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Guided Shavasana

by Lawrence Conlan

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4.4
Type
guided
Activity
Meditation
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Everyone
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Get comfortable before turning this on. Useful before/after yoga, also in bed on waking or going to sleep, or waking up in middle of night, or for grounding,

ShavasanaYogaSleepGroundingBreathingBody ScanAwarenessMind Body ConnectionDeep BreathingBody AwarenessAwareness SupportBody Mind Spirit ConnectionGuided Meditations

Transcript

Become aware of your breathing.

Begin to take slightly elongated breaths,

Beginning with filling your belly and transferring through your solar plexus to expanding your chest,

Expanding the belly and chest.

And on the exhale,

Offer your breath and the weight of your body to the support that's holding you.

With the next breath,

Extending the belly and gradually expanding through your solar plexus into your chest and beyond.

And as you exhale,

Offering the full weight to the floor,

To whatever is holding you,

The unconditional support that is there.

Continue for a few more breaths.

You may wish to continue this type of breathing during the remainder of this meditation.

As you now become aware of your toes,

All ten toes,

All at the same time,

Outside and inside.

And include your feet and ankles,

Toes,

Feet and ankles outside and inside.

Extend your awareness into your lower legs,

Knees,

Thighs,

Hips and hip sockets,

Becoming aware of both legs from toes to hips at the same time,

Outside and inside.

Become aware of the space between your hips,

Your sacrum and tailbone,

Outside and inside.

And extend your awareness from your tailbone along the floor of your pelvis to your pubic bones,

Becoming aware of the entire floor of pelvis,

Outside and inside.

Extend your awareness from your pubic bones all the way to the bottom of your rib cage,

Becoming aware of your entire belly,

Outside and inside.

Extend your awareness all the way up your ribs to your collarbones,

Becoming aware of your entire chest,

Outside and inside.

Wrap your awareness around the sides of your torso into your back.

Become aware of your shoulder blades and the space between them,

All the way up to where your neck meets your back.

And down along the back of your ribs,

The back of your waist,

Down to and including your buttocks,

And into the midline of your low back,

Down into your sacrum and tailbone.

Become aware of your entire back being held and supported unconditionally by what's under it.

There is no agenda in that support.

Offer your weight of your back to that.

Become aware of and rest in your entire torso,

Back and front,

Front and back,

Outside and inside.

Extend your awareness across your collarbones and shoulders and down your arms to all ten fingers all at the same time,

Outside and inside.

And include your hands and wrists,

Fingers,

Hands and wrists,

Outside and inside.

Extend your awareness into your forearms,

Elbows,

Upper arms,

Underarms and shoulders,

Becoming aware of both arms from fingers to shoulders at the same time,

Outside and inside.

Extend your awareness into your throat and neck,

Outside and inside.

And into your face and head,

Become aware of your entire head outside and inside,

Including your forebrain,

Midbrain,

Backbrain,

Brainstem and the spinal cord of your neck,

Upper back,

Middle back,

Lower back,

Sacrum and tailbone.

Become aware of and rest in your entire body,

Your entire body all at the same time,

Outside and inside.

Or become aware of awareness itself or follow awareness into its source.

Rest in that.

Meet your Teacher

Lawrence ConlanLafayette, CO, USA

4.4 (1 733)

Recent Reviews

Fola

January 2, 2024

Simply lovely Thank you

Rachele

October 8, 2021

Thank you for thus beautiful gem, I have done it after asana and the way you talked through the inside and outside was very relaxing, I found very beautiful also the expression of offering the body to the support beneath, it made me surely sink into shavasana further and further. Thank you!

Kim

September 5, 2020

soothing voice. wonderful relaxing time of awareness.

Holly

July 5, 2020

Nice body scan especially after yoga ✨

Britt

December 6, 2019

I love a good, detailed, body, mind and spirit savasana. This one's a keeper for meditation & yoga practice! Thank you & namaste.

Marianne

January 18, 2019

Wonderful! Thank you.

Génesis

October 5, 2018

Excellent Meditation !

Ron

September 2, 2018

Excellent—this was one of the first meditations I bookmarked here, and several years and listens later it remains a standout. The "inside and out" instruction is my favorite aspect of what is essentially a very detailed and methodical body scan. LISTENER BEWARE: The final minute of this is silent and there is no final bell or other signal that it’s over.

Celeste

August 1, 2018

I enjoyed this meditation and body scan very much.

Sissy

July 25, 2018

interesting... bookmarking...great for after any sort of exercise.

Melanie

June 20, 2018

Very relaxed now.. 🙏❤

The

May 2, 2018

Super nice distinction between and around body parts. So much better than a regular body scan for me.

Tanka

April 11, 2018

Calming and effective, thank you

Margi

February 7, 2018

This is simple, solid, and effective and I listen to it regularly. Lawrence is the real deal!

Vicky

January 10, 2018

Great length & perfect for my at home practice. Well spoken and a good pace for me.

Colleen

December 31, 2017

Great way to end my at-home yoga practice when i can’t make it to the gym

Anna

December 16, 2017

very helpful, thank you! best I have seen on the topic so far.

Star

October 16, 2017

Wow. That was amazing. I could feel heat and tingles over every body part. Completely relaxing.

Annie

September 18, 2017

Beautiful way to return to meditation since my time living in the yurt. Added tnh gatha hearing the bell. Peaceful voice, confident guidance. Your words: " inside & out" and "at the same time" help a great deal! Namaste

Cindy

August 29, 2017

Very nice, love bringing the awareness inside, very calming affect

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