Somatic Practice to Feel Unstoppable

I think I had here, place your feet on the floor, feel into your body, do a little things, and you need to kind of stretch out the little way goals. Inhale in, exhale, clear the air around you. Inhale arms up, and full exhale out completely. Beautiful inhale in, stretch up a little higher, a little further, exhale release. And just as you're getting into your body here, just start to turn into the awareness of your breath, or your heartbeat, placing your hands on your body, left hand over heart, right hand over belly. Eyes closed. And we have this ability to regulate our own physiology, right through breathing, moving through our touch. And then when we look at the founder of the Sematic Field, a guy named Thomas Hanna, he refers to something even more curious. Bodily, amnesia. A more nerdy word for it is its sensory motor of amnesia. That's where we go to the parts of our body that I've gotten to apply it, forgotten. Almost as if they belong to someone else. Once we want to find our way back in, connecting back into our breath, to our body, to our touch. So go ahead and hear, feel into you. Knowing that this kind of forgetting can be developed from stress, and years of not paying attention to going to come back in, I want you to place the legs a little bit wider than hip distance going, shake out the shoulders, shake out the body, and bring yourself back until a little squat. Make sure the knees do not go beyond the toes. And let's begin inhaling. Let's go ahead and pulse it slightly here slowly, right? Because it's not about forcing our way back in into that remembrance. It's about slow, deliberate, conscious contact. Connecting back into the body, feeling into you. So go ahead, feel your feel on the floor, feel the strength through your legs. Inhale. Exhale, and you go ahead and feel what moves through you up and go. Into regular squats. Sitting deep in your seat. When you move through the arms, let it flush through. So we do one movement on repeat here in the practice. We are not forcing. We are not pushing. We're just moving with this inner awareness. Maybe there's a little smile, a little joy. Go ahead and set yourself up here to feel what it is that you feel by staying present with whatever it is that comes up. When we get present with ourselves by tuning in, noticing what it feels like to move in our bodies. And how that moves our mind. So do not force here, just play, stay open. Get a little curious. That said, go ahead and discover a little something new here. Get a little playful. Notice what comes up as you do this one movement on repeat, a little moving meditation. You can gain that awareness, going back in over and over again. Letting that repetition inform you. Stay close to your breath here. Stay close to you. Notice what wants to flow through you, move. Anything you want to release. And now, as that intensity begins, notice what happens in the mind. That thought that you are having. How often do you think about that conversation? How often does it loop in there? Go on to feel the feeling and drop the story. And probably around now, you are feeling a little intensity back there. It is starting to fire up. It is starting to gain up a little traction. Sober you. Stay present. Stay aware. Even if we are moving a little bit fast here a little bit quickly, I want you to stay slow and deliberate. Bring conscious of what comes up. This is literally how we wake up the forgotten. The part of us that needs attention is like I'm slowing down, raising the arms up and down. So I have a little light to come back in as you start to clear the space around you. Hands back to body, touch. Not feel the weight of your hand on your chest as you breathe on it. Notice the feeling it is coming on through. Noticing the space around you. Go on, release the arms up. Inhale into your body. Go on, roll on forward, hang over the feet, let the hips go. We are going to come on over your left side, plant the hands. Bring the knees right below the hips. This may be sit back a little bit, take a breath, and there, take your left arm forward. Parallel to the top of the mat, right hand off the mat. And the right knee is going to extend in a 90 degree angle out to your side. And bring the leg back and extend right back. And this is not about perfection. This is an invitation for you to get into your body. So go and breathe. Eyes closed. One movement on repeat for the entire song and see where you end up. Go ahead here, tune into your breath and tune into the Intensity. We're going to fire it up here. And again, do not force, but just allow your body to be, to feel. A channel to really allow that feeling to move through you. And I notice if it gets loud in there in the mind, if you are clinging to some story that the mind is creating, about the interplay between the things that feel joyful. It can also be challenging and painful. Notice how our mind creates our reality here based on the physical feeling. The actual sensation that is logged in our bodies. Our emotional history and our mental state and that unbelievable interplay because it is all there. Are you breathing? Are you still connected? Present. As Michael Singer says, one of my favorite teachers, the real cost of problems is not the life itself. But it's the commotion that our mind makes about our life. The way that we create a little story around whatever neutral thing is happening. And this is where we get to practice that, somatically, activating, feeling into the intensity, feeling into the discomfort, into the edge, noticing the mind's story that loops. And then boom, that's over. Go ahead and rest. Knees come down. Place your hands in your lap. Beautiful inhale in. Exhale out. You're going to just pivot on over. Extend the legs out in front of you and just scoot the tushy down. Rolling on back. Breathe into your body here and do the little adjustments that you need. You're going to drop one leg down and then the next. Bringing the belly button in towards the spine. Contracting all along the abdominal wall. Eyes closed. Then you can bring your hands above your head, hold on top as it alb us. Or you can place your hands in a little triangle and put them right beneath your coccyc bones to give you a little bit of support there on the lower back. And then inhale in for six. Exhale for six. And following up breath arc. As you move through your body, as you stay in contact and in touch, when as you notice the parts of you that have gone quiet, the forgotten but not broken, just asleep. And listen, listen into your body here. And as the things start to move, I want you to notice what happens to the sensation of when you feel into your body. Can you welcome that sensation? Not resist it. We were so used to pushing away, resisting, contracting around, disconnecting, disassociating. You just allow yourself to feel here. And embrace it. Be curious about what that feeling is, rather than letting it overwhelm us. Right, the sensation itself is neutral. It's what we add on top, the turns, it destructive. You're going to go ahead and pivot on over. We're going to balance over on the other side of the body so your right hand comes now parallel to the top of the mat, left hand off the mat. Knees right below the hips, left knee 90 degree angle out, and then extend back. Same thing that we just did but the other side. Can you get in touch here without raw energy of the feeling before the mind starts spinning stories about it? Can you simply allow it? Allow it means letting the thoughts about the feeling dissolve. No story, no analysis, no fixing. So you stop feeding the interpretation and just let the feeling exist in the body as a sensation. Notice how the sensation builds, let it intensify, and breathe into your body as you feel. All right, we are doing this by design, that intensity allows you to get in touch with the things that you have been feeling with the sensations that are in formation. Now I want you to remember that we are all living as beautiful human experience, but other people right now, somewhere, are feeling this exact same thing. Whatever it is that is holding you back, is not a personal malfunction, is a shared human frequency that other people are inside of at this very moment also. I know a lot happening there, right? Just moving our lives, feeling into the intensity and into this unbelievably shared human experience, going breathe here, going slow it all down. Notice if something transforms here, you have a shift into something new, something in liveening, empowering, go and sit on back, hands on the lap, and then hands on body. You ring the hands forward, tip it toes on the mat, go and press up and back into our downward dog, maybe pedal out the feet, give yourself a little wider stance, inhale into you, start to walk the hands and feet together into the center of the mat, lifting yourself up, vertebrae by vertebrae, go and shake a little bit through the legs, go and shake a little bit through the hips, shoulders, give yourself a little bit of freedom here, inhale in. Now we are going to move it out to go and shake through the shoulders, go ahead and tap out the heels, go ahead and dance it out a little bit. I want you to close your eyes because this is not about what it looks like, it's about what it feels like. Right, if it feels silly, I want you to usher in something new here as we turn these into jacks. Arm overhead, hop it on out, one movement, on repeat, the entire song, I want you to get after it here, I want you to get into it, I want you to clear it through you. Right, what happens when you welcome a little wildness back within you? After years of managing yourself, there is an inherent aliveness buried in here, under the like lect, under the amnesia, there is an aliveness we long for that is our true nature. Ah, go ahead and release that, go ahead and feel into that. Hands back on body, take a little moment here, breathe into you, reconnect. Right, we ache for that aliveness because we've drifted away from our own source for far too long. We have to hand over heart, feel that heartbeat. That beautiful heart that is beating for you full of aliveness and joy. This is you. Back in, jump it out. Beautiful, clearing jacks. My beautiful teacher, Tara Brock says that wildness is your true nature, not a problem to solve. So get back into that desire. Did you know that the Latin root of desire is desidus, meaning away from a star. Stars are the energetic source of all life. So this aliveness that we long for that we get to experience here in this moment together that is our own true nature. So go ahead and feel right into that, that aliveness, how vibrant and vital you are. I know that it is starting to feel like a lot but let that intensity fuel you. Not a little bit of that second wind come down through the spine. And then boom, just feel into you. Right connecting back into you, hands back on body, inhale, exhale. Now feel that beautiful wild beating heart. Notice of anything else, this feeling sort of just like delicious and wants to really just be expressed. Maybe it's something you've been holding back. Something of that was forgotten. Something that is flirting with you here now. Something that needs your attention. Just go ahead and release, move. This is if you want to tell everyone just to move exactly how your body is telling you to, right? You don't have to be pretty or polite here. Let your body move you the way that it wants to move. Let yourself surprise yourself. I mean how delicious it feels to be you right now. When you need your own calling, you will receive such an abundance of energy. And in yoga we call it prana or life force. So much energy comes into that magically, it just starts to flow out of you. It flows off your hands out of your heart. And you become a source of light for all of those around you. Yes, you are a star. How about that? You with you. Keep chasing it. Keep getting in contact with it. Make it a little bigger. Make it a little unconventional. And then notice what else comes up, right? What is right there behind that joy? What else is there to discover? What else is that you have been holding back? When really you should be invincible. Go ahead, place your hands on your heart, your belly. I'm going to feel into the incredible heartbeat. I'm going to feel the energy that is reverberating through your body. The buzz on the skin, the sweat across the brow. Arms, go ahead and raise them up in, Alan. Exhale out, you're going to fold all over your legs. Check out that. Maybe hang on top of it all those, these stretch through the spine. Ah, I couldn't place the hand on the floor, bringing the shins on to the mat. And clear the air around you, inhale the arms up, allow a little bit of that light to come right back in. And then reconnect the hand's back to body, and tip the chin in, keeping the eyes closed. Welcome yourself back to you, this is you with you. Now everything that you woke up today, the parts that are high gone quiet, the stories you let dissolve, the wildness you welcome back in, none of it needs to perform anymore. It is all ready in you, settled into the ground beneath you. You don't have to travel anywhere to find your aliveness. You decide to stop drifting away from it. You are the star, not becoming one. You are to your, call it into your awareness, inhale in, exhale out, beautiful inhale in. Exhale out. This is you with you. So beautiful, my friends, so beautiful.