Good morning.
Good evening.
Good afternoon.
Wherever you may be.
Whatever you may be doing.
And welcome.
Thank you for.
.
.
Taking time for this practice.
And what we're going to do.
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Start and before we drop into the practice is just really allow ourselves to slow everything down.
And in slowing everything down,
I mean.
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Setting that intention to your mind.
So if it assists you,
Close your eyes.
And just set the intention to slow down.
And allow your body to be guided by your breath.
And to just slow everything down.
If you're doing this practice in the morning,
Allow the thoughts of all that you've got to do today to simply Float in.
And float out.
You're doing it in the afternoon Just give yourself this moment.
To be present in this moment.
And if you're doing it in the evening,
At night.
Give gratitude for your day.
Regardless of how the day has been.
Give thanks for all that you have done.
All that you've been able to do.
And that's all.
What we're going to do now is going to take Two.
Deliberate cleansing breaths and inhale through the nose,
We'll hold it at the top.
We'll take one gasp of air in.
Or exhale with a sigh.
And after the second exhale,
We'll gently close our eyes.
And begin.
So inhale.
And hold.
Gasping and sighed out.
Straight inhale.
And hold.
Gossiping,
And side out.
Now gently close your eyes.
If they aren't already closed.
And allow yourself into the practice.
You've been living above yourself.
For so long now.
Appear in the mind,
In the noise,
In the planning.
The worrying.
And the endless inventory.
Of what still needs to be done.
Of what has to be done.
Of what you have done.
And below you.
Beneath all of that,
A body has been waiting.
Quietly.
Without complaint.
Without condition.
Without asking a single thing in return.
A heart that kept beating.
While you were busy worrying lungs that kept filling.
While you are busy planning.
Hands that keep reaching.
Or you are busy doubting.
Your body has been here the whole time.
Caring you.
Holding you,
Supporting you.
To every moment you have ever lived,
To every person you have ever loved,
To every morning you have ever opened your eyes and begun again.
Yet.
We've not stopped to say thank you.
Not because we are ungrateful,
But because we forgot.
We forget.
Because the world teaches.
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The world teaches us to live.
From the neck up,
To think your way through,
To push,
To produce,
To perform.
But not to look down.
To look down at the body doing all the work.
You've learned to treat it like a vehicle.
Something to manage.
Something to discipline.
Something to be disappointed in.
Push.
When it doesn't do what you need it to do.
But your body is not a vehicle.
It's a tree.
Rooted.
.
.
.
Ancient alive.
Holding you steady in ways you have never.
.
.
Ways you've never once had to ask for.
And today,
We come home to it.
And yet,
What if your body has not been waiting for your apology?
What if it has only been waiting for you to arrive,
For you to be present?
For you to finally come back.
To the home that has never once locked you out.
So let your breath Now with your eyes closed,
Let your breath seek out its own rhythm.
Unforced.
Not counted.
Just breath.
On the inhale,
Allow yourself to arrive.
To deepen.
And on the exhale.
Let go of the noise that can wait.
Feel your feet.
Grounded.
Connected to the earth.
A weight of you here,
Solid,
Present,
Enough.
Feel that link connection.
I see your spine.
Not as bone.
But as bark.
A strong rooted tree trunk.
Running from the crown of your head on your neck.
You're back.
Through your seat.
Through the floor.
And into the earth beneath.
Feel the strength of it.
The certainty.
And quiet power.
Acquired power of something that has been holding you your entire life.
Supporting you.
Now see the root.
Pushing down through the soil.
Around rocks,
Around boulders,
Deeper.
Deeper.
And deeper.
Seeking out the core.
The centre of Mother Nature.
A ball.
Of white.
Bright light.
Warm,
Powerful,
Ancient.
Allow those roots to connect to that.
Feel that link between you and the heart of Mother Earth.
And with that connection through the roots,
With every inhale,
Draw up that power.
Feel it rise.
Through the roots.
Up a single tap root and into the soles of your feet up through your legs,
Your pelvis,
Your stomach,
Your chest.
Shoulders.
Nate.
And into your head.
Feeling you,
Warming you.
Returning you to yourself Now place both hands over your heart.
And connect to the pulse,
Feel the beat.
I want you to take on board these words of thanks.
And direct them to your own heart.
Thank you,
Heart.
For allowing me to love.
For being the engine that never stops,
For pumping life through me every moment of every day.
Without ever being asked.
And feel what happens when you say that.
You're softening.
And exhale.
Small.
Quiet relief.
Of being seen.
Now move your hands from your heart to your spleen.
The left side of the bottom of the rib cage.
Bring your attention to your spleen,
Place your hand on your spleen.
And say thank you,
Spleen.
For the strength,
For the clarity that allows me to choose well.
Even when the mind is loud.
Thank you,
Spleen.
Take both hands and push them up your back.
And find the kidneys there.
Connect now with the kidneys and say thank you kidneys.
The root of my life.
Source of my courage,
The place where I grow.
Thank you kidneys.
Now let's move to the liver.
Bring your right hand.
The side of the right side of your body.
Thank you,
Liver.
Cleansing me.
For removing.
No longer serves me.
The balance within me that you restore.
Every time I take on too much.
Now let's bring our focus and attention to the lungs.
Place your hands on either side of your chest where the lungs sit.
And inhale deeply.
And feel them fill and thank you.
Thank the lungs.
Thank you,
Lungs.
For the breath that sustains me.
For the simple,
Extraordinary act.
Of allowing and keeping me alive.
Next.
Bring your focus to your stomach.
Above the belly button.
Thank you,
Stomach.
Thank you,
Stomach,
For absorbing the goodness.
For turning what we take in into the life that carries me forward.
Thank you,
Stomach.
Feel and allow that connection.
Now move your hands to your gut.
Town by where your belt buckle would sit.
And allow yourself to give thanks to the God.
By saying,
Thank you,
Gut.
For holding my intuition.
For the quiet guidance,
I don't always listen.
I don't always listen to you.
But thank you for speaking anyway.
Thank you,
God.
Bring your focus and attention to your throat.
Place your hand at the base of your throat and say thank you throat.
For allowing us to speak.
For letting what the heart desires to pass through.
And out into the world.
For allowing us to speak our truth.
Thank you for that.
Now bring your attention to your mouth.
And say thank you mouth.
For the words,
For the laughter.
For the simple ability to say the words I love you and mean it.
Thank you,
Mouth.
Connect with the ears.
Bring your focus,
Bring your attention to your ears.
And say thank you ears.
Thank you.
For love spoken,
For music,
For the sound of someone saying.
Your name.
And from our ears we move to our eyes.
And give thanks by saying thank you eyes for sunsets,
For faces,
For the light that finds us.
Even on the darkest of mornings.
Now.
Bring all your attention to the brain.
To your mind.
See that connection of that light see that connection through that light from your brain through your body to the core.
And as we inhale deeply now,
See the light rise all the way up.
And watch it illuminate as it hits your brain.
And say thank you,
Brain.
Thank you for all that you carry,
For the thinking,
The choosing,
For the decisions.
All that you have brought us.
All that you've enabled,
All that you've allowed,
All that you've given.
Up until this exact moment.
Let your arms open wide.
Spread your arms and see them as branches of that tree with your fingers reaching upward toward the light,
Toward the source of the sun.
And feel the warmth there.
Feel that connection from the sun through your arms,
Through your body.
To the soil.
Connecting to Mother Earth.
And with that connection,
Bring a gentle smile to the side of your mouth.
Not performed,
Just allowed.
Corners of your mouth,
Turn them up.
Towards the light.
And allow yourself to feel this.
To feel what it likes,
To feel what it feels like to be home.
Just allow yourself to sit with that and realize that,
Yes,
You will forget again about your body.
About your brain,
About your throat.
That is its nature.
The days will come with their weight,
The mind will rise,
Back to its noise,
Body will recede.
Back into the background of everything that needs doing.
Somewhere in the middle of it all.
You'll find yourself.
Living above yourself again but this time when you do you can return.
Return to this place.
Through your breath.
Through your body.
Through your roots.
That have never once let you go.
You never needed to earn your way back here you only need to know that the door has is and always will be open that the body has always been waiting.
Patient.
Like something that doesn't need to prove because it knows what it is.
But what it is,
Is self.
And with that allow one more breath in.
Feel the ground beneath you,
Feel the roots holding you,
Feel the branches reaching out when you exhale open your eyes And remember that the roots are you,
The trunk is you.
And the light that fills you,
That is you too.
We are all of it,
The dark soil,
The reaching branches,
The ancient roots,
The open sky,
All of it together.
Always held.
From the first moment.
To now.
Deep bows to you all.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for joining.
I hope.
You are able to connect with that practice.
And I'll see you all.
Next time.
Thank you guys.
Have a good rest of your day.
A good rest of your morning or afternoon.
And your evening.
All the best.
