[00:00:00] Welcome to This is How We Care, a podcast where we look at what it means to embody care, not as an individual practice, but a collective one, and to see what kind of world emerges from this place. Thank you for being here. I'm your host, Emily Race. Welcome to This is How We Care, a podcast where we look at what it means to embody care, not as an individual practice, but a collective one, and to see what kind of world emerges from this place.

Thank you for being here. I am your host, Emily Race.

Emily Race-Newmark: Today's grounding practice is brought to you by Kit Maloney. 

You can listen to our full interview over at that separate episode, wherever you tune into our podcast. 

We invite you to take the next couple of moments to transition into a space where you can get comfortable. And open to receiving. Pausing this if you need to, to get settled. [00:01:00] With that I'll pass it over to Kit to lead us through this practice.

Kit Maloney: This will depend on where you are listening. But if you are in a place where you can have a seat, I just encourage you to rest your body in a comfortable seat. 

And if you're in the car, then just putting some attention into your sits bones on the car seat. If you're in a place where you can press your feet down into the floor, into the Earth safely, then just wiggling the toes and starting to feel the feet on whatever supportive surface they can meet.

And then the invitation is to put some awareness into the spine and maybe give a little bit of some wiggle to it. Shake out some of the kinks. Invitation to lift the shoulders up towards the ears and down along the back, [00:02:00] settling into the body with some softness and appreciation. [Exhale] 

And starting to bring some awareness to the breath.

Invitation to inhale through the nose, and exhale through the mouth.

And to notice if and where your body might need a little bit of extra love through the touch of the hands, allowing yourself to pass the hands along the thighs. Give your hips a little bit of a squeeze of hello, recognition, appreciation, coming up over the belly with some nice softness and gratitude to the womb and to the [00:03:00] navel. Up along your chest and or your breasts, placing your hands over your heart, giving a nice little massage of the heart— a hello to this nurturing space, allowing the hands to come up onto the shoulders. Maybe to the back, the nape of the neck. Allowing the neck to move gently and slowly in whatever way feels most nurturing and relaxing to you. And just allowing those hands to move up the neck along the jaw, pressing from the point of the chin with some nice, firm, loving pressure along the jaw, back to the bottom of the ears, [00:04:00] Mhmmm.