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.
Follow the path of the life force
As she flashes upward like lightning
Through your body.
Attend simultaneously
To the perineum, that bright place
Between the legs,
To the crown of the skull,
And to that shining star place
Above the head.
Notice this living current
Becoming ever more subtle as she rises,
Radiant as the morning sun,
Until she streams outward from the top of the head
Into all embracing gratitude.
Thus become intimate with the life of all beings.
(Radiance Sutras No.5, Lorin Roche)
Consider your essence as light rays rising from centre to centre up the vertebrae, and so rises livingness in you. (Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: Paul Reps)
Trace the river of life that flows through you,
The luxuriously rising energies,
Gradually touching each of the centres
Along the spine.
Savour every shimmer of colour along the way.
Enter each area tenderly,
Loving as you go,
Finally, gently,
Dissolving in the crown of the head.
Then above,
In the space above the head,
The great dawn.
(Radiance Sutras No.6, Lorin Roche)