Root to Rise: A Soulful Speaking Warm-Up

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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Transcript

Lauri: 1:08

Welcome to Soulful Speaking. I'm Lauri Smith and if this is your first time here, this is not your granddaddy speaking show. Today's mini-sode is an invitation to land In the very first moments of the Spring 2025 immersion. I led our group through a grounding warm-up. This is not your typical stand-up project advice. It's a way of rooting into the body, awakening the voice and arriving as your whole self, soul, heart, body and breath included. As you listen, I invite you to close your eyes if you can, if you're not driving, or if you are driving or somewhere else where closing your eyes would not be safe.

Lauri: 1:56

Soften your gaze and take this moment to come home to yourself. Go ahead and close your eyes and take three deep breaths, inhaling through the nose and exhaling out the mouth, and you can sigh or make any sound you want. On the exhale and as we do this, we're bringing in fresh air, fresh energy and releasing whatever we don't need. On that sound and one more. And then see, feel, imagine that you have root systems coming out of all four corners of your feet, as well as your tailbone, into the earth, deeper and wider, deeper and wider, until eventually they reach the very core, at the center of the earth. And now, as you breathe, you can also draw up earth energy nutrients back through those root systems into the soles of your feet, into your legs, your pelvis, your spine, your torso, from your heart down along your arms to your fingertips and beyond, and then all the way to the tippy top of your head, and then you can open up the crown of your head and connect with your very own personal soul star in the sky. Sometimes I like to imagine roots going upward and then you can draw that expansive, nourishing sky energy, soul star energy down in through the top of your head to every nook and cranny of your body, all the way back down to those feet.

Lauri: 4:45

And then take a moment and call in an ally, someone real or imagined, someone currently walking the earth or someone who has passed on, and imagine this person seated behind you or standing behind you and placing a hand on the backside of your heart and placing a hand on the backside of your heart, and feel how their energy and support brings you even more deeply back home to yourself. And now take a moment and set an intention, one word or short phrase, you don't need to say it aloud. Set an intention for what you would like to give and receive and create in the space today. And then imagine that you are hugging our virtual space and your physical space in the energy of that intention that you set, and notice your body, your breath, breath and your energy, now, in this moment, and then gently crack your eyes open, take in the light as if you're waking up to it again as you re-enter your day, take a breath and notice what's shifted. Maybe your feet feel more connected to the ground or your heart is just a little more open.

Lauri: 6:45

This kind of presence isn't just the preparation. It is the practice. It is the practice, it's the foundation of your soul-aligned presence and of sharing every courageous, soul-aligned message you have to share. Keep listening, keep coming back for more warm-ups, more speaking magic and more ways to be deeply, unapologetically you and please share with other people who are walking the same path.