Come to a comfortable position.
You may sit or lie down.
Allow your eyes to soften.
Maybe not fully closed,
Allowing some light in.
Feel the weight of your body.
Notice where you make contact with the earth.
Bring your awareness down through your torso,
Through the pelvis,
Through the legs,
All the way to your feet.
Imagine,
Sense or even feel energetic roots weaving their way down and down and down.
Seeking nourishment from soil,
From earth.
The earth just beginning to stir with the promise of new life.
Imagine your spine as the trunk of a tree.
Feel the solidity of your trunk,
Your spine,
Your ribs,
Your whole torso rooted and flexible like a tree in the wind.
Let your breath create that slight sway.
Place one hand gently over the right side of your rib cage now,
Where the liver resides.
Place the other hand over the left side of the rib cage where the spleen sits.
Feel the warmth of your palms touching your body,
On skin or through clothes.
Notice any sensation present.
Breathe into the right side of your body.
Sense the rib cage expand outwards,
Making space.
Exhale and feel any tensions soften.
Breathe into the left side of your body.
Sense the rib cage expand outwards,
Making space.
Exhale and feel any tensions soften.
Feel the breath in both the left and the right side of your body now.
The rib cage gently expanding outwards with the inhale.
The exhale releasing tension.
In the medicine of the seasons,
Energy rises during spring.
Maybe you feel a rising in your own body now.
Energy awakening.
Simply breathe into the space of the liver on the right and the spleen on the left.
Let the breath rest now,
Coming and going as it does softly in the background.
And perhaps an image or feeling arises.
Perhaps a path opening through trees.
Maybe a colour or a sense of movement.
Let any image or feeling rest lightly in your awareness.
After winter's contraction,
What's ready to reach towards the light?
Slowly bring your awareness back to your body as a whole.
Feel the whole body root to crown.
Solidity and softness together.
The spirit that imagines,
Envisions and dreams moving within you.
Let your mouth open slightly and release a soft shh or sigh.
The sensation of releasing on the exhale.
The sound of spring beginning to rise within.
Two or three final breaths now.
Each exhale a sigh or a shh.
Each inhale a little more spacious.
When you're ready,
Slowly open your eyes to the full light of the room or space you're in.
What's ready within you to reach towards the light?
