Day 7: Wide Open Awareness

Welcome to day seven of our Shavasana Challenge. This is our last day, and I sincerely hope you've begun to develop a new relationship and respect for your Shavasana. So lie yourself down, all stay seated, and guide us through a full body meditation. So take your time to get comfortable. You might have support underneath your head or a bolster underneath your legs. Once you've arrived supine on your back, interlace your fingers and bring your hands right at the base of your skull, draw your elbows towards each other, and gently begin to lengthen and traction the back of your neck. Good, and with that length, slowly begin to set your head down to the earth. So allow your arms to release comfortably. You might allow for a nice full exhalation, feeling the back of your body begin to soften and release towards the earth, feeling the support beneath your body. As the weight of your skull begins to release, tap back into that quality of ease and spaciousness through the back of your eyes. Feel the back of the eyes begin to soften into the skull, relaxing the bones around the skull, the muscles. As the weight of the head releases, this is where you can soften through the mouth, the jaw. Allow the mouth to feel a bit more spacious. Perhaps feeling your tongue and the muscles around your tongue relax, the tongue soften into the floor of the mouth, feeling your lips relaxed, feeling the weight of your shoulders, the back of your heart, the back of your body through your pelvis, down through your legs, down for the soles of the feet, allowing your body to feel held and supported. And then begin to draw your awareness into your left big toe. And just tenderly, gently hold your attention here, allowing your awareness to spread throughout the toes, moving into the sole of the left foot. Gently, tenderly holding your awareness in your left foot. From your left foot traveling up through your ankle, allowing your awareness to rest in your ankle. And then gradually moving up the leg through your calf muscle, from the calf up through the left knee, and take a moment to pause in the left knee. Tenderly holding your attention in your left knee. Gently, if and when you feel ready, draw your awareness up through your left leg, traveling up through your left hip, holding your awareness in your left hip, letting your awareness travel through your pelvis and your sacrum. And then gently, when you feel ready, traveling up through the left side of the body. As you draw your awareness up through the left side of the body, through the chest, might pause around your shoulder, allowing your attention to pour into your left shoulder. Gently traveling down your left arm, through your elbow, all the way down into your wrist. And from your left wrist, let your awareness infuse itself into the left thumb. Softly holding your awareness in your left thumb, allowing it to travel through the entire left hand, into the fingers, into the center of the palm. And then gradually, remove your attention from your left palm and travel all the way back down into your right toe. And as you draw your awareness into your right toe, hold it gently, tenderly. Feeling your awareness travel beyond your left toe, into your toes, the sole of your right foot. From the sole of your right foot, drawing gently your awareness through your right ankle. And then gradually, from your right ankle, towards the right calf, traveling from your right calf into your right knee, holding your attention here in your right knee for a few moments. From your right knee, drawing your awareness up through the right leg towards your right hip. Let your attention rest here in your right hip. Traveling through your pelvis in the back of your sacrum. From your sacrum, draw your awareness up the right side of your body. Allow your attention to rest in your right shoulder. Softening from your right shoulder. Gently draw your awareness down your right arm towards your elbow. From your right elbow, pouring your awareness through down towards your right thumb. Letting yourself rest in your right thumb. From your right thumb, pouring your awareness through the entire right hand. Fingers, the center of At this point, if you're still with me, draw your awareness into your belly. Might even feel or sense the movement of the breath in the belly. Drawing your awareness into your organs. Allowing the organs to soften. Feeling spacious through your body. And then gradually drawing your attention towards and around your heart. And allow your awareness to tenderly rest at your heart. And you perhaps feel the back of the heart supported, soft, held, spacious.

You might choose to stay right here with your heart. Might slowly begin to draw your awareness towards your throat, through your neck. Allowing your awareness to gently soften and expand around your throat. And you might stay right here. Continue to draw your awareness through the back of the eyes, up towards the crown of the head, top of the skull. Gently allowing your awareness to gently hover the crown of your head. And let your awareness be wide and open, vast and spacious. And allowing your whole body, your whole being to rest here consciously for a few more minutes. Allowing your awareness to be wide and open. Allowing your awareness to be wide and open. Allowing your awareness to be wide and open. Allowing your awareness to be wide and open. And you're welcome to stay here as long as you like. If and when you feel a call to transition, start by drawing your awareness towards your breath. And from this breath, gradually invite movement back into your being, your body, your fingers, wrangling your toes. Only if and when you feel ready to transition, allow yourself to roll onto your side and curl up.

You might stay here forever. And if and when you feel ready to make your way up, keep the weight of your skull heavy. Use your arms to slowly press yourself up. And allowing your transition to be an extension of your shavasana. So you make your way towards some sort of seat. Just take a few moments, bring your eyes off. And drawing your awareness into your hands. Joining your hands together at your heart. Allow for an inhale. Nice, full exhale. Thank you for your sincere and whole hearted effort in exploring the depths of shavasana. It's been a privilege to be on this journey with you. Namaste.