Home Base

A meditation to return to center. Created as a resource to come back to whenever you need grounding, regulation, and a deeper connection with yourself. This practice gently guides awareness back into the body, allowing the nervous system to settle and attention to soften. Through gentle awareness of the breath, the body, and the space behind you, this meditation invites a deeper sense of presence, one that welcomes every part of your experience with kindness.

You don't need to change anything. You don't need to fix anything.

Simply come as you are.

Transcript

Welcome to home base. Meditation to support your return to center. To the seat of your mature self. This meditation is a resource you can return to. Whenever you need to ground. Regulate. And reconnect with yourself. Together we'll return to the steadiness that has always been here. Please make yourself comfortable for this Ideally you are seated in a quiet space where you can remain undisturbed for the duration of this practice. If possible have support behind your back and let the soles of your feet rest on the ground. When you're ready. We begin by coming to the breath. You may wish to close your eyes. Or let them remain softly open, Your gaze relaxed. Let your breath be natural There's no need to alter it. Simply notice how the breath arrives. And how it leaves. Receiving and letting go. You might imagine that with each inhale Your presence returns to you. Your gaze resting back. Behind your own eyes slowly letting awareness move even further back behind the skull the neck. And the space between your shoulder blades inhabiting your entire back body this space that is associated with our ability to receive. So often our attention is drawn forward and the back of the body easily goes unnoticed What is it like? To include it in awareness now is it easy to sense? Or does it feel distant? Perhaps harder. To access. Whatever you notice is welcome here. And as you breathe Allow your awareness to gently expand to include the space. Just behind your body You may feel like letting out a sigh or a yawn or giving yourself a subtle stretch Let your body guide your arrival. You might begin to notice your inner rhythm slowing down. There is nothing you need to do right now. Know where you need to go. You can remain right here. Let awareness sink a little deeper feeling the contact beneath you We are sea. The ground underneath. And the support of the Earth. How does it feel here? At your base Can you sense the support of the earth holding you? Breathing with you if discomfort arises if you notice feelings of tiredness tenderness or scattered thoughts. Know that they too are welcome here. You might meet them with a warmth. That quietly communicates you do not need to hold this alone. Let those words sink in like a soft permission to be exactly as you are it is safe to let go of the need to perform to soften the reaching to release the pressure to be different come behind what you notice Who is looking? Through your eyes. Who is speaking? Inside. There is a gaze here that carries no critique. A presence that beholds you in your totality. Let the weary parts that have believed in separation in isolation and aloneness. Be met here. Held within that which you are. Loved as the Beloved. Gently like a mother soothing her child come home. Home is here. Let yourself be nourished here Let yourself remember that you were wrong. Is to rest into this and let life move through you the will of the heart is to be open and sometimes that openness looks like meat in contraction with compassion. This is the paradox of life oh blah not something to be understood but live. Fully. Rest here beloved and when you're ready to return to your day. Do so gently. Blessed Be.