Grounded.Life

Today we are going to explore a symmetrical breathing pattern,  breathing in, pausing the breath, breathing out & pausing the breath all for equal lengths of time and repeating the cycle.   This is similar to box breathing a well know breathing hack.   

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 25 min practice practice 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱.  

 𝖲𝗒𝗆𝗆𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗒 𝗂𝗌 𝗇𝖺𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾'𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗄 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝖼𝗋𝖺𝖿𝗍𝗌 𝗁𝖺𝗋𝗆𝗈𝗇𝗒 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖻𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾, 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝗍𝖺𝗄𝖾 𝖺 𝗆𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝗍𝗈 𝗈𝖻𝗌𝖾𝗋𝗏𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗋𝖾𝗉𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖿𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗍𝖺𝗅 𝗉𝖺𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗇𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝗇𝖺𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾 𝗇𝖾𝗑𝗍 𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝖺 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾.  𝖥𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝗉𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗋'𝗌 𝖶𝖾𝖻 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗁𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗒𝖼𝗈𝗆𝖻𝗌, 𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗀𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗑𝗒, 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝖺𝗆𝖾 𝗉𝖺𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗇𝗌 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝖻𝖾 𝖿𝗈𝗎𝗇𝖽 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗅𝗎𝗇𝗀𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖺 𝗉𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾 𝖾𝗑𝖺𝗆𝗉𝗅𝖾 𝗈𝖿 𝖺 𝗇𝖺𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖺𝗅 𝖿𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗍𝖺𝗅 𝗈𝗋𝗀𝖺𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗆𝗂𝗋𝗋𝗈𝗋𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝗋𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗁𝖾𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝖺 𝗍𝗋𝖾𝖾 - 𝖻𝗈𝗍𝗁 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖿𝖾𝖼𝗍𝗅𝗒 𝖽𝖾𝗌𝗂𝗀𝗇𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗈 𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗄 𝗍𝗈 𝗆𝖺𝗑𝗂𝗆𝗂𝗌𝖾 𝖾𝖿𝖿𝗂𝖼𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖼𝗒  

We hope you enjoy it! 

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WEBSITE: https://grounded.life/ 

PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/groundedlife 

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/groundedbreathwork/ 

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChM-IBbwLJcaDnlMY0q9Utg?view_as=subscriber

Our first lunchtime IG live has launched!

We hope you enjoy this 20 min practice called Heart-Mind Breath A breathing practice that brings your heart and mind into harmony.

What do you need? Your lungs and your focus. Also, a quiet space where you are unlikely to be disturbed.

When should you do it?  We go live on our Instagram account @groundedbreathwork every Wednesday lunchtime at 13:00, offering a lunchtime breath-break to anyone that wants to join. But here on YouTube you can listen and do this practice at any time that feels good for you, morning, noon or night.

What are the benefits?  This breath pattern is also known as the heart coherence breath which is a biofeedback breath pattern that focuses on heart wave variability and coherence, it helps to teach you how to bring your brain, body and emotions into balanced alignment. This balanced state is called coherence.

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Say hi on social:

WEBSITE: https://grounded.life/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/groundedbreathwork/

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChM-IBbwLJcaDnlMY0q9Utg?view_as=subscriber

Loved talking to Alison about all things Breathwork and Trauma integration.

Alison uses a combination of tools to help individuals overcome their pain and guide them towards self-connection and transformation.

Here we talk about what trauma is, why working with the breath and body is so integral to your emotional freedom and flow. How creativity gets’ forgotten and the need to bring it back into our lives and the importance of our connection with nature and ceremony in our life.

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Watch our conversation here: https://youtu.be/Ke82BIiirz8

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To find out more about Alison and join one of her workshops check out her linktree page here: https://linktr.ee/Alisoninwonderland

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Quote credit: Resmaa  Menakem, a US therapist, specializing in trauma, body-centred psychotherapy, and violence prevention. https://www.resmaa.com/

“Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma in a people looks like culture.”

The Grounded.Life podcast has arrived!   

This is something I have wanted to create for such a long time and feel there is no better time to be having more embodied conversations and sharpening that tool of self-awareness, listening and learning and of course getting to speak with some yummy people about interesting topics.  These conversations are in support of remembering who we are and how we can step more fully into our living potential.  

This is a platform that advocates the freedom of speech, opinion, and conscious communication, with the commitment to share authentic and credible information   

I hope you enjoy listening to and feeling into these conversations.  

Stay Grounded!  

For the video, version go to: https://youtu.be/Ad0PPkmIdGg

What is Embodied Antiracism?   

Hannah Kendaru uses breathwork and embodiment to bring us back into the deep remembrance of what freedom really means. With the currents of a dominant white culture heavily pedalling disconnection, separateness and discrimination as a way of life, and teaching us to become disembodied to tolerate life's atrocities, Hannah uses the breath to remember our bodies, remember their lived experiences and attend to the wisdom that lies within.  

I met Hannah Kendaru last year when I joined a small group of people and breathworkers to explore one of the most life-changing books I have ever read called my Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem, (an American therapist, licensed social worker, police trainer and consultant who specializes in trauma work, addressing conflict, and body-centred healing.)  

We wanted to use an embodied approach to experiencing this book and its content, with the idea that if breathwork can support the integration of trauma on an individual, collective or intergenerational basis and is proven to support the creation of new neural pathways and ways of thinking and being in the world, then why couldn't it also be used as a tool to support the transformation of racialised trauma and conditioned belief systems and structures that support division, conflict and suppression?  

A year later and my journey on this path is deepening with the absolute knowing that I am only at the beginning!   

Hannah has been doing embodied antiracism work for a long time, she might say her whole life. I'm so grateful to be in dialogue with this amazing women and to be able to enter into a space where we can talk and explore the unavoidably messy and uncomfortable terrain of race, with the support of our training in breathwork and somatic enquiry.   

Here is the first of many conversations. We decided to call these conversations 'fumbling conversations about race' which felt appropriate and honest in the setting we found ourselves in together.   

In this first episode, Hannah introduces the concept and meaning of embodied anti-racism and racialised trauma.   

To find out more about Hannah, her work and offerings check out her website here.  https://inspire-breathwork.org/  

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Recourses:  

https://www.resmaa.com/movement 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/0141996471 

https://youtube.com/c/akalamusic 

https://mashable.com/article/racial-injustice-documentaries/?europe=true

Do you long for your work life to be more aligned with your passions, heart and creativity?  

Does the reality of this concept feel like pie in the sky?   

Do you ever wonder what your true calling is in business or do you know but aren't yet living it?   

Kat Byles business and creativity consultant with 25 years of experience working with pioneers, entrepreneurs and global brands is leading the way in how to become more aligned with your true business purpose and hearts message, and how to be successful at it!    

Today we talk about why it's important to connect with our hearts message and how one can pragmatically create those shifts in life and start working within the fields we love, that give us joy and prosperity! 

Work and Joy.... that shouldn't feel like an oxymoron and Kat is here to tell us why.  

To find out more about Kat’s offerings, courses, retreats and trainings find her website here: https://www.katbyles.com/ 

Join her next PR with heart course here: https://www.katbyles.com/products/pr-with-heart/ 

& her *free* True Business School monthly Heart Vision Sessions:  https://www.true-business-school.com/

This 10 min breath led visualization invites children to connect with their body and the present moment. 

Connecting with the warm golden glow inside of them and helping this to grow with conscious breathing, children are left feeling connected and comfortable. 

There are some fun characters along the way that help and support the journey. 

Let me know how you get on and please share what your child said about the practice.