So please close your eyes if you'd like. Let your attention go inward. And sense that you

can make yourself at home right in this moment. Just relax with your experience and notice what's happening.

You might find that it helps to collect your attention if you take a few very conscious long deep breaths.

So together let's inhale deeply and exhale slowly. Again inhale deeply fill the lungs.

And a gentle exhale slowly releasing the breath. And again inhale deeply filling the lungs. Hold for a moment.

And exhale letting the breath out, releasing, relaxing. So as the breath continues in its natural cycles, sense the possibility of relaxing even more.

Relaxing as the breath comes in is like a balloon filling with air just relaxing open. And with the out breath letting go, letting go.

Let your senses be awake so that you're aware of the sounds around you. They're very receptive.

Listening to the sounds in the room and listening to the sounds and sensations and feelings inside you.

Listening to your heart. Just be aware of the state of your heart right now. Open or close, speedy, anxious, easy, peaceful, numb, vulnerable.

Without any judgment, just notice how it is right now.

As you listen even more closely, listen for what your sincerity of intention is right now. What you wish for tonight. What matters to you?

Let it be a mental whisper, a prayer.

And we're experiencing your immediate intention and our shared intention for waking up, for having this awakening of heart and mind ripple out and be of benefit to all beings everywhere.

And with that sincerity we chant together if you'd like to bring the palms letting them touch very lightly at the heart area in front of you in prayer pose.

Just stay connected with your heart, with your intention. We'll chant the mantra, own, the sound current of connectedness, of belonging, of oneness. We'll chant it three times. Please inhale deeply.

Lowering your hands and sensing your sitting posture from the inside out so that if it makes sense to very subtly and gently and gradually adjust.

So you're sitting in a way that is tall, allows you to have a quality of alertness, supports alertness.

Sitting in a way that's balanced so you might even lean a little forward, a little backwards, a little to one side, and then the other.

And then find that centered, balanced posture letting everything relax around the tallness of the spine, the shoulders relax back and down, arms the hand soft.

It's softening the belly so you can feel the breath being received deep in the torso.

An image that supports a kind of inner receptivity and openness is that of a smile. You might imagine the great blue sky filled with the curve of a smile.

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