Root to Rise: A Soulful Speaking Warm-Up

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This mini-sode is more than a warm-up—it’s a return to yourself.

Straight from the opening moments of the Spring 2025 Soulful Speaking Immersion, this grounding practice invites you to root into the earth, rise into your voice, and connect with your soul’s presence.

Whether you’re about to speak, create, or simply want to reconnect with your truth, let this be your reset. Close your eyes (unless you’re driving), take a breath, and come home to you.

Presence isn’t just the preparation—it is the practice.

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Episode Transcript

Lauri (00:00):
Welcome to Soulful Speaking.
I'm Lauri Smith and if this isyour first time here, this is
not your granddaddy speakingshow.
Today's mini-sode is aninvitation to land In the very
first moments of the Spring 2025immersion.
I led our group through agrounding warm-up.
This is not your typicalstand-up project advice.

(00:25):
It's a way of rooting into thebody, awakening the voice and
arriving as your whole self,soul, heart, body and breath
included.
As you listen, I invite you toclose your eyes if you can, if
you're not driving, or if youare driving or somewhere else

(00:45):
where closing your eyes wouldnot be safe.
Soften your gaze and take thismoment to come home to yourself.
Go ahead and close your eyesand take three deep breaths,
inhaling through the nose andexhaling out the mouth, and you

(01:08):
can sigh or make any sound youwant.
On the exhale and as we do this, we're bringing in fresh air,
fresh energy and releasingwhatever we don't need.
On that sound and one more.

(01:34):
And then see, feel, imaginethat you have root systems
coming out of all four cornersof your feet, as well as your
tailbone, into the earth, deeperand wider, deeper and wider,

(02:12):
until eventually they reach thevery core, at the center of the
earth.
And now, as you breathe, youcan also draw up earth energy
nutrients back through thoseroot systems into the soles of

(02:37):
your feet, into your legs, yourpelvis, your spine, your torso,
from your heart down along yourarms to your fingertips and
beyond, and then all the way tothe tippy top of your head, and
then you can open up the crownof your head and connect with

(03:02):
your very own personal soul starin the sky.
Sometimes I like to imagineroots going upward and then you
can draw that expansive,nourishing sky energy, soul star
energy down in through the topof your head to every nook and

(03:28):
cranny of your body, all the wayback down to those feet.
And then take a moment and callin an ally, someone real or
imagined, someone currentlywalking the earth or someone who

(03:51):
has passed on, and imagine thisperson seated behind you or
standing behind you and placinga hand on the backside of your
heart and placing a hand on thebackside of your heart, and feel

(04:16):
how their energy and supportbrings you even more deeply back
home to yourself.
And now take a moment and setan intention, one word or short

(04:39):
phrase, you don't need to say italoud.
Set an intention for what youwould like to give and receive
and create in the space today.
And then imagine that you arehugging our virtual space and
your physical space in theenergy of that intention that
you set, and notice your body,your breath, breath and your

(05:04):
energy, now, in this moment, andthen gently crack your eyes
open, take in the light as ifyou're waking up to it again as

(05:24):
you re-enter your day, take abreath and notice what's shifted
.
Maybe your feet feel moreconnected to the ground or your
heart is just a little more open.
This kind of presence isn't justthe preparation.
It is the practice.
It is the practice, it's thefoundation of your soul-aligned

(05:53):
presence and of sharing everycourageous, soul-aligned message
you have to share.
Keep listening, keep comingback for more warm-ups, more
speaking magic and more ways tobe deeply, unapologetically you
and please share with otherpeople who are walking the same
path.