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Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan - from retreat (2016-05-07)

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 May 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan - (2016-05-07) - from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness.

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:07.7

To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.

0:30.0

As part of arriving, you might censure intention, your aspiration towards presence, towards

0:56.7

awake awareness, open-hearted awareness.

1:06.7

And as a way of perhaps collecting and gathering the attention, extending the in-breath and

1:23.4

the out-breath.

1:24.4

Just taking a few long deep breaths, inhaling and filling the lungs.

1:32.4

And then that slow out breath where you can feel the sensations as they leave the nostrils

1:43.5

relaxing outward.

1:47.4

And again, inhaling deeply fully.

1:50.5

And a slow out breath letting go, letting go.

2:05.9

Once again, inhaling deeply, exhaling slowly.

2:22.9

And then as the breath comes back to its natural rhythm, just feeling the possibility of

2:28.7

relaxing with the inflow and the outflow of the breath.

2:59.7

Taking some moments to scan through the body and sense what might want to let go a little.

3:08.7

Soften.

3:09.7

Be more at ease.

3:24.7

You might soften the eyes and areas around the eyes.

3:31.7

Let the brow be smooth.

3:42.7

Unhinging the jaw.

3:45.7

Just relaxing down to the root of the tongue.

3:51.7

Feeling the mouth from the inside out, the sensations that are there.

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