A quick meditation to focus on your breath and check in with your body that is easy to fit into your busy day.

It is so important to have a daily practice. Checking in with your breath and body for 5 minutes a day can have a profound effect on your life. This quick meditation is a great start for beginning to set aside time to tune into your body system and bring mindfulness and awareness into your daily life.

As we begin meditation practices, we often start by learning to focus our attention. We may focus it on areas of the body, breath, senses or whatever works the best for us. In starting my own practice I found that bringing awareness to the breath was extremely helpful in learning how to focus my attention.

When first starting a daily practice, it is hard to have the discipline to set aside time, let alone really know what to do to begin a mindfulness practice. In my experience at the beginning of my mindfulness practice I found it helpful to use different guided meditation videos to learn breathing and meditation techniques.

We spiral

We shift, we turn

We circle again and again

Until one day we realize this cycle does not work anymore

In life we go through cycles of nesting, nourishment, reflection and creation; we move through ebbs and flows of incubation and activation.

A daily practice does not need to be something fancy. It is setting time in your day to simple be with yourselves. It can come in many forms such as dance, chanting, breath-work, guided meditation, sitting…

Two weeks ago while I was in the midst of a spiritual emotional crisis and rebirth, Jean Houston, a spiritual philosopher of our time, looked me straight in the eyes and said, “ Wake up from this dream.” In that moment time seemed to slow down. Was I dreaming? Was this real? It felt like deja vu.