Find yourself in a quiet and comfortable space,
And eventually,
Make your way down onto your back.
Take a moment to create a little nest for yourself,
Becoming as comfortable as possible in your Shavasana.
Perhaps you put a blanket over top of you,
And you can even tuck it around the sides so that it feels like as if you're in a cocoon.
Pillows or bolsters underneath your knees to support your lower back,
Or an eye pillow if you have one.
Make yourself as comfortable as possible.
And then find yourself lying on your back with your arms down beside you,
Palms facing the sky,
Legs out in front of you.
Feet flopped out to either which way.
Shavasana,
This final resting pose.
Settle in with a deep,
Releasing breath.
Take a long,
Deep inhale,
And exhale out through your mouth.
Sink in.
Sink.
Take one more long,
Deep inhale.
Feel the air come in through your belly button,
Lungs,
And throat.
And exhale,
Letting go of all that feels heavy,
Of what no longer serves.
Directly translated from Sanskrit,
Shavasana means corpse pose.
This here is the pose of surrender.
One where you get to release your efforts.
Trying,
Striving.
In this space,
There is nothing that you need to figure out.
Nothing that you need to do.
Nobody that you need to try and be.
All that's required in this space is for you to just breathe.
Just be.
Let go of all that no longer serves.
Let go.
With each exhale,
What's no longer working,
No longer aligned.
And exhale.
Feel your eyes dropping to the back of your head,
Your head down into the mat.
Soften the space between your eyebrows.
Soften the muscles around your eyes.
Soften your jaw.
Feel the softening trickle down through your whole body.
Your neck,
Shoulders,
Both arms,
All ten fingers.
And even the insides of your palms soften.
Feel your chest soften,
Torso.
Your entire back,
Upper back,
Mid back,
Lower back.
Feel yourself sinking deeper and deeper into your mat.
And it's like the more that you let go and sink in,
The more the earth rises up to support you.
Hips soften.
Legs soften.
All the way down to the tops of your feet.
Soles of your feet.
Inner and outer edges of your feet.
And all ten toes.
Feel your whole body.
Your whole body relaxing.
Notice that this relaxing does not actually require for you to do anything.
In fact,
To relax,
It requires you to soften,
To do nothing.
To simply notice all the places within your body that's holding tension and soften.
The relaxing of your muscles is simply the absence of the contraction.
It is,
In other words,
A letting go.
Feel yourself letting go.
With each exhale,
You become lighter.
And as you soften,
You become so light that it feels like as if you're drifting and floating.
Allow yourself to drift,
Float in a sea of spaciousness.
There's nothing to figure out.
Not in this moment.
There's nothing to try and do.
Not right now.
Nobody that you need to be.
But to simply just be as you are.
Just breathing.
Allow your next breath to be deeper than the last.
And eventually,
Begin to bring movement back into your body.
Round out your wrists.
Point your toes forward.
Before you wake all the way up,
Allow yourself to steep in this slow,
Delicious space that you created for yourself.
Maybe you stretch your arms up overhead for a nice,
Deep stretch.
And on your next exhale,
Draw your knees into your chest.
Your arms around your knees.
Rock from side to side.
And eventually,
Make your way up into a seated position in the way that's most supportive for you.
As you arrive,
Take a moment.
Bow towards yourself.
Hands at your heart center.
Manjuli Mudra.
Close your eyes.
Tuck your chin just about an inch towards your chest.
And as you bow in towards yourself,
Notice a fresh,
New perspective.
An ease that's opened up within you.
And then turn towards yourself and recognize yourself for the light within you.
Thank you for practicing with me.
Namaste.
