Floating Meditation

Floating Meditation

Anything involving water – me in the water, me around the water – just makes meditation better for me.

That’s why I have to share this experience even though it was years ago – it was called a Himalayan Sound Bath.

It took place in a swimming pool @MiravalArizona and was led by the lovely @pamlancaster108.

Picture a small group standing in the shallow end of a nice warm shady pool. You get a pool noodle under the arms and floats on your ankles. You lay back with your legs over a floating lane marker, the noodle under your arms, eyes closed. Behind your closed eyes, the light changes, just a little, as the sun comes in and out of the shade. Once everyone settles in, the leaders start to play the Tibetan bowls.

Because the bowls are in the water, the sound transmits, but so do the vibrations, so your whole body feels the sensation. Now here’s the good part – eventually, and if you are lucky more than once, one of the leaders makes their way over to you, places a bowl in your chest or stomach, and makes it sing. There’s nothing like it.

A privileged experience, for sure. But here’s what’s fun – last time I was in a pool there was this donut shaped float, and I put my butt in it and closed my eyes and felt the sun and the breeze. I think the floating vacuum even added a little hum, and everything just fell away, just like it did the fancy time.