The Practice
Ten minutes. No equipment. No experience required.
A precise sequence of breath, attention, and gratefulness — drawn from one of the oldest somatic traditions in existence. Something that changes how the rest of the day feels.
We offer it freely. No sign-up, no paywall, no course to buy.
For thirty years, Anna Bjurstam has been exploring what meditation actually is — not as a wellness practice or a productivity tool, but as a genuine inquiry into the nature of human experience. That path has led through Vipassana, Siddha Yoga, shamanic training, plant medicine, and traditions that do not fit neatly into any category. Each one has shaped how she understands the body, the mind, and the terrain that lies between them.
The Wahayla practice was not designed. It arrived.
During a session several years ago, it came through as a complete sequence — structured, specific, and accompanied by a clear instruction: share this. Help people calm. Help them feel love. Help them set their intentions. The word practitioners use for an experience like this is downloaded. We use it here because it is the most accurate word available.
Sharing this on a company website is not a conventional thing to do. We think that is the point.
Ten minutes. No equipment. No experience required.
The Word
Ancient Aramaic. One of the oldest prayer languages on earth.
I feel life energy in my heart.
This is not a metaphor. It is a description of a state that is accessible, repeatable, and learnable. A state that changes what you notice, what you decide, and how you move through a day. The science of this — what happens in the body, in the nervous system, in the quality of attention — is now the subject of serious research. The practice is older than the research. Both point to the same thing.
The Meditation
Arrive
Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Take three slow, full breaths — not deep, not forced. Simply longer than usual. Let each exhale be a small release of whatever you carried in.
The threshold breath
Take one breath and hold it at the top for as long as is comfortable. Feel the stillness inside the hold. Release slowly. Take a second, deeper breath and hold again. Release. Take a third. Release. Take a fourth. On this fourth release, let your body soften completely — as though it just remembered it does not have to hold itself up.
Open the heart
On your fifth or sixth breath, bring your full attention to your heart — not the idea of it, but the physical centre of your chest. As you breathe, silently say three times: Abwun d'bashmaya.* Feel your chest expand slightly with each repetition, as though something is opening a door from the inside.
Connect with everything
With your heart open, feel yourself rooted — to the ground beneath you, to the sky above, to the four directions around you. You are in the middle of everything. Become aware of the living world: sounds, air, the presence of other life. All of it pulsing with the same energy that pulses in you.
Gather love into a ball
Take all of this — every bit of life and beauty you just felt — and imagine gathering it gently into a small ball of light that fits in your cupped hands. Hold it for a moment. Feel its warmth. Now place that ball of light into your heart. Let it settle. Feel your heart expand around it. Let the love become infinite — no edges, no end.
Expand to the universe
From your heart, let the light expand — filling your body, then growing larger than your body, then larger than the room, the city, the Earth itself, out into the whole universe. Feel the connectedness with all things. You are not separate from any of it. Rest here for as long as you wish.
The pyramids
Draw all of that expanded love back to a ball in your heart — amplified, denser with meaning than before. Around you, visualise a large white pyramid pointing upward, and a black pyramid pointing downward, tips meeting at your heart. Let them rotate in opposite directions — the upper one clockwise, the lower one counter-clockwise. Let them accelerate: the upper to 34, the lower to 21. These are numbers that appear everywhere in nature — the spiral of a shell, the branching of your own veins. Place your intention into this spinning field: What can I do today to make the world a better place? Let the answer come from the field, not the mind.
Wahayla
Slow the pyramids to a gentle, continuous spin. Say aloud or silently, three times: Wahayla. Feel the word in your chest. Not as a sound — as a state. I feel life energy in my heart.
Give thanks
Thank the unseen world and the seen world. Thank the earth beneath you and the sky above. Thank your body — for its strength, its beauty, its patient intelligence. Thank the day for what it is about to bring.
Carry it forward
Place both hands gently over your heart for a moment. Feel the light still there. Open your eyes slowly. The energy you accessed here does not stay in this seat — you carry it. The practice is complete. The living has begun.
You are loved. You are loved. You are loved.
* Abwun d'bashmaya — ancient Aramaic. Meaning: being connected to heaven and earth and the four directions. The first line of the Lord's Prayer in the language Jesus spoke.
Go deeper
The Practice is a beginning. For those ready to go further, Anna offers a small number of private sessions each month — one-to-one work that begins where most wellness offerings stop.