Your Daily Morning Flow & Centering Practice Kit, created by Christine Arylo

Hello and Welcome to this Daily Bookend Practice + Kit.

I Created to Support You in Creating a Daily Morning Flow & Centering Practice that Works for You

What you’ll find below are the materials + practices + wisdom I pulled together to support you to ‘Stay Harmonized’ on the inside no matter what’s swirling on the outside. The wisdom is clear …

if we want to be and stay centered and clear + retain our life force and radiance + tune into our intuition and clarity, + receive the restoration we need to be powerful, present, wise leaders, and compassionate, caring humans we want to be then …

We need to proactively look at how we start our day in the first hour and ensure it’s supporting us to stay harmonized vs. hacked … For this we need a short, simple but mighty centering practice we can do each morning that gets us connected and centered in ourselves.

This picture from the Overwhelmed and Over It book says it all …

When I work with people 1:1, in teams or in groups, the first thing I ask them is: :”How do you start your day, and end your day (bookend)?” and “What is your current daily centering practice?” 

The response?

• Less than 5% have a daily centering practice that connects them on all 4 levels of our personal ecosystem.
• More than 80% admit they are checking their phone, email, slack, the outside world or technology, before checking in with themselves, or registering that they are a human being, in a physical world, not just a machine responding to the demands, pull & chaos of the world.

Which is why I created this kit – to help you create a rhythm for your mornings and a simple way to center each day – so you can stay centered, calm, clear, radiant and resilient. 

I’ve been developing this work for over 20 years, and it’s never gotten stale. Because the practice of staying harmonized, tuned into our deeper wisdom and guidance, rooted and flexible like a tree, even in a windstorm, is the HOW we move through these times to be the leaders, parents, humans and co creators we are.

Here’s what you will find in the kit:

1. Daily Bookend Practice Teaching Video – start here. I walk you through the overall wisdom of this approach of consciously setting a rhythm to the first hour and last hour of your day, and being aware of the choices you make as you upshift and downshift.

2. Guidebook – this is “how to” set up your morning flow + do a morning centering practice that fits into a full life.I will walk you through the simple practice that gets you connected and centered in 3-11 minutes.will walk you through the simple practice that gets you connected and centered in 3-11 minutes.

3. Videos of the Morning Flow + Daily Centering Practice

4. Practice Cards – PDFs you can print out..

5. Butterfly Breathing Video 

6. Podcasts to Explore More: Including on Downshifting + a series on going from Burnout to Balance.

7. The Book Overwhelmed and Over It, Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World. If you want to explore more and integrate the wisdom into your reality.

• Don’t feel like you have to take this all in one day or the next 15 minutes.
• Do make this part of the next week or month of exploring what and how starting your mornings + having a daily centering practice can work for you.

The leaders I work with tell me that at first they don’t believe me about how much of game changer this is… But after a month of practicing the centering practice, and some days not doing it, they notice a BIG difference between their internal and external experience. That’s the catalyst they finally needed stay committed to a daily morning centering practice, so they can be a powerful, compassionate, courageous and wise presence at work, home and everywhere.

Enjoy!

Christine Arylo

Leadership & Team Advisor, Wisdom Teacher MBA

p.s. If you have any questions, reach out to my team at connect@arylo.com – love to hear from you.

p.p.s. I do work with leaders, teams and organizations to bring the Stay Harmonized work and methods to their people. If your people could benefit from learning tools and different ways of thinking to stay calm, centered and clear, reach out and let’s talk. Email me at christine@arylo.com.

1. The Daily Bookend Practice 

Tune into this teaching video with Christine where she walks you through the Daily Bookend Practice, including: how and why it works, how to take back your choice and agency about how you start and end your day, how to reveal what is sabotaging and supporting you + a simple morning ‘attunement’ practice you can do from bed as soon as you awaken (game changer) to set your mind, heart and body up to stay harmonized.

2. Guidebook with Wisdom, Practices, Visual Thinking + More 

I put together this 12-page PDF with some of the core wisdom principles for staying harmonized, including the visual thinking glyphs I use to convey these concepts to people and breakthrough old mindsets into expanding possibility and reality. Also included are the practices written out, a series of self-reflection inquiries about how you currently start your day and desire to, and other ways to go deeper.

Print it out, or open and save to your bookmarks folder and refer back to it.

3. Teaching Videos for Morning Flow + Centering Practice  

Here are two videos that will walk you through both parts of setting yourself up in the first hour of your day to stay centered and sustained. These can be used with the guidebook or on their own.

4. Practice Cards & Handout for printing 

Here you can print out the Daily Practice Card for the Four Points of Connection, or the Recipe for the Daily Flow with Centering Practice.

5. Butterfly Breathing: Try this simple breathing practice as part of your Morning Centering & Presence Practice 

I do this Stay Harmonized practice as part of my morning centering practice every morning – it is based on thousands of years of yogic science. It’s simple but effective. If we don’t breathe correctly there is no way we can stay harmonized, radiant and vibrant in our wellbeing, clarity and resiliency. I renamed it to help us use the natural movement of the butterfly, to help us find our natural rhythm of breathing.

The Butterfly Breath is a practice that supports you to ensure the way you are breathing in, actually gets you the oxygen and energy you need. Many of our bodies have been conditioned to breathe in ways that are counter to the way our bodies were meant to work best – some of us reverse breathe, others short breathe.

The Butterfly Breath uses the somatic metaphor of the butterfly wings and body to re-condition your body to get the maximum from breathing every day. And also is a practice you can use in your morning centering practice or in the moments you need a reset – it activates the parasympathetic nervous system and brings your body, being and brain into a state of calm. Based on timeless yogic science, Arylo adds in modern day application.

I will first teach you the wisdom and technique behind the practice.

Then lead you through the practice.

NOTE: Increase the video to full screen for best viewing.

6. Explore More + Go Deeper with Feminine Power Time Episodes on Downshifting & Moving Out of Burnout  

I use the communication modality of podcasting to create an environment where you can turn off the chatter and tune into what matters, so you can open up your mental and emotional fields to take in new perspectives, reflect on where you are and what you desire to create in your reality and in the world’s reality. It is a space where we can explore wiser ways to lead, live and succeed.

I started the Feminine Power Time Podcast in 2015, so we have a full wisdom library of series you can tune into that are still very relevant. I chose two that are relevant to our exploration of how you bookend your days, and take back your power of the first hour of your day and the last hour of your day.

How to tune in:

1. Listen on the player below.
2. Subscribe to Feminine Power Time on iTunes or Spotify or Your Podcast App. This way you will receive the entire library and dive in.
3. Tune in here on the Feminine Power Time website.

7. The Book: Overwhelmed & Over It, Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World 

Much of the wisdom and the teachings I’ve shared in this kit are included in my 4th book – which provides a path out of the burnout, overwhelm and self sacrifice imprints that kept us stuck in unsustainable patterns and realities, professionally and personally. Based on 15 years + of real time applied research, teaching, refinement and 25+ years studying the timeless wisdom traditions that have so much to offer us, married with my MBA, and working woman self, who has spent 30+ years in corporate and entrepreneurial systems – and taught, coached and guided leaders and founders in many industries to do things differently.

Here’s the book – You can:

• learn more here – https://christinearylo.com/overwhelmed-and-over-it-book
• buy it from your local bookstore, or online (I like to support non-amazon retailers whenever possible) – like Bookshop.org