This Week’s Meditation Experiment Comes to Life Through Yin Yoga
Every Tuesday, I share a Meditation Experiment—a simple practice designed to invite you into quiet attention and deeper care.
But this week’s practice is different.
This week, we’re stepping into Meditation Experiment #3: Sacred Care through the body.
A 30-minute guided Yin Yoga practice, followed by a short open meditation, where you can feel what Sacred Care is like, rather than just think about it.
It’s an invitation to experience how Yin Yoga supports meditation—and how both offer a way of returning home.
Where Practice Begins
If you practice meditation long enough—five minutes, twenty years—you might come to a realization that I had that most of what we call "practice" is, at first, the practice of control.
We tell ourselves otherwise. That we're cultivating peace. That we're building awareness. That we're finding ourselves.
But scratch the surface of any earnest practitioner, and you'll often find an unspoken bargain:
If I do this well enough, for long enough, maybe I'll finally be safe.
This is understandable.
We’re all trying to be safe.
Safe from our histories.
Safe from our fears.
Safe from the next loss we know is waiting just out of sight.
But here’s the thing:
The mind that tries to manage life never gets the life it’s managing for.
Sacred Care Comes Before Practice
Before there is practice, there must be care.
Not strategy.
Not effort.
Care.
There’s a quiet difference between tending to experience and working on it.
One assumes the possibility of relationship.
The other assumes there’s something broken that needs fixing.
And when we approach ourselves as a problem to solve, something fractures: There’s the one who’s doing the work… and the part that’s being worked on. The healer and the wound.
We all know how that story goes.
You end up chasing your own tail—trying to solve a problem that only exists in the concept you have of yourself.
The Discipline of Sacred Care
Sacred Care isn’t indulgence. It isn’t coddling. It’s the orientation of the heart that refuses to treat life as something to “handle.”
It’s the discipline of tenderness.
The willingness to sit, open, and abide—not because you’re trying to get somewhere—but because this is where you are.
We could call it compassion.
But that word has been worn thin by overuse and under-practice.
Better to call it Sacred Care.
Because it reminds us: this is holy.
This moment.
This experience—whether ragged, raw, or incomplete—is worthy of reverence.
This Week’s Free Practice: Sacred Care Yin Yoga + Meditation
As part of celebrating the launch of From Scratch, I’m offering this week’s Yin Practice Lab and Meditation Experiment as a free 45-minute class. It’s a way to experience Sacred Care, not as an idea, but as a felt practice.
Here’s how we’ll practice:
🪷 30 minutes of guided Yin Yoga, resting into support, softening the breath, and letting go of unnecessary effort.
🪷 15 minutes of open meditation, sitting quietly within the field of care you’ve cultivated.
Not a technique.
Not a goal.
Just an attitude of reverence towards whatever arises.
Perching your attention lightly.
Welcoming what’s here, as you would a beloved guest—or a weary stranger.
Resisting the urge to do anything to your experience.
And noticing what shifts, if anything, when you hold it all with Sacred Care.
No progress needed.
No gold stars.
Just the clear seeing that you’re already living from a heart that knows how to care, even when it forgets.
Join me, practicing From Scratch
This free practice is part of the From Scratch launch celebration—a space for those walking the path of recovery, renewal, and beginning again.
Each week, I’ll be sharing:
🪷 Meditation Experiments—short, focused practices to deepen presence
🪷 Yin Practice Labs—Yin Yoga sessions to nourish body and mind
🪷 Essays and reflections exploring Yin Yoga, Chinese Medicine, and Buddhist teachings.
This is for those ready to slow down and meet life from the ground up—one breath, one practice, one week at a time.
(When you subscribe, you’ll receive weekly meditations and Yin Yoga practices directly in your inbox.)
From my practice to yours,
Josh
Disclaimer:
While Yin Yoga is generally a safe and accessible practice, it’s important to honor your body’s limits and practice with care. Please listen to your body and make any adjustments you need. If you have any medical conditions, injuries, or concerns, consult a healthcare professional before practicing. By joining this session, you agree to take full responsibility for your well-being. The instructor is not liable for any injuries that may occur.
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