Welcome.
Thanks so much for joining me today for this breath practice.
My name is Chrissy,
And I'll be guiding you to connecting to your breath,
To become aware of this effortless capacity of our body to just breathe itself.
So to begin,
Just find a nice easy seat,
A way that your spine can be upright but still comfortable.
For some of us,
We like to close the eyes,
And for others of us,
We may just want to lower our lids,
Letting our eyelids just be a little bit heavier.
And to begin,
Just take a nice breath in,
Feeling your body expand and fill up,
And then just gently exhale.
Let's do one more of those.
It gives us a sense of an idea and a sensation to attach to.
When we take that conscious breath,
That awareness starts to become apparent.
And now we can just start to observe and connect and pay a little bit more attention to our body breathing.
We don't have to change anything.
We may start just with noticing the air coming in through the nostrils.
If it's a little chilly where you are,
You might notice it's a little bit cooler as it moves inward.
And as you exhale,
That coolness is now a little bit more warm.
The body's warmed that air.
So that may be an anchor for your mind,
Just settling in right there at the tip of the nose,
Feeling the air moving in and moving out.
You may move that awareness more into the throat.
You might feel that little tickle of the air moving inward or even into the expansion of your chest,
The ribs,
The belly,
Feeling the fullness of every breath,
Just noticing,
Becoming aware.
And as you exhale,
You may then notice how the body might soften,
Be out.
For some of us,
Our mind needs to say something.
So you may have your mind just quietly say inside,
Inhaling and exhaling,
Or just even in and out.
So there are many places where the mind can attach to,
To bring that awareness to the breath,
At the nose,
The throat,
The full expansion of the torso,
Or that in and out.
Practicing on your own just for a little bit.
And if the mind starts to wander,
That's fine.
Just gently notice that and bring it right back to that anchor of the body breathing.
.
Noticing where your mind is.
Maybe it's still settled on the breath.
Maybe it's decided to wander off and we gently bring it back.
Bringing that awareness to your breath just for another couple of rounds.
Good.
From here we'll just start to maybe flicker those eyes open.
Bringing a little movement to the body maybe.
This practice can be done anytime,
Anywhere for 10 seconds,
30 seconds,
A minute,
Five.
However long you need just to reconnect to your body,
Reconnect to this moment.
Thank you so much for joining me today.
I hope you have a great day.
Thank you.
