5-Minute Grounding Practice - Come Back To Your Centre

Hi and welcome.

If we haven't met before,

My name is Sarah.

I'm the founder and creator of Once Upon a Yoga and I'm here to guide you through the next five or so minutes as we take some time to slow down to ground and so that we can move through the rest of our day from a place of center of connection.

So go ahead and make yourself comfortable.

You can stay seated,

You can stay as you are.

Just making sure that if you are driving or operating any machinery to stop doing that now.

Closing down the eyes or keeping the gaze nice and heavy downwards.

Take a nice big breath in through the nose,

Fill the lungs all the way up and sigh it out the mouth.

Again,

Nice big breath,

Fill the lungs.

We'll take a pause at the top of the inhale and then open the mouth and let it go.

One more big breath.

Pause at the top and let it go.

Land your awareness all the way down into your sit bones.

Feel your sit bones really pressing into the surface that you're sitting.

Allow all of the weight of your body to land down into your sit bones and feel that pressure in the surface below your body.

Allow that heaviness,

That fullness to fill the entire pelvis.

Extend down the legs and into the feet.

Relax your shoulders.

Relax and soften your forehead,

Eyebrows,

Eyelids.

Allow your eyes to fall back into the sockets.

Soften the cheeks and let go of any tension or gripping in the mouth and the jaw.

Allowing your awareness to melt into your body,

Falling deeper and heavier down into the sit bones and down towards the earth.

In the next inhale,

Fill the lungs,

Feel the body light.

Feel the breath as it enters your body,

The expansion of each inhale.

Sealing our practice with one cleansing breath.

Inhale through the nose,

Out the mouth and gently blink open the eyes.

Have a beautiful day.

Thanks for joining.