So in this session we will be exploring more of what it is to soften the nervous system through the breath.
Through our breath that sits between every cell of the being and how it can activate a sense of relaxation.
So listening to where and how your body has been brought here today.
How it sits,
How it stands,
How it fully meets the ground.
Give yourself a chance to just check in with where you are with that.
So I ask you to invite a sense of curiosity into the state of your own nervous system and how it meets you.
So approaching this with a real sense of curiosity about the body and about where you are,
How you are sat.
And how this breath could really nourish you.
So just for a moment noticing the pace of your natural current breath.
A natural current breath that just allows to come in and out of you naturally.
Not needing to be a certain way or sound a certain way,
Just being exactly what it is.
How it rises and how it falls within your body,
In and out.
When we consciously come together in session like this to work with the breath we say yes to creating a relationship with it.
To creating a bond with the breath that allows movement,
Allows expansion,
Allows a sense of relief and release.
Where we can allow it to aid the state of our body and the nervous system within that.
So now we create opportunity to experience this together.
So start by offering up a position in your body that allows an open channel for this breath.
So softening into the shoulders,
Instigating those first moments of connection to transcend from shoulders filtering down into the rest of your body.
Focusing on where the breath is initially coming from as you breathe in.
Where do you feel it coming from?
Where is it starting from?
Often that initial place may come from the chest.
I ask you to stay in your curiosity of where else that might come in from.
And just following that for a few moments.
And as you follow that,
Deepening the inhale as you start noticing where it starts from.
Bring to gentle awareness what that depth of inhale is bringing you,
If anything.
So follow it.
So together let's take a moment to lengthen through the spine a little more and bring to focus the next inhale travelling in from your seat.
Or the tailbone or the lower spine,
However you see that area.
So the next inhale coming in through your nose and coming all the way up and into your body.
So as it travels up into the rest of your body,
Watch as the whole body starts to slowly expand within that breath.
Like a balloon,
An expanding,
An expansive state of your body.
As you breathe in,
The breath travels into every corner and every area of the body.
So the upper body is mainly our focus right now.
If we're breathing in,
We're expanding the upper body.
And allow,
As you next breathe in,
The exhale to just fall out through the mouth like this deflating.
As we breathe in,
We find that expansive moment as we breathe into the whole body.
So the torso is what expands.
Maybe even bringing your spine a little bit taller,
You breathe in,
You open.
And as you breathe out,
You just deflate.
So continuing in that round of breath,
As you breathe in through the nose,
You grow taller through your body,
Through the spine,
Through the torso.
Breathing into the chest,
Allowing it to expand.
And then you deflate with the exhale through the mouth.
Maybe the body deflates a little bit,
The torso just drops down a couple of inches.
So following that breath,
And if you need to,
Stop and pause this track to really get into that round.
So you're breathing in through the nose and you breathe out through the mouth.
I encourage you to do this with as much detail into it being as slow as you need it to be.
Try not to quicken the pace,
Really just,
Well,
What we're doing is we're allowing the nervous system to soften.
The motion of this breath can allow the body to ease.
You bring the heart rate down and the nervous system a chance to slow down and catch up.
And find these moments of peace and ease and softness within the body.
So continuing with this breath,
We're breathing in through the nose.
We expand the body like a balloon and we deflate slowly out through the mouth.
And maybe you want to match that with a round of three or four as you breathe in and two or three as you breathe out.
Just three rounds,
Three beats,
Three in,
Four in,
Two or three out.
The more you come back to this pace of breath,
The more you come back to easing the nervous system.
Slowing the heart rate down and allowing the body to soften as many times as you can in your day or in your week.
The easier it will become to create relationship with breath,
To soften into that parasympathetic nervous state of body that allows us just to be.
So come back to this as often as you feel the need to.
