Thank you for joining me for today's practice.
This is going to be a simple relaxation practice,
Just focused on bringing your awareness to each part of your body and then allowing each part to relax and rest in this space.
So I'll invite you to get into a comfortable position,
Ideally laying down for this practice but you can choose whatever is most comfortable for you.
And then once you get there,
Blinking your eyes closed,
Beginning to let the external world drop away and just focusing on your breath for a few moments here.
Starting to invite in relaxation on your inhale and a softening on your exhale.
Letting go of your day thus far and sinking into the present.
And together let's take one deep grounding breath.
So when you're ready on your next inhale,
Filling up your belly and then letting it go through your mouth with a big sigh or a big sound out.
Amazing.
And then I'm going to invite you to take your awareness to your forehead,
Allowing any worry lines to soften,
Any tension to release,
The space between your eyebrows relaxing,
Your eyelids becoming heavier so that there's no longer even a desire to open them,
Your cheeks releasing any sense of holding,
Along with your mouth,
Your jaw and your tongue,
All parts of your face becoming relaxed.
Continuing to breathe,
Continuing to remind yourself that you don't need to do anything.
Simply bringing our awareness to each of these areas will allow us to relax and release a little bit further.
So let's continue this scan,
Bringing our awareness down through our neck and into our right shoulder,
All the way down our right arm,
Upper arm,
Our forearm,
Our right wrist,
Our right palm,
The back of our right hand,
Our pinky finger,
Second finger,
Middle finger,
Fourth finger,
And thumb all coming to rest.
Continuing to breathe,
Continuing to relax,
Nothing to do,
Nothing to say.
Breathing in and bringing your awareness back up your right arm and down the right side of your body,
Relaxing the right side of your chest,
The upper back,
The lower back,
And the right side of your belly.
Noticing any sensations and continuing to bring this sense of awareness down through the right side of your hip,
Through your right thigh,
Both the front and the back,
Through your right kneecap,
And down into your right shin and your right calf,
All of your muscles relaxing,
All parts of you inviting in peace and rest.
And continuing to extend those feelings down into your right ankle,
The top of your right foot,
The bottom of your right foot,
And each of your five toes,
First,
Second,
Third,
Fourth,
Fifth,
Your entire right side becoming completely relaxed.
And then breathing in and bringing your awareness back up your right leg and down into your left,
All the way down to your left toes.
And as we did with the right side,
We'll allow each of our toes on our left foot to completely relax.
First,
Second,
Third,
Fourth,
And fifth,
Along with the top of our left foot,
The bottom of our left foot,
Our left ankle,
And up through our left shin and calf,
All of the muscles relaxing,
Our left kneecap,
Our left thigh,
Front and back,
The left side of our hips,
Left lower belly,
Left lower back,
Left upper back,
And the left side of our chest,
All coming to relax,
Along with our left shoulder,
Left upper arm,
Our left forearm,
Left wrist,
Left palm,
The back of our left hand,
And all five of our fingers,
Pinky finger,
Second finger,
Middle finger,
Fourth finger,
And thumb.
Breathing in,
Sighing out,
Taking a moment to note how you feel,
Knowing that you are capable of achieving this feeling at any time,
And then slowly starting to invite yourself back,
Lovingly starting to move those parts of our body,
Slowly shifting onto one side to take a few final deep breaths,
Before slowly pushing ourselves back up and opening up our eyes.
