Hi and welcome to this week's meditation.
I'd like to share with you this week's theme I'm playing around with or bringing to and sharing in class and it's something that I would like to ask you.
So how would you attend to your well-being this week or how are you attending to your well-being this week?
Well done for already tuning into this meditation maybe this is a sense of attending to your well-being this week,
Contributing to your well-being this week and I think you know your well-being is or how to attend to your well-being is different all the time we do different things and for me well-being feels like feeling like myself or even when I don't feel like myself attending to what I may need and afterwards when I do it I'm like I just feel like myself and if you don't really know what that means maybe you felt the times where you just don't feel like yourself.
For me it's like when we do yoga and after yoga practice you just feel that sense of calm like coming back home to yourself.
So whatever it is that you do to attend to yourself feel that sense of centering,
Feeling that sense of coming back home and whatever that is it could be reading,
It could be socializing with friends,
It could be sitting in the sunshine,
It differs all the time depending on where you're at sometimes you need to be more extroverted,
Less extroverted,
More introverted sometimes you need to slow down sometimes you might need to just pick up the pace a little get a bit more active do some exercise.
This session is as you'd imagine a more calming slow down practice so this is what you feel will help contribute to your well-being let's go ahead get settled in lie down and just get comfortable that could be seated that could be lying down in your bed or on your mat whatever that is feel free to even take this out on sunbathe this week the sunshine has come out in Manchester this week so wherever you're at settle in and just notice the sensations your body's you settle in maybe you want to wriggle,
Hip,
Shoulders,
Shuffle about maybe you want to pop a blanket on top of you put a pillow underneath your head put a pillow underneath your thighs and as we notice those points of contact that we have with our support whether it be the ground,
Sun lounge,
The bed just noticing the weight of the body and just allowing yourself to sink in to your own skin to your own body noticing sensations against your skin so maybe that's yeah maybe that's a sun if you're outside in the garden maybe it's a weight of a blanket and just welcome yourself into your practice like saying hello to a friend hello to the feet how are they feeling today hello to the legs how are they feeling today hello to the hips how are they feeling today hello to the back,
Shoulders and arms how are they feeling today hello to the belly and the chest and we would just take a full belly breath in and a full breath in so belly and chest and just notice how that felt.
Hello to the head and the neck how's your brain been working today?
Hello to the mouth the eyes how are they feeling today?
Let's just settle in to go through our body scan and relax our body attending now to our body giving it this space to surrender to relax.
Let go of feet and let go of legs,
Hips sink in,
Let the belly chest soften,
Let the back unravel shoulders let go from anything that you have been holding on to.
Let the head go let the arms rest hands rest.
Feel free to close down the eyes softening any tension held within the face and take the time to stop doing connect to just being
