The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Take a few moments if you'd like to maybe adjust how you're sitting.

So your posture supports meditation.

The guidelines for sitting meditation are simple in the sense that the posture upright

so that there's a quality of being tall, alert, and also relaxed, alert and relaxed.

Eyes are closed unless you'd prefer to have them open.

That's fine too.

There's no rules on it.

Both in the mind, quiets more easily with the eyes closed.

You might feel this life breath and feel it at your heart and bring a kind of inner listening

into your heart, sensing what mood is here.

Perhaps deepening that listening and sensing what brings you to meditation practice, what

your intention is.

This is really that exploration of what most matters to you.

What is it you want to cultivate in your own heart and presence?

It's feeling your sincerity and we open together as community with a simple chant.

The chanting kind of takes us beyond our cognitive mind and lets the heart really carry us.

You might bring the palms together, touching gently in front of the heart.

The mantra is Om, which is a universal sound current of connectedness.

We'll chant it three times.

So you might begin by inhaling really deeply, filling the chest and lungs.

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