This gentle yet profound Grief Yoga® session harmonizes movement, breath, and sound to facilitate emotional healing. This guided practice is designed to help you safely release the physical tension of pain and struggle, creating space to reconnect with a sense of inner empowerment and love.
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
Transcript
Now we're going to deepen our breath to help quiet the mind. Your eyes can remain open or closed, But we are going to inhale to a count of four and then exhale to a count of six. First let's exhale all the air out of the mouth, Release, Let go. Now inhale through your nose to a count of four, Inhale one, Two, Three, Four, And exhale one, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six. One more time, Inhale one, Two, Three, Four, And exhale one, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six. Begin to rotate the neck, Ear to your shoulder, Chin to your chest, Opposite ear to shoulder. Begin to draw large circles within your neck space. And as you observe your breath, Just make large circles here within the head and neck. And moving into the opposite direction, Large circles. And then coming forward and just start to move the chest forward and back. As you observe your breath, Just feel the opening of the heart in the front and then the back door of the heart opens. And allow the movement to come right from your sit bones all the way up towards your neck. You can inhale chest forward and exhale round the spine. And we're going to twist the other way now. So bring one hand to your opposite knee, Inhale lengthen, Exhale gaze over your shoulder and twist your spine. Hold here, Inhale lengthen, Exhale twist. Coming back to center, Bring the other hand to the opposite knee, Inhale lengthen your spine, Exhale twist. And again, Inhale lengthen, Exhale twist. Good. And slowly come back to center. Now we're going to flow a little bit with the breath. With your hands down and palms up, Just inhale float with the breath up and exhale float with the breath down and feel your feet grounded. Good. Now keep moving at your own pace. This is a moving meditation, So just allow yourself to flow with your breath. Good. And next time your hands are in the air, Hold them right there. We're going to use a little more of a powerful breath. We'll inhale and then exhale with your hands to one side. Just kind of like inhale up and to the other side. Good. And I just keep going back and forth, Almost as if there's something you need to allow to move through. Just release it, Let it go to one side with your breath and movement. One more time each side. Good. And then just kind of shake it out. Good. We're warming up our body, We're using our breath. Now a little bit more of a stronger technique. What I invite you to do is bring your thumb and index finger to touch and we're gonna do three breaths, Almost like you're doing an orchestra here. It's kind of like a and then with your exhale I just want you to let something go and release behind you. And again, Two more. Good. And now just shake it out. Shake it out through the hands, Shake it out through the feet, Shake it out through the body. Just begin to shake and move it through. Now bring your hands and allow the top parts of your finger to come right up to your heart space. Now I just didn't want you to lightly tap your heart space. Continue to breathe here and I want you to affirm whatever you're feeling or whatever you're going through right now. I just want you to say it out loud and whether that be anything from I am, I am sad, I'm overwhelmed, I'm anxious, I'm afraid, Whatever is the struggle that you are holding on to, Can you just acknowledge it right here? Just say I am and complete with whatever you need to say here. I'm sad, I'm overwhelmed, And now I invite you to place one hand on your heart and allow the other hand to hold that hand here and just take a breath here as if you were holding the space with love, As if you were holding your heart with love. Maybe bring your hands up to your shoulders, Just kind of lightly begin to massage your shoulders and your neck, Or if you want even to you can even bring your hands around yourself and almost as if you were just giving yourself a hug, Holding yourself here. And now I invite you to place your hands right here on your heart and as you hear your heartbeat, Take a moment and take one leg and place it your foot over the opposite knee. Just begin to stretch right into your thigh. If you'd like to just kind of bend forward a little bit and feel that stretch, You can even give yourself a little foot massage if you want to, And then bring that foot down and allow the other foot to come over the opposite knee and then just begin to massage that foot. Maybe fold over a little deeper over and stretch the thigh and releasing that foot down. Just bring your hands down to your thighs or knees, Palms down to ground down, And feel your feet touching the earth, Feel your sit bones touching the chair. If you'd like you can move a little bit from side to side or forward and back. Observe your breath and breathe all the way down into your belly and as you exhale, Just relax your shoulders and bring your palms together at your heart space. The light and teacher within me honors the light and teacher within you. Namaste.
