Embodied awareness.
Find a comfortable position whether that's sitting or standing or even lying down.
The important thing is to feel relaxed and alert.
Creating a sense of openness in the front of the body can be helpful.
Rolling your shoulders up and back or if you're lying down allowing your shoulders to really relax into the floor.
Inviting a softness into the face,
The jaw,
The shoulders and the belly.
Creating a posture that feels soft and open.
This is the beginning of embodied awareness.
Continue to settle into this awareness by closing your eyes or lowering your gaze.
Notice how the body is feeling in this moment.
There's no need to change anything about your experience.
Simply allow what's happening to rest in your awareness.
What's sensations are you experiencing?
Maybe there's some tightness or tension in the body.
Maybe you're finding some areas of ease and that feel relaxed.
Notice what's here and allowing everything just to be just as it is.
Inviting you now to take a deep breath in through the nose and as you exhale making a sighing sound.
Releasing any tension in the body.
Doing this a few times on your own.
As you breathe in opening the front of the body and as you breathe out softening and releasing the body.
Allowing the breath now to come to its natural rhythm.
Take a moment in silence to notice the felt sensations in the body.
Not thinking about the body but feeling the sensations.
What are you noticing?
Feeling the contact with what's supporting your body right now.
It could be a chair or the ground beneath you.
Feeling and sensing into your feet.
Allowing yourself to feel grounded.
Continuing to sense that connection with what's underneath you.
Thoughts and emotions might be coming up.
The mind thinks about the past or the future and comments on the present.
But the body is always in the present moment and if thinking happens allow your awareness to rest back into the awareness of the body and the felt sensations within the body.
Bringing your awareness now to the breath as it flows in and out of the body.
Embodied awareness is a way for us to stay with our experience by using the body,
The breath or any other sensory experience as a way to connect to the present moment.
Not by pushing away thoughts or emotions or dwelling on them but by allowing the body to be the ground for our awareness.
Take a moment now in silence to rest in this embodied awareness.
Take a moment to express gratitude towards yourself for taking the time to cultivate this practice.
Knowing that in any moment you can reconnect to the body,
The breath,
Sense of groundedness as a way to create spaciousness and ease.
Noticing how you're feeling now.
Letting yourself reconnect to your surroundings.
Opening your eyes and beginning to move your hands and feet.
