Oh, the AI note taker, yeah, okay, yeah, I started recording, but I'll cut this out when I post. Okay, that's okay. That didn't happen last time.
Usually you have to start it maybe, yeah,
I think it's like this AI thing kicked in and then maybe it told it to record that one was new. You know,
I'm surprised how good the AI thing is getting with the summaries.
No, it's
amazing. The summaries of the transcripts is really Oh, that sounded almost impressive.
Okay, so I got seven people. Should I let them in?
Let me give me it's not a club, so let's give it two or three minutes. So tell me the names, if you have where I could see, I see
a Barry,
a very
Hinson, Anthony, Callan, I think that's how you say.
So there's no people. Morgan, okay.
Yeah, do you tend to have like regulars? Yes,
I think Barry's the only one that I maybe Anthony too, but usually there's a Karen, um, who was this regular? We lost a few people, which is kind of weird.
A sea lax, I think I say that just showed up. Was that sea lax? S, A, E, oh,
he was in this last weekend. Oh,
was he? They were like, eight people, so I didn't totally catch
because I saw a question of him. That's why I remember. It was pretty interesting.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yes, let's do 904 instead of 905
no worries, you're in charge.
I usually, it usually does not get all the way to the hour and a half. It depends, because they are after I lose a few people with the yoga Nidra that they never turn on the camera, so I'm sure they're sleeping. Yeah, that's that's
awesome.
Do you do like this, yoga, Nidra, or meditation and other parts of like life?
Well, I took a couple of training, yoga training, so I taught yoga for many years. I mean, within that, then I got the Nidra going, but meditation, I It's been more than 40 years. So I began in the 70s. Yes, meditation is my thing, but then I'm in a journey, really. But why not? But I began in 2012 to do my yoga trainings and yoga Nidra. And I think in 15 or 14, I met Andrews courses. And since then, it's been one thing after the other, yeah. And in a couple of his three or four of his retreats that I taught the Nidra, um, not the the Nidra the yoga for the retreat, and I always incorporate a little bit of deep relaxation.
Oh, that's lovely. Thanks for sharing. Yeah,
but I'm just an old lady with all habits.
I Oh, well, I'm so excited to see you do your thing.
Yes, trying to tell people, do not get too serious.
It's it's a thing that come back to and over and over, and all my teachers like the more you laugh and don't take it too serious. Really does help, yeah,
especially nowadays, yeah,
exactly, yeah.
So how are we doing?
All right, we got 12345, 611,
okay, let's go. All
right, here they come. Thank
you. Blessings to you. Always. too. You. You. Hello, my people, my little stamps. So here today we have Kate helping out. I she, she's saying, not that new, I think New for the screen, but she's been in Andrew's team now, I think, for a little bit. And so she's going to be helping Kate. Let me see if I can get the screen where I can see everybody too. Okay, there we go, and she's going to be helping us. Is
there anybody that is here for the first time today? You are Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. I see some of my recidivists with a big smile, so I like that
beautiful thank you for joining us for so I have to be more formal. So my name is Mayra Lorenzana Miles. I've been a student of the this extraordinary teachings for a little while, and following Andrew for almost 10 years. In about, I don't know, last year I I told Andrew, I want to, I want to, please, please, please, call me. Call me. Call me. And so I wanted to share in his group, which I find one of an enormous blessing. So what we do here is that I've been doing yoga Nidra, and yoga Nidra, I haven't, one day gotten in all the technical definitions in the brain waves and what you can get in relaxation and what they call yo this league people all that we can get it just, just Google it out. But I find yoga Nidra as a great technique of relaxing the body to allow it with certain amount of awareness, to get in contact with that openness that Andrew talk so much about. And in that way, we have to feel the body in order to experience through the body. We cannot escape the body. We is through the body. This is our spaceship, this is our temple, and this is the way we get in contact. So sometimes we do silly things in terms of relaxation, to get the relaxation, but it's not to pass out or to sedate ourselves, but to get out of the way a little bit of our own way, and just begin the space, to feel the space that we are, and see the grace of the moment, and feel the grace of the moment, At least, that's my invitation to you. And then we've been talking about something that is called the 59 slogans of Atisha. And Atisha is a 12th century master that kind of put together a series of slogans with slogans where use it for advertisement. But slogans would be principles that are used to train the mind, and they're not like they're very simple at almost contra intuitive, counter intuitive, because they're asking from us behavior that is not the normal behavior that we have in everyday life, but they are training their mind, and as we know we calm the body so we can see how the mind fluctuates, how the mind goes wild, and we calm the body so we can feel the breath and we can see the act of The mind. So it's a combination of a little conversation mentioning the the slogans from Leticia. We are today in I think it's slogan number eight. And I've been following a PDF that is free online from Judy leaf, l, I, E, F, and in there she there's so many teachings where we have, my intention with this is not to be completely thorough in each one of the slogans, but to plant some little seeds in your so maybe you can, one day they come to mind, or you decide to study. There's many, many, books, many one of the great teachers is also Pema Chodron, which is one of my favorites. And the interesting thing that she says is these slogans, it's like they're pointing. So they're pointing towards you, towards your heart, and we begin having an enormous sense of compassion and love with ourselves in order that we can give the same away. So that's a little bit of a summary. But another thing that we do here is that I open with a little poem from Shell Silverstein. And shell sister scene is a poem that I think he passed away. He did. And when I had my 30 year old son in first grade, he used to recite this poem when the first graders came to class every single day, and I said, Wow, for me, was just like, and he did it with the other children. I have the children went to them and I like, and it's called an invitation. And so it reads like this, if you're a dreamer, come in, if you're a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic bin buyer, if you are a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some fast, good, golden tales to spin. Come in, come in. And I think what we do in many of these stations is doing that we spin tails. And hopefully what we're doing is coming towards the heart, coming towards ourselves. And for that, we use metaphors, we use fancy vocabulary, we use scriptures, we use movement, we use breath. But we're breaking into the shell. We're just getting out of the way to come in. And from all the times that I've been reading this today, I decided to find it again in Google, and there was a little bit of an analyst that says that this is an invitation that extends to those who possess imagination and a longing for the extraordinary. And isn't that what we're longing for, to find the extraordinary and the ordinary, I guess, to see how our ordinary life is so extraordinary, and that is the invitation that we do. Any comments anybody else before we begin the formal session. So before we go into the little bit of the slogans, a little bit of promotion from Andrew. You know that you guys, I'm a fan, but I took one as his course this weekend, again on the obstacles, and I have, I think it's maybe the third or fourth time that I hear him talking about similar subject. But I always listen and listen, because there's something that clicks, that is something different, that means something different to me, and this time, he said something that blew my mind, because we know in the slogans begin to talk a little bit about the preliminaries, or the four foundations, one of them just is recognizing the preciousness of human life, How we do not know when death will come. The causality, and there is a way, the way of finding the happiness. And then he says something about impermanence. And of course, we heard impermanence, everything changes, and everything changes, and nothing said the same, or we're all going to die. But he also says that impermanence is an expression of emptiness. Is actually emptiness. I said, Oh, I had to just have a double check. So we try to understand emptiness. We try to understand the Absolute. We try to understand non duality. We try to find the oneness in the forest, in the ocean, in the music, in the meditation, in the only thing that we may have to meditate a little bit. It's just an impermanence.
So just that space between the words, in that space of potentiality where your mind was wondering and asking and imagining or challenging in all those little moments of expressions in your mind, there is that golden nugget. There is the gold at the end of the rainbow, and then the slogan that we have today is called the three objects, the three poisons and the three six of worship. And the three objects see would be last, last time was the tonglen, where we think it's about others. So it's so we're continuing with that relative for the Chica, and it has been, it seemed like the friends, the enemies and the neutrals, when we do tonglen, the three poisons, of course, we had the craving, the aversion and the indifference. Where we care, we care too much. We don't we do not want it, or we're completely different. And the antidotes to those, and isn't that like, almost like the essence of everything that we do? We talked before about the ultimate bodhicitta with the dream, like the illusion part of reality, seeing reality or everything as an illusion, which is always very difficult. But the slogan began at the end. They began there. They began with the absolute, with the fundamentals and with the absolute. And now we're going to relative bodhicitta, last time we did the tongue line. And now is talking about those three poisons and what we have, and in that sense, we are just fluctuating. So this is the image that we are going to have, and I will stop talking, and we're going to go through meditation. But I was thinking about a blank, blank screen. Just imagine just this guy, and and then our presence, just like a continuum that is just that's that. And with each one of the teachings, which each one of the meditations, or when you have a good yoga class, when you listen to music and you feel connected, you make a lot of space. Or when you take the one breath meditation that Andy talks about all the time, the space in between that expression of who we are, and erases the continuum that we have, and it raises and erases and erases and erases. And I guess for those enlightened beings that had found a little bit more peace, those dots are not there anymore. They are part of the Big Sky. That doesn't mean that there is not an expression of the reality, but that means that that tightness of the expression does not exist anymore. So the one breath meditation, putting your heart over the heart, studying poetry, doing calligraphy, doing a mandala, painting, whatever it is that you feel connected to that creative energy, create this space where our nature comes through and shines through. Does that make sense? Was that able to to to connect in terms of why small practices often are more important than just sitting down for two hours if your mind is going to be going everywhere, so small practices often, what did happen is that make the interrupts the regular Way of Things, and then we experience the open sky, and we use many tools. The slogans is a tool and is the slogans are not a tool for once in a while, the slogans are just very practical things that we think about and in US contemplating that then creates a space, and they're been done for centuries, and they've been interpreted by many, many teachers. And I invite you to do your own investigation and contemplation.
So let's take a breath. I wanted to say that so bad. Take it inhale. Hold at the top. Can you smile at home? A little bit more? A little bit more. Raise your shoulders. 123,
let's do that again. Just be playful. Take an inhale. Shoulders come up. Get tighter this time, giving me a smile. 123456, like a you know what happens if you don't stay as long as I count nothing else. So you count as many as you get as your body allows it. Okay, so let's do one more this time. We're going to tense like we're going to make it fist with our hands. We're going to curl, or we're just going to get as tight as we can, and if you don't like it, don't do it. So let's take an inhale. Get tight. Poke your lips, close your eyes, make a fist. Curl your toes. Curl, crow. Crow. Tight, tight, tight. Take an inhale more, and let go.
Stay there.
We're going to begin with a little bit of the sitting meditation. If your body cannot do sitting meditation and you prefer to lay down right away, just do that, we're going to get a little bit more movement. So softly. Move the head left to right seven times first, and do not go very hard. Sometimes, some of these practices can be a little too much for next. I this is my five, six and seven come to the center and now from right to left, seven times.
Make a fist with your hands and open. Make a fist open fifth, open two more, and move the wrist, making circles and the other way. And placing your hands on your lap and your shoulders up a tiny bit. We're going to bring the right shoulder towards the center. This is 234, and four and five. Let's do the other one, left, 1234,
and why do we do this? Because the body just needs a little bit of release, coming to the center and moving the body a little bit to the left, and maybe the head looks back towards the space behind you. And let's go the other way,
and then come to the center, placing your hands on your thighs,
we're going To do a little bit of breath, excelling first and when you feel like there's nothing else to let go, just let go a little bit more. And then we inhale to a count of 623456,
hold. 234, exhale. To 876-543-2123,
or four more of this, if they count, bothers you. Just try to make your exhalation a little longer than your inhalation, that's all. And what we're doing with this is we're settling the energy coming from our head down towards the body, even thinking that the energy comes all the way to your feet. Maybe you can even imagine black pearls in the bottom of your feet, and that's where the energy is going. You
so before you lay down, if you're laying down, just listen to me. They are what important about the tree poisons and the three objects that we talk a little bit in this eight lot slogan, because that's the way that we label things. We create concepts with likes and dislikes, with place names, and it's not the labeling by itself, but in we labeling, we reify things become solid, and in becoming solid that we don't see the impermanence, we don't see the potentiality of every moment,
if we label and those labels become fixed. The difference between you and me, my things, your things are different become hard.
We contract.
So, if you like contemplate that a little bit before, what things and what opinions of likes and dislikes are very solid in your life right Now and bring you a little bit of trouble you
and now find your position for the Nidra so you can lay down your bed on the floor. Maybe you have a gray sofa, a recliner. Maybe you like to stay seated,
but notice the energy that you bring into the pose, notice your mind and a little bit of the expectation. So if you have done this before, and you already think that you know with this time this session is going, just know that it's not. This is a new moment we have to be present to this expressions of now
is the invitation to welcome whatever this moment brings,
make sure that your head is supported, but it's not going back and your eyes are just going straight off, maybe going towards the front a little bit more to lengthen the the length of your neck, your arms may be on your lap or to your sides. You notice the heaviness of the body, especially the seat, the back of the legs or your feet, if you're seated, your shoulders come back and down. If you are laying down, you feel the weight of the head against a pillow or the floor or the chair, just bring in the solidity of your body As it just continues to settle and come in and
and if you have a special tradition or some sort of prayer or guide or angel or deity that you practice, maybe bringing that to mind, I
with a sense of gratitude,
but not only that expression of yourself, but also all the other conditions and causes and conditions that allow this moment to happen, the preciousness of this moment and how lucky we are to have this medium to be facilitated that the way that It is, the centuries and centuries of people before us, and also our loved ones, parents, children, pets, teachers.
We are a little bit of all of that,
and noticing also the great portion of the connection that we have right here, right now. It's almost like we are in the same room, No distance, no time, no space. We're here, present. You.
Take about 30 seconds to review your day
and see if You can find three things that you're grateful for you
and now let's begin to come back into the body A little bit more, noticing the muscles of your face and letting go the inner and outer corners of your eyes,
your eyelids are just kissing softly. They're not tight the back of your eyes, almost like going through the center of the space the back of your nose and
your jaw, bringing a little bit of opening to your mouth, your tongue can float and
the back of the head, just noticing that every time that I mentioned a little part of the body, the intention is just touching that little image, but it's like a feather touch in your bubble, softly, gently letting go.
Your shoulders come back and down, your collarbones expand to the size, exposing an open heart, fearless, open let go. The back of the heart. Area between your shoulder blades feels warm and
shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers. Let's go
mid back and meet stomach and lower stomach and glutes,
your thighs, your knees, lower legs, ankles and feet,
noticing the space between your toes and wheel Your toes if you have to bring more space and
so the body is relaxing. Bodies outwear, images, thoughts may come up, and you will witness them and try not to get lost and follow them.
So coming to the center of the center of your heart, maybe, if you like, imagine in this little diamond, like right little dot,
and set an intention for your practice sankapa And you can repeat this three times to yourself. It could be the same one that you've been setting Your intention before it could be something completely new. You
and we're going to visualize the breath again before we go into the full point by point in the body. And this time, the breath is going to be inhaling from the bottom of our feet to the crown of the head. And then we'll go to different points, so three times in each pose, and I will let you know. So inhale from the bottom of the feet to the crown. Exhale from the crown to the bottom of the feet.
Inhale from your sacrum to the crown. Exhale from the crown to the sacrum and inhale from the area below your belly button to the back of the spine, inhale and exhale from the crown to that area of the body and
inhale from the heart to the crown and from the crown to the heart, exhale, inhale from the throat to the crown and exhale from the crown to your throat. Send your third eye to the crown, and exhale from the crown to your third eye, and rest and
and just going a little deeper, if you notice that, you may falsely try not to, but if you do, you do, we're going to hover in that little area With the brain waves go a little bit lower, and for your not quite sleep, like a liminal area. Images may come, emotions, thoughts, memories, and it's all right, so bring your attention to the right thumb. Right. Index finger, middle finger, ring finger, right little finger, the palm of the right hand and the top the wrist of the right hand,
the right lower arm and the elbow, upper arm and right Shoulder.
Now imagine the space that the right arm occupies,
open, limitless, let go the area underneath that right arm, the right part of the Coastal body, the waist, the hip,
the right thigh, right knee, lower leg, right ankle, right heel, the top of that right foot, the bottom of that right foot. In your toes, big toe, second, third fourth, little, right So
now imagine the area that rhyme like occupies open, limitless, let go, and
if you can now imagine the area of the right body occupies from your right shoulder to your right toes,
the left thumb, second finger, middle finger, or Pinky, the top of the left hand,
The palm of the left hand,
wrist, lower arm and up elbow, upper arm,
left shoulder and now imagine the area that left arm occupies, open, limitless. Let go
know that left arm, the side of your chest, your waist, your hip,
the left thigh, the lower leg, ankle, the left heel, the top of the left foot, the Bottom
your toes. Big toe, second, third, fourth, and letter to
now imagine the area that left leg occupies and
open limit plus. Now imagine the area the left side of the body occupies and
your throat, your heart area, solar plexus, lower stomach,
your glutes, mid back, shoulder blades and your shoulders.
Now, imagine the area that your body occupies, from your shoulders down, spacious, open, lift up and off
Your forehead and eyebrows, eyelids,
nose, mouth and mouth, jaw, the Left ear, the right the back of the head.
Now bring your awareness and your attention to the area the head occupies, open and limitless and
no inside and No outside.
Now imagine the area your whole body occupies. Opening space.
We're going to be here for a couple of minutes. No intention, nothing to do, nowhere to go, relax and let It Go.
Any ideas, anything that comes up, just watch it like a cloud Going through The Sky. You
so maybe bring to mind the beginning of this session today.
Maybe it's an idea. Maybe is an image. And
maybe by the time that I talk again, the image has already left. I
maybe bring now to your mind an area of your life that you would like some healing with some answer and notice how the body feels you
does it can stop in certain area. Do you have an image of the area of The body? Do
did That image fade away? I
so that is the way that we begin to notice, how images, how concepts, how contractions, come into our mind stream and become more visible and
but to notice, we have to find a space.
We have to connect and
we have to comment.
I so bring the attention to the back of the body, allowing maybe to settle even a little bit more if you're sitting, just allow your shoulders to come down, maybe your seat goes more towards the cushions. If you're laying down in the back, it's almost like you can go a little bit deeper into the ground or the bed or the chair, and
there's nothing to keep up with. You don't have to hold yourself. You
so we bring the attention to the areas of the body, so we stop seeing and feeling those areas and we've been present to our thoughts in order for them to become more open and empty.
We do our visualizations, our prayers, our mantras in order to de reify the solidity of this body and
we're going to spend a minute or Two just In silence You
now going back into the heart area, to that beautiful point of light that is bright, luminous, and maybe remember your intention again, repeat it three times and
maybe there's something that you can Carry On or maybe that you would like to share later with others or yourself, maybe make that little bit of a commitment to yourself, or something that you just want to investigate a little bit more contemplate A little bit deeper. Just make that mental notation you
and now slowly we begin to come into this moment to a different expression of ourselves, bringing the attention to the area around the room where you are seeing the walls, the counters, the furniture, the windows, the pets, if you have any,
noticing how everything becomes more visual, heavier do the area around your body, maybe four to six feet from your body and the energy that surrounds your body in front of you, below you, to The sides, to two feet from your skin to your skin, your bones, your nerves, your muscles, your organs, your legs, your arms, your head,
to your breath,
maybe bringing the attention to the breath a little deeper and begin to breathe a little deeper, longer inhalations and exhalation so in your own time,
maybe noticing a softness to your breath.
You can bring movement to your wrist and your fingers to your toes, maybe moving softly your head from side to side,
and noticing where there Is any lasting effect to The last 45 minutes. You
come into a sitting pose, if you can. If I you're sleeping, you can stay there and
I would be quiet for a few minutes in case you have any comments or questions. You
it does help to if you let me know also what didn't work. You're too kind. I it.
So the goals with this slogan was a little bit to see the concepts, how we reify we like was thank you for the heart. So that's the way we come up in the reality comes so real and so concrete for us. So the it's out there when we contract and we like, dislike or indifferent, when we are me, you or my friends, my no friend, the ones that are different. We're just attaching labels and labels and labels and labels. And the problem is not to name them. The problem is how concrete they become with our opinions. And that's what creates the struggle. So in the Nidra, sometimes what we do is that we talk even when you are very, very relaxed is for the job, for the purpose of breaking that and for you noticing when that comes into play. And the other thing that I'd like to do at the end is just bring the space, because you are a lot bigger than you think. You're in your head, and maybe you're thinking, but you are a lot bigger after that relaxation that you are, and then you begin to feel this body a little bit more. And that is the way that we project the energy and the feel of energy, and that's the feel also of the merit that we have created with the practice. So those are the two intentions of those two. So I would be quiet again, if not we do their regular closing. And thank you, Kate,
she has a pretty smile.
You're a very gentle crowd, I have to say, thank you. Thank you. How many people did lay down?
Oh, good, yes. How many reclining chairs? Reclining shares actually are pretty good because of all of that zero. How many people have a little bit of trouble? Thank you. A little trouble sleeping. If you go to sleep right away after Nidra, nobody. I do sometimes. So I want you guys to know, though I am in it's for me, it's now 1010, or nine, and it's past my bedtime for Cinderella. But sometimes like the energy, because you relax the body to a point that you take a little bit of that pressure that you need to go to sleep. So don't be surprised if that could happen to you, especially when you add the intention, I see, yes, I'm in Puerto Rico until Friday, and it's been raining a little bit. Didn't you hear the noises? And because this house is like a plastic place, and the noises of the motorcycle going back, and then a lot of, Oh yes, I love power. For more than 24 hours, 80% of the island without power. It's funny how you get used to in different you know, in the thing is that people here are so intense, but when you went out in there was no people were looking for gas and diesel, blah, blah, blah and traffic. There was no traffic lights. Everybody became the most civilized Puerto Ricans you can imagine. And we are loud and passionate everything we do. And it warmed my heart, because in moment of crisis. That is their true nature. We that's what we become when we forget. So that was a very important Christmas message I did see. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank thank you for the opportunity to share this crazy practice. What I share with you, and just remember that I'm just a student. I'm just sharing my practice in any mistakes that I make, in the interpretations is coming from me and my hard head and now from the teachings. And I invite you to use these tools, because this platform has so much to offer. And also for some of us that have been doing it, especially with Andrew, for a long time, just remember my my visual is my visual about the seasoning part is you just season one little bit at a time, and for it to become a good, deep, different flavor. And in this thing is just sipping through your manner that you see life, and we don't realize. Well, I had one more thing I almost forgot I was reading this. Way Finland is the happiest country. There was something in Google about Finland being one of the happiest countries, or the happiest and they name things why they were so happy. You know, health care, publicness and civility. But the one that caught my attention, it was that they all shared a more a sense of contentment, and not that high, looking for high, highs of happiness. And I said, Wow, isn't that what we do? Also in the spiritual we want, the experiences we get hooking the experiences of the highs when we are actually looking at for contentment. And I'm hoping that that's what this practice would bring to you. As we share this with each other, it's not a sense like we figure it out going to be over this suffering part of life like soon. Some of us knows that the older you get, this body begins to fail, and things go down really, really fast. But so it's not that is the way that we look at those things, and it's a sense of contentment, and not the high of the Kundalini energy going really up, and the fire that burns you inside, it is contentment. So I wanted to leave you with that we can, can we? Can we go for that? I had a they used to be called Lama maroot. He died a few years back, and I said, just remember that when we itch, what we want is not to be able to satisfy. What we want is to stop itching. That's contentment. It's not as crushing, and what we want is to stop itching. So let's stop fishing for a little bit right now. Okay, so we end this the way that I have ended all my yoga classes for many, many years. So I don't want to break the spell. So we raise our arms and we gather. Imagine that you can gather everything that we have done here, the energy and the love in the hands. There's a little space between the hands, and in this case, we may touch our forehead, our mouth, our heart, and with a sense of reverence, imagine that we can share this practice, and many other sentient beings can benefit from this practice. May they find contentment? May they have the opportunity to relax and study and find the teachings. Have sweet dreams tonight, may your awakened hearts grow and flourish ever and ever. Say
thank you. We see you soon. I think I may be with you on the 27th. Bye Bye Love you all, really love you. Bye bye.