Gently arrive here,
Letting your body be fully supported by the surface beneath you.
Notice the points of contact,
Where your weight meets something steady,
Something that holds you without effort.
Bring your attention to the feeling of your shoulders.
Let them be exactly as they are for a moment.
And then notice what happens as they begin to settle,
Just a little,
Into the support beneath them.
A small softening,
A natural dropping.
Let your awareness move to the jaw,
The space around the mouth.
There is nothing to shape here,
And you might notice how it rests on its own when it is simply given attention.
Now gently come to the breath.
Feel it moving in and out,
Steady and quiet.
With each exhale there is a natural sense of letting go,
Like the body becoming a little less held,
A little less tight.
You might notice how the weight of the body is already being received by the ground,
How nothing is being asked of you in this moment except to be here.
Let your attention move through the body in this way,
Softly,
Slowly.
Each area finding its own small release,
Just in its own rhythm.
As you stay with this,
You may begin to notice a shift in how the body feels overall,
A sense of things becoming a little looser,
A little less dense,
As if the body is remembering how to rest more fully into support.
Let sounds come and go around you.
Let the breath continue its quiet rhythm.
Take a few final breaths here,
Noticing this quieter,
Lighter way of being in your body.
And as this time comes to a close,
Carry with you the memory of this feeling,
Of what it is like when the body is allowed to rest a little more fully into what is already supporting it.
