Amplify Your Intention

Welcome to this grounding yet energizing breathwork journey designed to help you get clear, centered, and aligned with what you're calling into your life. Through deep belly breathing, activating practices, and a luminous heart-centered visualization, you'll gently awaken your energy and breathe life into the intention that's ready to emerge.

This practice guides you to listen inwardly, release resistance, and feel your whole system align with what you're inviting forward. You'll leave feeling clearer, steadier, and more connected to the path you're choosing.

Transcript

Get yourself in a nice comfy position,

Create your nest where you feel really safe and secure.

And if you want to,

If it feels safe and comfortable for you,

You can begin to close down your eyes.

If you want to,

Or you can just have a soft gaze and close your eyes most of the way,

Just looking at nothing in particular,

So you choose what suits you best today.

And just bringing your awareness to your breath,

Noticing how it feels as you breathe into your belly and breathe out to relax a little bit more.

And as you breathe into the belly,

You can feel it rise just a little bit.

And as you exhale,

See if you can drop something that you came in with.

Breathing into the belly,

Feeling it rise like a balloon.

And exhale nice and slow and easy,

Allowing yourself to fully arrive here in this little moment in time that you carved out for yourself.

And let's just bring a hand to your heart or your belly or both,

Beginning to tune into where you are right now and what is present for you.

And you can ask yourself,

What am I longing for?

And just breathing and listening with all of your senses to whatever comes up for you.

Usually,

The voice of our deepest truth is succinct.

It might be a word or even a symbol or image or a feeling.

Those are all so welcome here.

What am I ready to bring to life?

Breathing into this question.

So no need to force or search for an answer.

Just breathe and listen,

Allowing the truth to bubble up.

And the more at ease and relaxed we can be,

The easier of a time that truth will have to bubble up for us.

So as this truth begins to be known of what you're longing for and what you're ready to bring to life,

You can just welcome it with gratitude.

Maybe even imagining that you're holding that truth and that longing in your heart.

In your hands.

That you could see it as an image or a symbol or a memory or a vision of the future.

Of how you want to feel or what you are bringing to life.

What you are creating space for.

And let's just begin to breathe some life and vitality into that vision.

So taking a deep inhale through the nose and exhale out the mouth with a sigh.

Again,

Breathing in,

Filling your whole torso.

And exhale,

Releasing anything that doesn't need to come with you into this moment.

One more time,

Filling up completely and letting go entirely.

So let's play around with what type of breath is going to support your intention with where you're at right now and your current energy levels.

So when we make the inhale longer than the exhale,

That tends to be an energizing breath.

When we make the exhale longer than the inhale,

That is a calming breath.

So if we have some anxiety present with this intention,

Some nervousness,

Some self-doubt,

Maybe the longer exhale can help to balance that,

To help ease that anxiety and bring about more calm and peace and assuredness.

If you are feeling low energy right now and you just need some more energy and vitality,

Let's make the inhale longer than the exhale.

If you're craving a balance,

Let's make the inhale and the exhale the same length.

So for example,

It could be an inhale to the count of four or six and an exhale for the same count.

So this is a choose-your-own-adventure moment where you get to tune in to what do you need right now and what does your intention need in order to grow and come to the surface a little bit more in a way that is proud and confident and energized.

So let's just tune in and tap into that exact breath that we're needing and you can play around with that.

Play around with that and see what feels the most supportive for you.

So let's do that for a few minutes.

I'll leave you in silence and I'll also be doing my own breath and I'll meet you back here on the other side.

Let's just take another few breaths here together,

Just really enjoying these breaths that you get to take to support your intention.

And as you're ready,

You can begin to release the breath,

Allowing your breath to return to normal.

Just noticing how you feel in your body,

In your mind,

Just noticing and being present with yourself.

Just a few more moments here to take stock before we move on to one more type of breath to really energize your intention.

And so as you're ready,

I will walk you through three-part yogic breath,

One of my favorite types of breath that I find really energizes an intention.

So if you'd like to,

You can start off with two hands on your belly with the fingers facing each other,

With the fingers just barely touching.

And on the inhale,

We'll breathe into the belly,

Feeling it rising like a balloon so that your fingers should come apart a little bit.

And then as you exhale,

Just bring the belly back in.

So we'll just do that part for a couple of rounds.

So inhale,

Belly rises,

Fingers come apart.

Exhale,

Releasing the breath,

Fingers come back together.

Inhale into the belly.

Exhale,

Fingers come back together.

Okay,

So that's phase one of the breath.

Now you can stick with that as long as you want.

And if you want to move on to phase two with me,

We'll bring our fingers up to the ribs so that same thing,

Fingers are just barely touching.

So on the inhale,

We'll breathe into the belly as it rises like a balloon.

And then we'll breathe into the ribs as they expand,

Fingers come apart.

Now,

Exhale from the ribs first,

Fingers come back together.

And then out from the belly as it comes back to center.

So breathe into the belly,

Then the ribs.

Breathe out from the ribs,

Then the belly.

Let's try that a couple more times at your own pace.

Into the belly,

Then the ribs.

Out from the ribs,

And out from the belly.

This might feel weird and awkward at first,

But it gets easier and more intuitive with practice.

And you can see if you can even eventually start to make it more of a fluid motion.

So at first it will be like one part,

Two parts.

And then eventually it can just be like belly,

Ribs,

Ribs,

Belly.

So let's try just a couple more times.

Belly,

Then ribs.

Ribs,

Then belly.

One more time at your own pace.

Good.

Now we'll move up to the third phase,

Which is the collarbone.

So if you want,

You can bring your hands up to your collarbones,

Fingers just barely touching.

So the first part again is the belly,

Then the ribs,

Then collarbones.

Out from the collarbones,

Then the ribs,

Then the belly.

So first inhale into the belly,

Then the ribs expand.

Then the fingers come apart as you breathe all the way up into the collarbones.

Exhale from the collarbones,

Then the ribs,

Then the belly.

Into the belly,

Ribs,

Then collarbones.

Out from the collarbones,

Then the ribs,

Then the belly.

And you can keep the hands there as long as they're supporting you,

Or you can drop them.

You know the whole breath now.

It's three-part breath.

So the first one is the belly,

Then the ribs,

Then the collarbones.

Out from the collarbones,

Out from the ribs,

Out from the belly.

So you can continue this at your own pace.

You can see if you can make it fluid,

If that feels good for you,

Or you can keep it in the three distinct parts.

There is no right or wrong way.

And as you're doing this breath,

You can just hold your intention in your awareness,

Maybe that visual of that image.

I like to look at it right here in my third eye as I'm breathing.

You can just imagine like with each of these very energizing breaths,

You're filling up the battery of your intention.

Adding life and vitality to it.

And with each exhale,

You're breathing away any limiting beliefs about it,

Any internal barriers.

Feel them just slide off you with the exhale.

And let's take a couple more breaths like this.

Belly,

Ribs,

Collarbones.

Exhaling it all along with any self-doubt.

Let's do one more like that.

Belly,

Ribs,

Collarbones.

Exhale to relax entirely.

And you can keep that breath if you'd like,

Or release it and allow your breath to return to normal for just a short visualization together.

So you can bring your awareness to your heart center.

Breathing into that space as if each breath fans a soft glowing light that resides there.

Feel that light expanding with every inhale.

And imagining your intention.

Imagine it as that word or phrase or image in that light that you are growing with each inhale.

And so with each inhale,

Breathing energy into your intention,

Seeing it growing brighter,

Stronger,

And more confident.

With each exhale,

Releasing any resistance or doubt.

So continuing this pattern as you breathe.

Breathing life into your intention and breathing alignment through your whole being.

Inhaling,

I awaken.

Exhale,

I align.

Inhale,

I awaken.

Exhale,

I align.

Staying with this for a few more breaths.

And as you're ready,

You can begin to let the breath soften,

Returning to its natural rhythm.

Placing both hands over your heart if you'd like,

And whispering to yourself,

My breath brings me home.

My energy serves my intention.

Feeling gratitude for your body,

For the aliveness that's here.

And whenever you're ready,

You can gently wiggle your fingers and toes.

If your eyes were closed,

You can gently flutter them open,

Bringing this awakened alignment with you as you open your eyes.

Reviews

Thank you for teaching me about how to use breath to either energize or relax. I will be using this with my high school students.