This exercise is called moving with breath for reclaiming your physical and emotional connection.
Begin by placing one hand on your chest and the other on your abdomen.
If you're comfortable to close your eyes please do so and take a long slow deep breath in through your nose just noticing the temperature of your breath on your nostrils.
Can you notice where your chest rises and falls and your belly expands under your hands?
As you breathe out can you notice how your hands move with your breath?
In and out the body expanding and condensing moving with your breath.
Now as you continue to breathe deeply allow your body to sway even if you're seated or standing gently from side to side.
Feel the rhythm of your breath as it flows in and out and just let your body follow the rhythm that feels right.
Each breath in and out will be different,
Each sway side to side will be different.
So each breath and each gentle movement are reminders of this connection of our breath has with our body.
If you want to you can start to move the arms up as you breathe in and down as you breathe out.
If you're holding your baby you might like to notice how their breath moves as your body and breath moves.
If you notice thoughts coming up just acknowledge them and let them drift away maybe blowing them away with your breath but just let them drift by like clouds.
There's no need to shoo them away they can be here in your present but just bring your focus back to the movement of your body and this steady rhythm of your breath.
As you continue to sway or circulate your arms around it might feel nice to tuck your chin and round your tailbone as you breathe out squeezing the breath out rounding through the back and as you breathe in you can feel the spine lengthen the tailbone arch and the chest the nose the gaze maybe lifts as you arch your back breathing in gentle pause as you start to round through the shoulders tucking the chin and tailbone and just bringing a bit of a c-curve into the back as you exhale the breath moves out of the body inhale lifting the chest lifting the gaze arching the back.
So you might like to slow that down to feel each movement each segment of the spine as it flows along.
It may feel comfortable to come back into swaying just feeling that sensory soothing sway.
The intent of this exercise is just to bring awareness to that breath and body connection.
This allows us to feel more present,
More connected,
More embodied.
So just noticing where the body wants to move how the body wants to move and not trying to have a preconceived notion of how it should move just inviting the body to show you what it feels that it needs and how your breath can move with that as it flows in and out and letting your body giving your body permission to follow that rhythm.
Know that you can come back to this movement in any of your activities in the day.
Just bringing awareness to how your breath is moving in and out and connecting with the rhythm and the doing of your body.
