Impossible Breathing Meditation Praxis

Impossible Breathing Meditation Praxis

Clareese Hill

Welcome to a modular meditation praxis. This meditation consists of three materials that can be configured for the meditation you need at the moment. The first element is the meditation room, which is an immersive web space where the other two materials can be experimented with. The second material is the content for the meditation interventions. The content includes audio from seven singing bowls as they correspond to the seven chakras and poetic text by Black woman writers. The third material is the core meditation text which has moments for interventions of sound and poetic text. There is no order or prescription for how the meditations should unfold this is a space of poiesis.

1. The meditation room is where you can hold your meditation by bring the other three materials into that space. The meditation room is web virtual reality experience that is editable by watching the tutorial video found below under Mozilla Hubs tutorial. The meditation room can be accessed by the QR code or the links below.

• Mozilla Hubs Impossible Breathing Meditation Room: https://hub.link/Q6SDo39

This is where you can conjure your meditation. Mozilla Hubs Room code: 286185

• Mozilla Hubs Tutorial - Instructions on how to add the meditation interventions to the Mozilla Hubs meditation room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QnOsyyebEQ

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2. Content for the meditation interventions: http://titipi.org/projects/impossible_breathing

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3. Core text to be treated as fluid as water:

Impossible Breathing Let’s take a breath Let’s be still expect for our breath Let’s let everything wash away with every breath Inhale Hold the air as breath, feel its contribution your body Exhale Let’s be slow together Let’s meet in-between the inhale and exhale Let’s meet in the air we hold as breath Let’s image what it would be like to sit next to each other Feeling each other’s energy becoming still While we breathe together Let your body go in this moment and the contiguous we will share together Its’ no longer needed to be legible Let the performance that the body is automated to engage in slows to a stop We are connecting through our breathing Being together through breathing Feeling each other’s touch through breathing A together that defies the constructs of reality

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Let’s make right here right now abstract through breathing Let’s participate in a contra-reality together that we conjure through our breathing Let’s be there for each other and support each other with care through our breathing Let’s think about meeting in-between the inhales and exhales A liminal space that is unprescribed. A multifaceted dimension of everything we need Let’s take a journey of errantry together from the cosmos to under the surface of the water Let’s learn together to practice impossible breathing Breathing that happens outside of the reality, the landscape, the body, the lungs Outside of the linearity of the rising and collapsing of the chest

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Let reclaim our relationship with the water By learning from the waves, the currents, the aquatic terrain, and the wise inhabitants They are griots of futurity They ask us to sit with them so they can tell us stories of duration, resilience, and poiesis Let’s learn from the water by being fully submerged And still breathing without water entering the body Breathing in errantry is a shift towards nonlinearity Nonlinearity requires a skip around in the in process of breathing first as thought then as praxis.

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When our attachment to reality has uncoupled Through being submerged and still breathing Impossible breathing Our residence, where we are occupying is thrust into the slippery the in flux A residence that is under the surface Our residence is the arrival to a space, a moment, an intention that has always been with in grasp through being able to disrupt our breathing All we had to do was let go of the landscape and reach for the water, through the praxis of impossible breathing