Motorcycle Pratyahara

You can't hear anything when you're on the back of a motorcycle, just the engine. You can feel everything, see everything, smell everything. As a passenger, you don't have to think. You can meditate for an hour, watching the world go by, the light through the trees, fog gathering in the valleys, feel the cold wind created by the speed of movement. Feel the breath loop up the front of the body as you grow taller, down the back of the body to relax the shoulder blades, make movement easy, free, lean with the turns, get back into the body. Remind yourself: this is now.

Now.

Now.

Be here, now.

 

By Kathy from just livin' in a small town in SW PA, USA (

Ohiopyle FallsUploaded by GrapedApe) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

I'm a city girl, but I really do need to get out into the woods more often.