Hello sweet yogis and breathers and mindfulness practicers.
Thank you so much for joining me today because it is really important to check in and that's what we'll do together here in this space.
We're going to check in and potentially pinpoint some areas that might be holding a little bit of stress,
Tightness or tension.
There's a line in the book,
Burnout,
That says,
Even when the stressors are gone,
It doesn't mean the stress is.
And so today we're going to take a little journey through the body to notice if indeed that stress is still there.
So let's begin by getting comfortable.
Make your way into a seat or against a wall.
You might even do this practice lying down.
And if your body already feels a little stiff,
I want you to take an extra moment here to stretch,
To maybe lengthen the legs and the arms or even just the opposite.
You might pull yourself in really close together,
Bend the elbows and the knees,
Open the palms,
Close them into fists.
Do this a few times until you feel and find yourself settling into that space that you've chosen.
And then once you're there,
Allow the eyes to close or just find a soft gaze.
Take a deep breath in with me.
Inhale through the nose.
Sigh it out of the mouth.
I want you to imagine here in this space of stillness that the awareness or the focus of your mind could be like a flashlight to the body.
I want you to imagine that you can search with your awareness throughout the entire physical body to notice where you might be holding some tension or tightness.
Search through the head and the shoulders and the neck.
Search the chest and the back and the belly.
You might take your way down the legs to the toes,
Down the arms to the fingers and do a little bit of searching here.
If you come across a place that feels a little tight where you might be holding on to some stress,
I want you to hold that area in mind.
Pause at the place that might feel the most tense in your body if you have a couple of different places.
And at first,
I just want you to imagine that the breath that you breathe can go right to this space.
The inhale comes and brings healing.
On the exhale goes,
Potentially taking away some of this tension.
Let the breath be almost like a cleansing agent coming in and going out of the body.
Keep focusing on this specific spot,
Using the breath to come in to this place and let the exhale take away some of that tension.
Connecting with your awareness,
Connecting with your breath,
Connecting to this very specific spot in the body.
And then after we've washed it a bit,
After we've brought in some breath to clean and cleanse this area,
I want you to imagine that you could send this area of the body deep,
Deep gratitude.
And if gratitude doesn't feel like the right word or the right feeling in your body,
Send this part some love.
Imagine that you could take the gratitude or love that gets cultivated in our heart center and send it to this very particular place in the body.
Feel that area soften.
Feel it grow full of light.
Let that gratitude and love and light start to spread throughout your entire body.
Let it radiate from the top of the head all the way down to the bottoms of the feet.
Breathe in to this fullness of gratitude,
Love,
And light.
And it might be that there was just one single place in the body that felt like it was holding some stress and it might be a practice you need to return to again and again for different areas of the body.
But this practice of breath,
This practice of gratitude,
Of sending love,
Of sending light to your body is always,
It's always available.
Let's take a big breath in together.
Big inhale.
Full exhale.
And slowly bringing your attention back into the room with a shift of the body or an opening of the eyes,
Maybe a rolling,
A rocking of the head side to side.
You might want to stretch really big and just pull yourself open.
Beautiful.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so very much for being here with me today.
Sending you healing,
Love,
And light always.
Namaste.
