Please come into stillness, closing your eyes, letting your attention go inward, and gathering

your attention, collecting in a very simple way, we'll breathe together and begin with

a very long deep in breath, so inhaling, and then let the out breath be slow, very slow,

so you can feel the sensations of releasing the breath, exhale, and again a deep full in breath,

breathe lungs, and a slow out breath, letting go, letting go, letting go, and again inhaling

deeply, filling the chest, filling the lungs, perhaps when you're filled with breath hold

for a moment, and when you hold you might even straighten the spine taller, let the shoulders

relax back and down, tuck the chin in slightly, and then slow out breath, letting go, letting

go, relaxing the breath outward, and then letting there be a natural rhythm resumed in the

breathing, but since the increased presence with the breath, so a natural breath relaxing as

the air comes in, and relaxing with the release, letting that relaxed attentiveness come

to the heart area, and just taking stock in a way, sensing whatever the state of your heart

is right now, noticing whatever mood or emotions are here, but there's a quality of openness

and sensitivity, our numbness, shut down, without any judgment, just noticing.

Continuing with this listening presence, what inquires to what your intention is for tonight,

what it is that most matters to you.

It's feeling in a sincere way what your heart cares about.

It's from this place of sincerity and caring that we bring our voices together, chanting.

If you'd like to bring the palms together, just to center at the heart, feel that sense of dedication.

Please do. We'll chant OM, the sound current of connectedness, belonging.

Chant three times. Please inhale deeply.

Chant three times.

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