This is a guided exploration of ease as a doorway into the felt sense of safety in the body.
Take a moment to find a seat that feels supportive.
You can find your way to a chair,
Placing both feet evenly on the floor.
You can make your way into cross legs on the floor.
Or if your body is in need of deeper restoration today,
You can make your way onto your back.
Whichever seat you choose,
Take a moment to rock forward and back,
Side to side,
Ever so slightly.
Maybe one centimeter or less in every direction.
And being in the noticing of what feels like true center.
That place that feels balanced in all directions and all planes.
And often this place will invite your breath to deepen naturally.
It will invite a softening.
Once you've found that place,
Invite your body to settle through several rounds of intentional breath.
Bringing the inhale deeper towards the belly.
And the exhale fully out.
And as you're breathing naturally without any force or control,
I invite you to also notice the weight of your body.
Contact the weight of your bones,
Your muscles.
As you feel that weight,
Can you allow that to be fully held by the ground beneath you?
Softening towards the ground.
And allowing that softening to deepen your connection,
To deepen the conversation between you and the earth.
Imagining the earth rising up to hold you,
To greet you like a pair of loving hands.
Feeling the depth of that connection.
As an invitation to soften and settle any places you might be gripping or holding yourself up as if you were a separate being.
Noticing how you may soften more as you recognize your relationship to the vast ground beneath you.
Rather than holding the weight of the world,
Allowing the weight of the world to hold you.
And as you stay connected to this ground and maintain a natural rhythm in your breath,
Slowly start to rotate your awareness through your body,
Noticing what's present.
Noticing what you notice.
Physical sensations,
Emotional signatures,
The quality of energy you're feeling throughout your whole body,
Noticing.
Often we have the tendency to bring our awareness towards places of discomfort,
Pain,
Tightness,
And contraction.
And that's okay.
We can bring breath and loving awareness towards those places to see them and feel them and acknowledge them.
And often in that acknowledgement,
A natural softening and shift may occur.
And I want to invite you to notice spaces and places of ease in your body that are already here.
And just be in that noticing.
And if your body naturally needs to move or shift as you make contact,
That's okay.
Perhaps that space of ease grows and creates more spaciousness that overflows into the next space and the next space,
Like a river or an ocean expanding out.
And when you have found that space of ease,
See if you can really locate where that lives in your body and being.
And say hello and perhaps thank that place.
A felt sense of home.
A felt sense of ease.
And as you move through your day,
I invite you to return to this place.
And moments where you feel pulled off your center,
Rushing,
Anxious,
Caught up in thoughts.
Can you return back to a felt sense of ease and allow that ease to flow out and restore a sense of spaciousness?
A space and capacity to meet the present moment with breath and curiosity and care.
Moving at a rhythm that allows you to consistently return back to this place of ease,
Taking a full breath and noticing what has prevented me from staying connected to this place.
And beginning again.
And so as we complete this practice,
I want to invite you to bring this felt sense that you've cultivated with you as you begin to enter into the interbeing space.
The space where you meet others in the world.
Slowly beginning to wiggle the fingers and the toes.
Coming back to that gentle rocking forward and backwards.
Allowing the breath to deepen.
And very gently opening the eyes if they have been closed.
Taking in the sights and sounds.
And as you do that,
Can you maintain your connection to ease and ground?
Thank you.
