Good morning everyone.
This is a fantastic breath work to help shift your stress,
To help shift old patterns and to really get you into a good frame of mind for the day.
We're just kind of putting all that crap behind us and and really being able to fully be present and available for the day ahead.
So the more you do this,
The more frequent you do this,
The more you're going to get out of it.
So this is sort of a best done in the morning as your sort of daily ritual for the morning and let's get started.
So you want to be seated either cross-legged or on a seat.
If you're sitting on a seat,
Make sure you're sitting at the end of the seat so that your spine is nice and tall and same goes when you're cross-legged.
You want to make sure your spine is nice and tall,
Neck is tall and so that you've got a nice channel of energy going through.
So place yourself in this position now and we're going to be doing two different breaths.
The first breath will be in through the mouth and out through the mouth and just imagine sucking on a straw.
So that's going to be the first breath.
So you want in through the mouth,
Out through the mouth and you want to make sure you're getting a full breath from the stomach to the chest and then from the chest to the stomach.
So you want to have that full free flow breath all the way up to the chest and out again to the stomach.
So really nice full deep breaths.
The second breath,
We're going to do some breath holds as well and I'll count you into that.
I'll sort of say breathe in and then out,
Breathe in and out and then breathe in and hold.
So that's what's going to happen and the breath hold is about 30 seconds.
Then we're going to move on to the second breath which is breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth.
Same thing,
You want a full breath in through the nose,
Out through the mouth.
Okay so start to get yourself settled in,
Perhaps closing your eyes and just start to become aware of your body,
Seated,
Feeling the earth beneath you,
Starting to feel into your body any restrictions,
Anything you're holding in the body and just set an intention,
One word intention for today's practice.
What is it that you want to receive today?
Set that intention now,
Feel into your heart space,
Feel the breath,
Your normal breath,
The inward and outward motion,
Feeling the air in your skin,
The beat of your heart,
The sounds around you and let's begin the first breath in through the mouth,
Out through the mouth.
Begin now that's it,
Continuing this breath now,
Really starting to find the rhythm and flow and you want to go at a pretty normal pace,
Not too slow and not too fast.
That's it,
Continuing that breath,
In through the mouth,
Out through the mouth,
Fully expansive,
Breathing through any restrictions and then we're going to breathe in and out,
Another breath in and out and on the next inhale hold,
Feel into that hold,
Feel into your heart space within that hold,
Feel into the body,
Continuing to hold,
Continue to hold if you can,
If you're not able to you can let go but continue to hold if you can and release,
Fully release.
We're going to the second breath,
In through the nose,
Out through the mouth,
Begin now,
That's it,
Continuing that breath,
In through the nose,
Out through the mouth,
Fully expansive,
Fully letting go,
This is the parasympathetic breath,
Calming down the nervous system.
When we come up to the next breath hold it's going to be a breath hold on the outward breath,
So continue that breath for a little bit longer,
In through the nose,
Out through the mouth,
That's it.
We're now going to breathe in and out,
Another breath in and out,
Another breath in and on the exhale you're going to hold on the exhale,
Feeling into that hold,
This one's going to be probably a little harder if you've never done this before,
So just hold as long as you can,
We're going to try for 30 seconds here,
Continuing to hold,
Expanding your window of tolerance,
Continuing to hold and release,
Letting it all go and then just feeling into your body,
Connecting in to how the body feels,
Feeling an open wide space in front of you,
Fully present and ready for the day ahead.
Thank you for joining me on today's daily practice.
