Embodied practice

Embodiment techniques

embodiment

In this short exercise, I walk you through yielding and letting go. While I don't emphasize breath in this short recording, it is one of the main tools, together with your body attention. Future recordings will solely emphasize breath.

Enjoy and let me know what works! 

Next exercise will include yielding with emotions and thoughts.

Yield And Ground

In this very basic exercise, we let go of our toes! So often, as we move through life, we grip. We grip with our toes and we grip with our minds. As you go through this simple exercise, you may notice your mind shifting, quieting, clearing. Rather than approach it directly through our thoughts, we do it by letting go of our toes!

Uncurl your toes and quiet your mind.

Uncurl Your Toes, Quiet Your Mind

The muscles between our ribs is a place we often contract to control: to control our emotions, our fears and the circumstances around us. As we learn to breathe to our ribs, actively, we open space inside of us from the inside out. 

We increase our capacity to feel and experience life in the simplest of ways, with our breath.

Creating Space ~ Breathe To Your Ribs

Over the course of this week, I used this exercise to let go of pain, ground myself and clear the emotional fog that surrounded me. It's a simple square breath (inhale, hold, exhale, pause for the same count) that uses your own touch to the chest to emphasize the concept of yielding - chest into hand, hand into hand and vice versa.  

Our bodies know how to yield, without excessive effort or giving in too much. It's a constant give and take and keeps our presence full, no matter what we are dealing with.

Breathe. Expand. Let Go

This guided body awareness practice deepens the concept of yielding; the process of creating a balance between give and take. It can happen with others, with our dreams and obstacles, with how we relate to the world and physically.

We'll explore the physical. It's a process of feeling into the body, letting go of unnecessary effort, enlivening areas that are dull or weak and constantly deepening your ability to dance this dance with freedom.

Yield and fill your skin

I talk you through a simple, yet profound full body relaxation exercise. Set yourself up comfortably, breathe and drop into your body. 

These kinds of exercises, which use passive attention, can tap into deep sources of energy. A few minutes after you finish, you may notice more clarity, awareness and energy.

Full Body Relaxation

This is a short practice that guides you to a physical experience of longing. Longing is often squeezed tightly into our chest. When we give it the space and time it needs, our longing can move us in directions that are unique to us.

this practice is 5 minutes long. I recommend 10 minutes a day, until you are tapped into this experience and can physically embody your longing without tension or contraction.

Longing ~ a daily practice

There are so many moments in life where we contract our chest rather than expand and allow different emotions and sensations to flow. In this recording, we'll practice 3 different breathing exercises, which aim to expand your chest and increase your connection to it.

* Breathe to lungs, while softening chest muscles
*Square breathing - inhale, hold, exhale, hold - all equal timing
*Breathing with sound - exhaling "ahh" sound, while softening chest and throat.

Breathe And Expand Your Chest

We can often forgive from our minds, and yet our bodies still old onto the hurt. Then it gets easily triggered over and over, and we again have to reframe things.

In this practice, I lead you through how you hold onto a grudge or an old hurt in your body, how to let go and then use your breath to forgive. 

I am not searching for forgiveness as a moral high ground. Rather, using this practice as a way to clear space in your heart and heal an old wound.

Longing ~ a daily practice

Fierce Embodiment