Follow this calming breath work practice whenever you need a break to find stillness and ease.
Allow yourself the time and space you need to rest and reflect. Take a break throughout your day and use this practice to find your center. This breath work practice will help you relax and reduce stress.
Come into a comfortable position. Gently close your eyes. Simply turn your attention to your breath. Breathing in through your nose for a count of 3. Exhaling out your mouth for a count of 3. Notice if you feel any tension in your body. Fill up this space with breath, softening and expanding. Continue to breath here. Find your natural breath. Feel yourself settling into your body, into this moment. Relaxing and allowing things to be.
Slowly letting go. Tapping into the stillness that generates inner calm.
Coming back to the breath. Inhaling slowly and deeply, this time for a count of 4. Pausing at the top and sipping in a bit more for a count of 1. Slowly exhaling out your nose for a count of 6. Pause for a count of one at the bottom.
Taking this time to turn inwards. Gathering your attention into your center. If thoughts naturally arise allow them to come and go. Imagining your mind as the blue sky and your thoughts as clouds. With each thought that comes and goes the sky is blue and expansive behind. Notice the space between clouds. With each breath imagine the clouds dissolving into the blue background.
Noticing your natural breath as you find calm within. Begin to deepen your breath as we breath in slowly for a count of 4 and exhaling deeply for a count of 8.
It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day. When we take the time to pause and focus on our breath we can generate a place of calm from within. Breath work naturally relaxes the nervous system, making you feel more at ease.
Gently allow your focus to come back to the sensations you feel in your body. Notice how you feel compared to when you started this practice. Slowly blink your eyes open. Know that you have this practice to come back to at any time. Use the calming breath to refocus your mind. Gradually building onto the breath to deepen and slow it down. Focusing on the exhale to become twice as long as the inhale will bring your body and mind to feel calmer, more relaxed, and at peace.
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