Hi everyone.
As we get into our meditative posture and start to come into our bodies,
Come into this present moment,
I just want to mark today.
It's March 13th,
2021,
The year anniversary of the COVID shutdown,
The new moon for March,
A time of lengthening days,
Shortening nights.
And for many of us,
The spring can feel unsettling.
Our whole way of being starts to loosen and shift,
There's just change afoot.
So just start to come into your body.
Let's start by placing our awareness in our chest.
Perhaps we're experiencing the rise and fall of our chest with our breath.
Let's bring our awareness into our belly.
Perhaps we're feeling the expansion and contraction of our belly with our breath.
Let's move our awareness into our upper back,
Whether you're sitting up or lying down.
Feel your back and your shoulder blades in space.
Start to feel your thighs,
Your butt,
The weight of your body.
Maybe you start to become aware of that familiar tug of gravity,
That gentle tugging,
The tethering of your body to the earth.
Let's set our grounding cord.
Let's all do tree roots today.
So just imagine that you've got some tree roots coming off of your back body,
Off of your bum.
Penetrate through your floor,
Basement,
Foundation,
Topsoil,
Deep into the earth.
Send out tendrils and rootlets.
See if you can imagine sort of looking down at yourself.
See your body sitting or lying down.
And you just see this beautiful,
Expansive,
Extensive root structure.
Each root,
More and more rootlets coming off of it,
Holding you to the earth.
So just allow yourself to be supported by this root structure,
Never ending maze of connection and interconnection.
Now as you breathe out,
Use those roots to just allow you to let go of any negativity,
Any body aches and pains.
Anything that's not supporting you or in your highest interest today.
As you gently exhale,
You're allowing gravity to do the work for you.
There's no effort,
Simply the intention that you're grounded,
You're rooted,
You're stabilized.
With each out breath,
You're sinking deeper into your connection with the earth.
And as you release old patterns,
Old beliefs,
As you shed layers of grief,
Shame or blame,
You're creating space in your energetic body to bring in something beautiful and nourishing.
So as you ground out your negativity with your exhale,
Let's just breathe in the rhythm of the earth.
It's the new moon.
It's a spring equinox.
There's movement and growth underfoot.
The crocuses are popping up.
The daffodils are about to bloom.
The grass widows are out along the pathways,
Hearkening the coming season.
And the earth has a rhythm and it is quickening now.
There's a quickening and a loosening.
And it can be and feel a little disconcerting.
But we're going to calibrate with the earth today.
We're going to pace our body and our heart and our dreams with the dream of the earth.
There's no effort,
Nothing you have to do.
We're just having the intention of moving with the earth,
Not resisting change.
And so with each in-breath,
You can imagine a beautiful,
Fresh spring earth energy coming into your body.
With your exhale,
You're just releasing anything that doesn't serve you.
And so when I say spring energy,
It could be the blossoms that you're seeing.
It could be just the subtle shift in temperature.
I'm just allowing the energy of the earth and her cycles to be with us,
To be with you.
Scientists have actually measured the heartbeat of the earth.
And it's a frequency of eight hertz,
Which translates into a wavelength that wraps around the entire planet.
It is the long,
Slow hum.
I invite you to gently come into your heart space.
If you don't know where that is,
It's just a spot around your heart.
The heart chakra is an energetic field around your heart.
Perhaps just call into your heart one single beautiful dream you have.
It doesn't have to be grandiose or fancy.
One dream you have for yourself or for the planet.
And just gently hold that in your heart space.
Let the rhythm and the heartbeat of the earth merge with that dream.
Let it be held by Mother Earth.
Let it be nurtured,
Witnessed.
Let it be held and supported.
Let it be seen.
Let that dream just melt into the background of your heart.
Hold it in your body,
In your presence.
Know that your dream for yourself or for the planet is powerful.
There's nothing more powerful than our consciousness.
We'll sit here in silence for two more minutes and then we'll end our meditation.
