Cat Marina

Hey there, thanks for joining us for tonight's tour of the Cat Marina. It's a lovely place to spend an evening walking around. Great if you love boats or, you know, cats. Before we begin our tour, we like to begin with a little wind down. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So when you're ready, let's begin. Just take a moment to get comfortable letting go of the day. Enjoying that feeling of having stopped, of having nothing left to do. We're going to focus the attention of the mind on the different parts of the body. Watching as the muscles in the body switch off for the night, leaving the body feeling rested and leaving the mind more at ease. So starting down at the toes and just a sense of the muscles switching off. The feet, the arches, all those muscles switching off. Same in the lower half of the legs. So any tension being let go of as the muscle switch off, shut down. In the upper half of the legs, any tension melting away, being let go of. Into the area of the hips, the pelvis. Again, any muscles shutting down for the night, completely at rest. Everything from the waist downward is heavy, at ease. The muscles in the lower back and the stomach now switching off. Middle of the back around the diaphragm, the upper back and the chest. So any muscles not needed shutting down, switching off for the night. The shoulders switching off. The upper half of the arms and the lower half of the arms switching off. The hands, fingers, just switching off. Any muscles around the throat and the neck switching off. The head, the face, the jaw, the eyes. Any last areas of tension melting away as the muscles shut down, switch off. At rest for the night and allowing thoughts to come and go. Allowing the mind and body the space they need to rest. The Cat Marina is a little closed off stretch of river with many brightly colored houseboats moored along its banks. Some very lovely people live in these boats, but let's be honest, the loveliest thing about this charming spot is its feline residents. In every boat lives at least one cat, sometimes more than one. Should you care to take a stroll along the Cat Marina, maybe early in the morning, or at dusk, the cats' favorite times of day, you're bound to run into a few of these tremendous creatures. The cat Marina isn't open to everyone. You have to have a key. Without one, the best you can hope for is a glimpse through the foliage. If you press your nose through the bars of the wrought iron gate, it's thickly grown over with ivy, but you do have a key. Just slide it into the creaky lock and turn. Then push the gate open, it's a little stiff, and make your way along the path. Underfoot, tufts of grass...