Self-Permission

Giving yourself permission is self-authority; taking your power back into your body. Great audio movement class for those seeking to move freely into self permission with compassionate guidance and a lot of love. || *if you enjoyed the class please give a rating and I am grateful for all donations. Thanks in advance. Tamara

Transcript

Hello beautiful warriors.

This is your audio movement class self-permission.

I'm Kuchira and I'll be here to guide you for the entirety of this practice.

During this practice your screen will be black.

This is so that there are no more distractions that need to be.

My voice will be here to guide you and move you through this practice safely,

Gently,

And compassionately.

Movement practice rules are fairly simple.

Number one,

Keep moving.

Number two,

Keep breathing.

And number three,

Be you.

The goal of the movement practice is to connect to the inner body,

The inner landscape,

Get to know our body talk through sensations and vocalization,

And be with ourselves lovingly.

This is a non-judgmental practice which means what happens happens.

We release control and just flow with what is.

As you move,

Tap into the sensations of the body.

Your emotions are there as a map to guide you through what is happening internally.

The things we can't see,

Touch,

Or name,

But we know they're there.

We can feel them.

We want to move through them so we can better understand them,

Detoxify and cleanse the body so that we can release them,

And flow with change.

At any time if your thoughts start to arise in negativity or negative patterns,

You feel anxiety come into the body or panic,

Stop,

Breathe,

Focus in on the body sensations,

And take your time.

There is no need to rush or push this practice.

One step at a time,

One movement at a time,

One breath at a time.

This is not an exercise practice,

A cardio practice,

Or a dance practice.

We're simply using the body as a tool to help us connect to our inner landscape.

The emotional body is wise.

It's always present,

Always there for you,

To give you data that you need in order to maneuver around your inner and outer world more safely,

More lovingly,

And honestly,

More effectively.

Getting to know ourselves in this deeper way will ultimately create more peace in body and mind.

Today's practice is about self-permission,

Owning our power,

Because ultimately,

Permission holds power.

When we give someone permission,

It places them in the highest authority.

And often we give that power away to everyone but ourselves.

We let other people decide for us constantly,

And we overlook deciding for ourselves.

You live in your body.

You ultimately always know what you need deep down inside.

Today we practice giving ourselves permission to do just that,

To give ourselves what we need.

Today we give ourselves permission.

We begin with the pause.

Remember the pause is still movement.

It's not static.

It breathes.

Plant those feet into the ground or those sit bones if you're sitting.

Begin however feels comfortable.

Close your eyes and rest in your body.

We take this moment to become present with our body.

Imagine yourself holding your own hand,

Inviting yourself into the practice,

Into the space and into your body.

Feel how your posture sits.

If you're laying,

Feel how your posture lays.

Feel where the weight sits in your body.

Notice the positioning of your spine,

The way your shoulders might be rolled in,

The way your head tilts.

If your throat feels restricted or open,

Maybe an ah sound now would be beautiful as you roll your head.

Getting out all those little kinks,

Letting your body know that you're ready to listen.

As the breath makes its way in,

Start to listen to the sound of your breathing.

Inhaling and exhaling and everything in between.

As the breath moves through your body,

Notice the dance.

Notice how your body shifts and moves with every breath,

Even if ever so subtle.

If you are breathing,

You are dancing.

Movement is everywhere.

Puff your chest on the next inhale.

Big,

Loud,

Bold exhale.

Beautiful.

Continue to do a couple more of these bold breaths,

Really exaggerating the movement of the body.

Fill up the room with your breath.

Expand through space with your posture.

Roll your shoulders back,

Lift up your chin.

Sit or stand up nice and tall and really plant your feet into the earth.

We start with confidence.

After all,

This practice is about giving ourselves permission.

Now seems an appropriate time to set an intention for the practice.

I give myself permission to.

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Fill in the blank.

I give myself permission to.

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Say no,

Invest in myself,

Love myself.

I give myself permission to trust myself,

To be myself,

To be happy,

To love,

To fail,

To succeed,

To dance free,

To scream out loud.

I give myself permission to be present.

Set your intention and say out loud,

I give myself permission to.

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Now we stand up nice and tall.

We take a deep inhale,

Proud and loud.

Big sound,

Exhale,

And I say out loud my intention.

I give myself permission to.

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Repeat this three times fully and loudly and present in your body so that your body can become aware of the set intention of the practice.

Beautifully done.

As you continue to set this intention,

Start walking around your space.

Let the space know that you're ready to be present and here,

That you're ready to give yourself permission.

Let the space hold you as you walk,

You walk,

You walk.

Let this intention motivate and move your practice today.

When you feel lost,

Go back to this intention.

Let's say it again.

I give myself permission to.

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Say it out loud.

Speak it loud.

Keep saying it until you believe it.

Allow your body to absorb the words.

I give myself permission to.

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Note that we are ever changing.

Your intention could change throughout the practice and if so,

Speak it into existence.

Allow your body to absorb these new words and set your new intention as it continues to change and change and shift and change.

The movement will change,

The intention will change,

The power and sound of your voice and breath will change.

Be open to what is.

Right there,

Stop.

Plant those feet back into the earth.

Puff a little bit more.

Chest up a little higher,

Head up a little higher,

Spine up a little taller,

Rooting and rising.

Take a deep inhale.

Present.

Exhale.

Good,

Three more of those breaths.

Lift up the arms nice and tall as you inhale.

Expand,

Expand through space.

Take up space.

Exhale.

A little wider.

Make that sound as wide and as deep,

As bass driven as possible.

One on your own.

Take a deep inhale.

We enter the pause once again and we observe where we are in this moment.

We present the intention to the universe once again.

I give myself permission too.

As you say these words again,

Go ahead and place your hands in the space that those words fall.

Your body absorbs all the data,

All the energy that's happening within and around you.

So as you say I give myself permission too,

Notice where those words rest in the body.

Allow the hands to absorb that space.

So it might be on your belly,

On your chest,

On your forehead.

Maybe in strange places like in your jaw or your fingertips.

Anywhere is possible for these words to hit and rest.

Let your hands feel that space.

Be with it for a moment and breathe into it.

As we continue to feel where the energy in our bodies is most present or tense or needs most awareness or focus,

We begin to map the intention.

Our bodies are maps.

They tell us where to go.

When we listen,

The movement happens on its own.

The car drives itself and all we have to do is be present and available.

So let's keep mapping this intention.

Continue to say your intention out loud and place your hands in different places on your body.

Notice how that feels different,

How it breathes different,

How it moves differently.

At this point if your body is moving in any one way,

Go ahead and invite that movement in fully.

Where you give yourself permission to be here,

To move fully and unapologetically in your body.

Commit to the permission.

And one final inhale.

Reach up the arms up high like you're hugging the sun and then bring that sun right into the palms of the hands.

Bring that warm light into the part of the body that needs that energy right now.

Maybe it's the third eye.

Maybe it's the pubis.

Maybe it's in two different places.

Feel the warmth emanating through your hands into your body and light up your body with heat and love.

Vibrations are invited in in this moment.

Feeling how the vibration moves your body.

Allowing those waves of vibration to begin the movement a little bit bigger if it hasn't begun already.

We vibrate through the sound.

We invite in the waves of the body.

We emanate heat through our hands and we give our self permission to love ourselves in this moment.

Enjoy the movement.

Enjoy the pleasure of the movement.

And just be with your body in this moment.

Work out with the product.

Take a breath with it.

Beautiful pause right there.

Senses play an important role in our emotional processing.

Emotional perception may be visual,

Auditory,

Physiological,

Sensory.

We all process in many ways and in different ways.

This nonverbal information is believed to hold special importance and sensory systems in decoding emotional information.

Our bodies are giving us emotional information all the time through movement,

Through breath,

Through sensory work.

Observe what kind of sensory you find visually.

Not only when opening your eyes but also when closing your eyes.

As you move do you feel and see colors,

Imagery,

Sounds,

Patterns.

Imagine that you're painting this internal story of senses that's happening inside of you.

Move to what you see.

Auditory,

Move to what you hear.

Maybe the music that's playing in the background,

The sound of your breath,

The birds or car or honking horns outside your window.

Or maybe it's the blank sound between the sounds,

The white noise.

Move to the sounds.

We take our attention to the sense of smell.

Move to what you smell.

Use your breath to suck it in.

Use your mouth to blow it out.

And finally let's just take a moment to observe the way our body is relating to itself.

In this moment how does it see itself?

How does it move itself?

How does it breathe itself?

How is it with itself?

Remember to not get too heady here.

Just keep moving to the sounds of my words and whatever speaks to you,

Go ahead and observe it and play with it more and whatever doesn't,

Discard it and just keep moving.

Getting to know your emotional body through senses is super important when it comes to giving yourself permission.

This is why it's important to keep listening and learning about our own body talk and sensations is the way our body talks.

So I implore you to do more of this work.

Right there in your space take a deep inhale.

On the exhale just shake it out and let it all go.

One more deep inhale and let it all out,

Even those little residual sounds and movements.

Once again notice where the emotion lay in your body at this moment.

Place your hands there if you need to touch it.

Touch being another sensation that we can access at any time.

I find contrast gives us a lot of clarity.

We wouldn't know happy if we didn't know sad.

We wouldn't know love if we didn't feel hate.

It gives us a deeper appreciation.

We now contrast the feelings and we do it through movement.

So whichever way you were moving,

If it was slow and fluid,

Start moving fast and quick and energetic.

If you were already moving very energetic and very lively,

Slow down your movement and relax into it.

As your movements continue to change,

Keep contrasting the movements.

Keep opposing the movements until you can start feeling opposing feelings.

Keep playing this game with yourself for a while.

See how many emotions your body can tap into.

Again contrasting the feelings will give us even bigger insight on the sensations of our bodies which will give us ultimately more information on what we need and how we can give ourselves permission to do just that.

Have fun playing.

Well done.

Take a deep inhale and now just scream it out.

Yes,

Feel that body come alive.

You've done a lot of work here and now it's just time to feel the feels.

We can't give ourselves permission if we don't allow ourselves to feel what we need to feel.

And so now I give myself permission to feel.

If the tears need to pour out,

Let them pour out.

If the laughter needs to scream,

Let it scream.

Just keep moving.

Sometimes,

Permission isn't all about large scale changes.

It can be as simple as allowing yourself to feel.

If it feels overwhelming,

Rest in your body and start again.

The question I want you to keep asking yourself through this portion of the practice is what is happening now?

Now being the key word.

What is happening now?

Keep moving through the feeling of now and I'll see you on the other side.

We come back into the pause.

Inhale.

Exhale it all out.

Two more on your own.

Reset a new intention or maybe it's the same one as before with a different posture,

Different tone.

I give myself permission to finish the sentence.

Say it out loud as many times as your body needs to hear it.

I give myself permission too.

Go ahead and melt into that intention.

Allow the body to embrace itself and get comfortable.

You've done the work and now we let those words marinate.

We let our bodies believe them to be true because they are.

I give myself permission too.

You hold the power.

You get to decide for you.

Never forget that.

As we take this time to allow the practice to settle into our bodies,

I'll read you this quote from Eric Fromm from The Art of Being.

If other people do not understand our behavior,

So what?

The request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us.

If this is being asocial or irrational in their eyes,

So be it.

Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves.

We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting as long as our own acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

How many lives have been ruined by this need to explain which usually implies that explanation can be understood or approved?

Let your deeds be judged and from your deeds your real intentions but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself,

To his reason and his conscience and to the few who may have a justified claim for an explanation.

One love,

Warriors.

Give back your power and give yourself permission to be you.