Settling onto the earth marks the beginning of our connection to the wider world. Gravity binds us to the ground and invites us to release, to root, to relate. Through this, we sense an expanse of life beyond the narrow confines of our small bodies. We sense denseness, solidity, steadiness. We come to know the deep power of the world below.
And once our bodies become good friends with the earth - feeling held, swaddled, weighty and solid - we open our eyes to the sky above. The sky fills us with possibility, with lightness, with a yearning to reach out and up and beyond. The sky beckons us toward adventure into the world of action and connection. We reach, we expand, we explore.
Between these two primary elements - earth and sky - our lives flow. We come into relationship with gravity and with levity both. We enter into a joyful and lifelong conversation between the rock-solid steadiness of ground beneath and the transcendent freedom of the space above.
In this 22-minute practice, we hand ourselves over to the earth, softening and settling downward. And then we rise up and out into the spacious freedom of the sky. We breathe and move in gentle and organic forms, exploring the way we serve as a living bridge between what lies beneath and what soars above.
Earth. Sky. Down. Up. Inner. Outer. Through our explorations we cultivate an ever deepening sense of wholeness, including all of life into the sphere of experience. And wholeness, of course, is what allows us to finally feel at home in the world, in this breath, right here and right now.
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