[10] Guided Yoga Nidra Meditation with Mayra Lorenzana-Miles

    9:05PM Mar 7, 2025

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    Keywords:

    Yoga Nidra

    meditation

    relaxation

    immune system

    parasympathetic system

    insomnia

    anxiety

    Tantra

    awareness

    body scan

    breathing exercises

    intention setting

    personal growth

    mindfulness

    healing.

    My name is Maya Lorenzana miles. I earned my life as an immigration attorney, and I've been doing this for 40 years or so, and I enjoy and if I if I could just do only this, that would be great. Although I love what I do, I think

    I've been blessed

    that I never had a doubt of what I wanted to do, which is kind of strange, and this is not the way that I was beginning. But I remember being in the in the backyard in school in my third grade, talking to the teacher, and one of my things that I wanted to do was to talk about the students and my evaluation of the students. I was trying to analyze people already when I was in third grade, and I told my my teacher that I was going to be an attorney, and I never looked any other way i i kind of never had a doubt, but the way that I was thrown into immigration, to work with immigrant immigration, I've been doing this for over 30 years. It's a different story for another day, but it goes back to a threat that in Tantra, we often hear that concept of a thread, and it's a little bit of what we've been doing with this classes. And in a way, in this platform, if you think through there is a thread that also kind of energetic thread that kind of join us together every time we meet or with any other one of the teachers. And it is that thread that sometimes pulls you in when you're reading a book or watching a movie or listening to somebody and you're like and you connect. It's almost like a hook that connects you and sends you a certain way. And nowadays, with this ability to join and have the Sangha, the way that we do in this way, and the way that we connect to the this medium, I don't know if you remember when we began with all the zoom thing with clothes. Everybody was very formal. And, you know, you could not have pets, and you could not have any mistakes be made, and and everything was like it was pre and now the pets beginning to be part of the thing. The Pajama pants began that be part of the of the show, the jokes that were made, the interruptions, the the times that the system did not work, and and we were all nervous, and then the second and third time we were less nervous. In in each one of those things just kept bringing us together and together and together to the point that this kind of meetings are meaningful, and we are all sitting in the same living room right now. We forget about the boundaries. We forget about where we are, and somehow we can carry our conversations and our presence through the night and tomorrow, and we can think about it and like it or dislike it or completely. Today was the day that I did not connect. So welcome to Yoga, Nidra. To give you a little bit of more of a background, when I met Andrew 2016 maybe the first course was in Tucson, I think I met Barry in 2017 he was not very fond of yoga, Nile of yoga, Nidra. He started like a relaxation, with the 64 points of relaxation and relaxation being very important, mostly a Hindu thing. But he was not like, oh, not. Not, not really, and slowly in his ability of always learn and transform and digest for us, he began to talk to people where the data that was coming from yoga nidra, so boom, maybe there's something there. And then I had the fortune of teaching yoga in some of these retreats, and I always in the shavasana, like in the Nidra. And one day, this is Myra. I don't know what you're doing to people, but people are saying that you are really good relaxing people. They say, just let me teach you one day, um, and it took me about another four years, maybe. And one day say, Why did you do it my run? I say yes, I earned my spot. So here we are. What I don't want this to be is it's called the yogi sleep in many things. It's a tantric practice, in a way. But like anything else, is now used with a lot of formula, where. The Yoga Nidra can reduce your anxiety. It has effects in your blood, in your count cells. Is is good for helping with insomnia. It helps the parasympathetic system to regulate itself. It helps you to remember things better. It's a good thing for creative process. In this Yogi sleep, you only with one hour, you have six hours of regular sleep. And when he gets to that, it sounds to me like a very good, expensive commercial, and he loses the value all those things independently. There's data behind and there's even papers. Now, I was looking at a PubMed publication about the effects, and they have data to reflect all this information. However, like anything that we do, it's an individual thing, and every time we come here, the class will not be the same. The body that comes here is not the same, the food that we ate is or is not the same, the conversation that we just had just before is not the same. We are not the same. We're just expressions right now, so we don't know if we have an expectation that is going to be as good as they promise, or as good as the last time. We're setting

    ourselves up for disappointment.

    I heard a long time ago, and maybe you too, that the worst meditation session usually comes after a very good one, because the way that we set up ourself and what we think is going, that's why many times I do not fall, although there's a pattern and a sequence, I try to change the way the relaxation sometimes, although we've been doing a certain pattern that I would like to be engraved a little bit more, because otherwise you're already expecting what I am going to say next. So I'm going for my thumb to my index finger, and you probably are already in the pinky, because that that's what the mind does, and there's nothing wrong about that. We just have to be aware that's what we do. That's why I try to change it up a little bit. So if you find yourself, Oh, she changed it today, she went from the shoulder to the elbow instead of from the elbow to the shoulder, and you begin to talk back in your in your session. Just know that's what the mind does, and what we are doing is observing the mind. So we are certain things that we've been doing here too. So there is a lot of data helping with a lot of the medical issues with sleep. The purpose is to remain aware in a profound state of relaxation without completely falling asleep. I found a quote today. We're going back to the beginning pretty soon, because I was with that comment. I that's what I was thinking. But Swami facinada wrote this, and he's one of the ones that brought it then yoga nidra came here about 1960 in terms of more trend, and there's a lot of good people that are doing a lot of good work with it. And he wrote, When awareness is separate and distinct from mental activity, when waking dream and sleep pass like clouds, your awareness of self remains. This is the experience of total relaxation. That is why, in Tantra Yoga, Nidra is said to be the doorway, the doorway to Samadhi. So this, this, that's a lot on that, but that is the basic and there is some scripture from the Mahabharata, where the yoga nidra is mentioned because it's a state of complete relaxation, where you are hovering between states of consciousness. Sometimes we have dreamlets. Sometimes we can go into a lucid dream, if we're in bed and or maybe I loosen you go there, but the purpose is not go to sleep. But in that state, we're highly we're a big sponge. It's almost like a hypnotic state, in a way. So the things that we say to ourselves in that moment, the things that we hear, the imagery that we may see all has a deeper effect in the body. It's like it goes deeper into memory, into the memory of

    the body. That's why it's also

    very popular with healing. You can get in YouTube, and you get a lot of with music on healing, with yoga. Nidra, but I would like you to have all that information and make it your own. And you, it may be that it's all those things for you, but it may be that it's just a nice way to relax.

    And so what

    there is no master of yoga, Nidra that is coming to tell you that that's not the way to do it. This is your practice. Another thing that we've been doing is that I always begin with a poem, and there's reason for my madness. This is a children's book poem from Joel Cheryl Silverstein, because I think that in a way,

    the spiritual path

    is a magical path of stories.

    And I'm a nerd in terms of what I want to read. I like to read philosophy and the ways to go, but I'd like it to make it real when I'm like today with the frustration of not getting rid of my COVID. So how centered can I be when I'm frustrated because I'm not healing as fast as I think that I can be. Oh, how kind can I be to a person that interrupts me on the telephone when I do not want to talk on the telephone anymore but needed to be heard in those moments, I show what is a made for, and I failed more frequently that I do not, but the only thing that I can tell you is that these things that we do, we support each other and their tools. So the poem reads as follows, 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're a pretender, come sit my by fire for we have some it flex golden tails to spin

    comment, comment, and either way, that's what we do.

    We spin tails.

    That's what we do. We spin tales, a lot of them with a lot of

    wisdom, with a lot of heart.

    But I want this process that we do to have a certain amount of lightness and ease into who we are, because if we get really hard on ourselves, on the things that we have to do or not to do, without understanding the processes of the mind, understanding the way that the mind works and moves, without being able to relax and be fully human, Then we cannot keep it. Willpower will break us. Sooner or later, we would face the pressure that we would break it has to be part of who you are. We have to learn a little bit how to dance. My grandson was is due today. And I'm seeing life through His eyes. And I remember having my kids two years old, says, oh my goodness, how the universe changes. And he's looking at me, and I know how his brain is a sponge. And I look at all of us, and in a way that the guys, the way that we're looking at each other, is no different.

    There's not

    we, just the custom is aging, but we still have the same hunger, the same eagerness for joy and peace and health. The only thing is that we're a little bit more strict in the way that we move.

    So

    we talked yesterday, for those two of us that were in the meditation in this article, from tricycle regarding karma and what I wanted to lead into, from the only thing that I wanted to say from that is that we go back in the yoga nidra to that moment of the decision process

    where the true freedom resides. And when we relax enough, we may be able to see those gaps that are the moment of creation where everything is possible. And I that's the invitation that I I have for you in the yoga. Today, we're going to go through stages of relaxation, and we're beginning to notice, notice how the body begins to kind of talk. It's through the body that we feel. So notice how, how it talks. Notice even how you're feeling right now. Notice the conversation that you're having with me right now.

    We begin to connect the correct last thing before we relax.

    I feel like if Andrew were to listen to me today, I would be very, very nervous, because he sometimes tells people, do not be like a mixed salad. Just stick with one thing. But today is a big mixed sale, so don't tell them. But anyway, it all has a goal. So the other thing that we've been doing is the slogans, the Atticus slogans, and winning slogan number 10. And the way that we're going to work a little bit with the slogans is that at some point during the relaxation, I'm going to just mention the first nine slogans, so you hear them in that little state. And the one for today, which continues with what I was saying, is that when you begin the process of giving and taking, begin with yourself. So when we begin to with tumbling, we should also begin with ourselves. And beginning with ourselves is really not easy. What we're taking is almost like we can just separate and take the pain out and fill ourself with love, and we should begin with ourselves, but that goes to the point that we have to come with a gentle heart, with kindness, with playfulness, knowing that all these little things that we've been talking about, including the slogans, and we've been reading Judy leaves PDF, and she's also a student or children. Trungpa Rinpoche, those are

    tools only, tools that

    we repeat, we practice, we repeat,

    we practice, we read again, and in the moment that is necessary, we may have tools to know how to approach a certain situation.

    So beginning with ourselves is what is recommended when you are as one of the tools when you're beginning the process of tongue, line of giving and takings.

    So I will stay

    quiet. Any little questions before we begin. The way that we would go is or would be sitting for a little bit and relax. Then you can stay sitting for yoga nidra, or you can find a place where you can lay down, find as much comfort as you can, maybe a little support for your head, but the head, and I'll be just looking right up, because you would be crunching the back of the head, maybe some pillow under your knees so the lower back

    feels very relaxed,

    and Just a blanket to keep you warm. And then there, if you want to sleep, you sleep. But if you want to hover in that little state that we were talking about, that would be very, also very useful, and it may be even to lead into lucidity tonight, to talk a little bit. Do not be surprised. Some people in yoga, with yoga nidra, they get really excited, and the energy moves a lot. And sometimes they cannot sleep as well. So if you are in the east coast, um, or Eastern time, so I go right to sleep after this. And sometimes it takes me a little while because they i It's a good energy, the one that I feel, but it's not and I'm sleeping energy, if that is the case, and you feel like you're falling asleep and you want to relax, just stay there. Forget about the recording and us. We see you next time. Do not worry about just turn off the camera and forget about us and just go into that sweetness of the sleep. But it's possible sometimes for that to happen.

    Sito, I have somebody asking me something.

    Oh, yeah. John, 272, 1017, years. When we met, yes, oh my goodness, yeah. So people here for all times. Thank you so much. So any questions, anybody that is the first time they do a yoga? Nidra?

    You okay?

    You too good. Are you people that would like to control and the way that things are, or can you just kind of do not care and just relax?

    No, not easy to relax. Okay, I said this before, but let's say that again. When I say relax, do not worry about whether you're relaxing or not, because tell you, please relax. It's almost like a contraindication, contraindication. But what we're going to do is that we're going to if I say the ocean, everybody has a picture of an ocean that comes flashing into you. You know an ocean. Your ocean and my ocean may be different. My ocean is the one that I grew up. Your ocean may be your best vacation ever. Or if you live in one of the residents is one of the coasts, that's the ocean that you see. But the word itself has a weight. So if I say relax, the word has to wait on you. Do not worry anything else about it. You don't have to do anything about it. If I say left ear, you don't have to see the ear. You just place the attention. It's almost like you're using a feather to touch a bubble ear, mouth or finger, ocean, sun, it you don't have to go anywhere else. You're just being led by the instruction. And the reason to keep the instruction going at a certain pace is because the mind will deviate and go places. It's a way just to lead you from trying to give you too less distraction, to progressively allow the body to continue the relaxation process. Every time would be different, and there's no way to do it wrong unless you are criticizing and judging yourself, and that's what we do so frequently. So let's stop talking. Unless I have a question, let's just do it. So find the place where you can sit that you get your seat you

    I'm trying to find a

    where to put my binder with my slogans,

    okay?

    And it's almost like, you know, welcome.

    Just notice the body that is here today. Is it achy?

    Is there a level of expectation? And the answers are not important. It's just a pause with

    a question,

    and then maybe you close your eyes.

    Just make sure that you have a way where you can going to relax. Sometimes also it's very, very nice to have like a recliner,

    and you can use a recliner for laying back. And in that way, you're not completely flat, and maybe you can remain in that level of awareness a little bit more

    if you have one of these devices, like a watch

    or aura ring or something like that, sometimes

    it's good to have those because they can also measure a little bit of the level of relaxation that we have. And maybe measured you if you are sleeping, or think that you're sleeping,

    we're going to do a little bit of breathing.

    Just notice the bottom of your feet,

    your spine,

    your sit bones,

    maybe you're bringing a smile into your face and

    and we're going to inhale to four, all to eight, and exhale to eight or 10. It's up to you. Are we doing? Count only two or three times, and you can do it on your own three or four more times. And we all have taken many classes here. The purpose is just bringing the energy from the head and the thinking process down the body. You can even imagine that come all the way down to

    the sole of your feet.

    So we inhale to 1234,

    softly, hold to 23456, 456,

    exhale, almost like you're doing

    to a straw to 2345678,

    inhale, 234, 234, hold, 23456,

    let go. 234567,

    678,

    continue doing that. Forget about the count. Just make sure that

    you hold a little longer and

    exhale a little longer than Both inhalations and holdings. You

    so now your eyes are open. Allow them to close. If they're closed, just imagine that they're closing again, and imagine your eyelids slowly closing down, down, down, and the eyelids touch briefly, almost like they are kissing softly each other,

    noticing the muscles of your face, maybe bringing the corners of your mouth

    up, softly,

    relaxing your jaw and

    the back of your tongue,

    your throat,

    your heart area

    Almost imagining that there's this soft honey

    like color,

    worn substance that just pours over your body softly,

    like a warm blanket. I mean, your head,

    the back of your head, and your face, your

    neck, your shoulders,

    your torso,

    your sit bones,

    your legs, the bottom of your feet and.

    And at this moment, maybe review your day

    and find maybe One to three things that you are grateful for and

    and just know that maybe sometimes it's difficult to find or sometimes we have difficulty to understand what we want to be thankful for, But there's so many other things that did happen,

    people smiles, coffee or tea, the warmth of our clothing,

    the resources that we have and

    and one of the images that I love to do is just imagining

    all the people

    that were before us right here and that make this moment possible, Beginning with our relatives, immediate family members, loved ones

    the sponsors of this platform,

    the teachers, The books, the Scriptures, the teachers of these teachers, the hundreds,

    1000s of years of traditions

    of knowledge, of tears, of laughter, of inquiry, and we're here right now.

    It's been said recently that one of the crises that we have at this moment is the lack of connection and

    action when we look at

    every little part of our body is part of so much more and

    and now bringing to mind all the people that are doing a similar practice at this moment. And

    and then all the ones that will continue, the traditions,

    the practices, the search

    and we are in all of them,

    and all of them are in us. And

    so noticing your toes and your body and maybe setting yourself an intention for your practice and slowly finding the recline, supine position, if that is the way that you're going to go into your yoga nidra.

    So you can lay down, you can turn off the camera, and you can stay sitting like again, yeah.

    Make sure that your body is completely relaxed and

    so we begin to practice just scanning the body one more time, noticing where it still feels too tight, maybe your fingers feel a little bit like class.

    Just expand them

    when you feel that the left shoulder is deeper than the right, and maybe you find a balance and

    maybe your chin is too close to your chest and you have to lift up a little bit. Just use your own judgment and spend a few seconds here just making sure that you are as comfortable as if possible.

    So if you are laying down, releasing your feet to the sides, opening the hips a little bit, releasing your lower back. And you can even do that if you're sitting and

    noticing your breath

    and placing your attention maybe in an area below Your belly button, there to witness the breath up and down just For a few seconds. You

    noticing whether your face has tightened off a little bit, releasing your eyes,

    your mouth, your jaw,

    the back of the head.

    Seeing, even if you can see the hairline, just imagine in your hairline and

    the left ear, the right ear,

    shoulder blades come In and down a little bit, exposing the heart. Your arms feel long.

    Your legs become heavy and

    maybe now, placing your attention around the heart area and just imagining that you can breathe from there,

    waking up that center of your body and

    And in that center there is a little sparkle of a diamond, like light

    clear and

    luminous

    and open,

    and you're going to set an intention for your practice.

    It could be relaxation,

    healing, special knowledge,

    once you decide on your intention, you repeat it to yourself three times, Almost like you're talking and feeling that heart area you

    scan your body with Your mind's eye before we go a little deeper And

    noticing whether the body changes temperature

    with Your thoughts become a little bit more active and

    and we begin to place our Attention softly

    on the right thumb, right index finger. May middle finger, ring finger, little finger, open, vibrating pure light

    the Top of that right hand,

    the palm

    right wrist and

    lower arm,

    right elbow, upper arm, shoulder and the front of that right shoulder, the back of that right shoulder,

    the area underneath

    the right arm, the

    right side of your waist,

    open and let go the right side of your stomach and hip,

    the right hip, right thigh, open, let go, inner right thigh, outer right thigh, front and back, vibrating. The right knee. The right lower leg, right ankle, the top of your right foot,

    the heel,

    the sole of the right foot,

    the big toe, second third, or The Little right toe,

    the areas between your toes relaxed,

    open and Let go.

    Now imagine the area that the right side of your body occupies from your right shoulder,

    right arm, right side of your torso, right leg, right foot and

    pure energy, vibrating, relax and let it go and

    the left thumb, index finger, middle ring finger, little finger, your fingers are vibrating,

    spacious

    and open top of that left hand, the palm,

    The wrist,

    the lower arm, vibrating, relax and open And

    the left elbow, over arm, left shoulder.

    There the front of the left shoulder the back.

    There's absolutely nothing to do. Just place your attention in the vibrating energies of your body,

    the area underneath that left arm,

    the left side of your waist and

    of your stomach,

    the left hip,

    the left thigh, and

    allow that left thigh like to roll to the outside, just releasing your lower back and your Body deeper into your chair,

    your bed, the floor and here, the left knee,

    lower leg, ankle and.

    The top of the left foot, the heel, the bottom and

    the left big toe, second, third, fourth, little one.

    Now imagine the area the left side of your body occupies, from your shoulder,

    your arm, the

    left side of Your torso,

    your left leg and your left foot And

    now imagine the area of both legs of Your pies,

    fast, open, relax,

    and the area that your upper body occupies in space.

    Know where to go, nowhere to Be, vibrating energy and

    your forehead,

    your left eye, the back of the left eye,

    towards the center of the center of the center of your head

    your right eye

    relaxing the back of that right eye towards the center of the center of the center of Your head,

    the muscles of your face and

    the back of your tongue,

    the size of your Tongue and

    releasing your jaw even more you

    Maybe allowing the looks to open slightly more and

    Allowing the energies of the body to settle into any surface that you are sitting and laying down and

    almost Like you can make a little puddle,

    no resistance and

    Open and

    noticing any sensations, any thoughts, any sensations of movements or vibrations or just pure relaxation and

    any ideas, any images, they're part of, expressions of the mind and

    not to be followed.

    But relaxing even deeper You

    and your body for sensations and knowing that whatever images can come up and.

    Whatever memories, conversations, they all feel Like an illusion, like a dream. I

    so come into the area of the heart with that diamond, like luminous,

    sparkling area of your heart. And

    it's almost like imagine it's a room full of glass all around you can see in every direction.

    And it's one of those fractal images where you go from little to the most vast

    sensation. And so

    from

    there, there is no limits,

    no limits to the right or to the left, back or for all poured down

    just bright luminosity.

    And this luminosity just lights

    the whole body from the inside out and vibrating,

    dissolving and

    and in there, connect to Your intention and repeat your intention three more times And

    and after that, Just let it go and

    relax, Open, aware and

    slowly begin to bring the attention to the areas around your body and.

    Maybe beginning to have a breath that is a little fuller. Do not move too fast and

    softly, move the head from side to side and

    bring movement to your fingers and your toes, maybe using your thumbs to rub against each one of The fingers, waking up the body a little bit

    beginning to take breath that a little deeper. Let's do one together. Take an inhale. Okay? Exhale through your mouth,

    inhale through the nose,

    exhale through mouth.

    One more, inhale and all and let it go,

    bringing the attention to the ear of your third eye, I will say a short om.

    The throat would be an ah, the heart would be a home. AUM, ah,

    ah, hung

    Om. Ah, home, Om,

    ah, um, oh,

    opening your eyes so they're still closed, and slowly come into a sitting pose and

    I have to make a confession, and is that I completely lost About 30 minutes of the meditation. That was unbelievable energy. Thank you, you guys. I mean, I when I saw the time, I said, woof, I have never been more than an hour and five or 10 minutes. Or do they assign an hour and a half for this? But that was like I was in this space, like Barry's picture, what I was talking and but so I'm so sorry if I went too long, but that was that was very peaceful. Thank you for allowing me to practice with you. Any comments, Linda, how do you do

    Myra, that was super strong. Totally agree with you. I was actually I was laying down, and I had to sit, sit up. And the energy was even stronger. I felt it stronger, sitting up. Thank you. That was amazing. I

    when I look at the what happened, I. I left somewhere I was in the space that I was talking about. But um, for that is just a little window of an experience. I commented, and when I share personal things, and I asked Linda, just because I, I know a little bit with her, it's not because we all have to feel the same. Is that the only way to translate the energies through personal experience, and minor herds are completely different, and mine and French are going to be completely different. And doesn't matter what it is, as long as we are aware of the experiences is happening. Because being distracted is to be contracted, and being contracted is the mind going really fast and not being able to relax and do the things that we do. So my, my the way that I approach this, and I hope and forgive me, if I lay it down a little bit, is just to make it is so real. It's so immediate to our lives, to everyday life, to the magic of who we are, that that my goal is that although

    I don't succeed most of the time,

    when moments like this happen, it fuels me to say, Yes, this is why we do it. This is these are the moments that charge us to continue in the path. So thank you for sharing that. Anybody wants to say anything else? By the way, I decided that the salad was too much, so I was not going to read the slogans, because the energy was too good to just put more information. So what's an intentional choice? We do it next time, because one of the things that I want to do with the last dog slogan is to thread it as almost having, like index cards that we can cool in a moment of stress and where we need them. So that's the intention of the slogans. Anything else you

    do we lose somebody that are snoring and sleeping somewhere?

    What do we have?

    Your earlier talk was very alive. Yes, is there something that you can say about this Puerto Rican? Is that I have a little passion sometimes when I like what I do? Yeah, to see my grandson, when he sees my husband, who is a different nation. He says, Papa, and when he sees me, he says, Ah, so he knows personalities and choose, um, but anyway, anything else but take out one of the things that I've been reviewing. I was listening I I'm never finish one of my favorite teachers. It took 10 limpa, which is was the translation translator for the Dalai Lama for a very long time. And he has some conversation with wisdom publications, and I have done some of his courses. And he was interviewed one more time, and I was reviewing, they asked him, What did you do? He was a monk. He's not a monk anymore. He lives in Montreal, he has two girls, and he's married. And he said, setting the intention in the morning is very important, but right now for us that we're going to sleep is also remember, not only our intention, but setting an intention also for the night, but we forget to rejoice.

    And I invite us right now to rejoice,

    to rejoice in the way that we're looking at each other with so much respect, to rejoice in the way that we honor each other's presence, to rejoice in in the ability to share the practice through this medium, to rejoice in the science and the technology that makes This medium like we are in the same living room, and to rejoice that we have a next choice to make, and we still alive to make it.

    So those are just a few things.

    I'm rejoicing that my COVID cough didn't attack me during this hour and a half, and I was able to talk, and I swear so once in a while, so please don't do it. Don't cough. Now you cannot interrupt them, but I'm rejoicing that I made it through. So we see each other next month, but I think I have one more meditation next Monday, because Doctor parent is out. So. I hope that you guys are on board with me. We can continue this. We can do different things if you want, but you see what is in your heart, all the teachings, all the studies, all the technology, all the meditation,

    all the scriptures and

    with the heart and learning compassion, opening the heart.

    So that's my aspiration.

    So I respect you a lot, and I always feel when I finish this that I have gained much more, and it's been very selfish of me to have this opportunity, because I get so much more from you all than what I can give to you. And just remember that any mistakes that I make in my interpretations of my readings is mine, and myRA is mine, and it's not comes from the teaching. So that's why I give you the teachings to invite you to do your own search.

    But in the meantime, let's keep dancing. It's the only thing we can do.

    Okay,

    so we finished the same way, because this is the way that I've finished for the last. I don't know how many years now is coming, and that comes from really bodhicitta, and that's why it comes about that so we gather the energy around us in symbolism. The Palms come together with space in between, and we use our thumbs to

    touch that area

    of the heart,

    this fish and the mind,

    heart, mind,

    sweet dreams tonight. Blessings to all of you, may your awakened hearts grow and flourish ever more and more. Namaste.

    Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, bye,

    bye, bye.