Rooted and Reaching — Grounding the Nervous System Through Earth and Breath

September is meditation month on Healing is F*ing Hard, and we are starting at the root because you cannot expand upward into anything without first being anchored downward into the earth. This first meditation episode opens with research on what consistent meditation practice actually does to the brain and body, drawing on neuroscience from Harvard's Sara Lazar, Jon Kabat-Zinn's MBSR findings, and Dr. Cheryl Woods-Giscombé's research on the Superwoman Schema and the specific toll that chronic emotional suppression takes on Black women's nervous systems and cardiovascular health.Then we drop into the practice itself, a full chakra journey from the soles of the feet down to Mother Earth's core, drawing healing light slowly upward through the root, the sacral, the solar plexus, the heart expanding outward to fill the room and the home and all the way to the mountains in the east and the water in the west, the throat, the third eye, and the crown blossoming into the cosmos. Accompanied by live crystal singing bowls and closing with five rounds of intentional breathwork over the Shruti box.This one is for every nervous system that has been running too hard for too long and needs to remember what it feels like to be held by the earth.Find me on Instagram, Threads or Twitter @darrynkrobinson.Interested in working with me? Check out my website at holistichealingtherapy.co