Welcome to your practice.
As always this meditation is intended to be paired with having a home practice with cacao.
So I invite you to prepare a ceremonial cacao if you haven't already and have this present with you for your practice.
We work with the medicine of cacao to connect with our heart,
To connect to the subtle energies present within us and around us.
Then we use this space to settle,
To connect and to balance.
I invite you to bring one hand onto your heart beginning with this physical contact and touch to yourself.
Feeling the physical heartbeat,
Your pulse,
Your unique life force.
Through this physicality,
Through this body,
Your heart beats in rhythm with the earth,
In rhythm with nature.
By placing one hand on your heart you are honoring yourself,
Honoring your presence.
As we work in this meditation to return to center and in this space we honor our center as our heart,
This place of balance,
Of truth,
Of harmony.
As you feel each beat of your heart under your hand,
Let it take you on a journey.
Feeling and sensing its rhythm,
Its speed,
Its own life.
Starting with this part of yourself,
Physically,
Emotionally.
You to hold your hand on your heart,
Maintaining awareness of your heartbeat.
And simply add in a layer of your breath,
Breath awareness,
Noticing your inhale and your exhale.
Can you feel where your breath goes?
Can you feel its path through your body?
Can you sense a merging?
Breath and heartbeat.
To vital rhythms that are constantly at play.
To cycles.
To foundations of your existence in this physicality.
Keeping awareness to your breath.
I invite you to gently lengthen your exhale.
And we do this now to cultivate the energy of the exhale being grounding,
Being settling and stabilizing.
So in this space,
Working with the heart to drop and to soften from the thinking mind to the feeling heart.
To your center.
To your place of wholeness.
Keeping your rhythm going.
Awareness of your inhale.
Gently extending your exhale to seamlessly transition again into your inhale.
Each round softening.
Each round expanding and opening.
And then again softening,
Grounding,
Stabilizing.
Into your body.
Into your heart.
Into your energy.
Can you sense now the movement of your breath?
Can you sense now this interaction between heartbeat and breath?
Letting these cycles merge into one.
And if you still hold a hand on your heart,
Gently releasing that hand.
Sensing how it feels to open.
To receive.
And when you're ready,
Taking your cup of cacao in both hands,
Holding it close to your heart now.
Gently feeling the warmth in your hands touching the center of your chest.
And in the space that you have prepared with awareness,
You begin to open.
To receive.
And to give thanks.
Sensing to cacao with any words of gratitude.
And asking your heart,
Is there anything that you wish to share with cacao in this space?
Do you have any words of gratitude?
Do you have an intention?
And as if this were an offering to cacao.
Let the energies silently communicate as you hold your cacao close to your heart.
Breathing and witnessing any sensations,
Thoughts,
Ideas,
Memories.
Sensing to the possibility that this may be a communication.
Following your gratitude when your intuition calls,
Taking in your cacao through all of your senses.
Feel,
Taste,
Feeling.
Taking as much time as you need.
Savouring each sip.
Maintaining awareness of your inner dialogue.
Maintaining awareness of your centre.
Planting seeds for the cacao to guide you into the space.
For you to settle and to rest in your wholeness,
In your heart and in your centre.
Thank you.
