ENFOLDED IN LOVE

Seated, hands touch toes

Head down to knees, breathing in...

Surrounded by LOVE

Sitting on the floor with legs outstretched, we reach our hands toward our toes, sometimes getting there (on good days when we've already stretched and feel flexible) and sometimes not. As our hands move toward our toes, our head moves downward in the direction of our knees, sometimes getting there, most of the times not. But, we can all reach and stretch to whatever degree we can, and we can all breath in to RELAX INTO the stretch. In doing so we might feel the breath of life entering our lungs, blood, organs, bones, cells...then we may begin to understand and experience being surrounded and interpenetrated by LOVE.

This posture is one of many yoga asanas that are designed to bring health to the body's vehicle. By extension, we can add to this hatha yoga asanas the prana of the breath of life, consciously inhaling that which sustains us, feeling into the incoming breath and relaxing into the posture. Try at least 3 conscious breaths while maintaining a stretch of roughly 70% effort (this 70% guideline i learned this from Taoist practitioner Bruce Frantzis--see his website: https://www.energyarts.com/about/--more than this exertion will sometimes bring injury of some kind) while focusing on the feeling of the breath spreading love throughout the body. Yes, we are indeed surrounded and interpenetrated by loving energy.