Hello! I’ve been at the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, CT leading a Face Book Live retreat since Friday night. Here are some resources and links that go along with that.

If you’d like to tune in to the opening session, which is a simple Compline service with a little music, go here: Compline/Opening Session

Session Two, where we feel the power of the breath as the place where we join heart, mind, and rest. Also, we learn the Bija Mantra:  Session Two: Breathing and Humming, then,

Learn the Bija Mantra here!

A simple, 5,00-year-old mantra using seed syllables to move your energy up. Scroll down to 1)

Silence – focus above the head

7)         OM – crown chakra – 1x long, 1x silent (merged with God)

6)         AUM – third eye/brow chakra – 3 full breaths (harmony, a grounded spirit)

5)         HAM – throat chakra – 12x (finding your voice, seeing beneath to the transcendent, listening)

4)         YAM – heart chakra – 12x (wholeness, maturity)

3)         RAM – solar plexus chakra – 12x (sun, light, fire, becoming)

2)         VAM – belly/polarity chakra- 12x (atmosphere, water/womb)

1)         LAM – root chakra – 12x (earth, ground)

Bija means “seed” in Sanskrit. The Bija sounds manifest the you in you.

Stay tuned for Sessions Three, Four, and Five!