Rootedness is about finding the right kind of relaxation in meditation. An interpenetration of sensitization and stabilization so you can optimally flow in any situation — especially dialogically. It's about finding the optimal grip between yin and yang.

  1. Imagine something like a balloon in the space above your head.
  2. Inhale and imagine the balloon expanding in all directions. Yang.
  3. Exhale and it gathers back. Yin.
  4. Do this until you find the spot for you that is in-between.
  5. Allow it to drain or melt into your forehead. Third eye.
  6. Repeat for the throat, then the heart, solar plexus, belly, your seat, and finally let it sink into the earth below you.
  7. Imagine it like the roots of a tree, connecting and stabilizing you downward, but also nourishing, energizing, and sensitizing you upward so you are sitting, rooted, as still as a mountain but alert as a warrior.

As taught by John Vervaeke.