You Can Always Mudra: Yoga aboard the Mystic Traveller: somewhere between Laughlin and Alburquerque: January 22, 2016
Today is long bus ride travel day after a late night show evening. Did a few bus pigeons and lunges among a few cups of coffee but my main practice today was sitting up front in the passenger seat and enjoying the view.
I love to sit there for a lot of reasons, one of which is I'm learning how to do a moving open eye meditation and let the world open and reveal herself with each changing moment.
The seat is super cushy, with a leg rest and a gently reclining back. Throw a pillow under you neck just perfectly and you can savasana style relax. Open your eyes from that state and you can have a land yacht Kate Winslet Titatanic ride. Its so awesome.
Mid meditation I recall a great mudra the fabulous Dana Flynn showed me a few years ago. Cross your hands at your wrists so the top of your hands face back to
back. Then begin to hook your pinkies together, followed by your ring
fingers and then your index fingers. What remains are your middle
fingers and thumbs; bring them together to touch. Hover the mudra in front of and around your heart. Since some attention to has been brought to my forearms lately I allowed the breath to explore this area in the mudra. For one thing I've never known how muscular this area is, and how tight mine are.
Practicing a breath linked to aparigrapha, I did my best to practice non grasping as we rolled through the desert countryside. I've always thought myself as a beach person but I'm learning to truly love the desert.
Namaste.
Dana Flynn in Abyaha Hridaya