This video transcript captures a spiritual and meditative morning service focused on awakening with gratitude, joy, connection to nature, and awareness of the divine presence in everyday life. The speaker blends Jewish traditional prayer, personal reflections, breathwork, movement, and universal spiritual concepts to guide listeners into a mindful and grateful start to the day. Central themes include the power of gratitude, the sacredness of life, the importance of community, and integrating body, breath, and spirit. The speaker encourages participants to awaken with intention, engage in physical and spiritual practices such as prayer, dance, and somatic awareness, and foster a deep connection to both the natural world and the divine within and around them. The transcript also touches on the value of healing prayers, communal support, and the reminder of our shared human journey framed within a cosmic perspective of awe and humility.
Highlights
[06:56] ✨ Prayer and song emphasize the peace of the world and the sacredness of life.
[11:19] Starting the day with gratitude is central in Jewish tradition and sets a positive tone for the day.
[18:18] ️ Breath is introduced as a fundamental tool for awakening and spiritual connection.
[26:39] Dance and movement are celebrated as expressions of divine presence and joy.
[37:44] Connecting physically with nature by walking barefoot and grounding oneself is encouraged.
[43:07] Somatic practices such as thumping the thymus and ear massage support physical and energetic health.
[01:12:08] The importance of community, healing prayers, and compassion for others in need is emphasized.
Key Insights
[06:56] ✨ The Prayer for World Peace as a Spiritual Anchor: The repeated singing of “shalom” highlights peace as a foundational spiritual value. This invocation of peace is both a personal and collective aspiration, anchoring the practice in a universal yearning for harmony—a reminder that spiritual practice transcends individual experience and connects us with the broader world.
[11:19] Gratitude as the First Act of Each Day: The speaker underscores the Jewish tradition of beginning each day with a blessing of thanks for life itself. This practice shifts the focus from mundane concerns to appreciation, fostering resilience and a positive attitude. Gratitude becomes a spiritual posture that shapes perception and interaction with the day’s challenges and opportunities.
[18:18] ️ Breath as the Bridge Between Body and Spirit: Breath is presented not just as a biological function but as a sacred link to the divine. Engaging in conscious breathing before even rising from bed invites mindfulness and presence, grounding the individual in the moment and opening channels for spiritual awareness and vitality. This insight invites viewers to reclaim breath as a tool for healing, renewal, and connection.
[26:39] Movement and Dance as Divine Expression: The narrative posits that all physical motion—walking, dancing, and exercise—is a form of spiritual dance. This perspective democratizes spiritual practice, making it accessible beyond liturgical settings. Movement becomes a joyful, embodied way to honor divine presence, cultivate gratitude, and integrate mind, body, and spirit.
[37:44] Reconnecting with Earth as a Spiritual Practice: The invitation to walk barefoot on the earth and physically engage with nature offers a tactile, grounding experience that reconnects humans to the planet. This “earthing” is seen as essential for spiritual health, reminding participants of their place in the natural order and the sustaining power of the earth beyond technological or artificial environments.
[43:07] Integrating Somatic Awareness and Traditional Healing: The speaker introduces practices such as thymus tapping and ear massage derived from Taoist and Chinese medicine traditions. These somatic techniques complement prayer and breathwork, emphasizing a holistic approach that honors the body as a sacred vessel. This fusion of ancient wisdom and spiritual practice suggests a multi-dimensional path to wellness and divine connection.
[01:12:08] Community, Compassion, and Healing as Spiritual Imperatives: The transcript stresses the human need for connection and shared healing. Loneliness is identified as a core cultural affliction, and communal prayer and mutual support are presented as antidotes. The ritual of praying for those in pain or need expands the spiritual focus beyond self to collective wellbeing, cultivating empathy and shared responsibility. This insight affirms that spiritual life flourishes best within community and care.
Expanded Summary
The video opens with a series of musical and prayerful expressions invoking “shalom,” the Hebrew word for peace, setting a tone of sacredness and tranquility. The speaker reflects on the Jewish tradition of greeting each day with gratitude, emphasizing that the first words upon waking are blessings thanking God for restoring life—“how great is thy faithfulness.” This daily ritual of gratitude is presented as a powerful antidote to negative mental patterns and a way to align oneself with the sanctity of life.
The morning routine is described as not merely functional but deeply spiritual, including sacred hand washing as an acknowledgment of the body and the day as gifts. The speaker laments the loss of communal interaction in modern life, recalling how in traditional communities, life’s rhythms were interwoven with collective care and play. This communal context amplified opportunities for joy, service, and connection.
Breath is introduced as a key spiritual tool. Before getting out of bed, the listener is encouraged to focus on deep, conscious breathing to ground themselves and express gratitude. This mindful breath practice is linked to traditional Jewish prayers but also to universal spiritual and meditative disciplines. The speaker invites participants to combine breath with movement, song, and aerobic exercises, creating a joyful celebration of life that integrates body and spirit.
Dance is portrayed as a natural expression of divine joy and presence. Whether walking, running, or spinning like Sufi dervishes, movement is a form of prayer and meditation. The speaker encourages cultivating an awareness of God’s presence in all actions, making even mundane motion a sacred dance.
The dialogue also invites reconnecting with the natural world through “earthing” or barefoot walking, leaning against trees, and feeling the energy of the earth. This sensory experience is seen as a way to realign with the body’s natural rhythms and the sustaining power of the planet—a vital practice in an increasingly disconnected and virtual world.
Somatic practices rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, such as tapping the thymus and massaging the ears, are incorporated to stimulate the immune system and energetic flow. These physical rituals support overall health and complement the spiritual practices of prayer and breathwork, emphasizing a holistic approach to wellbeing.
Later, the speaker addresses the human need for community and connection, highlighting loneliness as a major social and spiritual crisis. Through communal prayer for healing and peace—both personal and global—the gathering creates a shared space of compassion and support. The ritual reinforces the idea that healing and holiness arise through mutual care and attention.
The theological reflections focus on the oneness of God and the interconnectedness of all beings. The speaker invites contemplation of the vastness of the cosmos, reminding listeners that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth, evoking a sense of awe and humility. This cosmic perspective situates human life within an infinite mystery, encouraging surrender to divine providence and letting go of control.
The final sections return to the theme of gratitude, holiness, and renewal, with prayers for peace in the world and blessings for the new year. The speaker invites participants to “return again” to their true selves and the source of life, framing spiritual awakening as an ongoing, cyclical process of rebirth and connection.
Conclusion
This video offers a rich tapestry of spiritual wisdom blending Jewish liturgical tradition, mindfulness, somatic healing, and universal spirituality. It emphasizes awakening each day with gratitude, breath, and movement; connecting deeply to nature and community; and embracing the mystery of life with humility and joy. The message encourages viewers to live with an awareness of the divine presence in every moment, fostering peace, healing, and love within themselves and the world around them.
Highlights
[06:56] ✨ The prayer for peace (“shalom”) as a unifying spiritual theme.
[11:19] The power of starting each day with gratitude and blessing.
[18:18] ️ Using breath as a sacred tool for awakening and connection.
[26:39] Viewing all movement and dance as expressions of divine joy.
[37:44] The spiritual practice of grounding by connecting with the earth barefoot.
[43:07] Incorporating somatic healing techniques like thymus tapping and ear massage.
[01:12:08] Emphasizing community, healing prayer, and compassion to combat loneliness.
Key Insights
[06:56] ✨ Peace as a Foundational Spiritual Value: The continuous chanting of “shalom” reflects peace not only as an abstract ideal but as a lived spiritual reality to be cultivated through prayer, song, and community connection. This focus on peace grounds the spiritual practice in the universal need for harmony at personal and global levels.
[11:19] Gratitude Shapes Perception and Experience: Beginning the day with gratitude is a deliberate spiritual act that transforms how challenges and opportunities are perceived. This practice is a form of cognitive and emotional realignment, embedding resilience and positivity from the moment of awakening.
[18:18] ️ Breath as a Sacred Bridge: Breathwork is presented as both a physiological necessity and a sacred ritual. Conscious breathing connects the individual to the divine presence within, helping to regulate emotions, focus the mind, and foster spiritual awareness. It invites a reconnection to the present moment and the source of life.
[26:39] Embodied Spirituality through Movement: By framing daily physical actions as dance, the speaker democratizes spirituality, making it accessible and joyful. Movement becomes prayer, meditation, and celebration, integrating physicality with spiritual awareness and gratitude.
[37:44] Reconnecting with Nature for Spiritual Renewal: Walking barefoot and grounding oneself in nature is a powerful practice to restore balance, presence, and a sense of belonging to the earth. This practice counteracts modern disconnection and technological isolation, reminding us of our original and ongoing relationship with the natural world.
[43:07] Holistic Healing through Somatic Techniques: The integration of ancient somatic practices, such as thymus tapping and ear massage, highlights the interconnectedness of body, energy, and spirit. These techniques support physical vitality and energetic balance, complementing prayer and breathwork, and reinforcing a comprehensive approach to health.
[01:12:08] Community and Compassion as Spiritual Foundations: The emphasis on communal prayer for healing and the recognition of loneliness as a cultural epidemic underscore the necessity of human connection. Spiritual growth is portrayed as inherently relational, with compassion and shared support crucial for individual and collective wellbeing.
This video serves as a profound invitation to live each day with intention, gratitude, physical vitality, spiritual awareness, and compassionate community, rooted in ancient wisdom and universal truths.
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Pray for the peace [Music] of [Music] the peace of all the world. All the world that live in peace shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom shal [Music] [Music] gorgeous Flowers. Flowers. Flowers. my hair. Nice smell. Thank you God for most this amazing day. For the leaping greenly spirits of trees and the blue true dream of sky. And for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes, I who have died am alive again today. And this is the son’s birthday.
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This is the birthday of life and of love and of the day great happening. How should tasting, touching, hearing, seeing, breathing me, unimag Now the ears of my ear. [Music] Now the eyes of my eyes. I thank you God for most this amazing day for the leaping green leaf spirits of trees and the blue dream of and for everything which is natural which is The essential essence of our tradition is to choose life. What are the other choices? How do we awake? How do we get out of bed? What are the first things that come to our
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mind, to our heart, to our lips? Is it another day? Is it about or is it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] So for a traditional Jew, that’s the first thing that comes out of the lips. As soon as the eyes open, I give thanks unto you, my God, for restoring me unto life. How great is thy faithfulness. What an amazing encounter with the new day. To start the day with gratitude and to go through the day with gratitude. And as you probably many already know, much of life is about
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attitude. And the attitude of gratitude is a very very beautiful place to hang your hat, your eyes, your ears, your nose, your throat, your lungs, your loins, your toes. So how do we get up? We get up and then after modi the next thing is a sacred washing of the hands a recognition that it’s all a gift because it says who allows me to offer and to be of service to this day. So it’s very beautiful. What are these hands going to do? What wonders are we going to encounter? What opportunities for
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service, for creativity, for touch, for tickles, for fun, for entertainment. You know, if we were living in community, we’d have more opportunities for playing with the children, nurturing the elders. But for many of us living alone or with a significant other, one or two, we sort of just Okay, we get into our routines and our patterns. And they’re usual usual because in the community you’d have a lot of different things that would present itself. You know, can you watch Suzie for an hour? I need to go
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out. Susie’s a little three-year-old. Sure. I wasn’t planning on that, but that would be nice to watch. I like watching Susie and little Johnny. Yeah, they’re fun. They’re lovely. So, how we awake? This is the first day of a new year. 5774. How do we awaken to this beautiful day? My dear daughter, I’m standing here because it’s hard in the sun. It’s hard in the sun. All right, we’re going to go in the shade for her. She’s so fair skinned. It’s so beautiful.
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Okay, look at this. This gorgeous view we have here. And here is who wrote Diane Aman. Diane Aman. You know the writings of Diane Aerman? No. Check her out. She’s a beautiful being, a radiant, radiant, wonderful or at least on her parents’ side. and she writes about science and the intersection of science, philosophy, sensuality and she’s just very beautiful. Very beautiful. She wrote a school prayer and this was this was her school prayer for kids to say in school. Maybe instead of the pledge of
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allegiance or something else, this is Diane Acriman’s school prayer. In the name of the day break and the eyelids of morning and the wayfaring moon and the night when it departs. I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly. As a guardian of as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace, in the name of the sun and its mirrors, and in the day that embraces it, and the cloud veils drawn over it. And the uttermost night, and the male and the
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female, and the plants bursting with seed, and the crowning season of the firefly and the apple. I will honor all life wherever and in whatever form it may dwell on earth. my home and in the manions of the stars. I will honor all life wherever and in whatever form it may dwell. On earth my home and in the manions of the stars. Amen. Amen. Thank you, D. Amen. Amen. Amen. How do we awake? That’s the question for the morning. Enjoy it. Happy. Happy. Grateful. You know, it’s sometimes hard to get out of bed. Oh, wow. Jump out of
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bed. Happy. Happy. You know, especially as we elder the bones. Okay. They got to get adjusted to being upright again and things like that. There’s different things that come to play. You know, happy is nice. I like happy. It’s easier to be more in peace and in gratitude. Peacefulness is if you want I don’t think God would ever deny us peace. Joy, happiness, it’s sometimes you think you have to have a reason or as Tiknadhan says, sometimes your smile is the source of your joy. Yeah.
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No, sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes just your smile is the source of your joy. So that’s a very beautiful little diddy to remember how to put a smile on our face and how to greet today. So as you probably know Judaism has a lot of structure and as I mentioned last night we have a hundred prayers at least 100 blessings a day. So the morning prayer is full of blessings and look take an inventory of your own actions. When you start the day do you first get up and immediately go for the cup of coffee? um
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go for the breakfast, you immediately turn on the computer, you immediately look at the newspaper. I would invite you to think that this coming new year maybe change a little bit and start the day with something that we have always and that’s breath. Breath. [Music] full breath. Even before you get out of bed, you could start stretching and turning and getting the breath in the belly and playing with the breath, exploring the breath, and saying thank you for the new day. I’m sure you have
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windows in your room and in your house. Look out. And then when you’re ready to get up, continue with the breath. Go drink some fluids, some herbal teas, some green teas, whatever you used to drink in the morning. and then take some time and go out into the sanctuary which is creation and start a little motion. So, I invite you. I know it’s a little hot and everybody’s on their own in their own way, but we’re going to do the next 10 minutes of a little kidic melodies and a little bit of morning prayer
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aerobics. Because when you combine your aerobics with blessing, creation, gratitude to God, movement and song and celebration, the music plays inside 24/7 la. Oh man. [Applause] LA. La. [Music] [Applause] La. Oh man. [Music] La bye. [Music] la. Oh man. [Music] [Music] la. Amazing. [Music] [Music] la. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la. [Music] [Music] [Music] La [Music] La. Oh, baby.
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la. [Music] [Applause] La [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Um, it’s not so much what we have to say, but what God is one. God is one. God is love. God, God is one. God is one. God is a hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So my sense is is that we are all dancers. There’s the walking dance, the running dance, the jumping dance, the holding dance, the dance of the embrace, the bicycle dance, the Pilates dance, the yoga dance, the swimming and and
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kaborting dance and tumbling. So dance, dance with joy, dance with awareness of the divine presence in all aspects of the creation. and dance with a heart full of gratitude and an attitude of thanksgiving. So to begin each day, how we awake and how do we claim the day? My rebbitical sage advice that I’ve gotten from all my teachers, my ancestors, and the holy books is start each day with thanks and praise. Give your first period of the day to God. and the rest of the day somehow will take care of itself.
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It really does work that way. You spend some time every morning in a conscious awareness of the divine presence and an acknowledgement of all that you’re given. Let that trickle through the day. But how we start the day is really important. and whatever it is, an aerobic exercise, whatever you want to call it, but incorporate awareness of Yah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelu. [Music] Hallelu. Hallelu. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And while you’re jumping,
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while you’re dancing, integrate things like EFT, the emotional freedom technique. Tap tap tap. Remember to be gentle with yourself. Remember, you didn’t make yourself up. And remember to give yourself morning love, afternoon love, evening love. Thank God for all the parts that work. Ask for strengthening those parts that don’t work so well. But rather than belone the fast, the parts that don’t work well. Focus on what works well and start there and be grateful. Hallelujah. [Music]
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelu. Hallelu. Hallelu. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelu [Music] It is uh a C cord G. is a gift to be simple. Here’s a gift to be free. [Music] When we find ourselves in our valley of love and [Music] light to turn our delight and A gift to be simple is a gift to be free to come down where we are to be found in a
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place of love and [Music] delight to them. We shall not be afraid our delight. [Music] Turning turning. This is the season for turning. Watch little kids. They naturally like doing this. Yep. Watch Sufi dancing. Watch twirling meditation and dervishes twirl. Because when you twirl the mind stops the sense of balance takes over and says no this is important we don’t want to fall so don’t we can’t think of anything you know start out slowly twirl awareness play enjoyment get a little dizzy for
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God why not simplicity his name to shall not be afraid to [Music] turn to be free to be when we find oursves. Right. Body of love and light. And when true simplicity is to bow and to shall not be obtained to turn to turn our delight till [Music] turn. [Music] Return again. Return to the land of your soul. Return again. [Applause] Return [Music] to who you are. Return to what you are. Return to where you are. and be born again. Return again. Return again. [Music] Return to your heart. Return to what you
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are. Where you are born and reborn again. [Music] again. [Music] Return again. Return to where you are. Return to where you are. [Music] again. [Music] So, I’m sure all of you have heard about what they’re calling earththing. Earththing, where you’re barefoot and you’re walking on the earth. What a concept, huh? Barefoot on the earth. Oh, yo yo. Without shoes. My mother say what your mother say. Now I think she’d look and she’d say that’s a good idea. The things we can learn on the other
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side are enormous. Very enormous. And I’m just assuming your mommy’s on the other side. And my daddy came back through a medium and said, “You know, Jesus isn’t such a bad guy after all.” I thought, “Great, daddy. You had to go to get that.” Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. So how we awake, you know, before we encase our our body in in our armor, our clothes and put on our shoes and tie up our feet and do our thing and sit at our desk and manage our significant communications.
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Spend some time in our holy mother nature. Spend some time with mother mama. and appreciate her textures and her sensualness and her beauty and her essence on a roll. All right. And take off your shoes and go out in your backyard or the front yard. Put your spine up against the tree. Feel the alignment of your spine with the tree, your feet on the earth. And just stand there. Look up. Feel that power and that steadveness, that treiness flow through your back and your body and incorporate some of that strength and that presence.
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And I delicately just take it with the wind and the leaves rustle and feel the energy coming up from the holy earth and feel it come through and bless every cell because every little cell in my body is happy. Every little cell in my body is well. I’m so glad. Every little [Music] [Music] I’m so glad every little [Music] [Music] Oh, LA. [Music] I’m so blessed. Every little [Music] Everybody is happy and well. Amen. [Music] home [Music] shim. Our creator abideth in eternity and the name is
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holy. So holiness, gratitude, thanksgiving, essential structures to start every day. So in my short lifetime, this lifetime, we all have short lifetimes. If you look at the forever scale, forever scale, there really is no scale because scale weighs and things. Eternity has no beginning or end. So, it’s flow, it’s impermanence, as the Buddha teaches. It’s changes, you know. Where is three-year-old Zoe? I remember her probably even maybe better than she does. I don’t know. I don’t know. But we
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have memories of the past. We have dreams of the future. how to incorporate in the here and now in gratitude and holiness and thanksgiving. So I’ve integrated many many different techniques and somatic awareness with prayer. I love old Chinese things, chiong, tai chi, softness, slow motions, continuity of form. So I want to share with you some basic chiong things that stimulate stimulate our body. So if you stand up and we’re gonna little create a little bounce your thymus your thymus really
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helps the immune system and you can thump thymus. You can dump it as strong as you can. If it’s tender in here, you need to toughen it up a little bit because it shouldn’t be that tender. A little tenderness is okay, but if it’s sore, you want to strengthen it. You know, eventually you should be able to take like 15, 20 pounds of pressure and really thump. That’s how the old Dowist did it. Ha ha. They thump there. And then you have your sides of your arms to stimulate the liver, the spleen,
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the gallbladder with the arms on the side. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And some little PS and little massage, a little stimulation. Don’t forget your psies. They hardly get any attention because they’re so far away. You know, you got to wait to get a foot massage. We can wait till Messiah comes. You can do it for yourself every day. You can do it yourself. It’s true. It’s true. But to lie down and let someone else do it for you. What a gift. Oh yo.
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What a gift. Really one of the reasons I love Thailand. $5 I get a really good Yeah. $5 I have. Yeah. Fine. No problem. One and a half hours. I can lie there, play my ukulele, and get a foot massage. One and a half. So begin with acknowledgment of the world, of the beauty around us. Then spend some time taking care of your physical body. If there’s pain anywhere, rub your hands, get some heat in there, wherever it is, get some heat in your hands. And if you’re having pain, take those take that part. And then after it
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gets hot on the hands, take your hands and with light in your eyes, just put it on your body wherever you want. Anywhere where there’s pain and then breathe, lengthen, open, stretch, bless. I will be gentle with myself. I will love myself. I will be gentle with myself. I will. [Music] Now, for those of you that know Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, the ear points. And if you look, this is like an embryo, the ear, you know. Let me see your beautiful little things in there. They’re being stimulated. It’s pulling
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on. So you see you can see a baby. Uhhuh. You can see a baby. You know, you see how a baby’s in a womb curled up. Here’s the head and there’s the feet. So if you got problems in the head, you go here down. If there’s problems in the lower back down here, you can use your nails. You can squeeze. You can pull. But oruricular massage is incredible. You can do some really nice things. It’s easier without earrings because the earrings don’t allow you to pull. But pull on the lobe. The lobe the dowists
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have the loes were made specifically and the Talmwood tells us this so we can block off we can block off our hearing with our tabs. Oh, you know, we can also put our fingers in there too. That works just as well, you know. But the tabs are there to to just allow us to go in stretch out yawning and breathing and pulling out on the ears. opens up the ustation to it. Opens up the ear canal and breath. Then we have the beauties of alternate nostril breathing. Yeah. And play with the breath and get one good breath coming out through the
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nose out. Play with it. There’s no one right way. Enjoy it. Slow breath. Bath’s breath. Then we have condundalini, breath of fire. a lot of ways to enchant ourselves with the breath. You know, in the American Indian tradition, they used to do delivery systems where one man was delivering a message to another tribe. They would the the the runners, the strong runners, the young and strong runners would fill their mouth up with a lot of water. They would run and only breathe through their nose for as long as it took to get
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to one place to the other. And every now and then letting a little bit of the water trickle into their belly. But try it sometimes. Try just spending a little bit of exercise only doing nasal breathing. Try sometime big, you know, that kind of of uh uh Yeah. Whatever you forgot the name, right? Yeah. We’re not brea fire but uh to get out all your air. Empty and then empty yourself totally a breath and hold it. Hold it. So you have no breath. Be empty. Hold your breath. And usually we get to the
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place where becomes very uncomfortable. Fear comes in. You know it’s like the body’s saying, “Oh, what’s going on? No breath.” But you know who gives you your breath? Where does breath come from? And you know it’s there. So find a way to make your peace with emptiness. No breath at all. Empty empty belly. And then when you can no longer then hallelujah. So enjoy the breath. Breath is always with you. It’s a powerful tool for discovery, for play. When you’re walking by the way, when you’re lying
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down, whatever, use mantras, use prayer, use sound, use tone, and enjoy the breath. When you’re in the garden, you know, my [Music] heart and just enjoy and give thanks and incorporate. Prayer is not something that should be separate from your daily life. Prayer is part and parcel of how we move through life, walk through this life, run through this life, dance with it with prayer, with awareness, with song and thanksgiving. So, happy new year everybody. Happy happy new year. Listen, listen.
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Sha Listen, [Applause] listen. I will never forsake you. I will never forget you. I will never forsake you. Listen, listen to my heart. [Music] I will never forget you. I will never forsake you. I will [Music] never listen to my Heat. Heat. She smile. [Music] Yes. [Applause] [Music] Hello. [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] sh forever. [Music] Foreverhead forever forever. [Music] Holy Spirit. [Music] [Music] [Music] The [Music] hotel will I will love the Lord my God with all of my heart. with all my soul
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[Music] and with all my heart. And these words which I am singing this day shall be in my heart and I will teach them to our children. I will speak of them when I’m [Music] sitting by the way. When I am [Music] when I rise up, and I will meditate on them and I will bind them for a sign up. They shall be for my eyes. I will write them on the doorst. [Music] The God is one. Oh, the night. [Music] [Music] Walk around with awareness of God’s presence. When are we supposed to do this? When we are sitting in our house.
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when we are walking by the weight, when we lie down, and when we rise up. That pretty much covers all of the actions that we do. That’s it. Lying down, turning, walking, skipping, hopping, jumping, running, playing, sitting, they’re all ways of movement. So wherever you are at, whatever is going on, if you’re aware of the creator’s presence, so schma is the watch word of what our heritage is about. And means listen. It’s not a doing aspect. It’s in order to really listen, it’s a receptive
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quality. You know, sometimes we listen to someone but we don’t really hear them. You know, it’s a way of really listening and being present and to hear because very often when we talk to someone, we have our own stuff going on. They have theirs. We hear sort of what we want to hear or we think that they’re saying. And the word is a small part of whatever life story is. So schma, when you say schma, let it ring out. And you can I like to play with with this sound because when you do a
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tone, you hear [Music] that hear the tone, right? So after schma, I just stop and really listen to whatever’s going on. And where we are, we usually have ocean and birds and sounds of the wind and nature. We have so many wonderful things to pay attention to, to listen to, you know, whatever that is. It’s very beautiful. So let’s then Israel Israel means Israel but Isra is to wrestle and a is God to wrestle with God. How do we do that? So there’s an infinite amount of ways we wrestle with ourselves, with each other,
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with our thoughts, emotions, one another. But when I do Israel, I do some dynamic tension, resistance against myself, muscles, you know, feel the play, feel the play, uh, resistance work, you know, and start from the head. Really just sense that there’s a wrestling going on, you know what is it? And now sad I used to know so many nice words my language still but thank God the silence still enriches me. I’m grateful for that. Yeah. Thank God. So when you have Israel really just do a little wrestling with
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your own self. Stretch, tense the muscles. feel what’s going on, you know, play with it. And then we say adonai, which is Lord, and that’s beautiful, but it’s it’s not really the name. The name is Yudhe, which is the sound syllables. Once again, y and experiment with breath. Use the name and play with breath. Ah yovah yua y it’s breath. So be aware of breath that God is breath God is the source of all life creation whatever you want to call the god you know the word go was a minor norse deity
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it’s only a symbol whether you call it Allah whether you call it holiness whether you call it love nature creation the stars the infinite multiplicity whatever we’re not going to figure out the mystery You can’t put it’s just a symbol and know that it’s a symbol. But the breath takes us beyond adonai into a living presence that dwells within us in every cell of our being. So yud v is the shade yud. You know the Hebrew letters, yud is like a head. Yudhe is like part of the torso. V
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straight through. And hey, another part of the torso. You get a little stick figure of God. You have you Hey, V. Hey. You see it? Yeah. So, it’s within each of us within each of us. You know, we see that that awareness. Yeah. And then Elohu, our God. We’re not alone. We share God with every creature on this planet. It’s not just a tribal thing. We have a connection and a certain task. Every human being has their own their own top key, their own path, their own derif, their own work that they do in
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the world. But we’re all connected. So Elohu our God and then once again back to breath yud hey hey above hey and then awareness of one and in orthodox synagogues when they say you notice that they go they put their hands over their eyes and they hold it out for as long as they can. Why do they close their eyes? There are many commentaries but the one that I like very much is the unseen world is greater than the seen world and God is within us as well as within all creation. So go inward know
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that God is in every cell of your being. know that the things we cannot see, the mysteries, you know, on the NASA site on uh if you if you if you um go to nasa.com, they have a incredible statistic and they say that there are more stars in the heavens than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of planet Earth. Wow. Can we even begin to process this information? No. No way. More. I mean, look at all the grains of sand just on this little beach. And they’re talking about more stars in the heavens than all the grains
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of sand on all the beaches in planet Earth. And they show you the mathematical formula that they used to figure this how deep they went down into the into the sand and how much sand is in like a square centimeter. And then they extrapolated from there. And what the Hubble telescope shows us and shows them is trillions of galaxies and stars and planets. We get so caught up in our little little awesome infinite little speck here, this beautiful speck that we forget that we are not alone. No, we are
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not alone. So our God one and then the custom is also to let out all the air so there’s no more breath and you’re there empty and then remember who fills you up. The breath just comes. There’s a limit to how much we can do and hold our breath before it’s no longer under our control. Remember when we were a little kid or if you had raised kids, all right, if I don’t get what I want, I’m going to hold my breath. All right, go for it. We cannot consciously hold our breath and exit. That’s not given to us.
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So if that’s not under our control, if our birth is not under our control, and if our death is not under our control, what kind of control do we really have here? Maybe we can control the so it’s something to ponder when you want to get philosophical because in our tradition everything is hashka divine providence. So the major things that usually happen in our life are things that we didn’t even plan on. you know things that oh that wasn’t in the cards and these things happen and we
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have to deal with them and that’s the truth of everybody so give up control let go let God be grateful appreciate acknowledge and share so anybody have any commentary my fellow rebies Susan God bless too. If you put sand under a powerful microscope, it looks like beautiful, precious crystals like rose quartz and other blue colors. So, we’re crystious. Everything’s all precious. [Music] [Music] Fore speech. for [Music] your speech. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [Music] [Music] [Music] Hallelu. Hallelu.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Sweet family, would youall come join me under the canopy here? invitation. If anyone wants Voyager Tarot reading, I’m available the rest of the day. Okay. Are we all in? [Music] Come a little closer. It’s okay. Nobody bites. Maybe. Are you sure? Yeah. At appropriate time. Nice. Gentle. Yeah. Gentle. Love bites are all love. So within the context of the morning service every morning there’s the Amida and within the Amida there’s a
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prayer for healing. Prayer of healing just not our own selves but a prayer for healing for those we love for our shared planet for those in need. take some time out of our beautiful day and to spend some time in awareness of the struggles of our fellow beings, their sufferings, their pains, their alienation, their struggles. And so in this beautiful little canopy of healing and this canopy of peace, I’d like us to send forth into this space the names of of people, friends, lovers, adults, childrens who can use some
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special goodness in their life. alleviation of pain, quieting of emotional hs, depressions, anxiety, fear. Our culture is sad. We have a lot of isolation. The major disease that I see affecting our culture is essentially loneliness, separation. And this is uh sad because pain shared is pain divided. And when you can divide the pain, it makes it less fair alone. So we find ways in which to connect with each other in purposeful meaningful ways. Humans are according to what I’ve seen are more of a
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tribal tribal tribal beings. When you thrive in community except for certain periods of time in our life when we welcome solitude or meditation breathes or we can mix it up but we know for the first year of life if a child is isolated and abandon the child not only won’t thrive but the child will love and you can’t over love a newborn love. So the more people that hold the child the better it is for the child. In Bali, they don’t put the child down for the first 10 months of life. Someone’s always holding him in. And
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that’s very, very beautiful. It’s a very profound idea to be held by someone. And I lived in a compound with seven babies for four months. I could count on one hand the time I heard them cry. And it was just a short whatever it was. We have different ways. If you examine different ways cultures do things, you realize this is not necessarily the most sane, you know, and we are here to bring light. We’re here to bring holiness. We’re here to acknowledge each other and bring love. And we all still have, I
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look around, we all still have spunkiness. Thank God. Thank God. Our work is not done. No, we’re not. This is not a hostage situation. Although it might be a hostage situation, we’re all being held hostage here by our God. And while we’re here, we have chances for dancing, joy, the song, the celebration, for reaching out and giving attention to each other and nurturing each other in holy love. Swimming in the ocean. and swimming in the ocean and paddle boarding and scuba diving and snorkeling
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and running and dancing and climbing the mountains, you know, getting their glad tidings and knowing and knowing our oneness and knowing that we’re not separate, which is really important because a lot of what society teaches us is separation that we’re the individual. I’m an individual. It’s lovely. I think the individual can take an initiative and that’s very there’s a communal that is very profound in the course. So in this part of the service in the early morning of our
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day spend some time in prayer and praise and awareness of the hungry and the homeless. the dispossessed. It contains family and friends that are in need of some touches. Then we can bring different hot spots of our world in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Please have mercy on all your creation. And if there’s something I can do to make this a little better, please allow me to do it. Please open my heart. Being a pure pose. So let’s send forth into this shelter
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the names of family and friends who are in need of [Music] Eric. chair you feel comfortable sitting after some time for a couple of battery charges. I want to put my beautiful brother Gary. We’ve been on some amazing adventures in this short life together and he’s having a little pain in the back of his leg. So, I want Gary to sit down here. Mhm. And we’re going to use our beautiful energy and we’re going to put our hands Tell us where the pain is, Gary. Okay. So, everyone come in and
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just bring your hands in there and we’re going to put in touch. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Glory to God. You think of it as a prayer for those that have departed that it makes no mention of death. The root is holiness. It’s all about wholeness. Wholeness. It’s about finding the sacred in our encounters with each other. sacred in our awareness of God’s presence in every aspect of the creation restraining from that which harms another and our own self. So magnified and sanctified is
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God’s name now and throughout all time and let us say amen. Amen. Amen. Beyond the beyond all praises, hymns, glories and songs, God is was and ever will be. Amen. The God who creates the harmony of the spheres and sets the stars in their force bring peace Israel to our shared world. And let us say amen. Amen. [Music] Fore speech. [Music] Israel in my room. Amen. [Music] Shalom of all is [Music] be shalom. Say shalom. Shalom is shalom. Shalom. Shalom. Is shalom. Say shalom. Shalom. Hallelujah.
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Is shalom. Say shalom. Shalom. Hallelujah. Is shalom. Say shalom. Shalom [Music] is shalom. Say shalom. Shalom. [Applause] May God bless you. May God cause the divine countenance to shine upon us and gracious ad shalom. May God lift up the divine presence within us and bless us with peace. God bless you. Happy new year. He’s going to lead us in tash and we can throw all of our sins away and we start fresh and be renewed. So we greet the day in wonder and love with the eyes of a child, the eyes of wonder. I don’t
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know what’s going on here. Do you? It’s a magic show. [Music] World is one by letting go, Jason. That’s what Vu says. Uhhuh. [Music] Yes. We had awaken it all to his wonderful joy.
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