And I'd like for us to begin by just taking a deep breath through the nose with a slow exhale and take another deep breath in through the nose and allow your exhale to be slow and one more please a deep in-breath through the nose and an exhale that's slow and just allow your breath to just be how it is right now and we want to invite a quality of relaxation around the pelvic region and the body allow that part of the body to settle and spread on the earth in your chair and allow your belly to be at ease and loose and this has our focus be lower in the body connecting with the earth and softening in our seat and continue to breathe through the nose softening more with each exhale turning your awareness now to the earth body earth element element of hardness toenails,
Teeth fingernails earth element moving soft awareness through the body the skull,
Bone,
Face jawbone,
Neckbone hardness earth element shoulders,
Hardness bones hands and fingers,
Bones toes,
Hardness torso,
Hips earth element upper legs and lower legs feet and toes hardness soften your awareness of hardness earth element earth element if you don't attend to earth element for two days or so two months or so,
Rather the body will shut down hard body permeated by earth element internally earth element externally in rocks and mountains earth element,
Empty of self offering warmth and gratitude for earth element,
The skeletal form central to life appreciate and feel this hardness this strength earth element empty of self we are nature and now bringing soft awareness to water element your body consists of roughly 60% water wetness fluid tears liquid,
Soft soft in order for the body to hold this together we have flesh flesh meets the water element so we move self-awareness through the body to connect with the water element,
Our toes softness of flesh water element feet and legs flesh water element lower legs,
Upper legs hips water element belly,
Torso shoulders,
Arms hands and fingers water element our body permeated by water element internally if you don't have water within five days or so the body shuts down our body permeated by water externally the wetness in the mouth is the same as the wetness in the lakes the rivers,
The oceans,
The rains spring a sense of gratitude and appreciation for the water of life this flowing life force water element empty of self we are nature in order for the water element to function in the body we need fire the fire element supports the body's regulatory systems like the nervous,
Endocrine,
And immune systems working to monitor and to maintain balance it keeps our temperature and pH and energy levels stable despite our external and internal challenges our body can only live in a certain temperature range if it's too hot it evaporates,
If it's too cold,
It freezes so moving soft awareness through the body to connect with this fire element of heat and warmth on your face hands shoulders and arms hands and fingers skin heat torso ankle,
Belly,
Pelvic region heat,
Warmth skin legs and feet toes fire element whole body permeated by fire element internally warmth and heat digesting,
Composting,
Purifying,
Regulating our body permeated by fire externally from the sun,
From the center of the earth the warmth trapped in clothing touching our skin bringing a sense of gratitude and appreciation for the fact that we are alchemical feel this activity of fire in your body essential for living heat warmth skin air element fire element,
Empty of self heat is the result of friction and the movement of friction requires air air element movement and flow of the body circulation oxygen along with gases are present in the lungs blood stream and tissues the breath as air element movement of essential gases for life processes bring a relaxed awareness to breath the sensation of breathing breath away notice the movement of breath the belly,
Chest,
At the nose expansion,
Contraction whole body permeated by air element internally if you don't breathe within three to seven minutes,
The body shuts down air element breathes us providing the perfect amount of pressure for life whole body permeated by air externally we are in constant exchange plant life gives us oxygen and we breathe out what the plants need for life taking a moment to offer gratitude for the fact that you are breathing right now the breath you are breathing right now is keeping you alive for the next few minutes this activity is essential to living take a moment and appreciate and be touched by the inhale the exhale the palms just resting with this gentle rhythmic activity fundamental to life air element,
Air element,
Empty of self we are nature now simply allow the entire body to breathe and you might imagine breathing through every pore in your body offering gratitude and appreciation for our nature internally,
Externally and feel the warm hug of gravity across your entire body earth always with you you might imagine a slight smile on the inside of your body a gesture of appreciation and grace and we'll take a moment just to be with ourself this body,
This elemental body for a minute or two our exhales connect us to spaciousness our entire body permeated by space space internally space internally space externally space moving through us we'll take a moment to just rest our awareness of our nature within spaciousness elemental empty of self
