Breathwork For Calming The Mind

This guided Breathwork meditation will allow you to deeply connect to your body, release stress, and access a place of inner tranquility so you can move forward with more presence, awareness, and clarity.

Transcript

Hello there and welcome to your audio practice for pause breath work.

My name is Samantha and I will be guiding you on this journey to use your breath,

The power of your breath to allow yourself to release all that does not serve you.

So often when we are feeling states of anxiety or sadness or depression or overwhelm,

We tend to really think about how to get rid of it.

And what we're doing when we overthink this is we are just obsessing over the sensation more and more and more,

Which simply activates it more and more and more.

Using our breath in a very intentional and continuous way allows the breath to do the work for us.

The breath goes into the body and releases all the emotionality that simply does not belong.

We all have access to this deep,

Deep truth that resides in us all.

The answers truly are within.

We just need to clear the channels so that we can gain access.

Throughout my life,

Really diving into various healing modalities that I've done all over the globe,

Nothing has been as powerful as breath work.

So often meditation is so challenging for people because they just can't shut off their brains,

Whereas when we use the breath,

It gets us out of our mind so quickly and into our bodies.

And that is the power of what this work can really do for us.

So I want you to find yourself on the floor somewhere comfortable,

Whether that's on a yoga mat or on your carpet or lying down on your bed,

Somewhere where you will be undisturbed for the next 20 minutes.

And I just want you to feel the support of the ground underneath you.

Start by just taking a few deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.

In through the nose and out through the mouth.

And again,

In through the nose and out through the mouth.

I want you to take a moment and just honor the part of you that has come here today,

The part of you that decided to be here with me,

Working on yourself,

Learning about yourself and your body,

The part of you that is looking for deeper intimacy,

Deeper connection,

Deeper truth.

Our bodies truly have all the answers.

And when we simply surrender and feel,

We are guided to places that are so in alignment with who we are.

So just take a moment and just have a high,

High level of gratitude for the part of you that brought you here.

And I want you to take one hand and put it on your heart and take one hand and place it on your belly and just continue with the deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.

And just be right here.

It's just you and your body.

It's safe to be here.

It's safe to feel.

Just observe the gentle rising of your chest.

In through the nose and out through the mouth.

And just see if you can relax a little bit deeper.

Just focus on the energy of your heart,

The power,

How vibrant and clear,

Loving.

And just find that place of safety in your heart.

During this practice,

We are going to be feeling sensations that maybe we've tried to push down or ignore for so long and we've built up protection and defense mechanisms to stop ourselves from feeling.

But feeling is truly our superpower.

We have to feel in order to heal.

And you are so safe to feel.

It's safe to feel.

Just repeat that silently to yourself a few times.

It is safe to feel.

It's safe to be in your body.

It's safe to feel.

It's safe to just be.

The beautiful thing about breath work is you are in control the whole time.

You are creating your experience with your breath.

At any point if you feel like you want to slow down,

That is totally okay.

Just don't stop breathing.

Just stay with the continual breath,

Which I will teach you in a moment.

And as you breathe,

Just realize the whole time that you are so safe.

Safe to be in your body and it's safe to feel.

We are going to be breathing only through our mouth.

You will be taking two breaths in and one breath out.

The exhale breath is strong and powerful.

The first two breaths are breathing in through the belly,

In through the chest,

And then out through the mouth.

So it sounds like this.

So go ahead now and just feel your belly,

Feel your chest.

And the first breath in is you bringing it up through the belly,

Up into the chest,

And out through the mouth.

Beautiful.

Just notice how you feel just from a few breaths right now.

Any sensation that comes up during this practice is completely normal.

You may feel tingling in your toes and your fingers and your mouth.

You may get a headache right away.

Just breathe through it all.

Just breathe through it all.

You are creating your experience and you are in complete control.

Your body will release whatever it needs to release.

The most important thing is you just let it.

If you begin to get sad,

Just let yourself be sad.

Let the tears fall.

If you feel angry,

Just let yourself be in that expression.

It is just a motion that needs to flow.

It's just a motion that needs to flow.

Let's go ahead and place our hands by our sides,

Palms facing up.

And let's start the breath pattern together.

Going economy Just keep breathing exactly like that.

Allow yourself to be fully in your body,

Fully in your experience.

You are so safe.

I've got you.

I'm here with you.

Notice the resistance that may come up and just keep breathing.

It's safe to feel.

It's safe to feel.

Allow yourself just breathe.

It's safe to feel.

It's safe to feel.

It's safe to feel.

Whatever's happening in your body is exactly what is supposed to happen.

Know that you are safe.

Know that you are loved.

And just let yourself breathe.

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Everything is happening perfectly.

Let yourself just be and feel.

I'm here with you.

Let the breath show you what needs to be processed and released.

Let it go.

Let your body have that release that it so deserves.

God is here for you.

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Just a few more moments.

Really come back to the breath and allow these last few moments to be the most powerful yet.

Deepening into your body,

Releasing what needs to be released.

Beautiful work.

And when you're ready,

Allow your body to come to its natural breath pattern.

In through the nose and out through the mouth.

In through the nose and out through the mouth.

Beautiful work.

And just let your body surrender.

Notice how free and open,

Loving,

Connected you feel.

Right here with you.

Just let yourself bask in this energy of just openness,

Clarity.

Now just rolling over to one side.

Bringing your knees up and just relaxing.

And coming up to a cross-legged position where your legs stretched out in front of you.

Bringing both hands up to your heart.

Thanking yourself for coming to this practice.

Honor yourself for doing the work.

Healing,

Releasing,

Transforming so you can be in your fullest expression and your fullest essence and your fullest truth.

I honor you and I thank you for sharing this time with me.

I am so grateful you are here doing the work.

Thank you for being a part of my world.

I would love for you to spend a few moments just journaling your experience.

Stay quiet.

Stay present.

And just journal out what came up for you,

Any questions you have,

How you feel.

I always recommend drinking lots of water and just being gentle and kind to yourself the few days after you do a practice like this.

A lot moves through you,

A lot gets shifted,

So just be kind and gentle.

If you have any questions or need any support whatsoever,

Myself and my incredible team is here to support you and help you.

Just let us know.

I hope you have the most beautiful day,

Sending you so much love.

Bye for now.

Reviews

Wow. This was beautiful. I loved your voice.

A clear kind intro to set the tone, a period of breathing (mouth-mouth) and a smooth and compassionate end.

Afterwards I felt light and sad in a good way. It also felt like I had been on another planet for a short while. 😉🙏🌸

I had some difficulties with the brief as I was unsure whether to keep breathing the same rhythm throughout the session or do a breath retention when the music slowed. Perhaps my volume was too low.

WHAT THE FUCK

HOLY SHIT I AM BUZZING

MY HANDs, MY WHOLE BODY IS TINGLY

MY CHEST

My heart is racing

MY FACE, holy shit I got thizz face my face got stuck in place!!

It’s low key heard to type this right now

What the duck did you just do to me holy shit

I was like kinda scared during that experience but I just kept telling myself I was safe

Wow I literally started convulsing I am seriously speechless

What a rush

I am on fire damn I need water

So intense! I feel like I just took with best drugs

Thank you so much

❤️❤️❤️

Amazing amazing amazing 🤩 . I thoroughly enjoyed that and I feel light and lovely .

Loved this practice. Got the tingles and helped me refocus for the rest of my day

This breathwork practice was a truly transformative and untethering experience for me this morning. Thank you for holding me in this space 🙏🏻

Such an incredible, powerful amaxing practice. I felt my hands vibrating inside and my whole body felt euphoric. Thank you so much for this share it is very much appreciated. Sending you so much love.

Beautiful 💙

I love your breath work sessions! Amazing! I’ve been noticing during the breath work that my breath and body leans to the left side of my body…in particular the left side of my neck, head, face and chest. Any insight on this? Thank you! Bookmarked. Namaste 🙏

Incredible as usual. Sam Skelly is THE lady when it comes to breathwork. Time and time again she continues to help me improve my life and my happiness.

Just what I needed tonight before bed. Thank you that was lovely.

Wonderfu and powerfull..Feels like lot of burden is released everytime I do.
Thank you so much...

Wow!! Thank you so much for charing! It was so intense.

Wow! I do an only just diving into breathwork. This is my first experience over 5 minutes and it was powerful. I will be back here again to explore the power of breathwork. Thank you 🙌🙏

Beautiful, transcendent. I will come back to this frequently!

So buzzy. So open. If you have not yet tried this experience, I beg you... do.

Powerful and healing. Please release more breathwork practices to help us ❤️ this is such a gift

Phenomenal guidance + audio experience. Enjoyed it so much that I did it twice in 12-hour span as my anxiety attacks came up. I felt safe, levitated, and deeply cathartic. I was also able to release tears that I had difficulty unblocking. Thank you for a magical healing time. ✨🌱

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze me how deeply transformative and healing this work is. Thank you.