Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

enter into this moment through a sudden opening in
what we might call the body door.
In hatha yoga practice, the idea is to be fully in your
body as you bring awareness to the various
sensations, thoughts, and feelings which come up
while you are moving, stretching, breathing, holding
positions, reaching or lifting with arms, legs, and
torso. There are said to be over 80,000 basic yoga
postures. One won't quickly run out of new
challenges for the body; but I find I keep coming back
to a core routine of maybe twenty or so postures,
which over the years just keep taking me deeper into
my body and deeper into stillness.
Yoga folds movement and stillness into one another.
It is a wonderfully nourishing practice. As in the other
forms of mindfulness practice, you are not trying to
get anywhere. But you are purposefully moving right
up to the very limits of your body in this moment. You
are exploring a terrain where there may be
considerable intensity of sensation associated with
stretching or lifting or maintaining your balance in
unusual spatial configurations of limbs, head, and
trunk. There you dwell, usually for longer than part of
your mind would like, just breathing, just feeling your
body. You are not looking to break through to
anything. You are not competing with anybody else's