Breath Practice For Presence & Relaxation

Anchor yourself to the mindful habit of following your breath with this simple and short practice to tune in, focus your mind and completely draw yourself into the present moment. This guided pranayama and mindfulness meditation will leave you feeling present and fully relaxed.

Transcript

Hello and welcome.

My name is Leah Sugarman and today we're going to go through a very simple breath meditation just following the breath.

So come to find a comfortable position.

You can either be seated or lying down.

Choose what makes you feel more relaxed.

And once you find this place,

Shake out any little bits of tension until you can find yourself in a place of stillness.

Let your body weight soften down.

And if you're seated,

Elongate and lengthen your spine.

Close your eyes and draw your awareness inside.

Without judging or controlling,

Simply bring your awareness to your breath.

Take note of its natural rhythm and its natural flow.

Recognize the lengths of your inhales and the lengths of your exhales.

Become aware of the sensations within your chest and your belly as your breath draws in and releases out.

Observe the rise and fall within your body.

Now without force,

Very gently control the rhythm of your breath.

Begin to deepen each inhale and deepen each exhale.

Strive to equalize their lengths.

Observe the natural pause at the top of the inhale and the natural pause at the bottom of the exhale.

Become hyper aware of each movement in the body as you draw breath in and release breath out.

Observe the soft,

Calming quality of simply listening to the breath.

You have nowhere else to be and nothing else to do other than listen to your breath in this moment right now.

Continue expanding your inhales and expanding your exhales.

Maintain a sense of softness as you do this.

So not striving to find your maximum capacity,

But simply working to find depth.

Allowing for a sense of ease within the depth.

Take three more long,

Full,

Conscious breaths.

And then strive to maintain this depth within your breath and this stillness within your mind as you continue on with your day.

Thank you for sharing your practice with me.

Namaste.

Reviews

This was nice and relaxing. Easy to follow. Great for a quick breathing exercise on a break

I liked that, simple yet effective. I really like your voice and how you modulate it through the med.
Thank you 🙏🏻

Very calming and soothing 🙏

Great meditation to start my day grounded and with intention. I also find it extremely helpful during those extra hectic days when I can feel myself getting loose and a bit off the rails and I need a reset. Thank you Leah!

Hi Leah,
With every passing day, I am falling in love with your voice, much opposite to core goal of meditation: to create detachment and free one self from even positive desires :) Could you elaborate on what do you mean by awareness of breath since I at times do not even know that I am breathing (of course, me writing this review helps me validate that fact:) , also do you suggest that I vary duration of inhale and exhale when I am stressed since in your pranayama course, you taught to let breath as free flowing as an energy in flowing stream. Hope to hear your two cents soon..
Regards,
Arpit.

Always so soothing and grounding, still among my most cherished teachers, thank you Leah! ✨🙏🙂

Simply Listening to my breath.
Thanks for this insight.
Namaste 🙏

Thank you for this practice, I was able to lengthen and observe my breath. Feeling relaxed 🙏

Leah is one of my favorite practioners. Calm voice, gently guiding. She never gets in the way.

Thank you for a beautiful grounding breath awareness meditation 🙏🏽

This has become one of my go to breath meditations. Leah has such a lovely voice and I always feel more calm and generally happier after listening to it. Leah, you are one of the best. Please post more meditations for us to enjoy!

Very relaxing & simple. Thank u!

Very effective! Thank you.

Very nice. Simple and focused. Thank you!

Wonderful calming meditation! Thank you!

Calming meditation. Thank you for sharing! Namaste 🙏

Loved this! Simple and effective. Soothing voice.