*The idea is to get a little high.*
*That really isn’t necessary though.*
*Find a safe space.*
*Be open, be brave and be proud*
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Once high, get comfortable.
Childs pose.
Savansana.
Whatever you want.
You needn’t stay perfectly still.
In fact, movement is promoted
Come into your body
Move your hips
Feel where you touch the floor
How much surface area of you
is connected?
Breathe deep through your nose
Don’t worry about how constricted your exhale may be
We’ll work on that
Can you hone into the very, very base of your spine?
What does that area feel like?
Relax the area where your shoulders meet your neck.
Breathe into it.
Do you feel a tension around your clavicle?
That’s okay.
Imagine it fluid,
open,
vacant
just for a moment.
Let your brain soften.
Is your tongue on the roof of your mouth?
Soften your gums.
Now relax your buttcheeks.
Feels weird, doesn’t it?
Feel free to move
in any way you need to.
Soften the area in front of your ears
Notice how your brain bends.
Feel your brows.
Soften your eye sockets.
Relax your facial features.
Try to viscerally feel
your mind open.
You’re entering the receptive mode.
Sense any tension in your body.
Go there.
Breathe around it.
Breathe into it.
Notice how your brain bends.
How your chest may tighten.
It’s cause this is new territory.
Let your heart relax
for once.
Let it be open.
If your ribcage feels rigid,
that’s okay.
Stay with it.
Focus on being light.
Whether you imagine light within you
Or you simply feel light.
Breathe light into your heart.
Let it be soft.
This is what it feels like to apply compassion
to yourself.
The feeling may be unusual
A sensation you have not felt before
Be more space than matter
Be more space than your matters
But don’t ignore what comes up
Memories, projections
Allow
Lean into it
Acknowledge the existence
Focus on your groin
The ligaments,
The tissue
The stored memories
Do you feel static?
That means energy is moving.
Do you feel uncomfortable?
That means energy is moving.
Again,
lean into it.
And your shoulders..
Are they a different shape when you tune into them?
How deep are you actually breathing?
Are you holding yourself on the ground?
Or do you trust the support?
Do you think it’s meeting you?
Or do you think you have to do all the work?
How do your teeth feel?
Are your brows creased?
Lets go to your hips.
There are memories here.
Relax the area
Notice what comes up
Stay with your physical sensations
You are safe
No harm can come to you here
Stay present with yourself
Compassion — remember?
These blockages just want to be acknowledged
They just need to be sat with,
that’s all.
That’s all it takes to clear them,
acknowledgement
then release.
You’re safe
Rest in the knowing
Go to your sinus
Free the area
Open it
It connects to the deepest crevices of your mind
The deepest folds of your brain
Areas which may have never been tapped into
At least,
not for a few lifetimes.
There’s information for you in there
Answers.
Guidance.
Open the lines of communication
Soften into receptivity
Just open,
that’s all you need to do.
Do your shoulders feel different?
What about that space below your belly button?
Toward your back?
Is it tight?
Are you holding there?
Do you feel like you need to hold yourself together?
Breathe.
Let the earth meet you.
It will support you,
if you let it.
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Have you ever heard of myofascia?
Imagine a spider web
of delicately woven silk.
Fragile.
Sensitive.
Imagine this web
of intricate patterns
woven through
every part of your body
In your armpits,
the webbing of your fingers,
your groin,
between ribs.
In the space between where
your upper arm bone
meets
your lower arm bone.
It’s everywhere
The myofascia holds what isn’t healed.
What hasn’t been processed.
What’s been repressed.
It stays with you,
until you acknowledge it.
Feel around.
Feel around your fascia.
Feel where there may be blockages
A build up of this web.
Breathe there
Even if you can split the consolidated area once,
just once,
—that’s progress.
Major progress.
You’re moving energy
You’re making shifts.
Can you hone into the very, very base of your spine?
What does that area feel like?
What about where your shoulders meet your neck?
Breathe.
This is what it is to process
You don’t need words
You don’t need to react
You don’t need to figure anything out.
Presence
— that’s all you need.
Feel your relationship with the earth
And do everything you can
to soften the soles of your feet
And your ankles
The sensations are…
really something.
You may sweat
That’s good
You’re releasing.
This is alchemy
You’re alchemizing
You’re transmuting
Imagine you grew up knowing you could heal yourself like this?
Imagine you did this everyday.
Imagine processing consciously.
Imagine if kids knew how to do this.
Now you know
You can do this any time
This is all you need to do
You have everything you need
Just you
Your breath
An open mind
You’re equipped now
You’re equipped.
Stay with this feeling
Take it with you
You’ll be surprised by the effect
This is what it means to do the work.