Meditation and Breath Work

By Lee 'Red Oak' Johnson

This small book forms part of The Black Crow Expansion Series and is a collection of the texts from the original Black Crow which pertains to meditation and breath work and has been updated, with additional material included. The main body of the additional material provides a step by step guide to developing a meditation practice which builds on itself month by month, together with a series of breath work exercises that can be done over an eight week period.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lee 'Red Oak' Johnson
• Release date: Sep 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005833862

Lee 'Red Oak' Johnson

Although he had been interested in the supernatural from his early years as a boy living in Coventry, England where he was born, he actively started practicing and studying Magick and Witchcraft from the year 1995. Although he has a strong leaning toward Anglo-Saxon Heathenry on a religious front, mostly because of his roots, his spiritual and philosophical leanings encompass many paths that people may consider to be diverse. Lee has always been a believer that each path and religion has common beliefs, finding that it is merely the language or interpretation that alters slightly between them. These bridges can be formed and Truth revealed.

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Part of The Black Crow Expansion Series

by

Lee ‘Red Oak’ Johnson

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the permission in writing from the publisher.

Meditation and Breath Work

© Lee W Johnson, 2021

https://leewjohnson.com

First Published, 2021

Pan's Gate Publishers

Table of Contents

Title Page

Introduction

StillnessBreathing

Meditation and Breath Work Training

Active Meditation

Moving Meditation

Introduction

Whilst re-evaluating my previous work, The Black Crow, I had decided to extend it by adding a variety of new material and rearranging the chapters in to sections. Whilst busy with that I then realised it might be more prudent to create smaller books that focused on the additional material. These are to form an expansion series that will compliment the original text, and can therefore be read in conjunction to that text or as a separate module. My greatest battle was trying to justify to myself why a reader would want to buy a new copy of the book if they have already bought the original. This solution seemed to be the best possible action.

What you will find in this small book is the original material from The Black Crow that pertained to the topic of meditation and breath work, together with updates to that text and additional material, specifically the program outlined in the chapter titled Meditation and Breath Work Training, which will take you through a twelve month program to better acquaint you with these techniques. It is the step by step training itself which I felt was missing from the original text.

Being such a small addition, I have decided to only publish the expansion series as eBooks. If you would like to have a paperback copy to add to your collection, then please contact me on my website. If there is enough interest in this endeavour, then I will gladly create a hard copy.

I hope you enjoy this small book, and if you do, you may want to consider looking into the original book, The Black Crow, as there are many other topics to found within.

Lee 'Red Oak' Johnson

https://leewjohnson.com

Stillness

This first stage in your training (and continuing throughout your life in fact) has to do with stillness. In a sense this is a broad Not-Doing in the beginning, as it is opposite to what we are used to. We go about our day in constant movement, doing things, thinking things, feeling things, and so we need to learn how to become still.

One of the methods to achieve this stillness is through the practice of Asana, which is basically the practice of sitting with comfort and ease. Now this may seem simple, but sit in the same position for half an hour without moving a single muscle, and you will soon learn how difficult it can become, no matter how comfortable you may think you are when you begin.

Another aspect of stillness, and especially with the practice of Asana, is to remove the mind from the body and all exterior influences. What this means is that you bring total focus to your mind and the intent or thoughts that you are focusing on, and so whatever happens to your body or around you disappears and becomes irrelevant.

What is necessary for this course