Transcription
Let's have a walking period, some walking meditation. Who's got a bell? Jane? Thank you. If we aim to be back for a sitting at 12, Jane. Let me just give some instructions if you're new to this. With walking meditation, we can walk anywhere on the green. Is that right? Yeah? So anywhere outside, really. And to choose a path so we're really walking up and down between two points; it's not sort of just ambling around, but walking up and down between two points. It might be half the width of this room or a little longer. You can start just by standing. It's a very simple practice. What does it feel like to stand? What's the embodied experience of standing? So I feel the connection with the earth, the sensations in the body, the whole body. Maybe I tune into the sensations of contact with the earth. You can stand as long as you like feeling that. When you feel ready, you can begin walking. Just what does it feel like to walk? It's very, very simple. What's the experience of walking? The mind drifts and you bring it back to that experience of walking.
You can walk as slow as you like or as fast as you like. What helps you stay connected? What helps make it interesting, this experience we have, the miracle of being alive, that we can walk and we can feel that? When you reach the end, you can stop. You can stand for as long as you want. Feel the standing. What does it feel like to turn, when you're ready? And again, to just walk up and down. You can stop any time if you feel like you want to centre yourself more and gather the attention. Another thing that people can play with is the sort of size of their attention. You could just pay attention to the soles of your feet if you want and the sensations in the soles of your feet. You could pay attention to how it feels in the legs or the lower legs or the whole body. You could be really spacious and have a sense of sky, air, earth, space, and the sensations of the body walking in that, and that's a big frame, and awareness is very open. So it could be very focused, or very open, everything in between. The question is really, what brings it alive for you? What makes it interesting and supports a sense of connection with that?
Okay? So we have half an hour of walking, and then we'll come back in for a sitting period. Jane will ring the bell.
