Aug 28, 2026 · 13 min · 4 segments
This week Olivia explores what helps us sustain and deepen our practice over time—not through force or discipline alone, but by following curiosity, connection, and a wholesome desire to understand…
We'll start with a brief body scan to just connect to the body, really sense through what might be coming up in the body today.
Starting with the top of the head and maybe we can approach this with the same curiosity or investigation that we are our hobbies that we just mentioned in our icebreaker.
Being curious about what the body feels like.
There's no good or bad.
Just sensing what's coming up right now.
Starting with the top of the head.
Feeling any tension sort of drift away from the scalp and the temples.
Feeling your eyes soften in the socket.
Maybe unclenching or releasing your jaw and your tongue from the roof of your mouth.
As it travels down your neck.
The tops of your shoulders, maybe doing a couple shoulder rolls would feel good.
Make you feel a bit more connected to the body.
Easing tension down the back.
Feeling the lungs expand with each in-breath and contract with each out-breath.
Releasing any tension as we move down the back.
Wrapping around to the low belly, really letting the belly just be a belly.
Let it soften.
Let gravity hold it, not you.
Feeling what the hips might be holding today.
Seeing if you can breathe into any tension that might be there and releasing it with your exhale.
Travel down the legs, the thighs, the calves, your feet.
Really feeling your whole body being held by the cushion or chair.
Just taking a moment here to be curious to explore what it feels like to be in this body.
Does it feel warm or cold? Not in the room per se, but in the body? Do you feel any tingling in the hands or feet? Not trying to fix the body here, not trying to change anything about it.
There's no perfect posture that would make all of the tension go away.
We'll start with a brief body scan to just connect to the body, really sense through what might be coming up in the body today.
Starting with the top of the head and maybe we can approach this with the same curiosity or investigation that we are our hobbies that we just mentioned in our icebreaker.
Being curious about what the body feels like.
There's no good or bad.
Just sensing what's coming up right now.
Starting with the top of the head.
Feeling any tension sort of drift away from the scalp and the temples.
Feeling your eyes soften in the socket.
Maybe unclenching or releasing your jaw and your tongue from the roof of your mouth.
As it travels down your neck.
The tops of your shoulders, maybe doing a couple shoulder rolls would feel good.
Make you feel a bit more connected to the body.
Easing tension down the back.
Feeling the lungs expand with each in-breath and contract with each out-breath.
Releasing any tension as we move down the back.
Wrapping around to the low belly, really letting the belly just be a belly.
Let it soften.
Let gravity hold it, not you.
Feeling what the hips might be holding today.
Seeing if you can breathe into any tension that might be there and releasing it with your exhale.
Travel down the legs, the thighs, the calves, your feet.
Really feeling your whole body being held by the cushion or chair.
Just taking a moment here to be curious to explore what it feels like to be in this body.
Does it feel warm or cold? Not in the room per se, but in the body? Do you feel any tingling in the hands or feet? Not trying to fix the body here, not trying to change anything about it.
There's no perfect posture that would make all of the tension go away.
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