Welcome to this gentle relaxation.
Please allow yourself a few moments to get yourself into a comfortable position.
Lying yourself down,
Supporting your body,
Finding yourself some cushions and blankets.
Anything that's going to make you feel comfortable,
Supported,
Safe.
Gently scanning our bodies for any discomfort,
Any tightness and tension.
And if there's anything we can gently change to make us that little bit more comfortable.
Just allowing yourself to do that.
So getting ourselves ready for this relaxation,
To give ourselves this space.
Softening our body,
Allowing ourselves to breathe and to take a couple of breaths to ground ourselves.
So slowly in through the nose,
And then out.
And we'll take a couple more of these grounding breaths.
So slowly in through the nose,
And then out.
And one more.
In and out.
And allowing ourselves to feel connected to the ground,
Our bed,
Whatever surface we're lying on.
Feeling supported.
So we're going to gently move through some of our muscles.
And we're going to gently do some tensing as we breathe in.
And then releasing as you breathe out.
Please allow yourself to go at your own pace and don't hold your breath or your muscles for any longer than feels comfortable to you.
We want this to be a relaxing experience to help our body to soften,
To release stress and to move into that parasympathetic nervous system to help us to heal and relax.
So we're going to start with our forehead.
Raising your eyebrows as high as they'll go,
As if you were surprised by something.
And then releasing as you breathe out.
And we're going to move next to our eyes.
So as you breathe in,
Squeezing your eyes shut.
And as you breathe out,
Relaxing them.
And then next our mouth and our jaw.
So opening your mouth as wide as you can.
And then relaxing it.
And noticing that softness in our face.
So we're going to move to our right hand side now.
So as we breathe in,
We're going to squeeze our right hand and arm.
And as we breathe out,
Release.
And you may feel that you'd like to do that again.
So gently squeezing that right hand and arm as we breathe in.
And as we breathe out,
Releasing.
And we're going to move now over to our left side and do the same thing.
So as we breathe in,
Gently squeezing our left hand and our arm.
And as we breathe out,
Releasing.
And you may wish to do it again.
So gently squeezing the left hand and arm as we breathe in.
And gently releasing it as we breathe out.
And allowing yourself to soften,
To relax.
To allow ourselves to be.
So we're going to move down to the larger muscles.
So starting with our right leg.
Gently squeezing our right leg as we breathe in.
And releasing it as you breathe out.
So breathing out that tension.
Breathing out any stress that we might be holding in our body.
You might wish to do that again.
So gently squeezing the right leg as we breathe in.
And releasing it as we breathe out.
And then over to our left hand side.
So gently squeezing our left leg as we breathe in.
And releasing it as we breathe out.
And again,
Breathing in as we squeeze our left leg.
And breathing out as we release.
Allowing ourselves to soften.
So if it's comfortable,
We're going to do our whole right side.
Followed by our whole left side.
So gently squeezing our whole right side as we breathe in.
And releasing it as we breathe out.
And then to our left side.
So gently squeezing our whole left side as we breathe in.
And our whole left side releases as we breathe out.
And we're going to do our whole body.
So gently squeezing our whole body as we breathe in.
And releasing our whole body as we breathe out.
And you may wish to do that one more time.
Gently breathing in as we squeeze our whole body gently.
And breathing out as we release and let go.
Allowing ourselves to be here in this space,
In this stillness.
The stillness that you have created.
And allowing ourselves to breathe.
With every breath,
We're breathing in strength,
Gratitude.
And we're breathing out release.
Breathing out any stress,
Any tension that we're holding in our bodies.
Breathing in that peace.
And breathing out anything that doesn't serve us.
And staying here for a few more moments as we allow ourselves to feel connected to our bodies,
To our breath.
We allow ourselves to feel held.
And just thanking ourselves for showing up,
For being here.
And feeling that warmth that we feel inside.
That ball of energy.
And holding on to that.
As we allow ourselves these last few moments of relaxation.
And staying here for as long as you'd like to.
Or gently starting to wriggle,
Yawn.
And gently start the process of bringing your body back into your space.
Back into that sense of wakefulness.
And taking as long as you would like.
Thank you so much for breathing with me today.
