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to give a little bit of support in
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working with
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the void i'm offering a bit of a
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movement practice and this comes from
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somatic groundwork somatic groundwork is
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the brainchild of kayla june of the
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somakinis school
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kayla and i have a podcast together
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called the emergent liberation
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collective and somatic groundwork is a
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multi-disciplinary somatic practice
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that uses the intelligence of the fascia
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to help support
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the down regulation systems of the
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nervous system
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each of the movements that i'm
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suggesting
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are only a recommendation only an
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invitation please listen to your body as
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that is the house of all of your
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intelligence
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there are a couple of qualities of
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sensations
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that you should pay attention to as
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signs
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to stop and to move into some other form
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of movement or resting
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those signs are if you notice an ill at
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ease feeling in your body
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if you notice a lot of tension building
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in a particular place in your body
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if you notice that you're having an
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emotional response
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where there's a big emotion that's
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trying to come through
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if you notice dizziness or nausea
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or if you notice any kind of panicky
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sensations
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coming up those are times to
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place the video on pause and let
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yourself orient to what's coming up in
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your body
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you can orient by moving around in a way
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that feels
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satisfying for you so if let's say
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there's energy stuck in a
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certain place in your body and you want
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to get that energy out
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whatever intuitive motions whether fast
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or slow
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help you get that energy out of your
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body allow yourself to follow that
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if you're noticing some kind of like
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tremory or
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neuromuscular shaking coming through
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those are times to just let yourself
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rest and breathe into what's happening
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and allow those things to pass once
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they've passed
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give the exercise rest for the day
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and maybe come back to it another day
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and so we want to
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follow the wave of your own nervous
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system not necessarily
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follow the video to its entirety so
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we'll take a moment to let ourselves
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start on the floor
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in a place that kayla calls breath and
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yield
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and this yield practice is about letting
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your body get
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in full orientation with the ground
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so letting your fascia find the floor
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so you can come down on your back body
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allowing the knees to either be bent
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or to be extended
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for the purposes of this practice we'll
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i'll rest with my legs and extension
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you can allow your eyes to be closed or
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open depending on what feels better for
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you and your nervous system
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and your arms are welcome to be in and
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touching your body
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or resting on the floor
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allowing your awareness to come into
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contact with your full back body
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supported on the ground
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beginning to feel into the breath
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as the breath enters into the solar
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plexus
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[Music]
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the naval area
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and the pelvic area
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if your breath is unable to find
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lower registers just let yourself notice
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that
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yield is about allowing all of the
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cells of your body to orient to gravity
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where gravity is coming down on our
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bodies
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and the ground reaction force of
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the floor or the earth below us is
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pushing up on our bodies
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and our body is held gently in between
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our first movement here is a little bit
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of rhythmic rocking
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using the toes as a little bit of a
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propeller we can
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rock the body again i invite you to find
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a pace
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and a frequency of rocking that feels
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good to your own system
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you can rock for as long as you want or
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as little as you want
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rocking helps to bypass some of the
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agitation in the limbic system
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through the cerebellum
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and
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uses this sort of sensory motor action
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to help build a better pathway or
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connection
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to our cortex
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if you start to notice yourself getting
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stiff take a moment to
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let yourself let go and come back to
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yield so
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you might notice some of my
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neuromuscular tics these are all ways
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that my fascia releases
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energy
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and those are common for me even if they
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look a little weird
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finding the easiest pathway possible
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we'll roll
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to our side
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taking a moment here on the side body
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to let the entire side find the earth
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again and yield
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and then from here rocking the pelvis
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forwards and backwards another set of
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rhythmic rocking
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and then slowing into yield whenever
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you're ready
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i usually try to come to yield when my
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body starts to tremor
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to give it an opportunity to let go
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of sympathetic charge that is being held
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in my fascia
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[Music]
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and i do invite people when they're
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doing
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rhythmic movement with me or other forms
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of
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movement in this lexicon that when they
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notice
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change in their body as they're doing
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rhythmic movement
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that's a cue to slow down and come back
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to yield
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so whether that cue is again the
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emotions
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or that cue is a strong sense of
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tightness or that cue
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is a sense of dizziness or nausea or
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emotions
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you might take a moment to let your eyes
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orient around you
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just looking
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texture tone color
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shadow light these are all things that
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we look at as babies
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if that feels too overwhelming or too
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disorienting feel free to keep your eyes
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closed
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the first time i ever did somatic
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groundwork having my eyes open was
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way too challenging for me so i
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definitely
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invite you to keep your eyes closed if
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that's a lot
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and then we'll come to our tummies again
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finding the easiest path
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there
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and here we can rest the head on the
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hands or the cheek on the hands
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letting the belly find the earth the
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chest find the earth
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[Music]
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letting breath enter our back
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and as you feel ready bringing toes
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into the earth in extension
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of the feet
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taking another moment to just breathe
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and then
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again rocking along the length of the
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body
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allowing the head and shoulders to
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passively follow
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and finding a pace a speed that works
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for you
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and a length of time a duration that
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works for you
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i'm going to let go as i'm noticing a
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little bit of a
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release of emotion in my chest
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and just breathe into that
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take another moment to come to the other
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side
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whichever side you were not previously
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on
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[Music]
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again always starting from a place of
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yield and breath
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and as you feel ready coming back into
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that rocking motion of the pelvis
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a lot of what we're doing is we're
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eliciting the reflexes
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that are part of our early development
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that organized the spine
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as we do this gentle rocking
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and for those of us who have
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trauma and tension around those reflexes
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this process of rhythmic rocking can be
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both very helpful and releasing
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but also can flood us if we don't really
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know
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how to do that in a titrated way in a
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way that is
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step wise or taking small
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chunks at a time
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so it's really important to listen to
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your own body
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around what's coming through so here
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again
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are my neuromuscular
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[Music]
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tics
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so
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if you have not already take a moment
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here to open your eyes and begin to look
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around
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as we come to coming upward
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returning to vertical
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having the eyes be oriented helps
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first we'll come up on to the
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hands and elbows
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and just let our eyes again look around
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the space and
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give ourselves a sense of orientation
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this helps the vestibular system which
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is the
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system that orients us in space this
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helps the vestibular system get oriented
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and then we can slowly begin to push
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ourselves up
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in this practice you may have noticed
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your tummy starting to make all kinds of
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sounds and those sounds are called
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peristalsis
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they're a sign that we're moving into
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our rest and digest system
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our lower register of the
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parasympathetic system
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and that is a lot of what the intention
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is around this
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practice so if we're in a state of
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agitation we really want to come
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down to a quieter state again
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and giving ourselves just time to be in
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mindful and gentle movement can do that
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the one thing i will say about this
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practice
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is it's most useful when we're not if
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we're talking about 0 to 100 of our
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level of like
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response to a trigger we want to not be
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in 100
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when we're doing a slower practice maybe
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this is a practice that would be good
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for being at like
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50 to 70 and that when we're getting
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more to the point where we just like
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have no capacity anymore
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we want to do something that may be a
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little bit more physically
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engaging if we're really at a
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high state of a fight or flight response
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so that's a caveat in working with this
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practice and
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thinking about using it when it's most
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effective which is when we're feeling a
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little more either collapsed
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or downward or when the level of
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intensity hasn't gotten all the way up
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to
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our most intense place so
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thank you for practicing with me thank
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you for
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staying with full flight wellness please
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take a look around at the offerings that
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i have on my website and the offerings
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to come
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if you'd like to join you'll get
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newsletters and
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other forms of announcements of when
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i'm doing offerings or projects or
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speaking engagements and that sort of
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thing
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so thank you
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