Breathing with the power belly: independence, joy, discovery, love, life, mindfulness day 4

 

July 4, 2012

Independence Day:

People who work with breathing and who work with “bodies”
have lots of rules:
breathe this way
move that way
this is the correct posture
no strain no gain

And this isn’t mindfulness
the full

Mind in what we do

let’s breathe again today,
more or less the “opposite” of yesterday
and let’s add on the pelvis and head as the

“Middle Line”
of a

five line being we are connecting with
as a daily and ongoing meditation:

Two arm lines

two leg lines

the pelvis spine head line

And breathing (is there more?
sure,
we’ve got 27 more days to fill with
more and more

de

lightful

mind

ful

ness)

So, sit comfortably

Way at the front of the chair

(as my qigong guy says: So your genitals
are hanging off into the air,

Or as I’d say: so your pelvis is on the chair
and your legs are off)

put both hands on your forehead

Elbows pointed forward

First yesterday’s breathing:

Bend down, round your back,
bring your elbows toward your belly
let your belly go back and in
as you breathe out
and squeeze the air out

Add on pelvis awareness
and rock back on your pelvis as you round down

Feel your chest sinking,

Feel your head and pelvis moving “as if”
towards each other

Feel the whole pelvis head spine line

And

And

And

Keep awareness in both arms and both legs

now, after the air is out and your are as
curled up as you are going to be,
push your belly forward

Breathe in

Rock forward on your pelvis,
Lift your head, connected to your arms
towards the sky
and feel the pelvis spine head line
and two arms and two legs
and

Breathing in

Do this happily a number of times.

Now rest

Now, put the hands again on your forehead
again elbows forward

And bend down, elbows toward belly,
pelvis spine head all a unit,
and SUCK IN AIR

This is going to be “different”

Hell yeah

Good!

Belly squeezed way in

And

Suck in

Air

To your lungs

To your lower back

Suck

Suck

As you curl up

(again two arms, two legs,
this is life

Life is big)

At the bottom pause,

And as you push your belly forward

THRUST  (gently) your pelvis so your butt
rocks back and the top near your belly moves forward

As you move forward a bit on the chair

And PUSH the AIR OUT

ARCHING breathing out lifting your spine long and

Full in this

Curve

Then, come back down and in and curling up

Folding in

SUCKING THE AIR IN

AS YOUR BELLY PUSHES SMALL

Get small and round and full of air

In your back and lungs,

And then push the air out

Thrust your belly forward

Let your hands and arms and back and pelvis

All lift your gaze towards the sky

Many times

Rest

And then play with three of each

Type of breathing

No right way:

One, in my opinion,

“relaxes”

The other, again, my opinion,

Is a power stroke,

As if with a martial arts thrust

You feel and sense and notice what they are

Like to

You

Good