Hello,
Beautiful beings.
We are here to practice some sun breathing,
Some sun breaths together.
So I want you to make sure that you have time and space for this.
I want you to make sure that you're not driving a vehicle or doing something really important where your attention can shift completely to the body and this experience of pranayama or this experience of breath work.
The sun breath is a really simple way to orchestrate some rhythm in the body and to move directly with the breath.
We use the breath to somewhat cue the movements of the body and it helps to open the lungs and get some stretching in the arms and the shoulders,
Sometimes even the elbows and the wrists.
We'll begin this breath either seated with arms dropped alongside the body or standing with the same thing,
Arms dropped long,
Long against the body,
Hands down near your hips or if you're seated,
Hands down to the floor.
The sun breath mimics the sun in the way that when we move our arms out and up,
We're creating a big circle like the sun out around the body.
We'll try a few times just without the breath,
So creating the movement in the body without pairing the breath with those movements.
With arms dropped alongside the body,
I just want you to start to stretch the arms out and then all the way up toward the ceiling like the hands are actually or the fingers are trying to reach up toward the ceiling or the sky if you're not in a building and then join the palms together above the head.
We're going to start to bend the elbows and slide the hands through the center line of the body,
So past the third eye and the nose and the lips and the chin and the throat,
Down past your heart center until you can come down and drop the arms once again by your side.
Those palms start to open,
Maybe right near the navel or right near the belly and then we'll do that again.
We're going to take the arms and stretch them way out to the side and way up toward the ceiling or straight up above you.
Join the palms together once you get there,
Bend the elbows and bring those palms right down the center,
Right down the middle,
Again passing all of those places,
The third eye,
The nose,
The lips,
The chin,
The throat,
The chest and near the belly button and then drop the arms by your side.
Let's try just one more time,
So we're going to stretch out,
Out,
Out and up,
Connect the palms together,
Bend the elbows and then bring the hands all the way down until you can open up the arms and drop them alongside the body.
So we're going to do this again but we're going to try to pair it with the breath.
The movement of our arms going out and up is going to be our inhale and then as we exhale we're going to bring those hands,
The palms,
Down through the center and finish the exhale with the arms dropping alongside the body.
So let's try that.
On the next breath in,
You're going to reach the arms out and up,
Big inhale,
Connecting the palms together,
You're going to bring the hands down the center line,
Exhale.
Finish the exhale,
Arms drop by your side.
Let's do that again,
Inhale,
Reach out and up,
Exhale,
Connect the palms center and down by your sides.
Let's try a few more times together.
Out and up,
Big inhale,
Circle around the body,
Connect the palms above the head,
Bring the hands through center,
Exhale all the way down,
Finish the exhale with the arms by your side.
One more time together,
Out and up,
Big inhale,
Fill the lungs,
Connect the palms,
Bring them down through center as you exhale,
Let it out,
Drop the arms by your side and then just take a moment there.
Arms dropped alongside the body,
If your standing hands are kind of near your hips or thighs,
If you're seated on the floor,
Hands might be actually touching the floor,
Just fingertips down.
I want you to shrug your shoulders up toward your ears,
Give them a big tug and then let them roll down your back.
I want to give you space and time to practice this on your own because we all have a different rhythm to our breath.
We might be breathing a little shallower,
A little shorter,
We might be breathing really deep and we have this really big lung capacity so we want to make sure that we can adjust our practice accordingly.
I'll take you through one of these sun breaths and then I just want you to follow with your own breathing and your own circular pattern of drawing that big sun around the body and then connecting the palms,
Bringing them down and resting them by your side.
We'll do that,
You can do that a few times,
A few times and I'll call out when we meet once again in that arm's long position by our sides.
Let's start together yogis,
Let's take a refreshing breath,
Kind of a cleansing breath in and out and on the next inhale the arms go stretching out and up.
The exhale has the palms connecting and you draw the center line down,
Down,
Down,
Dropping the arms by your side.
Try a few times on your own,
Out and up is the inhale,
Center and alongside the body is your exhale and if the mind shifts gears just bring your awareness back to the breath,
Back to these sun breaths.
Try just about two more times and then meeting with arms long by your side,
Again whether you're seated or standing.
We're just going to tug the shoulders up near the ears one more time,
Give a squeeze and then let the shoulders roll down the back.
Let's bring the palms together again but this time let's place them directly in front of the heart and just feel that space of the heart.
You might even feel your breath,
Maybe there's a bigger,
Stronger breath here.
Take an intentional pause and you can absolutely stay here in the space of feeling the breath or continue on through your day.
I send the deepest love from my heart to yours.
Namaste.
