Embodiment techniques

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

Lie down and get comfortable. We'll cover every area of your face, giving you time to let go, breathe and fully un-do the habitual facial masks. It will deeply quiet your mind and body.

Melt The Mask ~ an awareness training to relax the face

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

A practice to let go of the constant pressure we feel and learn to open up space for daydreaming, meandering, creating and being. It's something we used to do naturally. We just have to tap back into it by un-doing the old story.

Letting Go Of Pressure

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

A practice designed to recognize need in your body and give it space. to shed the armor of self-sufficiency and independence and feel a need with more softness and ease.

Softly Embodying Needs

This guided embodiment practice focuses on the areas of our bodies (chest, solar plexus, belly) that we harden and numb when we feel threatened and want to protect ourselves. 

These are the areas, when soft, relaxed and open, can give us a strength of empathy, sensitivity and awareness that the rest of our body can easily hold and contain.

It's a wonderful practice simple to learn to soften, but also to learn to strengthen who you are in those more challenging moments of life where we get hurt, frightened or challenged in some way.

Enjoy

Softening

In this gentle, but attentive practice, I'll guide you to feel your body, and notice areas of holding, contracting, numbness or other discomfort. You'll stay in this experience, intentionally, and then learn to notice subtle openings. It could be a breath, a wish to move, an expansion the senses. You'll follow this opening to gain back more awareness, more sensations, more breath.

This practice is meant to prepare you for those moments in life where you get stuck in an old behavior and wish to find your way out through the body. You can apply this to anything - a stuck mood, low energy, a long-held physical condition.

Subtlety is the key.

Subtle opening to full body awareness

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.

Forgiving - A Body Practice

This training guides you from an experience of powerlessness to one of strength. 

We often find ourselves not knowing what to do when faced with a situation that repeats itself and emotions run high, when we see a wrong we cannot right, when we simply hear about world events that overwhelm us. We may feel intensely, but the lack of an immediate solution can lead us to shut that intensity down. We make ourselves powerless.

In this guided practice, you'll learn to recognize how you do so and how to  un-do the contracted effort you make to control what you feel. As you let go, you'll begin to tap into the power that's just underneath. The emotional power.

For more thoughts on this, check out my blog post: https://fierceembodiment.com/underneath-powerlessness/

Undoing Powerlessness

A guided embodiment practice where you'll connect your deeper wishes to daily promises you make to yourself. Through this practice, you Invest in deepening your self-respect and self-worth, as you lessen the moments where you might give up or procrastinate. Every promise you keeps lets you trust yourself more.

Keeping A Promise

In this guided practice,  you’ll learn to recognize a way in which you are following an old rule and trying to be something for someone else, how you hold this in your body and how to unleash the energy you’ve been holding back, underneath this rule of behavior. (It's a bit breathy...but stick with it).
 
When you break a rule you’ve been holding, your body finds its natural way. There’s no need to be reasonable. Just honest. You can let your curiosity take over and notice, how do you move in life without this rule? What opens up? Who comes closer? Who moves further away? How do you relate to your time, your wishes, your body? How are you?

Breaking Rules Of Behavior

A guided practice that moves you through your entire muscular system, as you contract and release. You'll awaken unused muscles, let go of unnecessary effort and connect it all to breath.

Contract And Release - Awaken fire through your muscles

This is a simple, 2-part exercise to generate the flow of earth in our bodies.

When Earth’s qualities are cultivated in our bodies, time becomes expansive and non-linear. We instinctually take care of our needs. We have a strong container for our emotional life. We effortlessly know when to act and when to rest.

When we sink into EARTH’s long-lasting presence, underneath our feet and in our own bodies, we can trust its support, even when life shakes us up or disrupts our sense of well-being.

Generating Earth Flow

Our belly is the container of our emotional life. We've learned over the years to contract it and pull it in; to control our emotions. The more we limit the space and natural flow of our emotional life, the more we deplete ourselves and eventually, we end up emotionally overloaded.

In this guided practice, you'll learn to gently soften your belly, breathe and follow the sensations that begin to arise from your core. The more space you learn to give known and unknown sensations and emotions, without an old story or rule of behavior, the more fluid your life becomes. The more you sense what is happening around you and can easily adapt to your experience.

Softly Opening The Container Of Our Emotional Life

In this simple 10-minute practice, you'll start your day by energizing your heart. 

You'll soften areas where you hold your stress, fears and to-do lists, while you breathe to your chest and energize what you want in your body.

Once your wants are awake and energized, I'll guide you with movement. You'll be moving from your heart and desires before you even get out of bed.

Embodiment techniques

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