The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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You may take some moments to feel the movement of the breath and the area of the heart.

And let your attention be at the heart, a kind of listening attention.

Listening inwardly, since your deepest intention is for practicing right now, what is it your heart really longs for?

What is the quality of presence or heart or awareness that really would feel like home?

Connecting with your own sincerity, feeling with others practicing that shared intention that are moments of meditation might serve awakening

and ripple out and really touch others in our world in a healing way.

Be part of the healing.

You might gently bring the palms together at the heart and we open together collectively as community.

We chant the mantra Om, which is a sound current of connectedness, we'll ten at three times and begin by taking a nice full in breath.

Let yourself be aware of the breath and intentionally extending the breath.

So it's a long, slow in breath. You might even count to five.

And a matched, slow out breath, again counting to five.

Breathing in, counting to five.

Breathing out, counting to five.

And if you need to make it shorter longer, either way it's fine, just extend it beyond your normal breath, continuing this matched in breath and out breath.

As you breathe, you might sense if you're frowning and bring a very slight smile to the mouth.

Staying with the breath, sensing with the in breath that you can open to receive.

And in a cellular way, and with the out breath, let it go.

And then, just a quick, slow, slow, slow, even out breath.

Let's go to the breath, opening with the receiving, the in breath. Let it go with the out breath.

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