Body Friendly/Somatic Specific Language Examples-Directives will be different with each person

1. Sit with an upward direction while your sit bones assume your weight. Lengthen your spine. Relax upwards. Release upwards.

2. Allow your neck to be free and your back to widen

3. Let the head and neck release up and away from the spine.

4. Sense your sit bones making contact with the chair while your head releases upward 

5.  Let your feet make contact with the floor. let the floor meet your feet

6. Soften the thighs and calves. Release your thighs towards your knees.

7. Let your biceps release toward your elbows. Let the elbows be free.

8. Sense freedom in the wrists and the length of your fingers.

9. Hands together shoulders release apart.

10. Soft hands, like two sponges filled with water.

11.  Allow your head to balance on top of your lengthening spine

12. Sense the space behind your nose and eyes

13. Lips together teeth apart from this rule we won't depart

14.  Let the jaw melt open while the spine continues to move upwards

15.  Let the ribs move or swing open on each breath and allow for the inhale to expand your body in all directions.

16. Allow the lungs to fill with air, let yourself be breathed

17. Let the spine continue to lengthen upwards on the exhale/outbreath.

18.  As you breathe in the focus should be on freeing the body of tension, not tensing the body to get more air in or out. 

19. Sense the opening and expansion of all of the air pathways (nose, sinuses, throat, lungs)

20. Allow the diaphragm to release by softening the back, sides and belly

21. Release the tension that blocks the breath from the 4 corners of the torso

22. Feel the width across your chest and sense your upper arms spiraling outward

23. Feel the width across your upper back

24.  Bring the instrument to you, do not go to it.

Can you find your own “body friendly” language?