Hello and welcome.
I'm truly so grateful to practice together.
This is a short grounding practice that marries some gentle movement with our breath.
No yoga experience or flexibility is required.
Whether you have woken up on the wrong side of the bed,
Wanting to create a new habit to start your day with intention.
Prepare yourself for a meeting or difficult conversation.
This is a practice you can return to time and time again to center,
To ground.
And you can choose whether to practice sitting down or standing up,
The choice is yours.
Taking a moment to let everybody choose their starting place.
Just ensuring you have enough space to circle your arms wide and overhead.
Settle in.
Let's begin by grounding down through our feet.
You might like to press down through the heels,
The balls of your feet.
You can gently rock,
Sway,
Shift your weight from left foot to right foot.
Really finding a place that feels balanced,
Feels like your center.
And without any need to lengthen or change your breath in any way,
The invitation to observe how it's feeling in your body.
Can you feel parts of your body moving as you breathe?
Can you pinpoint where your breath begins?
Where is the epicenter of your breath?
And if you can't locate that,
It's no problem.
This is an exploration,
An inquiry.
We don't need to have all the answers.
You can choose to remain where you are.
If you'd like to practice along with me.
As you feel ready,
Inhaling through your nose,
Circling your arms wide,
Sparkling your fingertips up towards the sky.
Palms to touch.
Exhale,
Bring them down through the center,
The middle of your body.
Beautiful.
Let's do that again together.
Circling your arms wide,
Moving mindfully,
Slowly.
Reaching through all sides of your torso.
Palms touch and exhale.
Palms down through the center of your torso.
The invitation to practice a few more rounds.
Maybe imagining your spine growing taller with each inhale.
Your fingertips sparkle towards the sky.
Your palms touch and mindfully bring your palms down through heart center.
Resting your hands in your lap or by your sides.
Noticing how you feel.
Tuning in with the feeling of your feet on the ground.
Introducing those shifts,
The sways,
The rocking.
Maybe observing here,
The flow,
The dance,
The symphony of your breath.
And as this practice comes to a close,
The invitation to gently roll your neck and stretch out through your fingers,
The wrists.
Squeeze and separate your toes.
And giving thanks to yourself for giving this time and space to really feel and sense and be in your body.
Let's practice and explore again really soon.
