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When I first recorded these practices, I thought of them as a way of returning to the body through different entry points.

Coming back to them now, they feel less like something to “work on”, and more like something to sit with.

The course moves through earth, water, fire, air, and ether through simple chair yoga, breathwork, and meditation practices.

Each element offers a slightly different way in:
grounding, allowing, warming, making space, and resting in that space.

I did not create these practices from a place of having everything together.

They came from needing rhythm, breath, quiet, and somewhere to place my attention gently again.

Slowly.
Without force.

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When I first recorded these practices, I thought of them as ways of returning to the body through different entry points.

Coming back to them now, they feel less like something to “work on”, and more like something to sit with.

The course moves through earth, water, fire, air, and ether through simple chair yoga, breathwork, and meditation practices — grounding, allowing, warming, making space, and resting there.

These practices did not come from having everything together. They came from needing rhythm, breath, quiet, and somewhere to place my attention gently again.

Slowly. Without force.

Following on from the last few posts, I thought I’d share a little more about the element-based practices I mentioned.

The course is structured around five elements — earth, water, fire, air, and ether / space.

Each element has three simple practices:
- a chair-based movement practice
- a breath practice
- a mudra meditation

It’s arranged over 21 days, with an introduction at the start and a final practice that brings everything together.

It’s something you can move through at your own pace.

I hope the practices themselves are accessible for you, and point to something steady underneath.

If air has been about space, then ether has been about what remains when nothing more is added.

Just being with what is already here.

There is also a quieter place where nothing needs to be changed.

In practice, this has been less about technique, and more about allowing things to settle.

This became the final part of the element-based practices I recorded.

If things feel full or complicated, sometimes what is needed is not more, but less.

If water has been about allowing what is felt, then fire has been about the return of energy.

Not all at once, and not in a way that needs to be forced.

Just small moments of warmth. A little more clarity. A sense of life beginning to move again.

For a long time, I thought energy had to be created through effort.

But I am learning that it can also be something we receive, when there is enough space for it.

In practice, this has meant gentle movement, breath, and simply allowing the body to rest when it needs to.

This became another part of the element-based practices I recorded.

If things feel low or distant, fire does not always mean pushing. Sometimes it begins with warmth.

Urgently!

If earth was about coming back to the body, then water has been about allowing what is felt.

Letting things move in their own time, without force or analysis. Grief, tiredness, even moments of lightness — all of it comes and goes.

For a long time, I think I tried to hold things in place. To be steady, to be reliable.

But healing has also meant learning how to let things flow without needing to control where they go.

In practice, this has been less about doing, and more about allowing — through gentle movement, breath, and simply staying present with what arises.

This became another part of the element-based practices I recorded.

If you find yourself holding too tightly, water may offer a different way of meeting things.

After a period of disconnection, the first place I found myself returning to was the body.

Not in a forceful way, but in small, steady ways. Moving, breathing, feeling contact with the ground again.

In the language of practice, this feels like earth, coming back to what is already here — weight, support, structure.

In my own process, this has taken the form of simple movement, gentle breathwork, and quiet moments of stillness.

These became the starting point for a series of guided practices I recorded around the elements.

If you are feeling ungrounded or scattered, this may be a place to begin.

I will share more about this in the coming days.