SIT: Finding Steady Ground in a Loud World
Show Notes
Episode 3 Description: The world feels loud right now. Fast. Heavy. Like standing in the middle of a rushing river.
In this first solo SIT episode of Rooted, Susan guides you through a simple sit-spot practice designed to help you ground your nervous system and reconnect with the steadiness that has never left you.
No guest. No analysis. No productivity strategy.
Just breath. Birds. Light. The earth holding you.
Drawing from her own daily sit-spot practice — five out of seven days a week in a small park near her home — Susan invites you to step out of the noise of headlines, feeds, and urgency, and into something older and truer: the living world that continues turning beneath it all.
You don’t need wilderness.
You don’t need perfect silence.
You don’t even need to be outside.
You just need a few minutes to remember:
You are nature. Not separate from it. Not visiting it.
In this guided grounding practice, you’ll:
Shift from shallow chest breathing into steady belly breathing to regulate the nervous system
Soften your gaze and reconnect with the sensory world around you
Notice near and distant sounds to widen awareness
Experience the quiet steadiness beneath the noise
Reflect on what might change if you returned to this place each day
This episode is part of the new solo rhythm of Rooted: alternating SIT practices (grounding, inward, participatory) and WALK reflections (movement, story, teaching, ecology).
Today, we sit.
If you’re driving or somewhere you need to stay alert, bookmark this episode and return when you can be still. You deserve twenty minutes to be held by something that has never stopped holding you.
Key Themes
Nature-based wellbeing
Nervous system regulation through breath
Sit-spot practice
Grounding in times of change
Remembering we are nature
A Question to Carry
What might be different if you returned to this steadiness — even for a few minutes each day?
