00:00:01 Hello and welcome. I'm so happy that you're here. I am going to be taking you through a short energising flow. We will be working with the element of water so it will be fluid and explorative and getting into the hips and could be a really nice flow to do in the morning before you go to work or as like a refresh in the middle of the day and could be a really nice flow to do in the morning before you go to work or as like a refresh in the middle of the day or even at the end of the day where you've just been at a desk all day and you just want to kind of open and move. Either way, it should make you feel really good. So we're going to start with our feet in a butterfly position like this. And we're going to lay onto our back.
00:00:51 So a reclined butterfly. And then the invitation is to place your hands on your lower belly and to close down your eyes. And then the invitation is to place your hands on your lower belly and to close down your eyes. But if you would rather have your hands anywhere else, if there's somewhere else that's a bit more intuitive, then go there. And equally, if you don't want to close your eyes, then that's also fine. So we're working with the element of water. So water is connected with our sacral chakra, which is just around our lower belly. And this is all around feeling.
00:01:29 And this is all around feeling. emotions. When our sacral chakra is out of balance we could feel stagnant, we could find it difficult to forgive ourselves or others in our life. But if we are in a balanced sacral chakra place and we're able to effortlessly, we are in a balanced sacral chakra place and we're able to effortlessly, easily let our creativity flow. We're able to receive and enjoy. So as you arrive in this space just taking some deep breaths in through your nose. A few arrive in this space just taking some deep breaths in through your nose. A few
00:02:31 more rounds like that just to arrive. Maybe even directing the breath down into your inner hip space, particularly if it feels uncomfortable or a little tight being opened up. Just nourishing that area with breath, generous breath, deep breath and really allowing the breath Just nourishing that area with breath, generous breath, deep breath and really allowing the breath to thread through the movement of the practice once we begin. So just a few more moments here, allowing yourself to arrive no forced movement or needing to be just really allowing it allowing yourself to arrive no forced movement or needing to be just really allowing it allowing it all allowing yourself space on your next inhale really gently bringing your knees
00:03:49 together and just hugging them into your chest we're going to reach for either our shins our calves or our ankles and coming into a happy baby. Maybe you rock a bit from side to side. calves or our ankles and coming into a happy baby. Maybe you rock a bit from side to side. Just easing into the inner hip space with our lower back on the ground. Breathing deeply here and then bringing the knees into the chest. We're just going to take a couple of rock and rolls to come up. Do this in your own way. Allow it to feel natural, intuitive. It can be playful, come up. Do this in your own way. Allow it to feel natural, intuitive. It can be playful, fluid like water. And then we're going to cross our shins and come to an all fours position.
00:04:38 So really spreading through your fingers and feeling the tops of your feet on the earth and just taking a minute to connect to that sensation. Notice if you're holding any unnecessary tension, just let that go. And then dropping your belly, you're just going to come into this cow position. And then pushing through your shoulder blades, you're going to come