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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward / Kaira Jewel Lingo – Week of April 20

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Kaira Jewel Lingo

Martin Aylward

Kaira Jewel Lingo

We’re fortunate that Martin Aywlard and Kaira Jewel Lingo have generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week.

Links mentioned during these sessions can be found at the bottom of this page.

To find out more about Martin, and to view his other contributions to Sangha Live, click here.

To find out more about Kaira Jewel, and view her other recordings on the platform, click here.

The fleeting nature of experience

April 20, 2020

Wholesome and powerful qualities

April 21, 2020

Honouring mother earth

April 22, 2020

Coming home to ourselves

April 23, 2020

Softening boundaries by reflecting on kindness

April 24, 2020

Links from this week’s sessions

Tuesday April 21st

Song Breathing in breathing out.

Lyrics and the guided meditation:
Breathing in, breathing out Breathing in, breathing out I am blooming as a flower I am fresh as the dew I am solid as a mountain I am firm as the earth I am free Breathing in, breathing out I am water reflecting What is clear, what is true And I feel there is space Deep inside of me I am free, I am free, I am free

Wednesday April 22nd

SongI entrust myself to the earth.

Satish Kumar article

Thursday April 23rd

Song “Arrived arrived“.

The words of the guided meditation:
I have arrived, I am home
In the here, in the now
I am solid, I am free
In the ultimate I dwell

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