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Healing Waters Meditation

4/22/2024

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WATER • NATURE • RITUAL
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Author: R.R. Shakti, PhD 
​Photo: Angie Barnes

"If my body is made primarily of water and animated by the breath, is it possible to call the water in the body “mine” and the air outside of my lungs “the world”?... I notice that the body can’t be separated from the natural world except in my imagination....I move the body and I’m moving a corner of the world...”

~Michael Stone
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We need water. 

As much as 78% of the human body is water. This same water cycles through absorption
and evaporation to the air around us, the clouds, and is rained down into the oceans. In
this way, our bodies are directly connected the entire world. 

The following meditation is a invocation of healing for your physical body and the body of Mother Earth. 

You may be seated or standing. 
Close your eyes and bring your full awareness to your breath. 

Inhale fully and exhale completely.

Allow the breath to create space in your body and your mind. 

Inhale and notice the dynamic expansion in your ribcage and lungs. 
Exhale and let your body release, soften, and settle.  

Inhale, expand and swell like a great wave of energy. 
Exhale and allow that wave to pulse back out to the Earth. 

Only if it feels natural, you may gently constrict your throat and channel your breath, to practice Ujaii pranayama, creating the soothing sound of the ocean with each inhalation and exhalation. 

Notice the rhythmic pulsation—the dance of the breath—as it crests and falls 
like a sacred tide. 

Release tension now, and surrender to the oscillation. Feel your whole body begin to respond to the natural flow and sway of the breath. 

Allow the waves of breath to wash over you. 

There is mobility at every joint, between your ribs, across your back body and throughout your internal organs.  

Like water, let your movement patterns follow the path of least resistance. 

Be absolutely uninhibited in your movements—Absolutely FREE and fluid. 


Imagine all the water in your body, allowing your the FREEDOM to move, to dance naturally and dynamically with the rhythms of Life’s sacred pulsation.

As you move, visualize the color green and picture the water molecules in every cell of your being.

Using your breath, silently offer a healing message of love to all the water in your
body.

Now, imagine yourself as water.

Visualize yourself flowing like a river into the ocean, 
the healing waters of your physical body mix, merge, and mingle with the Earth’s Ocean waves.

Using your breath, send a healing message of love to all of the water on the planet.

Bring your palms together at your heart to seal your intention. 

Namaste. ​
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