Jodie

Los Angeles, CA

Use your breath to scan your body, pendulate between sensations, and nourish your cells with life force.

Spirituality

Stress & Anxiety

Stress

Yoga

Visualization

English

This guided relaxation and healing meditation has Somatic Experiencing and Yogic influences. Settle in and get cosy as your inner experience moves towards rejuvenation and optimal vibrancy. I hope you enjoy.

Breathing Body (Without Background Music)

 This meditation is a gentle tool for support and greater ease in the body. Generally, I'm working with natural breath and the innate intelligence of the body to breathe when it needs to. This exploration is a tiny bit different. It is my experience that sometimes with accumulated stress, the body can use a little support and guidance to come back to healthy regulation, to move towards natural ease and calm. When the breath is free and flowing, there is an oceanic quality and this quality directly influences all other systems in the body. This is a simple meditation working with the prana, the life force. Lie down in a place and space where you will not be disturbed and enjoy this soothing somatic journey. Taking the time to get comfortable, cozy, making all the small adjustments that you need so you find yourself the most comfortable you can be at this moment. As we start to focus and bring our attention to inside the space of the body, we begin to scan and to track what is happening now. What is the general feeling tone of the body as you begin to scan? Just as it is. Can you find a really comfortable place in the body, even if it's just a little toe? Is there a place in the body that feels the most coherence, comfortable and at ease? Just noticing. Bringing your attention to a place that is a little less comfortable. It might be aching or painful. Bring your attention to rest for a moment on this place. Noticing the tone of this place. Possibly a pulse. And then switching back, pendulating, returning to the place that is the most comfortable, that just feels good. What does this goodness feel like? Take your time. Allowing this goodness to spread. Allowing down. Bringing your attention to your breath. Is it long or short? Is it full and deep or shallow and constricted? Noticing without trying to change anything simply by bringing your awareness to your breath. Placing the attention on the inhalation as if you are sipping breath, drinking the prana, the life force. Begin to expand the inhalation ever so slightly. Expanding the belly on this inhalation and feeding this breath into the body. Exhalation naturally following. Inhalation expanding the edges of the breath into the form of your body, gently drinking in a little more prana. Natural exhalation. Concentrating the places that are challenging in the body. Taking the time to drink in the life force, the prana. Standing with your breath, vitality to these places that are thirsty, especially on the inhalation. Exhalation. Breathing through the belly into the pelvis and the legs the feet breathing into the belly the torso, chest drinking in the breath into the arms the hands, shoulders neck and head slowly resuming normal breath simply breathing nurturing the whole body notice the sensations of oxygen feeding the whole system oxygenating all the cells in the body bringing life force, life nutrients healing the cells allowing optimal vibrancy simply noticing what you've experienced thank you you