A true salutation:
it's the foundation of my practice, sun salutation, and all other poses are branched off from here, being supportive to my twice daily prayer of breath and motion, offering both sessions to the rise and setting of the sun. A true salutation. What I love about this sequence is that it's indeed a practice, not perfected but always in process of perfection, as if an authentic flow lies just beneath the surface and each repetition brings closer to its reveal.
and that's the prayer, being revealed as true light.
sun salutation is a beautiful sequence, flowing through stretch and contraction with the breath quiet easily following along. When I am close to to my authentic flow, my true salutation, I am guided by the breath to a point of pure awareness, motion and sensations simply appearing through a lens of light. This is the essence of meditation, surrendering to a process of rapt attention until my own involvement seems to entirely disappears, vanished to just the sweep of breath and grace of motion.
effortlessly.
my practice isn't performed to achieve this, as that would only interfere with my surrender. My only role is to be embodied, alive to each sensation, aware, a slight witness that's even now fading to the light of it's own awareness.
what I practice is really just a commitment to an art form seen as yoga, a deep prayer of gratitude offered to the sun through the grace of breath and motion of the body.
a true salutation.
~
Peace, Eric
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