‘Kriyas’

Kriya ~ Breath of Clarity

Breathing as Daily Prayer
Invite the breath of clarity into your being.
Inspiration
As you inhale, intentionally breathe into your brain, mind, and memory with the focus and precision of clarity.
Expiration
As you exhale, feel the softening of your attachments and the opening of perception ~ trust in your ability to know.
 
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Kriya ~ Resilient Breathing

Breathing as Daily Prayer
Shift your reactive impulses with resilient breathing.
Inspiration
By drawing in a breath to the count of seven, allow a deep fluid inhalation to penetrate any stressful or anxious breathing pattern that has arisen. Allow the intake to be active, shifting the body’s automatic impulses through focused relaxation. At the top [...]

Kriya ~ Breath of Commitment

Breathing as Daily Prayer

Inspiration
As you inhale, notice where and how the body opens to the breath.  As it opens, feel what commitments you are moving into without resistance.
Expiration
As you exhale, allow yourself to soften through any holding or controlling.  Release into your committed sense of knowing.
Honor the deeply rooted breath of commitment.
 
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Kriya ~ Abiding Confidence

Breathing as Daily Prayer
Inspiration
As you inhale, notice any resistance to what is coming in. With full awareness and detachment, observe the layers of resistance.
Expiration
As you exhale, feel yourself letting go of any attempt to control. Give yourself permission to simply release and let go.
Allow your breath to bring you abiding confidence.

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Kriya ~ Detachment

Breathing as Daily Prayer
Inspiration
As you breathe in, expand your breath throughout your body,  then pause at the top of the breath. Identify and note the space of stillness that lies between the inhalation and the exhalation.
Expiration
As  you exhale,  feel yourself detaching from all your thoughts, without judgement, as they pass quietly through your mind.  At the bottom of your breath, find [...]

Kriya ~ Inner Guidance

Breathing as Daily Prayer
Inspiration
Draw a deep breath in, allowing it to expand into each and every cell of your being with crystal clear vision and brilliance ~ welcoming inner guidance.
Expiration
As the breath leaves your body, feel calm and ease enter the openness of your being.  Listen to what you need, and trust that you have [...]

Kriya ~ Inner Truth

Breathing as Daily Prayer
Be the Breath…fluid and natural.

Inspiration
As you absorb the breath into your body, allow it reach the center of your being. From this place, deepen into a focused and self- assured commitment to your inner truth.
Expiration
As you release the breath outward, offer steadfast resolve and commitment, knowing and trusting in the [...]

Kriya ~ Acceptance

Breathing as Daily Prayer

Inspiration
As a new breath enters your being, draw in the energies of acceptance and transparency.
Expiration
As you exhale, release the breath outward and offer life the qualities of grace and wisdom.
Feel the flow and movement of these forces through your being.  Merge with their essence.

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Kriya ~ Focus

Object of Beauty
In a meditative pose, attune yourself to a beautiful object or place. As the vision forms, hold your full attention and awareness to the image until you become completely immersed in it. Allow the feeling of beauty the object or place has evoked to fill you completely, penetrating your entire being. Stay attuned [...]

Kriya ~ Stillness

Savasana
At the end of your day take five minutes to rest your body and mind in stillness through the practice of savasana (corpse pose). Lying on your back, arms down to your sides, palms facing upward, close your eyes and release all tension and holding from your body and mind. Feel your eyes rest into [...]