Yesterday the theme was concentration and healing. As always we begin from where we are. We awaken breath with heart, awaken breath with attention. We yoke breath and attention in the geography of the body. We move attention and breath through the body. We map the body by its movement and guided breath. Yes, the breath guides us. Sometimes the journey requires more effort and sometimes less. Sometimes we journey uphill and sometimes down. The journey moves toward wholeness, and that wholeness is a healing. To bring your full attention to this journey is to practice concentration. Our practice is a steady, undistressed persistence.

We awaken lymphatic lines. We move in three planes between earth and sky, between east and west, north and south. We use breath to explore the regions, ntermally and externally.

Our culture emphasizes the external, the visible, commodities of the world. Our practice, however, includes internal and invisible areas. We turn attention inward. We observe with breath. We illuminate the inner landscape with breath. The neurologists use the word “proprioception” to mean the awareness of the body in its parts, in their relation to each other, in relation to gravity. There is more, too, than body parts in relation to each other. There comes awareness of density, of expansion, contraction and dilation, of pain and ease, of resistance and unlocked effortless effort.

As we observe we map the landscape of our body, we concentrate with breath, we find the wholeness and discover healing transformation.

And as we make this journey, we come to greater wholeness.