Songs of One Breath is a weekly online space with Jilani Cordelia Prescott to explore the direct, joyful experience of mysticism through practice. Each Friday she shares chants, mantra, breath practices and body prayer drawn from a range of traditions, offered as grounding, comfort, and a pathway of the heart toward deeper connection and spiritual freedom. You are warmly invited to join live on Zoom (or via Facebook Live) at 2.30pm London time, and it is free. If you enjoy the class or the podcast, and would like to support Jilani’s work, donations are welcome via PayPal.
There is a current of love-energy that flows
Between Earth below and Sun above.
The central channel of your spine is the riverbed.
The streaming is as delicate and powerful
As the tingling touch of lovers.
Entering here,
Radiance arches between above and below.
Your whole attention resting in the subtle,
Vibrating in the centre of the spinal column,
Tracing this current between Earth and Sun,
Become magnetism relating all the worlds.
(Radiance Sutras 12 p. 47, Lorin Roche)
Place your whole attention in the nerve, delicate as the Lotus thread, in the centre of your spinal column. In such be transformed. (Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, No.11)