I am now doing weekly (or so) free short podcasts on breathing, presence, and much more. Still developing my approach and working out the kinks (for example, I just recently worked with a musician in Italy to create 30 seconds of introductory theme music for some of my podcasts), but I hope you’ll take a… Continue reading New Podcasts On Breathing & Presence From Author Dennis Lewis
Category: Breathing
Breathe Into Being Retreat
For a description of this weekend retreat with Dennis Lewis and Master Yu, click here. For a retreat registration form, click here. Once you’ve filled out the form, pay the full retreat amount by March 31st, or a 30 % deposit before that date to hold your place. Please… Continue reading Breathe Into Being Retreat
“The Unstruck Sounds”: Don’t Let Yourself Become Breathless When You Speak
Many of us when we speak try to say too much too quickly. Sometimes we try to say as much as we can before we are interrupted. At other times we just get carried away in expressing our thoughts or feelings. In doing so we often find ourselves still speaking when we simply don’t have… Continue reading “The Unstruck Sounds”: Don’t Let Yourself Become Breathless When You Speak
A Smiling Practice
Join me now, if you wish. Smile generously and breathe through your smile into and out of your heart. As you inhale, sense loving patience expanding in your heart. As you exhale, offer this loving patience for the benefit of all beings. When your exhalation is complete, come to rest for a moment in stillness… Continue reading A Smiling Practice
The Benefits of Conscious Breathing
“Conscious breathing not only provides a solid foundation for all the other kinds of breathing work, but it is also, in itself, transformational. Conscious breathing helps us cultivate inner stillness and presence. It also helps us be present to ourselves without judgment or analysis. Through becoming aware of how we actually breathe from moment to… Continue reading The Benefits of Conscious Breathing
Meditation In Action
An Early Morning Walk Henry David Thoreau said that “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” I continue to experience this truth in my own life. It connects me to the earth, gets my blood moving, promotes healthy breathing, arouses my senses, awakens my inner and outer attention, and, here in… Continue reading Meditation In Action
Internal Sensations of the Breath
“As we explore ourselves more intimately as breathing beings, we discover that the internal sensations we have of our breath and ourselves have many different densities and levels. We can discern, for example, solid, earthlike sensations; liquid, waterlike sensations; and gaseous, airlike sensations. We can experience the dense, contracted sensation of pain, the fluid sensation… Continue reading Internal Sensations of the Breath
Sensing the Welcoming Presence
When we experience our breath at the deepest levels in ourselves, we are experiencing our own deepest identity. In the Old Testament we find, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). In all… Continue reading Sensing the Welcoming Presence
A Celebration Is In Order!
I’m still here on this beautiful planet, and so are you dear reader. Let’s celebrate our good fortune by actually being here with presence and appreciation. A good way to begin is to sense your breathing and realize that it connects you with everyone and everything that has ever lived or will ever live on… Continue reading A Celebration Is In Order!
The Health Benefits of Humming
The Health Benefits of Humming Includes some research on how humming may be able to help with upper respiratory infections. Just click on the photo:
Expanding Our Narrow Sense of Ourselves
“The process of breathing is a living metaphor for understanding how to expand our narrow sense of ourselves and be present not just to the miraculous energies of life that are both in and around us but also to the deep silence and spaciousness out of which these energies arise. By checking in on your… Continue reading Expanding Our Narrow Sense of Ourselves