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✨ The Lung and Large Intestine Meditation & The Anchoring of Breath✨ We begin by placing our hands on our ovaries to ground the lower body as we activate the Golden Light into Ren 15; the DoveTail point. This point, JiuWei, is the front mu point of the diaphragm, so it controls the grounding of the breath and the dispersing energy through the abdomen; in many ways this could be considered the front mu point of the whole solar plexus. Technically it is the front mu point of “the space beneath the heart“ - but in general acupuncture texts which don’t understand the full energetic and embryological nature of the meridian system, this is usually seen to be “the diaphragm”. According to Deadman “this point regulates the Heart, calms the Spirit, descends the Lung Qi, and unbinds the chest”. This first part of the lung meditation where we are drawing ourselves in; inspiration, inhalation, of Self. We are beginning to explore ourselves deeper, experience ourselves deeper, with the sensation moving through our body, purifying our cells and sensitivity ever deeper and deeper, through the Soul, through the breath. As we draw in our breath, we realise there is no “end” to being “embodied”. We are ever deepening through our Seed/Seat of Self. Drawing in through this Earthed experience, into our embodiment of our cells, of our Being, because there is always more of ourselves to be explored and discovered. This part of ourselves which is cosmic, Divine, and never ending is the light we are drawing in through the breath. This grounding of breath and this journey of Self which we are exploring through this vessel of our Earth, our Spleen, our cells, is what we are inhaling during the Lung meditation, and what requires courage to “let go” into, and what unbinds us from the past, from old versions of Self; revealing always new pathways and new realities, so that we are constantly healing, updating, renewing and re-learning experiences we have had, and letting go, transmuting, experience the new and real truth of the Universe, and ever journeying as we continue to come to know ourselves. Drawing in the breath through this important point, Ren 15, we are calling on the pleasure practice of the spleen to animate the vaginal canal and hips, allowing us to pull pleasure down into the base of the body; filling it with sensation and light, just like in the spleen pelvic practice. We are pulling and anchoring our self down through the only muscle which is strong enough to give birth to new life, so it is also the only muscle strong enough to anchor our soul fully into the human form; the uterus and pelvic walls. We are also calling on the strongest force of conception and new life; desire. Desire to experience new elements of self, of this golden light, which is pulled into the base of the body; filling of the hips, the lips, the labia, the clitoris, the pleasure and the power of the ovaries. We are filling up the body with our pleasure and spiritual activation, drawing this in through the power of purity and spiritual desire to experience ourselves as fully orgasmic, sensational, and alive.

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✨ The Lung and Large Intestine Meditation & The Anchoring of Breath✨ From here, we are now anchoring down so strongly that this power begins to overflow from the ovaries, like waterwheels or looms which weave, we allow this golden energy of self to fill up the large intestines and into the kidneys; anchoring the breath into the lower body. Here there are secrets to be understood about the lung; the lung & metal governs fluid distribution, and the yang partner of the lung is the large intestine, so as we allow this inspiration and inhalation to fill us up from below, we can feel that this golden breath is moving through the large intestine (which regulates fluid in the bowels) and then through the kidneys - anchoring them down, and moving energy through them. Therefore, this Lung breath of light and animation is helping to move, activate, and clear the water regulation and Water element of the lower body; the domain of the Kidney. In this, there lies the secret of how “metal generates water” or why metal is the mother of Water, in the elemental sequence. It is also beautiful to note that the large intestine is predominantly responsible for wicking water away from already processed and digested food; it’s the final part of the digestive process, where we gather hydration and pure waters and fluids. Similarly, their partner the Lung only gathers the oxygen it needs, releasing all of the rest of the waste; therefore together the Metal element physiologically is responsible for receiving the purest elements of what we are inhaling/ingesting, and then releasing whatever else we don’t need. This is why they are related to letting go, and to transmutation even on a physiological level; this is also why they “generate” water - because they extract and purify, retain and circulate the purest elements around the body. As we now fill up the kidneys and move into the adrenal glands, the whole solar plexus and diaphragm is pulled down, anchored down, and the lungs fill from the back and the bottom, ultimately with the beautiful breath of life coming all the way up into the collarbone and tips of our shoulders. This is where we move our hands to touch ZhongFu - Lung 1 - the front mu point and opening point of the lung channel, with our hands and thumb, meeting Lung 11, on the tip of the thumb, the final point of the lung channel with the beginning of the channel. Once we have traversed the whole internal meridian of the lung and large intestine channels, emerged at Lung 1, and touched the end of the external meridian here, our Lung meditation is complete, and we move into the stretching sequence.

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✨ The Anchoring of Breath: The Earth and The Metal✨ In many different moments during Golden Lotus we speak about how the Lung is rooted in the Spleen, or Earth generates Metal, or the Lung is rooted into the Earth. There are a variety of different ways we can explore this connection, so I will outline a few of the most important ones here.

Six Divisions: The lung and the spleen together form a channel called the TaiYin; the large intestine and the stomach form on vessel called the Yangming. When we look at the relationship of the Metal and the Earth from the perspective of the Six Divisions, we can see that the Earth leg channels (spleen & stomach) are grounding the Metal arm channels (lung and large intestine) and in that way, the upper parts of the channels are grounded through the Earth. This is explored more in the lessons around the Lower He Sea points in Spleen.

Yin Yang Meridian Patterns: When we look at the internal-external meridian trajectories of the yin and yang meridians Lung & Large Intestine, you can see that Lung 1 & Lung 2 are both sitting right next to the Spleen 20. Therefore, of the three points, the Earth point of Spleen 20 is energetically grounding and anchoring the opening of the lung channel. The large intestine internal meridian trajectory actually begins at Stomach 20 - “Empty Basin” and many ancient texts - according to Birch - say that it terminates at Stomach 25. This holds an important relevance, as Stomach 25 is the only Stomach point we touch on in the 9 flowers; it is the Heaven’s Pivot which sits inside from the Spleen 15 point. What is interesting here is that if you recall the way in which the spleen and the stomach lines were likened to the inner and outer bladder lines, as was the journey of the yin wei mai tracjetory over the spleen points in towards the inner Chong Mai trajectory of the Kidney points (which we cover in the Heart module) then it follows that in between the yin wei mai of the spleen and the chong mai of the Heart, comes the energy of the Lung/Large Intestine. In this way, we notice a consistency of how the energy of the metal is rooted into the journey from Spleen to Heart, and from Yin Wei Mai/outer Chong Mai to the mai Chong Mai vessel.

Solar Plexus & Kan & Li Practice:We balance the energy of the Spleen and the solar plexus first, before we can draw experiences in to our centre, otherwise there is spiritual energy which is animating and activating elements of Self which are not rooted in trust, centreness, and stability. Without a context (which we establish with the Yi in Spleen) to experience this powerful spiritual breath, we may experience a psychotic episode, or the activation of serious trauma. Without a strong centre, we are not ready to begin to deepen into our spiritual journey, least we be led astray by our past, or by concepts of Self which are attached more to our mundane Earthly journeys rather than our Spiritual presence and development. Therefore, we must understand that the Earth generates the Metal - or rather that we must enter into the pivot, before we can continue our growth. From the perspective of the Taoist Kan & Li practices, the final practice which is the Greatest Kan & Li actually takes place in the Heart, but not in the upper burner, but rather in the Solar Plexus. While the energy of transformation actually pertains to the lung and the heart, the physical seat of the final element of the Kan & Li takes place by lifting the energy of the Solar Plexus and the Seat of Self/Embryological Heart space; here at Ren 15, up into the chest and Heart centre/upper burner. The Lung breathing practice helps us to lift the energy underneath the Heart Space upwards and deeper inwards so that we can begin to communicate with the Universe within our Heart & Selves. T H E L U N G & R E N M A I

✨ Beginning the Practice: Opening Up the Lungs✨

To begin with, we are doing the lung breathing. The lung breathing starts with the solar plexus, drawing in one's Self, and then it moves down into the ovaries and the clitoris, and then pours through the pelvic bowl, before overflowing from the ovaries into the large intestine, then up to the kidneys, then the adrenal glands, then the bottom of the lungs; like a vaccum, pulling more and more energy into your being, pulling you deeper into yourself, and filling you up more and more with breath, light, and energy.

When our lung overflows with energy, all the way to the tip, we can begin to spread this energy all the way down the lung channel, clearing the lung and large intestine channel, and connecting the end and the beginning of the Lung channel, to nourish the flow of energy. We can nourish the flow even more by making the lung sound, "Shhhhh" and pushing our energy through the lung meridians, up, clearing out any stagnation in our path. In this meditation, try to imagine that anything left in your lungs to release is being pushed or "steamed" out, and allow your breath and the movement to open the collar bones, open the lung sinew channel, and to remove any heat or energy from the base of the body and lungs all the way up. This opens the lung sinew channel, and stimulates the beginning of the lung meridian all the way to the end.

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✨ Gathering the Stars Practices ✨

In the first movement, now we have traced the lung and large intestine meridians, and cleared them out with the "shuu" sound, now we are widening the energy field and choosing to expand the inhalation. There are many ways in which this second line actually mirrors the first. Here, imagine as you draw down, your hands in prayer, past Ren 15, that you are drawing energy and breath (mirroring the lung breathing) into your lower body, and draw energy down into your base as you inhale, seeing this as the bottom of a set of huge cosmic lungs - almost like Wings of Expanse and Spirit, that you are tracing. As you come up with your arms, see your lungs and body filling up from beneath, all the way to the top, and gather the stars, and then allow your hands to meet aobve you, as we do in the Liver Dai Mai dancing. Here, pause with a full inhale, at the apex, and exhale as you pull your hands down, towards and into your Heart. Here, pause before beginning the inhale as you draw down over Ren 15 again. During this traditional chi gung move (Gathering the Stars) we are mimicking in some ways the Liver torus field energy - making space and protection all around us, but also gathering the spiritual energy and refreshing our field, and literally expanding our energetic lungs and wings as we make that shape. Note: The Wing Point we explore in the Du Mai sequence is Du 11 - Spirit Path, which has the Heart Shu point on either side. This point at the back would relate to Du 12, with Bladder 13, the Lung Shu points on either side.) In the second movement, we are stretching open and preparing the inter-costal space. Just as the first movement of this line mirrors the first movement of the first line, the second movement here also mirrors that of the second movement in the first line where we bring our hands to the tops of our lungs and open the whole channel. Here, we are stretching the side of the lung, and the whole lung sinew channel, and allowing the ribs and the intercostal spaces to begin to expand, as we expand the breath. We can consider line 2 an expanded version of line 1. The third movement in line two is a movement to begin to incorporate the large intestine sinew channel and the rib cage, so we are stretching the large intestine and lung sinew channels, and beginning to work with the weight of our upper body and our chest through a deeply anchored pelvic breath. Here you can imagine the breath and the diaphragm of the thorax/chest is also opening the broad ligament and Lung reflex space in the hips. Anchoring fulling into the hips, we now begin to move the lung and large intestine sinew channels in the final movement, as we pump and circle our sternum to the ground; working the areas at the back of the heart and lungs, the areas around the top of the shoulder blades, restriction around the collar bones, and any places we are holding our instinctual movement of taking up space, using our breath, and expanding our energy. T H E L U N G & R E N M A I

✨ The Ren Mai ✨ Here are we are placing our head and chin and neck down - we are actually placing the chin on the floor, not the forehead - so we are simulating the whole Ren Mai channel from the Hui Yin point at the perineum all the way up the body to the last point along the channel, called Ren 24, under the bottom lip. At this point the Ren Mai meets with the Du Mai, the Large Intestine and the Stomach channels, so there is a strong yang energy, and a strong circulating and connecting energy which activates the YangMing or "great brightness" here, and which distributes the chi all over the body. Stretching the point just before this, as we open the length of the threat/neck stimulates Ren 23, which is where the Yin Wei Mai and the Ren Mai meet. So here we are stimulating two vital points which are anchoring the Lung and Large Intestine into the Earth element; and these two points are also connecting the Ren Mai to it's main 8 Extra correlations of our Golden Lotus sequence; one is it's yin-yang partner, the Du Mai - and we explored a little bit of the Ren Mai - Du Mai relationship in Kidney. The Kidney, as we know, along with the Lung, form the master couple points for the Ren Mai. Ren 23, hidden under the chin, is the meeting point of the two major Yin 8 extras we explore before our final merging into the depth of Heart - Chong Mai. Here, we see the Spleen - Chong Mai practices meet with this Lung & Ren Mai practice; make it the Yin portal towards the final Chong Mai in the Heart. The Ren 23 point opens the Ren Mai in a way where it touches on the emotionality and the yin elements of embodiment which we explore in the 9 flowers, but also connects us to the Kidney element which correlates to and stimulates/awakens the inner lines of the Chong Mai - the final Shaoyin/Heart & Kidney division where our Kan & Li integration, and our final Heart module comes to complete. If you can do a good child's pose here you will find a dynamic stretch which centres you through the Ren Mai, from Ren 1 until Ren 24, and then as you fold your arms through to the feet you can choose to touch on Kidney 6, which opens the Ren Mai, or Kidney 1, which anchors the Ren Mai. In that moment you will feel the lung and large intestine sinew channels also opening, and a gentle protective energy as your body and breasts fold around the Ren Mai itself; around this vulnerable centre channel.

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✨ The Ren Mai ✨

The Ren Mai is called the Sea of Qi. Despite being very central, in the frontline, it is not very deep. Unlike the Du Mai which is inside the spine and moves through the whole nervous system, the Ren Mai is a very light, energetic meridian which does not penetrate deeply into the body, flesh or the blood as the Chong Mai does. The Ren Mai is used to move and rectify energetic and emotional issues along the front line; and things which compromise our sense of energetic protection. Kaatz writes "“Ren Mai is the inner sea or the vessel out of which all life comes. The superficial meridian runs vertically up the middle of the front from the perineum to the chin. It is said that at conception the spirit of man has the purpose of his life whispered into his ear as he passes through the heavenly gateway into life. As our life unfolds, it is this secret that gives life its purpose. Ren Mai is the sea of energy that both creates and governs our inner resources" At this stage to we begin to unlock the Ren Mai and the Ren 15 relationship to the Kan and Li practices, opening the diaphragm and clearing the way fully for our lung breathing to completely open and move through us. This is a beautiful, tender and emotional point. Jiuwei REN-15 is the front mu point for the the 'gao' which is similar to the omentum - it is the soft and fatty tissues in the diaphragm region, and the fascial tissues below the Heart; the pleura of the lungs, and the fascial energies of the yin organs overlap in this space. The reason that Ren 15 is considered in one diagnostic Hara map (see Birch) a front mu point for the Heart is because it refers to the fascial space the Heart moves through, during it's rise embryologically through the lower burner into it's position in the chest. Therefore, in this one point, we see a front point for the Spleen-Chong Mai elements of the solar plexus and seat of Self, we see a Heart correlation, and we see the place in which we need to purify and draw in energy. It is said in this area that disease can get into the body and hide - and deep viruses which hide in the blood and the liver, in Chinese Medicine, are seen to sit in this space underneath the Heart. It is a very tender point of our physiology which in the Kan & Li practices we need to purify and rise up through, with our breathing practices, and finally in the Chong Mai, with our connection from the Cervix to the Heart. Debra Kaatz writes about Ren Mai 15, Jiuwei that it is "The Loving Protection of The Dove". “For the Chinese the bone of the sternum is the shape of a dove. Jiuwei is the tail of this dove of the sternum. It is believed that the dove protects her young with peace and love. The dove is the bird of spirit. It was the ancients who could talk to birds for they were whole, human and their nature was a part of the wholeness all around them. Jiuwei is a place of loving protection. Jiuwei is drawn as the number nine and a bird with a long tail [a bird of paradise]. It is said that this turtledove produces nine young and protects them with love, peace, and tranquility. Here they grow and develop in a warm, safe nest of security. Wei is made of a body and a tail and means a tail, end, extremity and behind. JiuWei is a dove tail and a very protective place of comfort and love. A dovetail is also a joint made between two pieces of wood. It is so well fitted that the changes in the weather do not affect the joint. The sternum protects our heart and our lungs, our emotions and our inspirations. From this safe, snug, well fitting place our spirit can take wing and fly. The Chinese say that the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love. They also say that love is our greatest protect. At Jiuwei we can rest in this place of loving protection. When there is anxiety or loss of vitality, this point calms and stabilises our mind and brings us softness and warmth.” This beautiful description touches my heart for many reasons; the Heart - Chong Mai always represents the number "10" to me. It is the full cycle, the completion, the fullness of the numerological energy from 1 back to 1, through the higher expression of 10 (1+0=1). Therefore, I love the description of this area of the body being related to "nine" and a "safe nest of security" as we come closer to our final cycle completion; where even the Heart aspect of the Kan & Li practices is describes that "if the conditions are right our Inner Child is born with the heart-womb sea of bliss". During this practice we pressing and breathing into points of tension along the rib-cage/diaphragm, for emotional and physical release of the breath. This area is hardy, and like the back of the shoulder blades your can really get in there and release a lot of tension if you are committed. Osteopaths use a technique where they go under the ribs ands lift up the whole omentum. It is horribly unpleasant, but the amount of space and cool circulation in the body afterwards is incredible. For this movement you can choose any points with tension lateral to Ren 15, however I choose to move from Ren 15, to the right then the left, addressing Spleen 16 & Liver 13, the point of the Yin Wei Mai from the Nine Flowers, and then the front Mu point of all yin organs. T H E L U N G & R E N M A I

✨ Shangyang & Shaoshang; The Metal ✨

After you have released all of the tension from your diaphragm, it is time to check back in with the lung breathing. This is the point where we begin to just settle back into the breath and feel into how our body is responding since the beginning of the practice. If you would like to, you can place your hands over your ovaries, and repeat the whole beginning breath and lung sequence from the first line, but I prefer to just tap into the breath with one hand on my womb and one hand on my heart/chest, knowing that the majority of the practice has been taking me into my body deeper and deeper. Don't forget that the lung has a huge impact on the pelvis in it's own way; while the Kidney puts us in our base, the Liver puts us in our power, the Spleen puts us in pleasure, the Lung actually releases the hips and the broad ligament, so it gives space and expression to the width and opening/breathing of the pelvis. The pelvis and the broad ligament are like the rib cage and the diaphragm, and we should be feeling really grounded and open in the hips through this practice. Once you feel deeply grounded through the hips, and open and light in the front of the body, you can join your fingers together and slowly pull yourself forward, using a counter balance. In this counter balance try to feel the energy and breath rooted in your pelvis and in the beginning of the Ren Mai in your perineum, and the upper body light and fluid, and slowly balance and stretch your way forward, through the Ren Mai and the lung and large intestine sinews. There is a dynamic tension involved in this movement which is challenging but rewarding, and you will need to use your truly grounded breath to get it perfect. In this motion, we are connecting the Large Intestine 1 points on the left and right hand together, and the end of the lung channels together. This has it's own significance for the breath and Deadman writes "According to the Ode to Elucidate Mysteries the root of the hand yangming is Shangyang L.1. A branch of the Lung channel terminates at Shangyang L.1.-1 and as the metal point of the yang metal channel, it is indicated for fullness characterised by qi stagnation in the Lung, which may radiate to the lateral costal region... the Large Intestine muscle and divergent channels both connect with the spine, and Shangyang L.1.-1 is indicated for pain of the shoulder and back which radiates to the supraclavicular fossa.. the term 'shang' in the name of this point is the note associated with the metal phase in an ancient musical notation system, whilst 'yang' denotes the yang channel and serves to differentiate this point from Shaoshang, Lung 11 "Lesser Shang." T H E L U N G & R E N M A I

✨ String of Pearls ✨ So here we are initiating the sequence of the unwinding of the fascia through the metal element, the lung and large intestine channel which follows. Move forward into child's pose, rest, and breathe, and then turn over. Once we turn over, we begin a somatic noticing technique, or Feldenkrais technique, which relates to our String of Pearls technique in the Liver month, beginning with the fingers of the lung and large intestine channel, begin to unwind the fascia, slowly moving into the wrist, up to the elbow, up to the shoulder, and into the back of the shoulder blades, all around the back of the heart, the spine, the ribs, and the sternum. The lung channel is prone to tightness, so you should be able to really feel it stretching and opening, as you unwind this energy. The hands and the forearms are fantastic ways to open the chest, as many of the chest yin meridians bind here, so this exercise is actually to promote fascial alignment and diaphragmatic release though the whole body, through the "string of pearls" fascial connections.

This movement doesn't need to be rushed at all; try to really do it as a moving meditation where you can feel the small bones in your fingers, the jing well points where the energy trickles emerges from the well, and then into the spring, over the rocks (the bones of the hands) as it slowly gets larger into a stream, a river, and eventually a sea. Feel how the meridian grows, and notice the quality of energy like a thin trickle over the stones into the more fleshy part of the arm which is seen to be closer to a river bed, and eventually entering into the body where the sea is. Try to slowly massage open the hand, and while you are leading from the thumb and index finger - from the metal element, take heed how many channels are present in this area, and how all around the heel of the palm and the wrist there are tender in roads to the fascia of the pericardium and the heart. Try to allow this movement to be sensual, and keep the hips open so that any fascial unbinding which happens from this movement can digest freely down through the pelvis and ground it way out through Hui Yin. T H E L U N G & R E N M A I

✨ Dynamic Breath-Work ✨

After this opening, work one more time of any areas of tension around the diaphragm which may have come up, and also just any others which may not have been resolved while doing the Ren Mai compression sitting up. When we are sitting up, our psoas is still engaged, when we lie down it relaxes, so in this moment you may find a new emotional depth or even a renewed sense of vulnerability which you can explore and unwind through some deep breathing.

Now we are going to use that channel we have cleared, and mimicking the pelvic led lung breathing, push energy through the body and build up a state. There are a series of different ways you could breath-work here. You could do a "Tony Robbins state change" - a special breathing technique he does which allows you to quickly shift gears, or you could do a breath of Fire or some breath-work you like, or you could also do this same movement only using the arms going up and down, and not going into a bridge.

However, I like how this particular dynamic breath work movement activates the body here - I feel that it unlocks the Ren Mai, and gives it a beautiful opportunity to release emotions. I feel that it focuses on the pelvic led centrality of the breathing of the Lung, and I feel that it also mimics the way that we fill the pelvis and the whole upper body, and then the tops of the lungs and hands finally. I also feel that I get some beautiful momentum here and I'm able to fully activate my blood and my body. This is totally up to you, all of this breath-work sequence is left out of the yin version of the practice so it isn't mandatory.

Breath-work as a modality is something to be cautious with. The lungs can produce blood and energy, and circulate energy, however it is better to develop highly skilled controlled breathing with practices like Kriya Yoga spinal sequences, or movement practices like swimming, meditation, running, or even free-diving, rather than going straight to highly activating breath-work techniques. Breath-work forms a part of every since spiritual awakening tradition, but don't forget the element of emotional sovereingty and compassion we need to have for ourselves and our body before we invite the breath in, in Golden Lotus. Equally, in yoga, Pranayama techniques are high level techniques, which are thought of as more advanced than asana practices. Trying to do too much breath-work to generate DMT like states in the body through the lungs can often lead to imbalance or can over- activate our spiritual self, and lead to psychosis, passing out, anxiety - and overall seems to be a way of spiritually bypassing when done in workshops which focus only on the breath - rather than an integrative deepening into the states of the body through a regulated practice.

If you do want to do something intense, activating, and clearing by the way of breath-work, I personally use lymphatic techniques such sauna and steam room with cold plunges. This actually moves the lymph, more than just the breath, and generates a similar state of euphoria and intensity as breath-work, but takes me deeper into my body, versus into a spiritual state not anchored in my body. If you would like to explore some intense and activating breath-work techniques to expand your energy and break free of some chains, I personally think the Hoffman Technique is an astonishing modality for that quality of breath control.

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✨ Breathing with Her ✨

Here we allow the breath, now expanding and open, to breathe us. We spend time just listening. This relates to the primary respiratory system we explore in Kidney Du Mai and also in the Temple level on the breathing - the true nature of the breath. In this time - to enhance this meditation you can look to some of the Kriya Yoga practices like the basic breath meditations such as So Hum - where the breath is seen to be it’s own entity/movement, like the wings of a swan or dove, up and down the spine. The so hum breathing and meditation technique can put us in touch with our true breath, that which is breathing us; and so can this resting meditation we are using now. We are listening, and allowing integration and expansion, of all of the energies we have felt.

We roll over into our feminine sarvasana, our "closing the lotus" position, and we allow the energy from the breathwork and our whole practice to just very quietly circulate all through our body. Finally, we are breathing with her.

There is a beautiful song called “Breathe” on the SoundCloud playlist of Golden Lotus. Please feel free to use this track to listen to during your final meditation. I have added it at the final line of the practice.

Before you come up into the final pose, be mindful of how you come up. There is a specifically technique as if you are doing a shiatsu or you have been a sleeping cat, you push yourself up into your lower back, as though you are rebuilding your body and pushing yourself back into your body through your hands. You are grinding the palms of your hands and your forearms open, you are massaging the back of your shoulder blades and allowing this to move through the whole back of your heart, and down your para-spinal muscles, to integrate and ground into the lower body. This integrates all of the stretching and opening of the lung and large intestine channels, and it helps us to re-Earth if we have become more breath and Qi than blood and flesh during this practice. The final motion is just a sense of breathing very very deeply with Mother Earth herself. Allowing her to be that pulse for you, and giving thanks for that incredible body which allows you the deepening into the journey of the Breath.

I think this is a beautiful time in classes to really nurture your connection with the room, with coming back into the space, and allowing that sense of holding and bliss from the expansive energy of Self which has moved through your practice and purified you.