Hello,
Everyone.
I hope you are all well.
I want you to go ahead and find somewhere to sit or lie down.
And when you're able to,
Just slowly close your eyes.
And simply follow my voice.
We're going to do some basic foundational breath work.
So go ahead and start with gently placing one hand on your chest or your heart chakra.
Whichever hand feels most natural.
Most guided,
That's the correct hand.
No need to overthink it.
Now place the other hand on your stomach around the solar plexus and sacral chakras.
I want you to take a nice,
Deep inhale through your nose.
You're gonna first fill up your stomach.
Then move up into the diaphragm,
And finally filling up the top of your lungs,
Feeling your chest open up.
Now you can hold for a couple seconds if you'd like.
But when you begin to exhale,
Start exhaling from the top of your chest,
Top of your lungs.
Continue down slowly,
Making your way down your diaphragm and to your stomach,
Emptying your stomach of air.
Gently.
You're welcome to have a brief pause.
And then repeat the inhale.
This time we can count to 7.
So we're going to inhale for 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
And exhaling your chest,
Diaphragm,
And your stomach full of air.
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
Very simple.
Sometimes when we are busy with outside things that require our attention,
We can forget how to simply breathe.
A lot of times when we start to breathe through our chest only,
Our anxiety rises.
So it's very important to start from our stomach.
Moving up into our diaphragm,
Then to our chest,
Filling ourselves with air.
And if you have practices before,
You can hold for a certain count,
And you can exhale for a certain count,
As long as we're exhaling from the chest downward,
Emptying the stomach.
We're gonna do one more together.
I'll go ahead and count.
Inhale through the stomach for one,
Two,
Making your way up to the diaphragm,
Three,
Four,
To chest,
Five,
Six,
Seven,
Eight.
Exhaling through the chest,
Then the diaphragm and emptying your stomach.
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8.
You can continue this for as long as you'd like.
I want you to all take this piece.
In this breath.
This moment.
With you.
And continue to be centered.
And calm as you move forward with your day or night.
And simply remember to breathe.
Whatever we're doing,
Wherever we are.
We always have,
Barbara.
Thank you for being present.
And here with me.
And as always,
Thank yourself for allowing the time and giving yourself the space.
And until next time.
Namaskara.
