We'll begin this embodiment meditation by making your way into a lying position on your back with the legs extended out in front of you,
The arms wide to the side,
Palms facing up.
Begin the first few breaths,
Making your way into your shape.
Facing all the fidgets of the body as it settles its way to stillness.
With your body lying on the mat,
The chest facing up.
Begin to come into relationship with your breath.
And how is the breath taking shape in the body?
The fidgets still active or have they calmed down a bit?
Is the relationship with your breath strong or light?
Is it heavy or is it easeful?
Okay.
There's no right or wrong to the breath or your relationship towards it.
Just bringing awareness and consciousness to it.
Or does the inhale take shape in the body?
Where does the exhale take shape in the body?
Can you take the shape of the inhale to a deeper depth?
Can you draw it down to the soles of the feet?
Can you spread it out through the limbs of the arms?
Where is the exhale taking shape in the body?
And can you start the exhale at a deeper depth?
Can you pull that inhale from the top of your body down to the bottom of the body?
Out through the soles of the feet?
Can you exhale the breath from the soles of the feet?
Draw that exhale up through the top of the body,
Out through the crown of the head.
Moving top down,
Bottom up.
Breathing a spreading of that shape to evenly saturate the whole of the body.
Breathing from top down to bottom up.
And is the breath getting restricted in one area of the body?
Maybe a few.
Without forcing the breath,
Allowing the breath to take shape around those contractions,
Those restrictions as a means of support.
So the breath becomes the witness.
The tension or the contraction we hold in our muscles.
Once you're And as that tension begins to melt and soften,
The breath continues on its path.
Inhaling,
Top to bottom.
And bottom to top.
And bottom to top.
And then the breath begins to witness any emotions or feelings that begin to surface.
The shape of the breath surrounds those emotions,
Those feelings.
Allowing for those emotions and feelings to merge with the breath.
Breathing those emotions or feelings up from the top.
Sending them to the bottom.
Exhaling them from the bottom out through the top.
Washing the emotions,
The feelings out of the body.
Inhaling from top to bottom.
And bottom to top.
Causing to witness any tension in whatever form it takes.
Allowing the shape of the breath to support that tension as it's carried through and washed from the body.
From top to bottom.
And bottom to top.
Cleansing,
Clearing,
And purifying the mind-body spirit.
With the washing of the breath.
