Harmonious Awakening: Breathing & Consciousnesses Practices from Dennis Lewis

This sitting explores the relationship of thinking (through intentional counting), attention, and body sensation. And it continues the exploration of the freedom from habitual thoughts and reactive emotions that emerges when we are touch with a more-conscious and complete sensation of our body. If you haven’t yet worked with the first two guided sittings, I suggest you do so before beginning this one.

An ancient—and humorous—story about the meaning of listening in action.

Explore with Dennis Lewis this simple, powerful practice of presence through breathing and movement.

Like all of us, even Mullah Nasruddin does not want to be seen in a bad light. And, of course, many of us are quick to do whatever we can to avoid that painful experience.

Learn about some of the key principles and benefits of mindful breathing, and practice a little-known, powerful, mindful breathing exercise with Dennis Lewis.

Will 2019 be a year filled with new impressions, perceptions, insights, and actions or a well-tread used year, filled with the same old thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and actions that keep our world in turmoil? Is there a practical, meaningful New Year’s resolution that can help transform our lives?

Listen to the Mullah offer a humorous and very different view of morality than the usual “spiritually correct” one.

This sitting goes deeper into the levels of sensation and impressions possible when we sense our bodies more completely. And it continues the exploration of the freedom from habitual thoughts and reactive emotions that emerges when we are touch with this more-conscious and complete body sensation. If you haven’t yet worked with the first guided sitting, I suggest you do so for a few days before beginning this one.

This is the first of a series of sittings designed to help support the inward journey of awakening to who or what we truly are. This journey is no mere journey of the mind or imagination. It is rather a journey into the energetic dimensions of our own wholeness. It is through sittings such as the ones I offer here that we can begin to develop the inner attention necessary to see ourselves as we are, and can begin to understand how the conscious sensation of the body supports the expansion of consciousness in our lives.

Yes, who are you? Are you your profession, your image of yourself, your “status” in relation to others? Or are you something else altogether?