Somatic Reset

Hi. I am Tamika, and it is time for us to have a complete somatic reset. In this class today, I'd love to offer you opportunities to move things out and to clear path for rest. Today, I have a chair. You're welcome to use a poof or a sofa. Anything that feels good and is not too tall.

And I have a blanket because who doesn't like a blanket? So first, we're just gonna start standing and noticing the connection between the ground and our feet, the ground and the body. Notice the connection between your feet what it's touching and just begin a gentle movement in any way that feels good. It doesn't have to look exactly like this. Notice how your weight is shifting from side to side.

Do you bend your knees? Do you make more of a wave like motion? Begin to notice what your body is doing in response to your mind asking for it to do something. We're working on the mind's body connection, and we're skipping anything that has to do with any kind of story creation around that. Now we'll go just a little bit, bouncier, and you can continue to shift your weight as you bounce.

This is a gentle low bounce initially. And we're going to get into big bouncing shaking now. So begin shaking a leg than the other leg. You can look silly, feel free to fill and look silly. Nobody cares that no one's gonna know.

Vounce. Imagine that you are shaking all of the stuff from the day, from the week, from the year that you don't wanna carry, shake it off. Shake it off in any way that feels meaningful for you. Begin to shake your head now. You can shake your head vigorously.

You can shake your whole body it can look. Dancerly. It can look wild. It doesn't matter what you're shaking looks like. We're gonna continue to shake.

Imagining the energy that we don't want to carry falling off of us every single time. And now we'll shake wildly for 5. 4, 3, 2, and 1, and pause. And allow the natural movement of your body and stillness of your body to come back. Your stillness doesn't need to look like a statue.

Your stillness might still have a little bit of movement. Now bring the hips left and right again, bringing in that sway and the shifting of your weight. Maybe you let your head come last So maybe it is a bent knee, a wave like motion with your hips, and then your head coming last. This is an opportunity to welcome in feeling good. Feeling loving on yourself.

You could bring in squeeze of yourself. You can let it go and let your arms be completely loose like seaweed underwater. Again, if you were seaweed underwater, what would it look like? Maybe it waves with arms up or maybe down. Again, what the your body do in response to your brain thinking at?

Get really present. And now we're going to take this into a twist Now your twist might still be with that weight shift. It actually might be, more more steady here in the center. So you could twist just from the waist, or you can move the whole body. I prefer to move the whole body.

Check-in, see what's resonate with you, and begin letting your hands actually make contact with your body. Now this could be strong or this can be light, and you could go up your body. It can be very deliberate. You could incorporate some tapping now, bringing in actual movement with your hands going up and down the arms, you could shake again, especially if you feel that stagnant energy coming back. The stagnant story, that stagnant, whatever that is not serving, If you feel it coming back in, shake it out, you can twist and shake at the same time.

You can bring in tapping here at the chest's jaw, forehead, Where are you feeling a little dull and where can you brighten up a little bit? Feel free to let something go with sound. We're gonna do this twisting and anything else that you need for another 5 seconds. And I'm keeping the the time so you don't have to worry about it. All you have to do is feel notice, respond. 2 and 1. Take a full breath in.

And a full breath out. Whenever you feel that there's a little bit more there of little something calling your attention, or anything that feels tight or dull or dark, feel free to squeeze and release, to shake, or to move it in some sort of way. Now we'll prepare for what this can look like, just before rest. So go ahead and come down, and we'll do one more somatic practice of movement, but this one we're going to be using eyes. So we'll take the right arm and wrap it around to the left side low in the body.

And then the left arm and wrap it high on the right side of the body coming into a hug. And then allow for your right ear to journey towards the right shoulder and open your eyes and look at the top left hand corner of a space. So that could be where your roof and a wall meets. We're just gonna stay here for a few seconds for 30 seconds. Let that go.

And now the other side, find your left hand, wrap it around low to the right side of the body. The right hand comes high, comes to the shoulder, coming into a hug, let the left ear find its way towards the left shoulder. And open your eyes and look towards the left top corner of your space and let your eyes gaze for 30 seconds here. Release. Take another full inhale.

Excel. Let it go. If you like this time on your Excel, you can use V00 and Now we'll take our blanket, a blanket, and place it underneath your seat near the sofa, poof, or chair that you're using. And we'll come into this now, placing half legs up the wall. And the blanket is really there to just offer a little more comfort so just that in any way that feels good or right. Settle in and feel free to bring in another blanket.

Feel free to bring in anything else that offers warmth or even an eye covering and continue making little tiny movements until you feel exactly settled and good. If your feet are up in the air, that means that the chair or the blanket that you're using is too tall so you can bring your hips up by adding another blanket or a pillow. Now just notice your natural breath. And now we'll connect the mind breath connection. So notice the breath and take a fuller inhalation.

As you're inhaling, think the word exhale and then let the body follow with the exhale. As you're still exhaling, let your mind think inhale, then follow with an inhale. Let your mind think x hell, then the body follows with exhale. Attempt to do this without creating pauses or holds with the breath. The mind thinks inhale, the body inhales then.

As you're still inhaling, the mind thinks exhale, the body follows. Continue doing this on your own. The mind thinks the body follows. If you mess up, you get it to do it again. You get as many chances as you'd like or need today.

And as you're ready, you can let go of this pattern or this awareness to the breath. Come back to your natural breathing and your natural rest. Stay here for as long as feels good and right for you. Receiving, filling up, and resting. It's my goal to leave you better than I found you.

I hope that happened for you today. Shanti Shanti Shanti. Peace. Peace. Peace.