Sit down. Get comfortable. Take a few deep breaths to clear yourself.

Are there any areas of your body, areas of your experience, that feel emphasized right now? Maybe tension, or tingling, or a pleasant feeling of mysterious joy—anything that sticks out.

Just sit with that feeling, with that area. Let yourself sink into it, breathe into it, feel it from the inside out.

In your own time, open up space for that area to speak to you. Take the stance as if you’re in conversation with someone, and you’re making room for them to speak.

• Maybe you ask them a prompting question, or maybe you simply arrange your face as if to say “tell me more.”
• However feels right internally, open that conversational space, and let this area of the body step into it.

Treat anything that comes up from that space as the body’s part in this “conversation.”

• It might be a physical sensation, an energetic buzz, a swelling emotion, a dreamy image or memory—once you’ve opened the space, take anything that comes up with the attitude “this is the body replying.”

Speak back, in the body’s language. You can use a little of your own language it helps, but overall: if the body sends up an image, respond back with an image. If it brings an emotion into the space, respond with an emotion you feel in response to that emotion.

Adopt an attitude where it’s fine to be silly. You’re in a foreign land, speaking to someone in a language you don’t know. You’re going to make mistakes and laugh and misunderstand things. This is perfectly fine. Just keep the conversation alive.

Continue with this method and this attitude until it feels like the “conversation” reaches a natural close.

Afterwards, take 5-10 minutes to simply lie on the ground, not thinking or trying to do anything in particular. Simply letting things settle, letting yourself drift through your bodily experience.