Finding Your Flow

Welcome, and thank you for joining me for this short exploration on finding your flow. So we'll do that through a little exploratory movement. We'll do that through our breath, and we'll do that through sensation in the body. Personally, when I'm in my practice, I try when I can to really listen inward to what my body needs to what the sensations are telling me and to really honor where I am in that day, in that moment, knowing that every time I show up to my mat, it's going to feel a little bit differently. So let's try to find that space together that fluidity, that flow state, and we'll begin by finding any comfortable seated position. Can rest your hands on your knees.

Let your sitting bones root down into the earth. And at the same time, as you feel this rooted and grounded connection with the earth, can you find this openness in the heart space. So this connected to earth, connection to earth, and connection to sky. Maybe close the eyes as you start to turn your gaze inward. And just begin by noticing any sensations in your body.

So you might do a scan, from the tips of your toes all the way up through the crown of your head. As you do that, noticing any areas that grab your attention perhaps there are areas of tension or discomfort. Maybe there are spaces that feel open, relaxed, alive. Part of finding that flow is becoming aware of the here and the now and kind of losing yourself in the present moment. And one way we can do that is by Turning to our sensation.

And then notice the rise and fall of your breath, that receive in quality of the inhale, that release and letting go quality of your ex sale. And then we'll allow the breath to guide us into some movement. So as you're ready, might blink the eyes open and start to take some circles with your spine. So as you inhale, come forward. And as you exhale round back, sufi rolls, the inhale brings us forward. And the exhale brings us back. And as you come forward, you could reach the heart over the knees.

As you come back rounding through the spine, opening the back of the body. And these circles can be as big or as small as it feels good for you. You might explore pausing or lingering in a certain area. Maybe even closing your eyes and feeling into this, feeling into this movement, allowing the breath to guide you taking it in the other direction. You could release the head, neck, and shoulders into this as well.

Good. And then coming back through center, taking a moment, notice where that lands. And then we'll come to tabletop. So building our way from the ground up might take hands and knees here, and then just our to move around intuitive movement as you come to hands and knees. So maybe you sway the hips side to side or take some circles, barrel rolls, shifting the weight around clockwise or counterclockwise. Notice how that feels.

Maybe it feels good to allow a few breaths to land in child's pose, letting the hips sink back to the heels, And maybe from child's pose, you glide forward into COBRA or updog. Again, just let it feel good to you. Find your own flow and let yourself be your own teacher here. We are our own best teachers. Taking this a few more rounds, a few more breaths to explore your flow, your movement. And then let's meet in child's pose for a moment. And, again, just taking these sacred pauses between the movement to check-in to notice where that movement lands.

Listen in Warden. Find your breath. Notice sensation. And then bring this up through downward facing dogs. So coming through hands and knees, tuck the toes, lift the hips up and back.

And as you come into downward facing dog, you pedal it out through the feet. Any movement that would feel good here, swiveling heels, side to side, or swaying the hips side to side? Letting the head hang heavy, find some spaciousness in your spine, And then when would it feel good to kind of find some stillness? So there's so much movement and stillness. Maybe there's an opportunity to check-in and notice in that stillness.

And does my body need to move still, or is it okay to to kinda settle in and ground? Good. And then let's walk the feet up to the front of the mat. So take a nice, easy, forward fold, soft knees, let everything melt down over the legs. Let your head hang heavy. Maybe sway a little side to side or shake out any tension that you might be holding in the head neck and shoulders. Good. And then from here, let's take a slow roll.

1 vertebra at a time. And as you get up to the top of the mat. Just taking a moment to ground. Maybe it feels good to take some circles with your shoulders in either direction. We'll gather at the hands together in front of the heart.

Take a moment of pause. And, again, just Notice where that movement lands, the fluidity of your breath, that flow that's always happening within Sometimes it's nice to close the eyes, letting the gaze turn inward. And then from here, let's sweep the arms out and up big full breath in as you lengthen up through the spine, through the fingertips, and then keep that length in the spine as you come into forward fold, uttanasana, soft knees, step the left foot to the back of the mat, Come on to the toes here in a runner's lunge and then find that stability, find the earth beneath you, and then sweeping the arms up, come into high lunge press impose. And just take a moment to sink in so you can let that back knee soften as you come toward 90 degrees in the front leg. Good. It may be twisting here, reaching the left arm forward and the right arm back, letting the torso twist open toward the side of the mat. And then tilting back for reverse crescent, reach the left arm up and over your ear. And then circling it open to warrior 2, spin the back heel down, And then in your warrior too, would it feel good to come in and out of that shape a few times, maybe straightening and bending through the right knee?

Maybe taking it up and back into reverse warrior. Yeah. And then fluid let the breath guide you all the way back down. And we'll step back to downward facing dog. Taking a moment to land in down dog. Let the heels get heavy.

Shake out the head and then find your breath. The rhythm of your breath. The rhythm of your flow, slow walk back to the front of the mat, soft knees, roll up slow one vertebra at a time and take a moment to ground. Notice. Receive. Notice what you notice.

We'll move to the second side. So as you're ready, in house sweep the arms out and up energize up through the fingertips. Exhale soften and fold. Beautiful. And then this time, we'll step the right foot back. And we'll find that grounded quality coming up into crescent pose.

And then in your practice, maybe you're finding that it feels good to sink in a little deeper coming to that grounded quality. Maybe there's that lightness and ease in the upper body or energizing up through the fingertips could be a hard opener as well. Good. And from here, we'll reach the right arm forward, left arm back, twist the upper body, to the left, tilt back, reverse crescent, and then open it up to warrior 2. And again, does it feel good to sink in a little deeper to find stillness, or maybe there's some movement as you sink in? Flip the front palm until back, reverse warrior, and circle down to the earth, step back.

Downward facing dog. Beautiful. And then taking a moment will lower the knees. Sit back on your heels. And just take that sacred pause, that moment between the movement to check-in and notice where it lands, the echo of the movement, the residue of the posture. What comes up for you here?

Finding your own flow, your own practice. And gratitude. Thank you for sharing this practice with me. Namaste.