Hello,
And thank you for joining me today.
I suspect that if you're here,
Your hormones are messing with you a little bit today.
PMS can do that.
Perhaps you're feeling a bit irritable,
A bit tense,
Dare I say a little angry?
It happens.
Maybe a bit bloated and uncomfortable.
I get that way too sometimes.
And so I thought that together we can help ourselves to feel a little bit better.
Let's start by sitting down in a comfortable position on the floor in a chair and really focusing on allowing the surface underneath you to support you.
Feel your feet on the floor grounding you.
Feel your sitting bones on your seat.
Spine nice and long crowned to the sky.
And let's start by relieving a little tension in our neck.
I don't know about you,
But that's where I carry a lot of tension.
I think a lot of us do.
And let's start by dropping our right ear towards our right shoulder gently.
Stretching the neck on the left side gently.
Back up to center.
And now left ear to left shoulder.
And back to center.
And maybe one more time on each side.
Release the tension in the neck.
Other side.
And back to center.
And now focusing on the face.
Let's start with our forehead.
Relaxing the forehead,
All the muscles that are perhaps a little bit tense at the moment.
Consciously relaxing them,
Smoothing out the forehead.
Then moving into the eyes where we often carry strain and tension.
Just really focusing on relaxing the eyes and the muscles around the eyes and the eyelids gently closing.
Moving down into our cheeks.
Consciously relaxing the muscles in the cheeks.
I know it may sound funny,
But sometimes opening your mouth and doing a little lion roar type of motion to tense up the face and then releasing that and releasing some of the tension with it as well.
Moving into the jaw.
Relaxing your jaw and your tongue.
And then moving into the neck muscles,
Which we've started to work on a little bit already.
Deliberately focusing on moving the shoulders down,
Away from our ears,
But not in a forceful way,
In a conscious but easy way.
We don't want to yank them down.
And then moving down our arms.
Consciously relaxing our upper arms and our forearm muscles.
And wherever your hands are lying on your lap or beside you or wherever they are,
Focus on relaxing your fingers and hands.
Oftentimes we carry a lot of tension and unnecessary gripping in our hands.
So let's try to relax and use that as well.
And then focusing on our torso relaxing our upper chest and upper back.
Making sure we breathe slowly and calmly to help soothe our nervous system.
Moving down through our solar plexus area.
Down towards our stomach.
Relaxing the muscles in the stomach as best you can.
And our lower back where at this time of the month we can sometimes feel some tension.
So let's focus on relaxing that.
If at this point you feel like doing maybe a little twist to the side gently.
Breathing out.
And then passing through center and doing a little twist on the other side.
And back to center.
And again feeling those sit bones grounded into the surface you're sitting on.
Reminding you that you're being supported.
Relaxing into your thighs,
Upper legs.
Breathing as we go gently and deliberately.
Past your knees.
Down into your calf muscles.
We want to relax those as well.
Moving down into your ankles.
And finally into your feet.
That ground you into the earth and imagine maybe some of the nervous energy and attention in you.
Moving out from your body.
And into the ground beneath you and dissipating there.
And as it suits you you can sit and take a few deep breaths.
To further calm your nervous system.
And it might be a wonderful opportunity,
Although at this time sometimes it's difficult to remember,
But thank your body for all the wonderful things it does for you during the day.
To be grateful for health and fertility and life.
And when you're ready you can open up your eyes and put a smile on your face.
And remind yourself that this too shall pass.
Thank you so much for joining me today and I hope this has been helpful for you.
Wishing you a great day Namaste
