Mindfulness Day 6

Distance, memory and recall

Today we will travel to a place where the student has both been and felt safe. 

Image created by Rod McLean 

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We listened to the Yoga station on Pandora

Yoga Music Radio

Time: 8 minutes

•  Begin by reintroducing breathing posture.  The expectations for today's meditation are to complete a drawing that must contain value.  You will summon this image to your mind when I ask you to recall and remember. 
  
• Your eyes focus on the image as you breath in and out. 
• Your eyelids slowly grow heavy. Your muscles begin to relax. Your eyes begin to close.
• You call the image of the standing trees to your mind
• You feel the cool mists rise from the forest floors and pass over your feet.
• The chilled mists rise up your feet, chilling the soles.
• The mists rise through your calves, knees, thighs, torso and spreads out through your arms. 
• The mists begins to creep up your neck, throat, head and leaves your mouth on your next exhale. 
• You are shrouded in mist. 
• In your minds eye, you stare into the mist and begin to see an object form, you remember this object.
• The object slowly begins to move.  It is taking you to a place.  You follow it. As the space emerges from the mist, your eyes begin to focus. 
• You follow the object to where it leads you
• The mists begin to clear as your see the outline of a house.
• You have been to this house before. You have never lived here, but It is owned by someone you trust.  In this place you feel safe. Remember this place.
• The mists begin to rise and cover the house.  Slowly night begins to fall as the cool mists leave your body.  
• Welcome back. 

Students were asked to draw the place they have visited. include value

Positives

Improvements

• The students quickly get into proper posture
• the session was shorter
• the students were guided to a place that they knew but I did not.
• With the new expectations, quality of work did improve. 

• Next journey will include new media. in hopes for new artistic exploration