Everyday Practices
Letting the Body Let Go
For Releasing Tension
Welcome. These practices are here for when your body is holding on to more than it needs to. Find somewhere you can sit or lie down, and start with whichever one fits the time you have. Tap play to listen, or download any track to keep.
Soothe Now: Progressive Muscle Relaxation
For when tension has settled into your muscles. After a moment of thanks to your body and a few out-breaths, I explain how it works. From your toes up to your eyebrows, you tense each muscle group for around five seconds and let it go, noticing what relaxing feels like. It ends with the breath and gravity. The shorter version starts straight with the explanation. The micro version stops at the fists, leaving out the head and face.
16 min · fullDownload
Mindfulness of the Body
This is a classic body scan, for when you have time. You move your attention through the body part by part, from the left foot up to the forehead, resting in the body as a whole now and then. At the stomach there’s a moment to notice what you’re feeling, and to let any thoughts about it be thoughts. A line comes back a few times: ‘There are my thoughts, and here I am.’ It ends with each in-breath filling the whole body, and a moment to thank yourself.
Listen · 28 minDownload
Out of Your Head, Into Your Body
For when you’re stuck in your head. Everything here is treated as a small experiment. You notice how your clothes touch your skin and how gravity holds you. Then the parts of your body that are absolutely still, ‘just like a statue’, and the one part that moves with the breath. It ends with the words ‘thank you’. The shorter version leaves out the later part, where you follow the breath inside the body and rest with your anchor.
21 min · fullDownload
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