Hello and welcome to your winter solstice meditation.
Of course you can do this meditation anytime that you desire to slow down and deepen in.
So finding a comfortable place to sit or lay down.
Just feeling a position that is both comfortable and alive and present.
Begin by finding your breath.
Feeling the quality of it as it moves through your body.
It might feel good to take really full deep breaths in through the nose and sigh or make sound on the exhale.
Just breathing here however the body wants to breathe.
Beginning to soften the face,
The eyes,
The jaw,
The throat,
The chest,
The belly.
Just ever so gently inviting the body to melt down into the earth.
Feeling here how the earth comes up to meet you.
Feeling that support allowing the body to soften and be held.
Really taking this time to slow down.
So what if you could drop down and in and really begin to tune in and open to the mystery of the here and now.
Beginning to tune in to notice what's alive in my body.
Sensing physical sensations and energy.
Not trying to fix or change or make anything better.
Just meeting what is here.
Noticing what is alive in your body.
When we contact physical sensations we're directly contacting life.
So feel life as it is inside of you right now.
Really creating this holding space for the unfolding of what is asking to be met.
Coming into intimate communion with what is.
As you slow down,
As you notice what is here in your body.
Begin to open to what is being asked to be lived through you.
Perhaps it's what you're ready to let go of.
Perhaps it's some heartbreak or some grief.
Or perhaps it's joy.
Just beginning to allow life,
To allow energy to be met and to be felt.
Tuning to what is here.
Seeing sensations,
Allowing images and feelings.
Really meeting yourself right here,
Right now.
Tuning to whatever arises,
I see you,
I feel you.
It's okay that you're here.
Breathing and softening.
As you continue to breathe and meet and feel and notice what is here.
Perhaps begin a bit of release.
Following the body's intuitive impulses.
Maybe it's a sigh out the mouth.
Maybe it's a hand to your heart.
Just beginning to flow with whatever is here.
What is it asking?
What does it need?
How can you say yes?
As you continue to follow your experience to be with what is,
Each time you find yourself being pulled away,
Ever so gently invite yourself back.
Going down and in.
Meeting what is alive in your body,
In your heart.
And really turning towards yourself.
Seeing the face,
The jaw,
The chest,
As you continue to meet and feel what's here.
And allow some release,
Some softening,
Some surrendering.
And as you continue to meet yourself right here,
Beginning to feel into what desires to be lived into.
If you could create space by really meeting what is here and letting go of what desires to be let go of,
What space might open up?
And in that space,
What is asking to be lived,
To be connected to?
What is it that you long for?
Really allowing and trusting whatever appears,
Noticing how you can hold both.
Grief can be here and so can hope and joy.
What you have lost and what you long for.
Continuing to deepen your experience to be curious,
To notice what is here at the body level.
Starting to open to the mystery of right here,
Right now.
Softening the body as you continue to turn towards your experience.
Seeing what is here with your breath,
With your awareness and allowing the body to guide you.
And inviting you to bring your hands to your body if they're not there already.
Feeling your touch and perhaps connecting to that which feels most alive in you right now.
Breathing into your body.
Breathing into life.
And as you connect,
Perhaps whispering some kind words aloud to yourself,
Giving your body and heart some nourishment,
Some nurturing.
I'm here.
I love you.
I'm listening.
Spending yourself some time here to receive some nourishment,
Some love,
Some goodness.
And when you're ready,
Beginning to deepen your breath,
To notice once again the quality of the breath,
To feel the felt sense of what it's like to be you right now.
Bringing some gentle movement into your fingers and toes as you ever so gently start to come back,
Remembering you can slow down,
You can tune in,
That you can always come back home.
