Meditation & Breathwork: 5 Minutes To Return To Your Body

You can begin to lie down on a comfortable surface,

Bring one of your hands to your belly and one of your hands to your heart center.

Allow the eyes to close.

Allow your body to get heavy,

Allow it to sink down to the support underneath it.

With every exhale that you release,

Release more and more of your body weight just dropping in,

Giving yourself full permission to just be held here.

Start to breathe in a little bit more deeply,

Take in some more air and when you breathe out really slow down the exhale almost like you're dragging it out.

Notice how it feels to breathe into your body.

Notice how it feels to turn your attention to your breath and to your body.

Perhaps this is the first time you're doing that all day.

We're going to work with Durga Pranayama which is a three part breath work.

Begin to breathe in one third of the way into the bottom of your lungs attempting to fill up your belly with air.

Breathe in another third and fill up your chest feeling your lungs expand and then breathe in the final third inhaling all the way filling up into your collar bones and your throat and as you exhale release the air from your throat,

Deflate your chest and deflate your belly.

Inhale into your belly,

Chest,

Throat.

Exhale from the throat,

Chest,

Belly.

Continue this breathing pattern on your own.

Your pace might be slower,

It might be faster but I challenge you to really breathe deeply.

You might surprise yourself with how much capacity you have for air.

Fill up to full capacity on the inhale and empty out completely on the exhale.

Breathing into the incredible vehicle that is your body.

You can stay here for as long as you'd like.

Namaste.