sensation, space inside the mouth, allowing the shoulders to relax back and down some.

And since the awareness filling the shoulders, you might imagine a kind of dissolve in from ice to water, a melting inside the shoulder.

Inside the shoulders, ice to water, and then water to vapor.

See if you can sense the tingling and vibrating and aliveness inside the shoulders.

Letting go.

Let the hands rest in an easy and effortless way,

and the legs are touching each other.

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