Pregnancy: Find Calm, Connect To Your Baby

In today's practice,

You're just going to take a moment to connect to yourself and to connect to your baby and find your calm.

Wherever you are,

Get a little taller,

Lengthen up through the crown of your head and then soften and melt into the surface beneath you.

Take a deep breath in through your nose and as you exhale,

Blow it out through your lips.

Again,

Inhale deeply through the nose.

Exhale through the lips.

Feeling yourself settle,

Grounding yourself into this present moment.

Start to imagine your baby in the womb.

Imagine as you breathe that your breath is covering your baby like a warm blanket.

Every time you exhale,

Feel yourself relax a little more deeply,

Shedding any layers of tension,

Of tightness,

Letting go of stress and worry with each gentle exhalation.

Notice the air temperature on your skin.

Notice if you're holding any tension in your face,

Your brow,

Your forehead.

Allow it to soften.

Notice your breath breathing you.

Bring your attention and your awareness now to the rhythm and sound of your heartbeat.

That sound and rhythm that your baby hears and feels 24-7.

Take this moment to feel gratitude for your body and all of the hard work that it does for you and your baby.

Thank yourself for taking this moment to pause and find your calm.

On your next inhalation,

Take another deep breath in through the nose,

This time sighing it out with an audible exhalation.

Do that one more time,

Deepest breath you've taken all day so far.

As you exhale,

Let everything go.

When you're ready,

You can move from this practice.