Daily Grounding Meditation | Somatic Breathwork

So honored to have you back for another somatic awareness exercise and daily practice. Such an honor to be here. Go ahead and let me know. Just a scale from 1 to 10. One feeling just not your best and 10 feeling pretty good. Let me know what that scale looks like for you. In this moment, it's so important to tune in with how we're feeling and bring awareness to it and then we can see by the end of the practice what that looks like. 7.56. Thank you for sharing. 6, 7, 5. It's so important to just find that awareness and not judge how we're feeling, but acknowledge it and acknowledge that we can use the breath to actually tune into that and connect more deeply. And that connection and that alignment is the theme for today's practice, which connects directly with something very exciting. This Wednesday I do want to go ahead and share before we begin the practice we will have our first one day workshop that Steven will lead us through and it will be over one of our most important meta skills and that is alignment. So I highly encourage you to join in. You can comment meta me t ta in the comment section here. Even dming us that after this practice we can go ahead and get you that information to join us for this free incredible workshop. So honored to have you come and connect with yourself. Such a blessing to be here. And if this is your first time, this practice will be done with eyes closed, sitting in a comfortable position, maybe legs crossed, hands on your knees. I will be guiding you the entire time through two rounds. And the first round will be more of the clearing breath. It is meant to be more intense breathing, deep diaphragm breaths, like a broom sweeping out what doesn't belong. Just like that. And notice it's about depth over speed. And then I will bring you into a single breath hold that allows you space to digest wherever in your body you're feeling misaligned or not connected. And then I will guide you into the second round, about 30 breaths of more gentle breathing, deep inhales through the nose and long exhales out like this, just like that. And that will be the breathing after we first do our somatic awareness exercise that I'll guide you into. And so important to give back to yourself and find that connection and alignment in yourself first before you can bring that out into the world. So go ahead now, wherever you are, in a comfortable space where you will not be distracted and go ahead and just close your eyes and go inward and begin just to bring awareness to your breath. And I invite you to tune in to yourself. And when you tune in to alignment, where do you feel that in your body in this moment? Just physically in your body maybe. Where are you not feeling aligned in your body physically? Just tune into that without changing it, but simply bringing awareness to that alignment. And let's take it one step deeper now. When you experience the embodiment of alignment, what emotions come up for you? What emotions are tied to that alignment or maybe lack thereof in yourself? Let's take it one last step deeper. What stories are you telling yourself when it comes to alignment? What stories are coming up for you in this moment? And just bring awareness. No judgment, no changing it, but simply acknowledging and being aware of the alignment you're feeling in yourself physically, emotionally and even the stories and tuning inward to those emotions and stories. We're going to begin the breath work. Tune into those stories and close your eyes and begin to take deep inhales and exhales through the mouth. Deep breaths. Find that rhythm in yourself. Where are you feeling disconnected from your truest self? Breathe it out. Where have you felt so scattered? Let it go now. Good, keep going. Where have you felt stuck and disconnected? Clear it out. Five more breaths. Good job. Two more breaths. One more deep inhale in and just hold that at the top for a moment. Where have you felt the weight and expectations of others? Where have you felt that weighing you down? You don't have to carry that. Whenever you're ready, go ahead and let that breath hold. Go and begin now to take deep inhales through the nose. Long exhales out and begin to breathe in all the parts of you that have felt so blocked.

Do you remember when you looked in the water and saw your reflection of embers? They drew out a map and they showed you direction. The star in the east way, always at peace in the enter.

Breathe in that center and that strength. Breathe in that empowerment. An awareness for who you are and how you want to show up. Breathe all the parts of you back together into that truest alignment. Three more breaths. One more deep breath in the deepest of the practice. Just let it all go and just hold it out for a moment. See that peace and that connection within. Whenever you're ready, you can let that breath hold go. Take another deep inhale in and let it all go. Just tune in to your body in this moment. Feel the energy from the ground beneath you connecting you and rising all the way up through your spine, all the way up into your shoulders and neck and up through your head and the crown of your head and all the way out the tip of your head to something greater than yourself. Take another deep inhale in, let it all go, grounding you even more. Another deep inhale in, Let it all go, grounding you deeper into this moment, deeper into your presence. Begin to bring awareness back into the space, maybe wiggling your fingers and your toes, noticing if there's any changes in your soma and your being, noticing any deeper alignment to yourself. Take one last deep inhale in together and just let it all go. You can go ahead now and just gently open your eyes, coming back into the space slowly if you need to and then honoring that scale, that 1 to 10 scale how you feel now. If you feel called to share in the comments, feel free and slowing your breath down now. Honoring yourself for showing up for yourself and with your breath you can always come back to the breath. When you're feeling just misaligned and not connected to you. The breath is that superpower. So honored to have you all tuning in from all over the world. It's so beautiful to see just how this movement has spread. And if you feel called to this practice, I invite you to always feel free to DM us. You can comment daily and actually receive an incredible experience that we offer that's free to learn how to guide these practices just like we did today. Thank you, thank you so much for tuning back in Nicole and just honoring where you are at. Honoring that our body ebbs and flows and just exactly where we are at and tuning inward and connecting with that in our breath. So glad you're feeling grounded. It's an honor and a blessing to be here once again. If you tuned in maybe during the practice there will be this recording that we will share on Somatic's page where you can tune in at any point and receive you can receive multiple times if you need it. And I do invite you again to tune into the Wednesday one day workshop that we have over the metascale alignment. If you feel like you need to tune in more deeply to alignment or maybe this practice brought up some things inward that you want to learn more about. When it be when it comes to this meta skill, this workshop is your resource. So comment meta M e T A on this recording in the comments and we will send you that information to join us. So honored to have you all showing up for yourself and for your breath and I will see you in the next guided daily practice. So thankful to have you sending you love and light into the rest of your day and on into the rest of the week.