Whole Body Breathing

Breathe deeply from head to toe in this full body activation. Fill your body with calm and centredness, helping you focus on being present. Bringing attention to your whole body is an invigorating practice, join Jamie in this unique journey.

Transcript

Today we'll be working on some breathing,

Breathing in and out throughout the whole body and using our different limbs and areas of the body as our lungs.

So to begin with we can just start by closing the eyes.

Just slowing things down.

Just slowing your breathing down.

Just slowing your mind down by really telling yourself that you're dedicating this time to peace and no mind.

That thoughts can just be passed.

This is time for you and your body to relax,

To rejuvenate.

So just finding that nice natural breath.

You'll just start concentrating on the breath coming in and out of the nose.

Just feeling all the sensations of the breath coming in and out of the nose.

And just taking a few conscious,

Deeper,

Slower breaths to increase the concentration in this area.

Just taking a nice deep breath in for five seconds.

Two,

One.

And out for five seconds.

Four,

Three,

Two,

One.

And again in.

Just observing all the subtleties and out.

The feeling of the warm and the cold air.

And in.

Feeling of the air coming down the back of the nostrils.

And out.

The temperature of the air.

And just with this concentration on the air coming in and out of the nose.

Just relax your breathing to one that feels comfortable.

Three,

Two,

One.

And out.

So as our attention is on our breath,

Flowing in and out of the nose,

Coming down,

Let's just start moving that fine point of attention.

Just start following the journey of the breath down the throat and into the lungs.

Just observing the breath.

And really savoring the feeling of aliveness.

Observing the natural bodily function which we usually don't give much thought to.

Observing this breath coming in and really going on the journey with it.

As the oxygen comes in the nose,

Down the throat,

Into the lungs.

Into the little alveoli which are in the lungs and oxygen diffusing into the blood.

The blood flowing through the heart.

All this happening in such a small amount of time,

Just really basking in this complexity.

And really allowing the lungs to fill up.

Really allowing the body to relax.

And with our attention on our lungs,

Just ask with each breath to try and relax a little bit more.

With each out breath,

Just to really drop and loosen.

You can do this as a body scan.

So,

Just starting with the face and behind the eyes,

Eyebrows,

Forehead,

Cheeks,

The jaw,

The shoulders,

The neck.

With each in and out breath,

Just allowing all to drop and be free.

The upper arms and the chest and back area.

Your lower arms and your hands.

Your belly and your back.

Allowing thoughts to just pass with the breath,

With the sweeping motion.

Each breath is a life and death.

Just allowing your belly to relax fully.

Allowing every muscle to let go.

Just finding a nice floating place.

You can allow your body to become a little bit more soft and less rigid.

Allowing a little bit more of a hunch if needed or slight bend in the back,

Just to allow your belly to really relax here.

Just moving down to your hips,

Your groin muscles,

Your buttocks.

And again,

Just giving them full permission to relax and massaging with the breath.

Tension going lower and lower to your upper legs and your knees.

Your whole body can relax.

Nice steady breathing.

Deep deep breaths.

Then finally just moving the attention lower and lower down the calves.

Down into our feet.

And here,

Just observing the feet.

And seeing if we can feel any little small subtle feelings down in the feet.

Putting on the smallest feeling you can.

And next,

We're going to imagine that our whole body is one big lung that we can breathe in the air from all of our skin pores.

And maybe just starting with the big toe and the right foot,

Just as we breathe in.

Imagining that you're breathing in with your big toe and the right foot that the air,

As well as coming in through the nose,

Is coming in through the pores in your foot.

And with each breath,

Just allowing one extra body part to join,

So the next,

The first toe along,

And then the third toe,

Fourth,

And fifth.

So you've got all of your toes on your right foot,

Breathing in the air,

Allowing them to relax with the out breath and breathing in.

And then just opening up your whole foot on your right side now with your in breath.

Breathing in with this whole right foot.

Just feeling the sensation.

With this heightened awareness,

Often we can feel heartbeats in our foot.

Really feeling the savoring of the attention down there.

And now just allowing with the whole right foot,

Just working on the left foot now,

On your left big toe.

Breathing in with your left big toe.

Finding the attention down there,

The concentration,

The presence is down there.

And again,

Just moving your attention across your toes.

Just feeling that in breath.

Allowing any thoughts to pass with the in and out breath.

The attention is moving across all the way to your little toe,

Breathing in and out.

The pores in the skin pulling in the air.

And now joining your right foot,

Your left foot as well.

So allowing your awareness to be down in your right and your left foot.

Drawing in the air from both feet.

Really pulling the air with purpose and pulling the air with joy and attention.

Now imagining almost that we are in a tank of water and the water is slowly filling up and moving up both ankles and slowly moving up the calves.

Just feeling this air breath coming in and our attention is slowly rising up.

So allowing the air to be breathed in from slightly higher every time.

So our ankles are now being used.

And really just feeling this natural flow of attention,

Just slowly glide up the body at your own pace.

Allowing your calves to be submerged.

All your calves drawing in the air,

Your whole feet and calves up to your knees,

Your attention.

And as it rises up,

Just savour that feeling of the presence,

The attention in the body.

Breathing nice and deeply,

Using all these pores that we have in our attention.

Moving up to the upper legs.

Just taking a few moments here while both legs are in full attention.

Breathing in this air through both legs.

Just allowing both legs to be our lungs,

Drawing in the energy from the ground.

And now just allowing our hips and our groins,

Our bladder and our genital area,

Just to all be submerged in this presence.

All the pores in our skin being electrified and heightened.

Allowing this sensation.

And just holding the energy here at the bottom of the spine,

Feeling this breath in.

We're just going to use some of the energy centres now to help the breath.

So at the bottom here we have our root chakra,

About grounded and our instincts.

And just breathing in,

Allowing all the pores and just allowing this feeling of groundedness to come.

Allowing now the tension to move up,

Slowly removing up towards the belly button and the navel,

Just with this feeling of groundedness.

Now the second chakra is our emotions,

Energy and creativity.

And breathing in here with all the pores on the skin.

Just allowing emotions to be let go.

Just taking a few moments here.

And now just moving your attention up to your solar plexus,

Just below your rib cage.

Just breathing in with the whole body.

Breathing in with your presence.

And now just with the breaths in and with the attention up to your solar plexus,

This is a place of confidence and power.

So just taking some strong breaths in and reminding yourself of how powerful you are and how much freedom you have to be yourself.

Keeping all your body breathing in up to your solar plexus and slowly coming up to the heart now.

Just feeling any sensations in the body.

In the heart we have balance and compassion.

Just feeling your whole body be submerged by this breath and light and compassion for others,

Compassion for yourself and finding balance here of giving and taking.

Keep breathing in,

Moving our attention up.

Up to our throat,

The fifth chakra here is about speech and self-expression.

So breathing in now with our attention almost fully submerged up to our throat.

Just allowing us to bask here in full body submersion and full breath coming in.

Our whole body is one big lung.

Feeling this with confidence and reminding ourselves to always speak with integrity using all the other energy centres as guidance.

Now just allowing the attention to come up over the jaw,

Up the neck,

Over the nose.

Just breathing in with every pore in your body.

And now the tank is almost full,

We're almost fully submerged just here at the eyebrows,

In between the eyebrows,

The third chakra,

The seventh chakra.

This is the third eye,

Your intuition.

And just allowing this intuition to be turned on,

Just feeling the lightness here.

And then finally we move up to the crown,

The top of our head,

Really consciously breathing in and out here.

You've now got the full body breathing in and out.

The crown is your connection with the world we live in and the knowledge that we are all one.

So with the whole body connected in breath,

Connected with the life force which the oxygen brings,

Feeling the full body sensation.

And basking in this presence,

We can choose to be enlightened any moment,

In this moment of no mind and connection with your breath.

Just basking in this feeling,

Basking in this connection.

And now with the breath,

We'll finish with some Kundalini breathing,

So that's breathing in through the nose and allowing the energy to come up through these centers.

And breathing out through the mouth,

Allowing the energy to come down from the top of your head,

Down the front into the ground.

So just breathing in now very consciously,

In through the nose,

Energy coming up the spine,

Breathing out through the nose and the mouth,

Allowing the connected energy to come down the forehead.

Again breathing in through the nose,

Allowing the energy to rise through our spine.

Breathing out through the mouth and the nose,

Letting go and allowing the energy to come down our face and down our body to the ground,

Like a circle,

Breathing in and out,

Grounding,

Breathing in,

Energy rising up and out,

Energy moving down,

Allowing the energy to rise and rise and let go and let go,

Energy to rise up and fill our body with all of these positive traits that the energy center holds,

Filling ourself full of life and allowing the brightness to come into our eyes,

Allowing the light to flicker through the eyes,

The connected feeling.

And now just allowing our bodies to be a little bit more still and relaxed,

Just slowly moving our bodies,

Shaking off any stiffness now which we have gathered.

You can stretch your arms above your head,

Just letting out any natural noises,

Just shaking off any staleness in the day and just really embracing the aliveness which we have brought into our whole body.

Our whole body is one organ of breath and light,

Just moving our heads from side to side,

Rolling the shoulders,

Just intuitively doing what feels right for you.

And in your own time just opening the eyes and taking a second before having any thoughts,

Just enjoying this moment of presence and stillness and light,

Just enjoying the moment of not thinking about your next thing but just being here,

Being present and feeling good.

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