For Couples: Sitting Together (Mini)

This is a meditation for couples to do together. Sit facing one another and be at a distance where you could easily reach out and hold each other's hands. Once settled, Reuben will guide you both towards a meaningful moment that you have both shared together. This is all in the service of enhancing the meaningful connection between you both. You also get to use a grounding technique to absorb the moment that you share together whilst the meditation unfolds. Finally, there is a gentle appreciation of one another in terms of the times that you've shared together, both challenging and happy.

Transcript

Sitting together.

Welcome to this meditation for couples.

All you need to do is to follow my guide and so to prepare it's good to be able to sit in a mirrored position and so you can be at a distance where you could easily reach out and hold each other's hands and then when you're ready in that position facing one another we're ready to get into this.

The commitment you've both made in this moment is quite magic.

Feel free to give yourselves a gentle high five.

Allowing yourself to be here now with your partner in front of you.

What are you noticing as you do this?

If you would like to now close your eyes.

If you're comfortable with that you can hold a soft gaze if you prefer and so I'm gonna guide you to recall a memory and this is a specific memory that you have shared with your partner where you felt there was a meaningful moment,

A tender moment,

A sweet moment.

Allow yourself to fully relax and gently dwell upon what comes up for you as you recall this.

It could be the tiniest of moments like the way one time you both made eye contact and knew what the other one was thinking or it could be something a lot more profound.

It could be the time when you watched your partner doing something and they didn't even know that you were watching and you were just doing this with gentle loving curiosity.

And now gently let go of this and come back to the natural flow of your breathing.

The out-breath.

Going to the out-breath,

Getting more and more intimate,

More and more familiar with the out-breath.

And if you like what you can do is to open your eyes if they're closed and just hold a soft gaze upon your partner.

Where might that soft gaze be?

It could be the eyes or one eye but it could also not necessarily be the face,

It could be the way your partner's breathing.

Whatever you're comfortable with,

Whatever you would like to gently anchor to,

This person in front of you has been with you through your struggles.

This person in front of you has been with you through your sadness.

This person in front of you has been with you the times when you've been grumpy,

Frustrated or anxious.

But this person in front of you has also been with you through happy times.

The times where you've shared moments of meaningful connection,

When you engage just for those few magic seconds,

Just like now.

And so allowing yourself to absorb the presence of the room that you're in,

Your environment,

Everything around you and this person in front of you that you are grateful for.

And this little meditation,

Sitting together,

Has come to an end.

Reviews

Beautiful meditation! Thank you! We found calm and reconnected with each other ♡