“Her winds are my breath”

A gentle breeze, cool on a hot summer's day, a strong wind heralding the coming storm. The beautiful smell of a meadow in spring colours. The first sun ray in the morning. The state of matter of air is gaseous, and its qualities are sometimes difficult to grasp: Air stands for freedom, new beginnings, adventure, curiosity, but also for intellect, knowledge.
Air is something that surrounds us all the time, yet we only realize it when it is missing or polluted. However, we get used to pollution very quickly. It is similar with freedom: we take it for granted, yet is is restricted in a lot of ways that we have stopped to recognise long ago: habits, customs, money, laws, tabu etc. Air offers the opportunity to go with the wind, to let go of all the things that bind us, that we allow to bind us. To experience air is to meet a universe of opportunities and wonders. It is through air that we can reach for the stars.
The winds are her breath. Let us share in that breath.

Exercise air

Choose a comfortable position. Take some deep breaths and relax. Close your eyes and go to your safe place. ...
Take some moments to enjoy the peace and safety you find here. ... As you look around, you see four doors, facing into four different directions.
You turn towards the door that is of a light grey colour, the colour of clouds in the sky. You reach for it, and it opens for you on its own accord. There is an open meadow behind, and you step through the door. There is a moment of disorientation, and you feel that all of your weight is stripped from you; you leave it behind at the door. You feel light, gravity has no hold over you. Only habit keeps you on the ground as you walk some steps into the meadow and turn around to look at the door that brought you here. ...
Then, a wind picks up, blowing into your face, almost caressing you at first. It gets stronger, and you loose your hold on the ground. The wind carries you with it, lifts you up from the ground and moves you. You turn around and face into the direction where you are flying. The wind carries you over a beautiful wild landscape, slowly at first, but soon picking up speed, growing stronger, wilder. You enjoy the ride, and the sights. ...
After some time, you begin to see the patterns of the wind, you can see where it is going, and also the surrounding air currents around your wind. It looks as if tiny glittering particles were all around you, and are moved around by the winds, thus allowing you to follow the movements of the winds. You decide you want to change directions, so you move, even as the wind moves you along, to the edge of the air current, and then across into another one that immediately carries you away into a different direction.
You have the freedom of the skies. Take time and fly with the winds, explore this world of air, and movement. ......

You have danced on the skies, now it is time to return. You choose a wind that will bring you back to your door, the one that brought you here. It carries you there swiftly, and you carefully get your feet onto the ground to avoid being swept away again. You walk through the door, back into your safe haven, and when you cross the door, you feel your weight settling on you again. You close the door behind you and take a moment to become used to gravity once more. Then you return to your body, count from 10 to 1, open your eyes.

Note: Whenever you have the feeling you cannot find your way back to the door, get the door to you: visualise it in front of you. It will always get you back home.