While we shelter in place, confined to our homes unable to freely engage in the world, many of us are feeling a lack of energy and fatigue, a lack of motivation.
• Some of us wear sweats, tees and slippers all day. At night we take off our slippers but wear our sweats and tees to bed. One day rolls into the next and the next. Under the circumstances, this is more usual than unusual.
• Routines for most of us have changed. Some of the day we are in our home offices and at our desks. Some of the day we are in a chair watching news updates on our phones or TV. Some of the day we eat.
• The magnitude of the worldwide disruption has challenged activities of daily living, making work, social engagement, exercise and routine tasks more difficult.
• Become aware of your behavior changes without judging. Allow yourself to relax into the changes that bring comfort.

Notice how your energy varies during the day. When do you feel positive energy and when do you feel low energy?

• Even if you feel you have low energy all the time, your energy level is likely to fluctuate throughout your day. Notice the changes, what your are doing, and what is happening in the moment.
• Does your low energy or fatigue negatively impact your wellness or the wellbeing of others? If not, notice what distresses you about your fatigue. How does the distress feel in your body? Bring loving kindness to yourself and patience.
• Breathe into the areas that feel distress and fatigue. Allow your breath to flow into it, merge with it and flow through it. Relax and breathe. Slowly. Deeply.
• Relax and let go of your breath . . . slowly, deeply.
• Continue. Repeat the cycle of breath.
• Breathe in slowly and at your own pace.
• Breathe out slowly, deeply and at your own pace.
• Allow your breath to flow naturally, evenly. Slowly.

Feel each breath as it begins. Feel your breath move through you.
Feel your body relax.
• Release your breath and notice how you feel as you release it.
• Breathe.
• Appreciate the cycle of breath. Appreciate the gift of breath.
• Breathe.
• Feel your breath in the moment that it occurs. Feel your breath as it travels through you and then as it is released and let go. Feel your body relax even more deeply.
• Breathe deeply slowly. Breathe. Allow your breath to mix with your feelings. Breathe into that place of wakefulness and let your breath move through it, mix with it and dissolve.

Breathe. Slowly. Evenly.
• Become aware of your eyes, the orb of your eyes, your face,
your mouth. Let you face settle and rest. Let any tension release.
• Breathe.
• Become aware of your neck, the base of your neck, your
shoulders. Soften your muscles with each breath. Relax.
• Breathe.
• Become aware of your lungs as they expand as you breathe in
and as they contract as you breathe out. Breathe slowly. Deeply.
• If you don’t feel fully relaxed, allow whatever is to be without
judgement.

Breathe.
• Become aware of your lower back and any tension. Bring
your breath and your focus there and breath deeply.
• Breathe.
• Relax.
• Become aware of your arms and your legs. Allow your
muscles to relax and rest. Breathe. Slowly.
• Finally become aware of your feet, your ankles, your toes.
Can you feel the energy of the steps you have taken still
present in them? Breathe.

Become aware of your whole body and how it is
feeling in this moment. Let your breath fill your body
with its gift of life and slowly, softly release your
breath. Appreciate your body, alive and present in this
moment that will never happen again. Be in this
moment in all its fullness. Alive and well.
• We are at the end of our practice. When you are
ready, slowly open your eyes. Notice how you feel.
Notice your awareness of this moment.
• Remember that you may experience presence at any
time in your day. Just stop, breathe and be.