Find a still seat,
Tall seat,
And before we find space,
I want us to ground.
Don't worry about the breath.
Refine your awareness to be attuned to the sense of gravity that is always at play,
But we're so used to it that it becomes background noise.
Refine your awareness to see an essential element,
Not as background noise.
So feel gravity and feel grounded by choice,
By awareness.
And if you have to use your imagination a bit,
That's cool.
That's also part of the human experience.
And shifting awareness a bit more as you begin to feel gravity in the physical body,
Also feel it in the mind.
Feel it in your energy,
Not from a lethargic standpoint,
From a settling standpoint.
Because it stands to reason that if gravity works on our physicality,
It would also work on our energetics if we expand our awareness towards it.
There are dimensions of experience that are beyond our human understanding.
Just think of the light spectrum.
We only see a certain percentage of what is considered light.
So grounding in that expansiveness not only levels off the edge,
But opens you to an awareness of possibility.
So as we ground,
Be open and aware to all possibility.
So that when we begin the breath work,
Have a bit more expanded awareness of what's possible.
Because in full candor,
So long as we have health and draw breath,
Anything is possible if it's in alignment with what we're supposed to do.
Nine months ago,
If you had told me that I would be teaching,
I would have laughed.
That wasn't in my mind,
But it was in my plan.
When I got out of my own way and saw what was meant for me,
And saw what was possible,
I breathed into it.
So now that we have a deeper sense of grounding,
Not only in our physicality,
But our energetics,
Now find movement and breath to shake off the day.
So gentle wrist circles,
Gentle shoulder circles,
Shifting the orientation a bit.
How does this experience differ when you focus it more grounded?
Rather than doing it as rote habit,
Doing with a bit more intentionality and awareness,
Are you able to give more attention to a tender spot in the neck?
Are you aware of,
Like,
Just notice what may have shifted as we shifted our orientation?
The problem with the mind at times is the things that knows everything.
So you got to shake up patterns a bit.
You got to shake shit up.
So give yourself 30 more seconds of freeform movement from a grounded place in your physicality and in your energetics.
And just take notice of what is different than when we typically do this,
Yeah?
Come back to stillness in the next 20 seconds or so.
Refining whatever movements you need to,
To clear grounded space.
It's almost as if the time is more sacred because you're approaching it from a grounded place and not just,
Like,
Barreling into it.
And as you approach stillness,
Begin to notice the breath.
So 30 seconds of noticing the breath.
Where is it today?
Where is it right now?
Is it in the chest?
Is it in the abdomen?
Just explore.
Be aware.
Is it smooth?
Is it jagged?
Notice.
And now,
Noticing where you are,
Intentionally deepen the breath into the abdomen.
So deep inhales through the nose toward the belly.
And then exhale out the nose.
Noticing the pace,
The depth,
And the cadence that work for you.
Noticing the shift that we've done.
So approaching this practice from grounding,
Then movement,
Then breath,
As opposed to movement,
Then grounding,
Then breath.
Subtle shift,
But sometimes it only takes a subtle shift to have a profound impact.
Now,
Begin to find your cadence that you're going to stay with for a few moments.
Settle into that rhythm for about a minute.
So if it's inhale,
Four,
Pause,
Exhale,
Four,
Do that.
If it's five,
Maybe today is the day that you shake up your routine and breathe a little deeper.
Maybe not.
But remembering comfort zones aren't always good.
Sometimes for healing and protection.
But all the time,
That's stagnation.
That's not comfort.
If there are infinite possibilities,
Then we are stronger than who we think we are.
So maybe today is the day you expand your breath.
And now lay your intentionality.
So every inhale,
Call in what you have been calling in or if it's something different today.
But same structure.
Inhale anything that releases or that inhibits what you're calling in.
Noticing the power that comes with the familiarity of this technique.
Maybe even noticing how we've only been doing this for about two weeks.
How the practice has shifted your relationship to breath or dreams or goals or whatever.
Discipline practice yields results.
You just got to do it.
It's just discipline.
Just do it.
So for the next two and a half minutes,
I normally don't tell the time.
But for the next two and a half minutes,
Inhale what you're calling in,
Exhale what you're releasing.
You've all been here.
We're doing the same thing.
Can you do a familiar thing with new awareness?
Keeping shoulders back and down,
Maintaining that sense of grounding,
Which is probably back into your subconscious awareness.
So bring that sense of grounding back into your full awareness.
As you breathe,
You can do it.
And from the sense of groundedness in the front of mind,
Remembering that a sense of groundedness allows you to see all possibilities.
Allow the last minute of what you're calling in to be rooted in limitlessness.
No fear.
No skepticism.
All possibility.
There are schools of thought in the yogic tradition that believe that we're only aware of about 25% of what's truly there.
So there's 75% of things that are unmanifest.
They just have to be called.
So from this limitlessness and groundedness,
Call in pure potential and release skepticism,
Activating the unmanifest in your life.
Caring less about how it will happen and knowing that it will happen.
Three more breaths at whatever cadence you've chosen.
And able to spine cores engaged heart open,
Mind focused on boundless creativity and limited potential.
One of the next,
Exhale,
Bring hands to heart center.
Make it.
Attach,
So press fingertips together,
Then press the hands together,
Right?
So have as much of fingertips and fingers and palms touching.
Just minimize the space in between fingers.
And with that intentionality,
Feel the power that exists in the hands right now.
When we expand our awareness,
We realize there's more power and potential that we knew that we had.
So as we close this portion of practice,
Breathe into that potentiality.
Deep inhale through the nose.
Exhale out the mouth.
In through the nose.
Exhale out the mouth.
Final in through the nose.
Exhale out the mouth,
Bowing head towards hands,
Pausing with reverence.
And as you're ready,
Open eyes,
Regain focus.
Welcome back.
