Peace and greetings and welcome and space.
My name is Jonathan Stahls with Intrinsic Paths.
This is going to be a 10-minute invitation,
Meditation with deep breathing,
Time for stillness and pause and light movement and stretching with invitation and grounding around nurturing our fire,
Our aches,
Our trembling,
Our anger,
Our hurt.
So I invite you just in this time of opening towards this invitation,
I invite you to slowly stretch and move your neck to one side,
Honoring the tension of stretching,
Opening and making more room for blood,
For neurons,
Expanding to the other side,
This great portal between our heart and our mind that we stretch and we open.
You might roll your neck,
You might begin to roll your shoulders,
You might sway your hips and your back,
You might roll your ankles.
I invite you to hit pause if you're finding nourishment and stretching and movement.
Do this for a couple more minutes.
I invite you to move your body into a place of added comfort.
You can open your hands out to the world and to the sky if you want to.
We're going to move into some deep breathing together with intention,
Honoring this invitation and our bodies and our truths and our rawness and our honesty and our imperfections.
So let's take a deep breath together all the way in.
Slowly out into the world,
Our existence,
Our life,
Our aliveness.
And so let's breathe deeply in,
Breathing in compassion and authenticity,
Deeply in compassion.
And our honest and authentic self into the world as we breathe out.
As we breathe deeply in,
We breathe in invitation to honor our fire and our hurt,
Our rawness and our aches.
Honoring our fire and our hurt and our rawness and our aches,
Deeply in.
Slowly out,
That our honor and our attentiveness and our awareness for our hurt and our fire belongs.
So let's honor it as we breathe deeply in.
And we acknowledge that it belongs as we are right here in this moment.
Slowly out.
So I invite you to just be with this compassionate breathing and this tending to our fire,
Our flame,
Our hurt,
Our anger,
Our rage,
Our rawness.
Let's be with that for a minute.
Just slowly breathing.
Humbly breathing.
That in this place of breathing and tending,
Maybe we imagine a campfire with fire,
And that this fire represents our unique stories,
Our experiences,
Our pain,
Our wounds,
Places that hurt,
Complex places,
Places where there are often no words,
Just rumbling,
Trembling grounds,
Places that might be scary or terrifying,
Or places that are just heavy.
And so this fire,
This campfire,
Is alive.
It's speaking.
It's aching.
And so we slowly go up to it and tend to it.
We feel its warmth.
We honor it.
We see it.
We're not trying to fix anything.
We're not also fading away from it.
We're not hiding from it.
We're not running from it.
We witness it.
We see it.
We honor it.
We become aware that if we get too far away from it,
That it could destroy the forest,
Our environment,
Our home,
Our body,
That the fire could also go out and all of its lessons and truths become numb and muted.
But we also recognize that if we get too close to the fire,
That it could easily consume us,
Ultimately destroying us,
Hurting us even more.
And so just with this unique invitation,
Making it yours,
Unique to you,
We breathe in compassion and tenderness and courage to be with it,
To nurture it,
But to not be consumed by it,
To not be destroyed by it,
To also not get rid of it and to not run from it.
So let's breathe in compassion and tenderness and courage deeply in around our flame and our hurt and our anger.
Deeply in.
Slowly out into the world,
All of us as we are.
Compassion and tenderness and courage deeply in.
Slowly out into the world.
And as we continue breathing and existing,
Honoring this complex space in our hearts and in our bodies,
I invite you,
If it's comfortable,
To place your hand on your heart or maybe your hand on your stomach,
On your guts and intuition,
Maybe on your legs or maybe just your two hands holding each other.
But that this act,
This invitation is rooted in compassion and tenderness.
And so with our hands on our hearts or our bodies or our other hands together,
We invite being seen and witnessed and being loved by the sky and the trees and the streams and our own sense of self and spirits and everything in between.
So let's invite seeing and witnessing and honoring and loving our truths and our fire and our anger and our hurt being seen deeply in as we are slowly out into the world.
Our hands of compassion and care deeply in,
Nurturing and tending to our fire deeply in,
Tending to the fires of others in the world around us slowly out.
That as we nurture and love on and make more room and space for our own fire and flame without hiding or fading or fixing,
We have the capacity to witness and see and love and honor the flames and fires of others and those moving through our planet through animals and trees and streams.
So honoring and seeing and witnessing deeply in,
And honoring and witnessing and seeing deeply out.
So let's close with two deep breaths again,
Compassion deeply in.
No fixing,
No needing to have answers,
That we are honoring what is raw and real in us deeply in.
Compassion slowly out.
And deeply in.
Compassion slowly out into the world as we are.
I invite you to remain in this place with your hand on your heart or on your stomach or holding your other hand.
Just continue to be an embodiment of compassion and courage around your unique flame,
Your unique anger and hurt and truths with peace and space and grace and movement.
Peace.
