Belly Breath

Enjoy and surrender to the natural essence of your breath. I will guide you through a gentle practice of enhancing your breath through Belly Breathing. The breath is important for our vitality and health aswell as the maintenance of our nervous system. Release stress, breath into your belly and support your lungs and vitality.

Transcript

Hello and welcome. I am so happy to hold this space for you and if you found this meditation, This meditation is going to help you to really connect to the common essence of your breath through a belly breathing technique. And this is a really good technique to practice day to day. We tend to hold our breath and not take those full breaths in to support our diaphragm and just to support our nervous system to ensure that we're moving through our day-to-day life with a calm presence. Oxygen in our body full of every single breath that we take and just connecting into our body. So when you're ready I would just love you to take a lying down position for this one. I really want you to be able to feel the connection of your spine as you take your belly breaths in onto the earth and just to ensure your body is lying down in alignment to ensure that we are really tapping into the movement of our diaphragm. So when you're ready take in some time to lie down on your mat or on the ground wherever you are right now. Lying down placing your arms to the side of your body with your palms facing up and just ensuring everything is feeling comfortable. If you have any pain in your lower back you can bend your knees and just drop your knees together and just getting into a place where you feel comfortable. And before we begin just taking some time to close down your eyes, Bringing your awareness into your breath through your nose, Into soft press of the breath out through your mouth, Through your lips. Just releasing all the air out and doing a few of these breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth pushing the breath out through your lips. And just taking a gentle scan through our body we're gonna just start at the top of our head. Relaxing your cheeks, Resting your lips softly with the tongue on the back of your teeth, Relaxing your shoulders all the way down to your fingers, Releasing, Letting go of anything that you're holding on to. Relaxing down through the center of your spine, Your belly, Into your hips, Just feeling that rise and fall of your belly as you breathe in and as you breathe out. Taking your awareness down through your thighs, Knees, Ankles and toes and just relaxing all the muscles here. And just setting our intention for this meditation and that is to connect into our breath, To feel into our body as we breathe in and just to notice the subtle changes we can make to our energy and our sense of being just by using our breath as a guidance, As a tool to relax and soften. And whatever else your intention is for this meditation, Your own personal intention, Just bring that into the forefront of your mind now. Feel that into your body. Take a deep breath in through your nose and deep breath out. And when you're ready, Just slowly placing the left hand just onto your heart space, So just on the left side of that rib and your right hand softly resting gently on your belly. Connecting into your breath, I want you to imagine as you breathe in that your belly expands out away from your body like a balloon. So your breath is blowing up your belly as full as you can. You breathe in and then your balloon deflates as you exhale. You breathe in, Inhaling and filling your balloon into your belly, Expanding your ribs and then softening to exhale. And as we do these breaths we want to create some space, Some movement of the muscles that hold between our belly and the bottom of our ribs. And we're filling them with the oxygen and the air that we need to revitalize and keep our body healthy. Feel that fullness as you breathe into your belly, Expanding like a balloon. And then let that breath release. Your belly drop into the earth, Just connecting to that breath for a few moments. Noticing that as you continue to breathe that room, That expansion just starts to move with ease and the breath flows with more fluidity. That tension releases. That space is created for us to feel calmer, To feel more nourished. So just enjoy, Continue your breath. And you can gently start to take your hands away from your body and just place them out to the side with your palms facing up. And just here take some nice deep breaths all the way in this time through your belly, Your ribs, Into your chest. And drop your jaw and exhale out through your mouth, Sighing, Releasing any tension. And let's do a few of those nice deep expansive breaths. Breathe it all the way in through your belly, Your ribs, To your chest. Drop your jaw and breathe out through your mouth, Sighing and releasing. Enjoy that feeling of your breath nourished, Your body, Everything that it needs. Just lie in complete stillness. And just imagine yourself surrounded and wrapped to be in a really warm golden light. And this golden light is bringing and protecting you calmness, Ease, Softness. And just imagine that golden light just really sinking into all the cells in your body, Into your bones, Your belly, All your organs, Your heart. And it's just giving you a blanket of health, Of revitalization, And it's just rejuvenating all the cells in your body. And you can just gently start to bring your awareness back to the room, Bring that awareness into the feeling on your skin, Wiggling your fingers, Your toes. Just really feeling that wholeness and aliveness, Your health, Your body, And just sending some gratitude into the strength that our bodies have inside of us, Just as something simple as a breath that can really help to calm our nervous system, Release energy and tension, And just help us make us feel more present and alive. When you're ready, You can just slowly bring yourself back into your little space in your room, Blink your eyes open. And thank you so much for joining the belly breath meditation on the meditation and me hug. I hope that you're enjoying the meditations and it's really helped you just to connect into your breath in a different way, Softened and relaxation. And I do recommend practicing this belly breath every single day, Just to get used to that calming essence of breathing and using our diaphragm properly in our daily lives. Any questions, Obviously, Please reach out and thank you so much. Have a beautiful day.