Chamber Singers Relaxation Exercise Vignette March 8

You are vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. You’re standing in the middle of a gently racing stream in back of the log cabin you’ve rented for the week. Your arms rest easily on top of the stream, buoyed up by the running current. You breathe in the fragrance of the honeysuckle flowers blooming on the stream’s shore. Hearing the lazy sound of a bee, you imitate its sound. You move your arms back and forth, feeling the mountain sun above warming your face and chest, and the swirling mountain water below refrigerating your legs and hands. You stretch to the green-treed mountains above you, take a deep breath and plunge straight down into the water. Up you come with your arms above your head, blowing water out of your mouth. Shaking the water off of your upper body you call, “Life is beautiful!”