5-Minute Relaxing Meditation

Need to calm yourself down before or after a stressful event? This 5-minute meditation will help you relax both your body and mind. With light music playing in the background, I'll guide you to follow your inhales and exhales as we consciously relax your body. Super easy and beginner-friendly!

Transcript

This week on Namaste Podcast,

A relaxing five minute meditation.

Go ahead and close your eyes and find a comfortable seat.

Elongate through your spine,

Lifting through the crown of your head.

And start to notice your breath.

We're not changing the breath or judging the breath.

We're just noticing how it feels to inhale and exhale through your nose.

And as you listen to the sound of my voice and focus on your breath,

You might notice that your mind will wander to other thoughts,

To sensations in the body,

What you need to do after you meditate or what's going on in your life right now.

And when you've realized that's happened,

Without judgment,

Without worry,

Simply bring your attention back to the sound of my voice.

Now we're going to elongate our breaths.

So empty everything out of your lungs and then deep inhale through the nose.

Hold at the top.

Slow and controlled exhale through the nose.

Deep inhale through the nose.

Slow and controlled exhale.

With each breath cycle,

You relax more and more.

Continue breathing in this slow inhale,

Slow exhale.

And while you're doing that,

I want you to consciously relax the space between your eyebrows.

Relax your ears.

Relax your neck and your jaw.

Simply release any tension that exists in those areas.

Allow this conscious relaxation to extend down your shoulders,

Releasing any tension in your upper arms,

Forearms,

And hands.

Continuing with that slow and controlled inhale and exhale.

Now we're going to send relaxing energy all the way down our spine,

Our main energetic corridor of our entire body.

Our spine controls our hormone releases,

Our movements,

And all of our subconscious habits.

Release any tension that exists in your spine.

Now we're moving to our hips,

Releasing any clenching or rigidity that exists in your hips.

Releasing any tension in your thighs,

Your knees,

Your calves,

Your feet and toes.

Simply relax now,

Fully connected to your breath and to your body.

You can come back to this practice any time you like.

Namaste.

Reviews

Lovely voice and nice teaching to release tension and stress. Namaste 🙏

I love this simple breathing whole-body grounding exccise. Thank you

Thank you :) needed to relax after a long car ride and this was perfect

Lovely. Perfect for a quick de-stress when you don't have much time. Thank you.

I loved this meditation - it begins and ends properly, with an encouraging and peaceful message in the middle, what more could one want? Thank you 🙏🏻

Short and very sweet! Really affective, thank you.

This was perfect just in the morning wow! 👌 amazing thank you!😊

So relaxing, guided by your very soothing voice. I’ll return to this often. Thank you 🙏💗

Thank you for this relaxing meditation - great to start the day or for anytime! 🙏

Exactly the reset I needed this morning. Thank you! ❤️

Lovely practice✨️🌜
Thank you kindly🥀🍂
Namaste🙏🏽♾️✨️🌚

Ooohhh love this quick, but straight to results meditation practice. Please do more like this, because some days all I can squeeze in is a 5 minute meditation practice.

Perfect! A truly relaxing and calming meditation. Thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you so much ✨ I’m so happy to connect with you 🙏🏽

A great start to the day - although it ended rather abruptly.

Thank you 🙏

I absolutely love this! 5 minutes very well spent. Just 5 minutes and still so effective. Thank you very much!

Just what I needed for quick relaxation and clarity 🙏🏼

Short but powerful...beautiful quality of sound...thank you Kathy🙏🏾😘⚘

A very soothing and gentle meditation. I very much enjoyed it. And it enhanced my sense of relaxation.