Seaside Sunset Meditation From The Island Of Noepe

This is a guided meditation from Aquinnah in Martha's Vineyard.

This is being recorded on March 3rd and the days are starting to get a little longer and so I welcome you to join me here at this beautiful beach with no one else in sight.

It's just you and this exquisite nature to nurture you.

In this guided meditation where we'll be connecting with our bodies,

We'll be connecting with the support of the earth,

And we'll be connecting with our breath.

So find a comfortable seated position or maybe you're inclined to lie down,

Let yourself rest,

Get yourself as comfortable as possible.

And I invite you to really set the intention to allow your imagination to enliven in this session.

Really see,

Sense,

And feel yourself in this nurturing nature wherever you are.

There's something so incredibly powerful about our imaginative faculty and most of us it's very underutilized and yet this is a muscle that we can develop just like any other muscle and so right now we're just exploring this muscle of presence.

So we begin on this beautiful beach.

You're sitting and gazing out at this exquisite golden sun and watching the ocean waves pumping wave after wave.

Continuously cleansing and renewing herself with such force,

Such power that emerges all on its own.

And you feel the warmth of the sun on your skin.

It starts to soften the joints of your body and as you breathe in and out starting to breathe this warmth from the sun into the bones,

Into the marrow of your structure of your vessel.

And seated on this beach there's a beautiful stone warm from the sun that's supporting you and holding such an elegant lift in your spine.

Feeling the warmth and the strength and the sturdiness of this stone supporting your back and bringing your attention to your root.

To the very base of the tailbone and allowing the legs to get heavy as the firm moist sand beneath you pulls the body down like a magnet tethering you like seagrass deep beneath the body.

Extending the roots from the tip of the tailbone down in through the sand and pausing around eight inches beneath the body.

Holding all your awareness here in this soul star chakra.

Connecting with our deep primal origin.

And with the ripples of generations that we carry in our bones and blood.

Breathing into this space and allowing the spine allowing the space beneath the heart to find a sense of buoyancy and levity.

As we continue to travel and send that tail down.

Down through layers and layers of the earth's crust.

Traveling through.

Reaching all the way to the center core.

Feeling,

Sensing that root locking in with the heartbeat of our great mother.

And sense,

Feel imagining this line of connection from the very heart of the earth.

Starting to travel up through the root and into the belly into the pelvic bowl as you breathe and soften the breath.

Sensing,

Feeling this connection in the bones and the marrow and the tissue and the organs.

Traveling up into the second chakra.

Space slightly beneath the navel,

Our creative center.

Starting to deepen the breath as we breathe in and out through the belly and with this glow of the sun,

This golden glow of the sun on the horizon.

Starting to access that golden glow of the sun in the low belly.

Gazing out upon the sea,

Starting to sense,

Taste the fresh salt air.

The air is so sweet and so pure,

It's like every breath in experiencing a rebirth,

Every exhale allowing the tides to carry away that which no longer serves and allowing this nurturing nature of the ocean,

Of the earth,

Of the sun,

Of the sky above to start to cleanse and purify all of the organs.

All of the joints and the low body and the hips,

The knees,

The ankles.

Allowing the breath to deepen,

Traveling up into the solar plexus,

That golden glow of the sun.

Starting to build this pillar of light through the body or perhaps just clearing the path for that which already exists.

But rooted,

Grounded,

Connected with the earth mother.

Sensing,

Feeling,

Imagining this glowing sensation through the root,

Through the low belly,

Through the solar plexus.

Creating the sense of buoyancy underneath the heart,

Cradling behind the shoulder blades.

Feeling,

Sensing the warmth of the solid,

Steady boulder behind your back.

Supporting the back of the heart as the front of the heart receives this golden radiance of the sun.

And as the colors on the horizon start to dance,

Noticing how these golden beams of light dance across these aqua blues and whites and deep dark blues.

This abyss of color with lime green on the horizon,

This lime green around the heart center.

Sensing,

Feeling this swirling of this green through the heart,

The upper heart,

The space directly beneath the collar bones,

The clavicle,

The high heart.

Breathing,

Sensing,

Allowing this life force from the earth traveling up through the body.

Breathing in and out,

Tasting this sweet clean air.

Purifying every thought,

Every feeling.

Allowing yourself to be held in this grace,

This power of the elementals.

Water,

Wind,

Air,

The sun.

And with this glowing sunlight that shines upon you,

Far westward on the horizon,

Allowing the sun right into the center of your throat.

Breathing in and out of this space as the soft wind gently caresses your skin.

Warmth of the sun,

The taste of the salt kissing the tongue.

Sensing into the back of the throat where the back of the skull and the back of the throat meet,

Holding your attention there and just breathe.

Now cradling up through the jaw bone.

Allowing this healing,

Nurturing prana to cradle around through the back of the head,

Allow the tongue to get soft,

Allow the jaw to get slack.

The space behind the eye sockets.

The left eye socket and the right eye socket.

The left inner ear and the right inner ear.

In the middle of the mind drawing this radiant golden light that's just starting to kiss the edge of the horizon.

And it's as though with every breath in these beautiful golden rays of the sun,

You can actually sense and feel them traveling in through the eyes,

In through the heart,

In through the solar plexus,

In through the womb.

Drawing in this life force and with every exhale radiating this life force back out,

Plugged into the earth,

Connected with this greater geometry,

This greater cosmology.

Bringing your awareness to the crown of your head.

Allowing the muscles in the scalp to soften.

As this golden light shines down upon the crown of the head.

Sending out your receptors from the crown of the head to draw in this vitality,

This life force.

And cycling through a few rounds of breath here,

Come back to the heart for a moment and just breathe.

Let your beautiful mind just rest for a moment or two on this heart and just breathe in and out of this space.

And here on this sacred land,

The glow of the sun just starting to find its way down through the horizon line,

Above and below simultaneously.

Just breathing in and out of that heart space,

Connecting with your deepest intentions for your connection,

Your inner connection and your remembering of your interconnectivity,

Your belonging to this earth.

And with these solid stones at your back,

We gaze and we watch this radiant sun starting to dip its way down through the horizon line as the golden light continues to dance across these waves that just continuously flow in and out,

Carrying away all that no longer serves.

Continuously inviting the sense of regeneration and renewal.

For a few rounds of breath,

Let's just explore and really connect with the aroma,

The quality of air,

This freshness and aliveness and prana from the sea,

Drinking it in with every breath.

We'll explore a few rounds of box breathing with just a simple inhale for four.

We'll pause for a count of four.

We'll exhale for a count of four.

And we'll pause for a count of four.

And I invite you as we explore this breath to really draw your senses into this experience.

Allow yourself to sense,

Feel,

Imagine this life force that's flowing through you now.

And these healing regenerative qualities of nature that are here with you,

Within you now.

As this glow of sun turns to this slight little sliver just dancing at the edge of the horizon,

We breathe in for one,

Two,

Three,

Four.

And pause.

Hold the breath.

Three,

Four.

Exhale all the way out.

And hold.

Two,

Three,

Four.

Breathing in.

And pause.

Hold the breath.

Just feel that prana.

Exhale.

Two,

Three,

Four.

And pause.

Hold the breath.

Very good.

Breathing in.

And pause.

Exhale.

And pause.

Good.

A few more rounds.

Let your belly soften on the inhale.

Three.

Good.

And pause.

Just feel that life force swirling around.

And exhale.

Empty,

Empty,

Empty.

Empty it out.

And pause.

Breathing in from the sea,

The earth.

Pause.

Exhale.

Good.

And pause.

Keep going here.

A few more rounds.

Beautiful.

Just returning back to normal breathing as we hold this last little sliver of golden light just skimming across the surface of this horizon.

And oh,

How the colors of the sky have shifted and changed and the ever-pervading movement of these seas continuously rebirthing,

Ebbing and flowing.

Water our emotional body.

Constantly changing.

And yet this steadiness,

This rootedness,

This solidity of the earth beneath you and these boulders still warm from the sun supporting you at your back.

Perhaps sensing into all the support,

The invisible support,

The unseen support that has your back.

Now bring your awareness into the central channel of your body,

Of your spine.

Beginning again with the root,

The tip of the tailbone.

Again sensing that feeling,

That magnetic connection with the earth beneath you,

The support from Mother Gaia.

Traveling up through the tailbone,

Through the pelvis,

Allowing all the inner organs to be replenished,

Nurtured,

Held and loved,

Revitalized.

Infusing each vertebra of the spine with prana,

With life force as we travel through the low belly and up through the solar plexus.

Up into the heart space and just reveling in this nurturing nature.

Feeling a sense of a rolling back of the shoulder blades,

Allowing the blades to just glide down the back of the body.

Coming back to that sense of a buoyancy beneath the heart,

Almost as though unseen hands are holding gently,

Supporting,

Lifting that bottom in the back of the heart up,

Up towards the throat,

The center of your expression,

Your truth.

Traveling from the throat up to the back of the throat where it meets the skull.

Breathing in and out,

Feeling your own aliveness.

Yeah,

And now traveling up through the middle of the mind,

Up through the crown of the head and now rooted,

Connected with the earth,

Sending your antenna up about eight inches above the head.

Connecting with that higher self and just hovering here and breathing,

Open,

Soften,

Breathe,

Relax,

Breathing in these mystical mists of the sea.

The freshness,

The sweetness,

The salt taste of the air,

Freshly oxygenated air and just hovering here in this high altitude space,

About eight inches above the body,

Above the crown of the head.

Your intimate connection with your higher self.

Noticing what feeling sensations,

What colors,

What patterns might be emerging.

Just noticing,

Noticing the one that's noticing.

Noticing the one that's breathing the breath.

Noticing the one that's hearing the sea.

Seeing within.

And then traveling the awareness up higher,

Up higher,

Reaching up into,

Up into the sky as we start to notice the very first glimmers of starlight,

Making its glory visible as we're in that liminal space of the shifting from daytime into the evening.

As we connect up with the stars,

Sending the energy up higher,

Maybe there's a favorite star or a favorite planet.

Perhaps traveling all up to the great central sun.

Rooted and anchored and traveling,

Ascending higher and higher.

Allowing that antenna to reach up.

And then allowing this golden,

Healing celestial light of the stars to start pouring down,

Pouring down through the crown of the head,

Pouring down behind the eyes,

Pouring down into the jaw,

Into the tongue,

Into the throat,

Into the back of the throat,

Pouring down into the shoulder joints.

Pouring down celestial starlight down behind the shoulder blades.

And bringing the starlight down into the earth and sending it out into the sea as we draw it all the way down through the heart,

Through the solar plexus,

Through the womb,

And out through the tail,

Sending the light of the stars down into the earth and feeling that circuit of reciprocity with earth nurturing you from below.

And the stars nurturing you from above.

And you as this channel of reciprocity that's sending and receiving information and nourishment and healing from your higher self,

From the earth,

Giving and receiving this toroidal field that's constantly in motion and yet when we place our attention upon it,

When we experience ourselves within it,

What is it that emerges?

And just exploring a few rounds of breath of this deep connection with the stars,

With the sea,

With the earth beneath you.

That steady support behind you and this infinite vastness in front of you.

Cycling through a few more rounds of the box breathing.

Drawing in a breath for one,

Two,

Three,

Four,

And pause.

Feel the swirling around.

Good.

Exhale.

Two,

Three,

Four,

And pause.

Good.

Drawing in prana,

Vitality,

Starlight.

And pause.

Three,

Four.

Exhale.

Empty it all out and pause.

A few more rounds just on your own.

Let's go for a few minutes.

This beautiful land,

Very sacred to the Wampanoag people,

The first people of this land.

The energy has such a gentle,

Nurturing quality and such an aliveness of the elements.

And such generous creativity for all those who are seeking to connect more deeply with their creative center.

And with divine inspiration,

This land holds that frequency in such abundance.

And in the three journeys that I have experienced in this land in the last few months,

The question that continues to emerge is,

What if it were less about coming up with inspiration and more about showing up for it?

How might I live my life differently?

Or what would need to happen in thought,

Feeling,

And action?

To live in such a way where I'm showing up for creative inspiration.

To create a sanctuary within myself that inspiration wants to visit.

And how many different faces does inspiration wear?

In every ripple of the sea,

In every stone that belongs here on this beach.

In the birds,

In the beautiful trees that softly hold this land.

The beautiful cliffs.

We're right out at the edge,

The most westward edge of this island.

These beautiful cliffs made of clay of red and white and yellow and black.

Clay that's been so purified by the land.

It's so soft and silky and it's the great creator's creation.

So as our time together in this nurturing nature comes to a close,

I really invite you to hold this frequency that you find yourself within in this moment.

Allow it to infuse into your bones,

Into your blood,

Into your being and return to it or any other place,

Either physically in nature or for whatever reason,

We need to go there in our imagination as well.

Just really inviting this frequency to be felt and known and remembered in every cell of the body.

And in so doing,

Really activating this animism,

This sense of reciprocity,

This sense of interconnectivity,

Not only with our great earth mother but also with the greater cosmos.

So breathing in and breathing out as we begin to bring our experience in this moment to a place of closure.

Perhaps placing a hand on your heart and a hand on your belly.

And just offering acknowledgement for taking this time to slow down and get curious,

To simply allow an openness and receptivity to this shared experience of connecting in nature's nurturing wonder and magnetism and power.

And any final exhales,

Just offering anything that we don't need to carry or shoulder on our own anymore,

Just offering it to the sea.

And thanking the earth for holding us with such generosity and for nurturing us with such care.

And may any benefit,

May any merit that we've generated in this practice together,

May it be of benefit to her.

May it be of benefit to the evolution of consciousness on this planet.

And as we join our hearts together across space,

Time,

And dimensions,

And as we bring our energy into the heart space together,

Beyond the boundaries of time and space,

Just here breathing now in the heart,

Gazing out across the sea.

I invite you to send any offerings in your heart,

Anything that perhaps you have tapped into within yourself in this experience,

Offering it out to the sea.

Offering it out to the earth,

Whether it's something that you need support in holding,

Or perhaps you're feeling full,

Perhaps there's love within you that we can offer to the sea,

Offer to the ocean,

Offer to this planet,

And offer out into the greater cosmos.

Allowing these ripples of love across space and time to ascend the consciousness of the collective.

One breath at a time,

One moment of remembering at a time.

And with hand on my heart,

I thank you so much for joining me in this incredibly sacred space.

May you be at peace,

May all beings be at peace,

And may all beings know the divine creativity that flows to us and through us,

And may we all be conduits and channels of this divine inspiration.

May we live our lives in accordance with showing up for it,

Rather than trying to come up with it,

And just allowing that creative inspiration to flow from all directions,

Across space and time.

Thank you for joining me in this practice.

Take care.

Namaste.