December gives us space.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
It’s a month that invites us to celebrate quiet courage,<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
Because breathing, too, changes with the seasons.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
In winter’s slowdown, we discover an essential truth:<\/p>\n\n
you never really lose yourself when you return to the breath.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Then I suggest this:<\/p>\n\n Every December morning<\/strong>, before daylight takes over, take three conscious breaths.<\/p>\n\n Three real breaths.<\/p>\n\n To return to your body. Because December is not just the end…<\/p>\n\n It’s a womb, a protective belly, a passageway. And maybe, at the heart of this month, you’ll feel that little voice, the one you’ve sometimes put aside:<\/p>\n\n “What if I allowed myself to dream bigger? December reminds us that everything begins again. Then move forward slowly, but confidently. And above all…<\/strong> With gentleness, December is a month of transition: a threshold between what’s coming to an end and what’s opening up.<\/p>\n\n This ritual accompanies you to gently release the old, purify your energy and call forth a new cycle.<\/p>\n\n Choose a quiet spot. Set the intention: Gentle breathing, ideal for December :<\/p>\n\n Let your whole nervous system slow down. Close your eyes. Ask yourself inwardly:<\/p>\n\n With each exhalation, imagine a mist leaving your body, carrying with it a weight, a tension, a heavy memory.<\/p>\n\n You don’t have to force anything. Visualize a thread of golden light descending from the top of your skull to the bottom of your spine.<\/p>\n\n This thread centers you, stabilizes you, aligns you.<\/p>\n\n Breathe into this axis: Mentally repeat: You’re in between cycles.<\/p>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n Ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n Let an image, a feeling, a word arise. Place one hand on your heart, one on your lower abdomen. Without judging yourself, feel your body as a temple, a point of anchorage and presence.<\/p>\n\n Repeat softly: Take one last deep breath.<\/p>\n\n Extinguish the candle consciously, as if to signal to the universe: You can then write a sentence in a notebook to anchor this ritual, for example:<\/p>\n\n 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… December: return to yourself and prepare for renewal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breathwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6779,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breathe-geneva.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
To open a new chapter?
To honor who I really am, without mask and without fear?”<\/p>\n\n
That everything is reborn.
That everything wakes up one day.<\/p>\n\n
Breathe deeply, but with intention.
Close the chapters that need closing.
Open the door to what is already knocking.<\/p>\n\n
come back to you.<\/strong>
This is where it all begins.<\/p>\n\n
Daphne – Just Breathe \ud83c\udf2c\ufe0f\u2728<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n\nMy gift \ud83c\udf81<\/h2>\n\n
December Ritual – Return to yourself and prepare for renewal<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n1. Prepare the space (2 minutes)<\/h3>\n\n
Light a candle or a stick of sage\/palo santo if you use it.
Sit comfortably, back straight, chest open.<\/p>\n\n
“This ritual helps me come back to myself and enter a new cycle with clarity.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n2. Opening breath – 4 cycles<\/h3>\n\n
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Allow your body to settle into a quieter, deeper frequency.<\/p>\n\n3. Release – Deposit the year’s expenses (3 minutes)<\/h3>\n\n
Place your hands on your heart or stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n
Just put it down.<\/p>\n\n4. Alignment – Return to center (3 minutes)<\/h3>\n\n
Natural, fluid breathing, as if your breath were polishing your inner energy.<\/p>\n\n
“I’m coming back to myself. I’m centering myself. I’m re-tuning.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n5. Vision – Calling for renewal (4 minutes)<\/h3>\n\n
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Don’t try to control: just let it happen.<\/p>\n\n6. Integration – Anchoring in the body (2 minutes)<\/h3>\n\n
Breathe.<\/p>\n\n
“I am ready\/ready.
I am aligned.
I am walking towards my renewal.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n7. Closing – Sealing the ritual<\/h3>\n\n
“It’s done. I’m ready for what’s next.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n