This meditation opens to the basic movement of the full body, the circular spiral wave. We will explore this movement through all of our joints and then in different pattern they will open up into a spontaneous free flow to enjoy this therapeutic and intrinsically creative spiral movement.
We will begin with feet hip distance apart, just shaking out the hands and as you are ready, begin to circle wrist to wrist, opening up the joints including your fingers, like you are circling and stroking the sky, let your whole body enjoy the rhythm, opening and slowly take one hand on top of the other and circle one wrist over the other and as you do this, you will start to feel a figurate being made, if you think about it too much, you might start to feel rhythmically challenged.
After you get used to the movement, touch the wrist together and then inhale, open the arms and circle your arms, moving the shoulder joint, liberating your range of motion, flowing in the opposite direction, letting your movements to be smooth and free, changing sides, enjoying the movement and changing directions. And now circle one arm in front of the other arm behind you, slowly, try the opposite direction and then circle it and let it flow, feel the momentum, it's so good for your brain patterns and slowly changing sides, and then draw your hand from the center, open your arms and circle the wrist back, freeing the chest, freeing the rib cage.
You will now feel the spiral through the body, open wrist, elbow, shoulder. Let every movement be a whole body movement and now draw this into your heart, giving the back and front, as if an exaggerated heart beat and then from here circle in any direction getting the side ribs open, we are connecting through your center, changing directions, exploring the opposite side.
And now connect the heart and the pelvis moving the circle down and circling through your hips in any direction and allow the whole body to respond, changing directions, enjoying the flow, let your hips be wide and then also explore smaller circles directed from the base of this line and take this down into your knees, changing directions, keeping the balance in both sides.
And now as you step forward, it will angulate the spine from the base, rippling up through the chest, rolling the shoulders back and feeling the wave rising up from the feet and pelvis stepping out, enjoying this wave and sea lion like movement, spine supple and free. Now if you find your spine doesn't move in this wave, that's why we are here.
Now root one foot down and circle the opposite leg while you are balancing and as you circle around, the knee will slowly come behind the other knee and then we will begin this spiral twisting from side to side. Let the arms flow, the knee comes one behind the other and then as you are ready, step out for the other side, circling through the hip joint, taking the knee behind, take opposite elbow and knee, the arms float up. Inhale, up, exhale, down and now bring your arms over head for the last part of this meditation before the free form. With the arms flow up in the figurate pattern downward and upward, you can move slowly by letting it flow. Now from this movement we are going to spiral out into your own free form expression.
So here you are opening the joints, circulating the synovial fluid, at the same time, allowing the energy to rise and let your body teach you from the inside where you need to open shift, change, circulate.
Now I maybe moving at times swiftly and you may want to move more subtlety, follow the changing dynamics of the full body. Let everything feel good, like an inner water massage and then as you are ready, slowly come back into the movement. If you like, you can return to the circles through the hands, Padma Mudra and then inhale, letting the arms open wide through Prana Mudra, feeling the freedom and circulation through every joint, through every cell of the body, exhale, bring your hands back to your heart.
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