Welcome to Holding Space

On-demand, pre-recorded content to practice in the comfort of your home, so you can continue to build your embodiment tool box, at your own pace.

Embodiment Practices

Below you will find a library of body and mind practices. The practices are trauma-informed and use invitational language to encourage a sense of agency and freedom in the way that you practice.

We want to acknowledge and honour the roots of wisdom traditions indigenous to South Asia that have informed and inspired these practices. We also want to acknowledge the country on which these practices were created, Wurundjeri country, where traditional custodians continue to share practices of care, healing and embodiment today.

75 minute live recording of our weekly restorative yin class

A seventy five minute restorative yin and somatics class, exploring gentle movement, self-massage, yin shapes, somatic and mindfulness practices for nervous system regulation. The live recording video will be available for one week after the live class each Sunday afternoon. At the end of each week it will be replaced with the new video from our live class. You might like to let the video load before watching so it plays smoothly.

10 minute body-scan meditation

A ten minute body-scan meditation that can be practiced in a comfortable and quiet space. This practice is helpful for grounding and centring awareness in the body, noticing and listening to sensations and creating a sense of ease and nervous system regulation.

A 10 minute body scan meditation facilitated by Shannon from Small Beyond

10 minute self-massage practice

A ten minute self-massage practice to land in the body. This self-massage technique is useful for exploring sensation and practicing mindful touch.

Shannon shares a 10 minute self-massage practice.

10 minute outside-inside awareness meditation

A ten minute outside-inside awareness meditation that can be practiced in a comfortable and quiet space. This practice is helpful for shifting between internal awareness and external awareness. Exploring sensory information such as sight, hearing, smell, taste and tactility as a way of grounding in the present.

30 minute mindful strength slow flow

A thirty minute mindful strength slow flow practice for building stability and resilience in the body. This is a slow movement practice that explores a more active approach to mindfulness, and promotes healthy pendulation between an activated and down-regulated nervous system. Feel free to rest as much as needed during this sequence.

60 minute restorative yin

A sixty minute restorative yin practice focussing on ways in which we can tend to the nervous system. Using breath work, self-massage, longer holds and sensory awareness this practice is a very slow and gentle way to down regulate the nervous system.

Metta meditation practice

A 20 - 30 minute metta or loving kindness meditation practice that supports us in developing a compassionate relationship with ourselves, the people in our lives and the world around us.

60 minute restorative yin with gentle movement

A sixty minute restorative yin practice introducing the concept of locomotion and gentle movement as a way to move through stagnant energy in the body and allow stress hormones to settle. In this practice we also use breath work, self-massage, longer holds and sensory awareness to regulate the nervous system.

Mental noting meditation

A 20 - 30 minute mental noting meditation practice. This is the practice of using a simple note or word to name – as a whisper in the mind – what we are experiencing. It is a gentle and practical way to bring the mind back to the present. This practice is a little more spacious with moments of silence included.

Body Prose, a somatic grounding and poetry reading

A 20 - 30 minute practice that supports us in feeling grounded while introducing poetry to inspire a state of embodied listening.