Opening Meditation & Thoughts to Begin Class
Start to slow it down. Begin to quiet the noise the mind creates as you tune into the breath, noticing your inhales and your exhales. Settle into the sanctuary of your mat, letting go of tension and also letting go of anything that wasn’t perfect today. Make peace with yourself and let go of your judgements of yourself with your next exhale. Let’s move from a space that feels a little lighter.
Cue Words Related to the Theme
- If you have judged your pose to not be perfect in your mind, can you set that aside and learn to enjoy the pose in the way it manifests in your body?
- Let go of the expectation of what you think this pose is and instead find ease.
Meditation for Savasana
Find a comfortable position and settle in. Gently close the eyes. Awareness to any part of you that is making contact with the ground. Just feeling your weight being supported. Being held safely. Bringing our awareness slowly inward. Noticing the rising and falling of your chest. Just finding the natural rhythm of your breath as I guide you through a meditation… Maybe you have noticed a heaviness of the heart sometimes that is built up around our expectations for ourselves. Let’s take a deep breath in and let a little bit of that go with a releasing breath out. Let’s do that one more time. Now imagine yourself as a child of maybe 4 or 5 years old. For most of us this is when we began our education in pursuing perfection. In school, in sports. The closer we got to perfection, the more praise, love and affirmation. How to be human and succeed….. As you rest here, I want you to be free to release this. For the 4 or 5 year old you to release these expectations of perfection like a balloon up into the sky. To find the freedom that this notion of perfection is not a real thing and that you can release it. The expectations that have come from many places, but mostly are here now with our permission. So instead of pursuing this exhausting depleting standard of perfection, maybe we release it – up into the sky. To make room for joy. For play. For ease. And if you didn’t have to be perfect, who would you be?