Purpose: Establishes safety in your body— something many ancestors lacked during hardship.

How to practice: Sit with feet planted firmly. Imagine roots growing from your spine into the earth. Hold briefly, inhale through your nose for four counts, then exhale through slightly parted lips for six counts, releasing tension down through your imagined roots. Continue for 3-5 minutes.

When to use: During anxiety, financial stress, or unexplained fear responses.

Through this practice, a client who experienced panic around financial decisions discovered that she carried generational fear from ancestors who lived through extreme poverty.

Regular practice allowed her to choose based on centeredness rather than inherited fear.