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.
Bismillah!
‘…Take a moment to breathe, and begin what you are about to do wholeheartedly.’
Let’s begin the New Year together in the conscious awareness of the web of Life, in Unity, in the One Love, the breathing Life of All. Breath and Heartbeat creating a clear and spacious place inside – connecting our heart to the Heart of the Cosmos. ‘God is your lover, not your jailer!’
‘We begin by remembering
the sound and feeling of the One Being,
the wellspring of love.
We affirm that the next thing we experience
shimmers with the light of the whole universe.’
(Quotations from ‘The Sufi Book of Life’ by Neil Douglas-Klotz)
Radiance Sutras 1
Beloved, your questions require the answers that come
Through direct living experience.
The way of experience begins with a breath,
Such as the breath you are breathing now.
Awakening into luminous reality
May dawn in the momentary throb
Between any two breaths.
Exhaling, breath is released and flows out.
There is a pulse as it turns to flow in.
In that turn you are empty.
Enter that emptiness as the source of all life.
Inhaling, breath flows in, filling, nourishing.
Just as it turns to flow out,
There is a flash of pure joy –
Life is renewed.
Bismillah of the Dome
Breathing Bismillah
Bismillah Ya Shakur
Angelic Bismillah