Most of us imagine a quiet,
Peaceful,
Seated position when we think of meditation.
What we don't often picture or practice is moving ourselves in a way that encourages our muscles to tremble,
Our body to shake.
Shaking meditation or T.
R.
E.
Trauma-releasing exercise is an active and deliberate moving meditation.
Shaking our muscles to warm,
To release tensions,
To purify toxins,
To rid ourselves of old,
Stagnant energy,
And to release past traumas that may be stuck.
All mammals shake,
And you've likely seen a squirrel escape a near-death experience and simply shake it off and move along.
Dogs do the same.
As humans,
We've forgotten this invaluable tool to let go,
To reset,
And to realign.
And instead,
We've got comfortable with storing and holding on to all the baggage.
This is an opportunity to move your body,
And it doesn't take a long time for the benefits to be seen and felt.
This meditation is for you to reconnect and reassociate with your body and your mind,
And it's very,
Very useful in releasing stress and in minimizing depressive thoughts.
Wherever you are right now,
Please come to stand on your two feet,
And allow your feet to come hip-width distance apart,
And then root them in a stance that feels solid and comfortable.
Relax your pelvis,
And just allow your tailbone to drop down in the direction of the earth.
Relax your jaw,
Relax your shoulders down away from your ears,
And begin to close your eyes down.
Allow the knees to have a micro bend,
And begin to offer more of your weight to the feet,
To the knees,
And create a gentle bounce in your body.
And with this gentle bounce of the knees,
You almost feel as though you're offering more of your weight to the earth below you,
As if gravity is taking you closer and closer with every soft bend in your joints.
And you can almost feel the shoulders begin to release even further away from the ears with each bounce.
Your breath is as sporadic or consistent as it feels to be,
Maybe rhythmic with each bend of your knees or shake of your limbs,
Or perhaps it's sporadic and inconsistent,
Which is just as effective.
And then you begin to find a little bit more of a bounce,
And allow your hands,
Your fingers,
Your arms to get involved.
To move through your body in a way that feels safe for all your joints,
But allows there to be a shaking movement in all of the tissues and all of the muscles of who you are.
And allow that movement to grow.
And so you begin to hear and feel the beat of the music that's playing,
And your body just finds whatever bounce,
Whatever shake,
Whatever movements feel the best for you right now.
And there is no judgment of the experience.
There is no wondering if anybody's watching you,
Or what it may look like.
You just move your body with your feet rooted where they are.
Push yourself in a way that feels slightly outside of what's normal,
And simply trust the process.
Some part of you right now knows that this is good for you.
Some higher self brought you right here,
Right now.
How immersed in the experience can you allow yourself to be?
One more minute of moving the body in a way that may or may not feel comfortable,
But that allows you to experience something new.
If we constantly stay within our comfort zone,
We never know what we're truly capable on the other side of it.
And so for these last 45 seconds or so,
Just allow the body to shake and move in a way that maybe feels even exaggerated.
In the beginning we need to try to make this movement happen,
But actually once we get it going,
Then the body knows exactly what to do.
Keep moving,
Keep shaking,
Keep allowing the muscles to release in a way that probably feels very,
Very welcomed.
Shaking,
Shaking,
Shaking.
And over the course of the next couple of moments,
Let the body come to a place of stillness.
And the arms come softly down by your sides,
Palms facing forward in this mountain posture,
This place of composure.
And with the eyes closed and the body still,
You simply feel and notice.
Feel the blood flowing through your body underneath the container of your skin.
Observe the electricity that you can feel on this subtle level moving through you.
Notice the quality of your thoughts.
Taking a really deep breath in through your nose.
Your heart is probably beating quite quickly.
And open your mouth and just sigh that air out.
And do that again,
Breathing in through the nose,
Filling up.
An audible exhale to sigh the air away.
Last one.
Breathing in and sighing out.
When you feel ready,
You can slowly,
Slowly open your eyes and return back to the space with a newfound sense of clarity and optimism.
Please return back to this meditation whenever you feel to invite some aliveness back into this body,
Back into this mind.
Have a beautiful day.
