If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that Friday is when we do a movement meditation. Not everyone connects well with passive, inward focused meditations. Moving your body moves your energies and lead to some incredibly profound experiences. However, if you have mobility issues, you might feel that you can’t participate in a movement meditation. In fact, there are always ways to work with your body, focusing on its strengths rather than its weaknesses. That’s why I wanted to share something which you can do sitting or even lying down if that’s what you need to do. 

Today’s meditation involves a technique I frequently use in my Friday night online chakra dance meditation class at 8pm GMT. Every time I do it with my students, they all tell me they get totally lost in it, discovering the wonder and fascination of gazing at something completely familiar with a new attitude. 

The method is very simple. Put on some music you love, music you feel a positive emotional connection to. It could be a song or it could be an instrumental piece. Ideally, you want to use something which is at least five minutes long, but it’s absolutely fine to use something shorter if that’s what speaks to you. 

As the music plays, allow your hands to tell the story of the music. As they tell the story, look at your hands as if you’ve never seen them before. We talk about knowing something ‘like the back of your hand’ but the truth is that we very rarely look at the backs of our hands with any real intention or focus! Would you really be able to pick out a picture of your hands from a big pile?

Go back to when you were a baby and everything was new. Your hands were a source of constant entertainment – you’d never seen anything like them! Channel this same sense of wonder as your hands dance their way through the music. Notice how the light falls, leaving shadows which rearrange as your hand moves. Observe how your hand changes as you move it, how the knuckles look different the way the tendons move under the skin.

See your hands as if you’ve never seen them before.

I absolutely adore this exercise, so if you try it out, let me know how. you get on. And if you’d like to work more on exercises like this, come to class tonight – or maybe you might even like to join me for a more in-depth journey into the chakras at the end of February!