Flow And Release: A Somatic Meditation For Energy Shift

This body-based meditation opens up contracted energy in the body, allowing more flow, deepening your body awareness, and tuning into your capacity to shift the energy in your body. This mediation is done lying down and I will guide you through different areas of the body contracting and releasing them.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to your contract and release audio practice. So you can explore this practice laying down, Seated, Or even standing. And the point here is for you to get an embodied felt sense of what it's like to contract, To tighten, To lean into effort and try to engage the area, The muscles, And then to feel what it's like to let go, To soften and release. How to let go of effort. And you're also getting a felt experience of one of the foundational principles in this work, Which is everything is energy in the body. And that energy is either moving and flowing, Or it's held and contracted. So you get to feel the difference, What the sensations are like, How it physically feels in your body. And then also, As you go through each area and contract and release, You're naturally opening up up, Effort, Stuck energy, Giving the body an opportunity to be more in a relaxed, Flowing, Full-bodied state versus a contracted, Held, Limited state. So, Deciding how you want to be? Starting to feel your breath. Taking a nice full inhale and sighing it out on the exhale. And then just starting to tune into your feet. Getting to know what they feel like. Tapping into those physical sensations. So temperature, Pressure, Movement, Density. And you're slowly going to begin to contract your feet. So trying to engage and tighten the muscles. Breathing as you contract. It's important to bring breath into these contractions. It helps generate energy. Taking one more full inhale. And on the exhale, Release. Let go of that contraction. Soften the feet and just feel. Notice the sensations. See if you can track any changes. If you can encourage the letting go with your awareness, With your breath. And then beginning to tune into your legs. So feeling your ankles, Your calves, Your knees, Your thighs, All the way up into your hips. Just noticing first how they feel. How much you can feel them, What sensations you notice. A quality of energy in that area. And then slowly begin to contract your legs, Taking your time, Breathing as you slowly engage and tighten and squeeze all the muscles you can access in your legs, All the way up into your pelvis, Your groin, Your pelvic bowl, Squeezing. Tightening a little bit more. Taking one more full inhale. And on the exhale, Release. Let go, Continue to drop the effort. Allow any little movements if there's impulses. Just see if you can feel any sensations, Movements, Anything that you would call energy or flow in your legs. And remember, This is an art form. It's a new language. It takes time. So just see if you can notice how your legs feel now, What they're like. If you can feel them more or less. And then beginning to bring your attention to the low belly, The chest, The ribs, The back, This whole torso. Just first feeling it, Getting to know what it's like, What are the sensations, The qualities of energy, Can you feel it? And then slowly beginning to engage and contract your whole midsection, Your whole torso, The belly, The low back, The ribs, The chest, The upper back. Breathing as you do, Taking your time trying to engage and squeeze and contract each part of this area. And take one more full inhale. And on the exhale, Release, Let go. And just notice what happens in the letting go. Follow any little impulses or movements. Take some nice, Full breaths. And just feel, Notice what this area is like now. And then beginning to bring the attention to your arms, Your shoulders, Your wrists, Your hands. Getting to know what this area feels like, Sensations, Qualities. If you can feel your arms. There is a difference between the arms. And then slowly you're going to start to contract the shoulders, The arms, The wrists, The hands. Taking your time, Moving slowly, We want to gather up the energy and juice. Breathing as you engage and contract a little more, Squeezing, Feeling what this is like. One more full inhale. On the exhale release, Let go, Drop the effort, Follow any movements. Breathe nice and deep. And just feel your arms, Your hands, Your shoulders. And then lastly, You're going to bring the attention to the neck, The face. The skull, The head. Just feeling what that space is like. We often forget it's part of our body. So see if you can feel the qualities of energy, Effort, Tingles, Movements, Warmth, Coolness, Just feeling your head. And then slowly, Beginning to engage and tighten and contract the face, The jaw. And next. As much as you can access in this area. Gathering up the juice, Breathing, Contracting a little more, Trying to keep the rest of the body soft. One more full inhale. On the exhale, Release, Let go. Maybe bring some little movements to the face, To the jaw, To the neck. Notice what you notice. And then we'll end with one full body contraction. So starting at your feet. Moving really slowly, Beginning to engage, To tighten, To try to access these muscles. Breathing as you continue all the way up the body. Perhaps finding deeper places, More spaces to tighten, To contract, To squeeze. All the way out to the fingers, All the way up to the head. Contracting, Engaging, Squeezing everything in. One more full inhale. And on the exhale soften slowly, Letting go, Tracking sensations, Breathing. Following any little movements that want to happen in the body. And then just feel. Feel what's here at that level of physical sensations, Just like we started. Noticing the qualities of energy in the body, The temperatures, Movements, Pressures, Places that pull you. What is it like inside of you now? And you can hang here for as long as you want. The music will gently fade out and that will be the end of your practice.

Reviews

I could feel the positive energy shifts and buzzes in my body 🙏🏻💛