From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishease (somebody) into something phrasal verbif you ease yourself or someone else into a new job etc, you start doing it gradually or help them to start After the baby, she eased herself back into work. → ease→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
ease into • She looked kind of disgusted and then, like, eased me back into a chair.• I eased myself into a seat for the red-eye flight from Vegas back to New York.• Sir John eased himself into his great chair at the top of the table and gloomily reflected on the past.• He eased his hand into his trouser pocket, and slipped the blackjack loop over his wrist.• Many ex-professionals prefer to open pubs or manage Swindon Town rather than to ease themselves into retirement by playing non-League football.• I eased the heap into the opening and pushed on.• This can be avoided through a training program which is designed to ease people into the technology gradually and with confidence.• Grumbling quietly in a highly satisfactory sort of way, I eased the car into the traffic and headed back towards Colcutt. 