Meditation in the Sky

"Inhale, the rotors begin. Exhale, the ground releases me. Inhale, the bay arrives in the window. Exhale, the karsts.

I did not think a helicopter could be a meditation. I was wrong. Everything I teach my students about being present, about letting the mind be wide and the body be still, happens by itself at 1,500 feet. There is nothing to do up here except be here. Forty minutes felt like one breath. I will not call it a flight. I will call it a practice."

Sophia D., Lisbon residing Bali