A Three-Part Prayer

I’ve become more regular, to the point of devotion, in my practice of yoga this past year, and have enjoyed noticing all the different ways that yoga mirrors what is necessary for good singing. Obvious things like a focus on breath and posture, and less obvious things like continuing to move through a pose (or a note) as your breath moves through your body. I met a colleague this summer whose husband leads workshops on yoga for singers in fact…and at this point choir members at St. Alban’s reading this are getting a little nervous because they’re pretty sure I’ll be inviting him down here to lead a workshop for us.

The teacher I work with most often used a set of words several times in class the other day. She urged us to think of our bodies as sinking into the earth while the wind of our breath moved through our bodies and our minds became as open and light-filled as the sky, and the Hindu half of me felt an East meets West moment throughout class that day as she simply said:

Sky…Earth…Wind

But what I heard was:

Father…Son…Holy Spirit

And more often she says:

Mind…Body…Breath

May we strive to know the mind of God, as we become the body of Christ and notice more often the moving breath of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

Peace. Namaste. Amen.