So start by laying down on your back,
Either on your mat or in your bed.
You can do this sitting as well,
But I recommend doing this laying down.
Once you find your comfortable position,
Just come to stillness.
Release anything that might have gone on earlier today or anything that you have on your mind like your to-do list or a future dream or idea that you had.
Just let all of that go for a bit and give this time to honor your self-care.
No one needs you right now.
There's nowhere to go,
Nowhere to be except here,
Right on your back,
Laying and breathing.
Now bring your awareness to your breath.
Just notice the effortless rise and fall of your breath and gently observe what parts of your body move alongside the breath.
Now begin at your toes.
Inhale and imagine your breath move from your toes to your ankles and exhale the breath down from your ankles to your toes.
Now breathe from your ankles up to your knees and exhale down from your knees to your ankles.
Feel your breath move up from your knees to your hips,
Then down from your hips to your knees.
Now send breath from your hips up to your chest,
Then down from your chest to your hips.
Inhale the breath rises up,
Exhale the breath falls.
Inhale up from your chest to your shoulders,
Then exhale down from your shoulders to your chest.
Breathe from your shoulders down to your elbows,
Then from your elbows to your shoulders.
Breathe from your elbows to your wrists,
Then from your wrists to your elbows.
Breathe from your wrists to your fingertips,
Then from your fingertips to your wrists.
Now send breath from your chest to the front of your throat,
Then from the front of your throat to your chest.
Inhale up from the front of your throat to the tip of your nose,
Then exhale down from the tip of your nose to the front of your throat.
Breathe from the tip of your nose up to the space between your eyebrows,
Then down from the space between your eyebrows to the tip of your nose.
Now breathe from the space between your elbows to the crown of your head,
Then from the crown of your head down to the space between your eyebrows.
Now breathe from the crown of your head down to the tip of your nose.
Breathe from the crown of your head down to the front of your throat,
And up the front of your throat to the crown of your head.
Now breathe from the crown of your head down to your chest,
And up from your chest to the crown of your head.
Breathe from the crown of your head down to your fingertips,
And inhale,
Breathe in from the fingertips up to the crown of your head.
Now breathe down from the crown of your head to your hips,
And breathe up from your hips to the crown of your head.
Now breathe down from the crown of your head to your knees,
Keeping this continuous loop from the knees up to the crown of the head.
Now breathe from the crown of your head to your ankles,
And up from your ankles to the crown of your head.
Now breathe from the crown of your head down to your toes,
And as you inhale,
Your toes move up to the crown of your head.
Now breathe into every corner of your body,
Almost through osmosis.
As you breathe,
Your body blossoms with oxygen with every rise and fall.
After your last round of breath,
Gently come back to the body by inviting soft movement in the fingers and toes.
Maybe take a full body stretch if that feels good,
And continue on with the rest of your day.
