Yoga with Wings for Air Travel

"You must approach your yoga practice with reverence and gratitude and love. It’s very much like entering a temple."  – Amrit Desai

Relaxation Meditation

This meditation is ideal for the air because it allows time to pass with out "doing". On a cellular level you are retraining your body to listen to your own inner guidance and just "being". Do not get discouraged if your body does not respond immediately. Please be patient in your mind, you have the time when your flying to practice!

Take your seat breathing gently through your nose relaxing your lips and tongue. Notice which body parts make contact with your chair and with each exhale slowly surrender into the loving hands of gravity. Acknowledge your muscle tension and resistance, it’s natural and let that be. Guide your awareness to the soles of your feet and relax them. Relax your ankles, shins and calves. Relax your knees, thighs and your buttock. Relax your lower back, middle back and upper back. Feel your shoulder blades sliding down your back as your shoulders soften.

Return your pelvis back to the earth and begin to relax more. Relax your belly, your stomach, chest and ribs. Relax your inhales. Relax your exhales. Relax your throat and neck. Relax the space where your neck meets your hair and your scalp too. Begin to relax all you face muscles. Forehead, eyebrows and eyes, nose and cheeks, relax. Lips, chin and mouth relax. Spaces under your cheeks, jaw, relax. Even your ears relax. Take a few more deep breaths and relax even more.

Relax your thinking, your thoughts. Relax your brain. With each exhale relax your thinking more. Relax your mind. Please take a few more restful breaths and observe the quiet mind and the message that lie between the silent pauses.