Let's begin in any comfortable seated position.
Close your eyes and take a mindful moment just noticing your state.
We will be doing a practice from Donna Eden and her amazing work energy medicine that will help activate the vagus nerve.
This is part of her yin regulator flow.
Bring your fingers up to your forehead and find the area right above your eyes.
You may sense some lumps here allowing your fingers to rest right above the eyes.
Beginning to breathe deeply focusing on the exhalation.
These are neurovascular points and by putting our fingers here we bring blood to the frontal brain which helps us to think more clearly.
It takes blood away from the brain stem that signals the stress response.
These points also help with hormonal imbalance.
One more breath here.
Next you'll be drawing a heart shape on your face with your fingers.
Sweep your fingers out to the sides toward the temples and along the area in front of the ears down to the chin.
Take the fingers up over the lips on either side of the nose to the brow.
Sweep over the forehead to the temples in front of the ears to the chin.
Move up over the lips to either side of the nose to the brow and continue making this heart shape on your face.
Do two more rounds.
End by resting your fingers at your chin and just hold.
Holding here stimulates the vagus nerve.
Now keep one hand on your chin and slide the other hand gently down the front of the throat and rest it firmly at the base of your throat right at your chest.
Move the top fingers under your chin and gently push the chin up until you feel a nice stretch in your throat,
An area the vagus nerve runs through.
Release the chin back to neutral and once again push the chin up feeling that stretch.
Release your chin.
Now take both of your hands and lovingly slide your hands down the front of your torso and over the tops of your thighs.
Rest your hands and simply notice the effects of this practice.
Next,
We move into deep diaphragmatic breathing.
Exhale,
Tug belly and squeezing out the sterile air from your lungs.
Inhale,
Pause,
Open mouth exhaling with a haaa sound.
Good.
Inhale,
Pause,
Exhale,
Haaa.
Inhale,
Pause,
Exhale with your haaa sound.
Drawing belly in just gently to elongate the exhale.
Continuing at your own pace,
Just gently toning the belly on the exhalation to get that long,
Slow,
Smooth exhale.
Now release your breath and simply notice.
Smile and thank your body.
Wishing you deep peace,
My friends.
