Hello and if it sounds like I'm talking a little

where every day we are getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Muscarra.

And if it sounds like I'm talking a little quieter than usual

that's only because I am at a new Airbnb in Philadelphia and it is close to one in the morning and I don't know

how thin the walls are and I don't want to wake anyone up. So I'm talking very, very quietly.

In today's episode I am going to introduce you to walking meditation. More to come meditation.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's tune in with the sound of the bells. Okay, so, walking meditation. Did you know that you could walk and meditate at the same time?

Well, you can.

In fact, in the traditional meditation texts,

there are four particular postures that are often described as postures you can meditate

in. One is sitting, one is standing, one is lying down, and one is walking.

And in fact, if you go to any sort of retreat,

a meditation specific retreat, where all day long you're meditating.

Well, a lot of people think that means just meditating, sitting down for 10 hours straight,

and that's not the case.

That would be extremely intense and

impossible for almost anyone. Usually what's going on in those retreat

settings is you're alternating between sitting meditation and walking

meditation. Walking meditation is a great way to continue your practice,

of presence, focus, awareness, while moving your body and not being

confined to sometimes the rigidity of sitting still for a very long period of time, which can create a lot of

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