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Deepen Embodiment: Somatic Breathing with the Realization Process

Somatic breathing with the Realization Process (RP) can be a powerful way to deepen embodiment, presence, and internal coherence. In RP, the focus is not on manipulating the breath but on using it as a portal to access subtle awareness and inhabit the internal space of the body more fully.

Somatic Breathing with Realization Process As A Guided Practice

How to:

1) Settle into stillness

  • Sit or lie down in a quiet space.
  • Soften and be patient to let your body rest into gravity feeling the contact with the ground or chair.
  • Let your breath come and go naturally. No forcing, no strain, and with less effort.

2) Attune to the internal space of your body

  • Bring your awareness inside your body, not just noticing sensations on the surface, but
    inhabiting the internal space. So you can feel your own presence within the internal space of your body.
  • Feel yourself within your torso, pelvic bowl, chest, spine, head, arms, and legs, with no gaps a continuous unified internal space.

3) Let the breath move through the whole body

  • Notice the subtle movement of breath, not just in the lungs but throughout the whole internal space of the body.
  • Let it feel as if your breath is gently infusing your body, as if your whole body is breathing.
  • Soften any effort, loosen the grip on controlling your breath. Just experience and feel the breath moving through the body’s internal space.

4) Soften into the breath

  • The inhale is a filling up and the exhale is a letting go. Don’t move with your breath but remain stable within your body and feel your breath move through you.
  • Release holding or tension, held with thin the body maybe in the diaphragm, the jaw, or the pelvis.

5) Attune to fundamental consciousness

  • Attune to the quality of stillness or spaciousness.
  • This is not about “doing” breathwork but about “being breathed” by the intelligence of the body within the spacious field of consciousness.

6) Rest in the breath and presence

  • Stay with this feeling: you, breathing, embodied, aware, not separate from your breath or body.
  • Let it become deeply nourishing and stabilising.
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