December is here, and it always feels like a special breeze.
A breath that slows down, that draws the contours of what we have lived through, loved and left behind over the course of the year.
A breath that whispers, “You can lay down, you can release, you can come back to yourself.”
This month has a unique alchemy:
- the end and the beginning,
- the cold that invites you into the warmth of the interior,
- the silence that reveals what the tumult had camouflaged.
December gives us space.
A space to look back without judgment.
To contemplate our choices, our impulses, our downfalls, our rebirths.
To honor what we’ve tried.
To thank what has transformed us – even if it has sometimes upset us.
It’s a month that invites us to celebrate quiet courage,
The fact that we kept going even when no one else could see our struggle.
The fact that we got up.
The fact that we breathed again…
and differently.
Because breathing, too, changes with the seasons.
In December, it softens.
It becomes a refuge, a way of settling down, anchoring ourselves, feeling that despite the movement of the world, there exists within us an immobile, sacred, stable point.
In winter’s slowdown, we discover an essential truth:
you never really lose yourself when you return to the breath.
Then I suggest this:
Every December morning, before daylight takes over, take three conscious breaths.
Three real breaths.
To return to your body.
To stabilize your energy.
To remind you that you’re part of life, even in the cold, even in uncertainty, even at the end of a cycle.
Because December is not just the end…
It’s a womb, a protective belly, a passageway.
It’s the moment when we silently prepare for renewal.
It’s the moment when we get closer to what we really want to see blossom in spring.
And maybe, at the heart of this month, you’ll feel that little voice, the one you’ve sometimes put aside:
“What if I allowed myself to dream bigger?
To open a new chapter?
To honor who I really am, without mask and without fear?”
December reminds us that everything begins again.
That everything is reborn.
That everything wakes up one day.
Then move forward slowly, but confidently.
Breathe deeply, but with intention.
Close the chapters that need closing.
Open the door to what is already knocking.
And above all…
come back to you.
This is where it all begins.
With gentleness,
Daphne – Just Breathe 🌬️✨
My gift 🎁
December Ritual – Return to yourself and prepare for renewal
December is a month of transition: a threshold between what’s coming to an end and what’s opening up.
This ritual accompanies you to gently release the old, purify your energy and call forth a new cycle.
1. Prepare the space (2 minutes)
Choose a quiet spot.
Light a candle or a stick of sage/palo santo if you use it.
Sit comfortably, back straight, chest open.
Set the intention:
“This ritual helps me come back to myself and enter a new cycle with clarity.”
2. Opening breath – 4 cycles
Gentle breathing, ideal for December :
- Inhale 4 seconds
- Hold for 2 seconds
- Exhale 6 seconds
Let your whole nervous system slow down.
Allow your body to settle into a quieter, deeper frequency.
3. Release – Deposit the year’s expenses (3 minutes)
Close your eyes.
Place your hands on your heart or stomach.
Ask yourself inwardly:
- What have I worn for too long?
- What do I need to get rid of?
- What doesn’t look like me anymore?
With each exhalation, imagine a mist leaving your body, carrying with it a weight, a tension, a heavy memory.
You don’t have to force anything.
Just put it down.
4. Alignment – Return to center (3 minutes)
Visualize a thread of golden light descending from the top of your skull to the bottom of your spine.
This thread centers you, stabilizes you, aligns you.
Breathe into this axis:
Natural, fluid breathing, as if your breath were polishing your inner energy.
Mentally repeat:
“I’m coming back to myself. I’m centering myself. I’m re-tuning.”
5. Vision – Calling for renewal (4 minutes)
You’re in between cycles.
Imagine a winter landscape in front of you: a silent forest, the snow absorbing all sounds, the pure air inviting you to discover something new.
Ask yourself:
- What do I really want to invite for 2026?
- What wants to be born in me?
- Which version of myself do I choose to embody?
Let an image, a feeling, a word arise.
Don’t try to control: just let it happen.
6. Integration – Anchoring in the body (2 minutes)
Place one hand on your heart, one on your lower abdomen.
Breathe.
Without judging yourself, feel your body as a temple, a point of anchorage and presence.
Repeat softly:
“I am ready/ready.
I am aligned.
I am walking towards my renewal.”
7. Closing – Sealing the ritual
Take one last deep breath.
Extinguish the candle consciously, as if to signal to the universe:
“It’s done. I’m ready for what’s next.”
You can then write a sentence in a notebook to anchor this ritual, for example:
- ✨ “I let go of the old, I welcome the new.”
- ✨ “I choose to breathe my next version.”