Welcome!
Letting yourself arrive,
Settle and land in this grounding practice.
Choosing any shape that feels friendly,
Nourishing,
Really steady and supportive for your body.
There is no wrong choice.
And just like I'm doing,
You might like to wriggle around a little bit.
Let your hips shift from side to side.
Let the spine wave,
Snake its way around the space,
Around you,
Above you,
Behind you.
Arriving into this practice with your body as your body.
Exploring what it's like to find that sense of stillness through motion.
Often we can rush ourselves,
Hurry ourselves.
To find stillness.
So what is it like to give yourself permission to take your time?
That movement,
That organic movement that you can't get wrong.
Might serve as a little cue to sense into how your body is feeling.
Places that feel more open and spacious.
Places that might be feeling tender.
A little sticky.
Places that want to be noticed,
That are trying to capture your attention.
And right on cue,
My beautiful dog,
Ginger,
Trots down the hallway,
Always wants to be part of our exploring and discovering.
The possibility of noticing here.
Any habitual places that are holding,
Bracing,
Gripping.
What might it be like to soften the lids of your eyes?
Letting the jaw slacken.
Inviting the tongue to.
.
.
Drop down from the roof of the mouth.
And have this sense of the shoulders draping down your back towards the ground.
How does that fraction of softening.
.
.
Start to change your experience.
In your shape.
Feeling that brightness across the chest,
The collarbone.
And as you feel ready,
Letting your awareness drift and travel,
Meander down to all of the places that are in connection.
To something solid underneath you or behind you.
You can gaze down.
Press down.
Really find that space,
That steady groundedness.
That is inviting your body to trust in its support.
What kind of relationship is your body in with that space?
Is it one of equality and reciprocity?
Where the ground is inviting you to Release,
Sink down,
Trust.
While also your body is so graciously receiving that aliveness and energy.
Letting it.
Meander its way.
Up the central axis of your body letting the spine wave,
The neck lengthen.
Allowing yourself to take up a little more space.
Letting your body be the guide here.
Are you seeking a little more movement?
Those shifts through the hips,
The soles of the feet.
Sensing that shifting,
Changing relationship between your body and its tetheredness.
To the ground.
Whatever is around you.
Whatever this day has brought will bring.
Your body can always sense into that solid,
Steady grounded energy that is beneath you.
Because of the magic of gravity and the weight of our bodies,
We are always tethered and connected to something.
The earth shows us that that movement as it circles around.
That movement can be easeful,
Smooth,
Silky.
We can lean into that.
Steady support.
Regardless of what is happening in and around.
Our space,
Our environment.
So as you move through the rest of the day,
Inviting your tender,
Gentle awareness again and again.
Into those places and spaces where your body is in relationship to something.
Something tangible.
Something where you can experience and sense that compression.
Pressure.
Ginger's footsteps pressing into the floorboard.
And we'll close this grounding practice with Three intentional conscious breaths.
As you explore a gentle breath in,
Maybe through the nose.
Your shoulders might want to glide up to dance with the earlobes just a little.
Release a longer spacious breath out through the lip.
Shoulders melting down your back.
Might like to explore two more,
Really enlivening that exhalation.
Gentle breath in.
Spacious breath out.
As you are ready,
One more.
Your breath in Enliven,
Exhale through the lips.
Thanking you so much for sharing your time,
Your energy,
Your presence with me.
This magical community that inspires me greatly.
May this grounded presence.
You have invited and welcomed carry with you into the rest of your day.
