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Pausing, Breathing And Softening

by Jessica Garlick

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guided
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Meditation
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Take a pause, slow down and settle back into your body. This practice will support you in connecting back to your body and heart, will allow you to melt away tension you have been carrying and will leave you feeling more calm and ease. Background music : Healing by Caleb Etheridge (Royalty Free Music)

PauseBreathingBody AwarenessMovementGroundingSelf CompassionTension ReleaseCalmEaseDeep BreathingHeartShoulder Movements

Transcript

A little reminder to come back into your body taking a deep breath with me sighing it out deep breath in through the nose and sighing it out the mouth another deep breath in through the nose and out the mouth sighing it out as you take the next deep inhale,

Maybe drawing the shoulders up to the ears,

Squeezing up towards the ears and as you exhale out the mouth,

Let the shoulders just drop down towards the ground and let the space between the shoulders and the ears lengthen,

Widen doing that again,

Inhaling the shoulders up to the ears almost wheezing them there and exhale,

Just dropping the shoulders down inhale to draw the shoulders up and exhale to release maybe just rotating the shoulders a little,

So really just bringing in a little bit of movement into the shoulders rotating the shoulders up towards the ears and back and round it down and really taking it nice and slow as you're rotating the shoulders back taking one more breath in that direction and then slowly changing your direction,

So bringing the shoulders up towards the ears and rotating them forward all the while breathing and feeling into your body really feeling what it feels like to be connected and present to the sensations in your shoulders feeling what it feels like to connect the breath and the movement taking one more round and exhale to release,

Let the shoulders melt down towards the ground let the space between the shoulders and the ears lengthen and take a moment just in stillness to become aware of the space between the shoulders and the ears the space around the neck imagining the vertebra of the neck gently stacked one on top of the other lengthening as you breathe feeling your inhalation and feeling your exhalation noticing your inhale and noticing your exhale in this moment I invite you to place the hand onto your body maybe you want to place a hand on the belly and a hand on the heart or placing the hands on a space or a place on the body that feels vulnerable and that needs some love and kindness just placing the hands there now and just feel what it feels like to hold yourself maybe you can notice the warmth of your hands on your skin or on your body if your hands are on your belly or on your heart space or on your chest maybe you can become aware of the rise and fall in the chest or in the belly as you breathe really fully present in the body in this moment noticing your inhalation and noticing your exhalation and just notice if there is any place in the body that you can release any tension or holding from let the physical body soften,

Let the belly extend out,

Let the shoulders soften,

Let the jaw soften and as you soften your physical body maybe just taking your attention to the heart space and noticing if there is a little more space around the heart all the while noticing your breath may you move into the rest of your day with a deeper connection to yourself,

To your body feeling grounded and calm as you move into the rest of your day sending you lots of love you

Meet your Teacher

Jessica GarlickCape Town, WC, South Africa

4.7 (378)

Recent Reviews

Donne

September 28, 2024

Thank you for this beautiful meditation. You have a lovely voice, the pace was perfect and the music was just the right volume. I will listen again. πŸ™

Rachael

July 1, 2024

A beautiful way to start the day. Such a soothing and calming voice! Bookmarked. Thank you. πŸ™ ☺️

Dali

March 19, 2024

Wow, the combination of your voice and the music was quite powerful. I wasn’t expecting that, but I really enjoyed it. Thanks, Jessica πŸ™πŸΌ

Steph

August 17, 2023

thank you for a relaxing session. Ready to start my day.

Ginny

August 3, 2023

Your voice is so soft and soothing! A perfect meditation to calm the body and mind. Thank you! πŸ™πŸ’—πŸ¦‹

Deb

March 30, 2023

Thank you for sharing this. Very soothing voice and gentle yet powerful short meditation. Helped me reset. I have saved to my favorites. Namiste πŸ™

Molly

January 15, 2023

Something shifted in me and I feel so much better. Thank you so much for sharing this meditation. I am grateful. Namaste

Anna

January 15, 2023

Perfect for a small break during the day ! Thank you !

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