Hello and welcome to this session with Y-chromosomal Adam and with me Keziah Gibbons.
Please make your body comfortable,
Giving yourself permission to relax and surrender your muscles to the surface beneath you as you go inside.
Noticing your breathing,
Noticing the sounds around you and then releasing them,
Turning your ear inwards,
Closing your eyes,
Taking your attention inside,
Deeper and deeper until you find the stillest,
Quietest,
Darkest part of you inside there.
In this still,
Quiet,
Dark inner centre,
You find a beautiful thread.
Take a hold of it,
Noticing its colours and texture and follow it through your inner landscape until eventually you come to a tapestry.
On the tapestry,
You see the place of the ancestors and using your intention,
Step into the tapestry and into the place of the ancestors.
Here at the place of the ancestors,
Make your presence and intention known.
You might light a candle,
Give flowers,
Pour a libation or make an offering of a song or a story.
Notice the feel of the place of the ancestors,
How your loving ancestors may come to be with you in this place.
Today we're going to connect to Y-chromosomal Adam.
Here in the place of the ancestors,
Sense into your body.
Feel its solidity,
Yourself as the embodiment of your ancestral line in this moment,
Here on this earth.
Sense into your cells,
Each carrying a genetic heritage that dates back to antiquity,
Something ancient and passed on from parent to child,
Back into the mists of time.
If you carry Y-chromosome,
Sense into that in your body.
Sense how that feels,
What comes with it.
If you don't carry Y-chromosomes,
That's fine.
Just remain in awareness of your body in this moment.
Now,
Sense back to the line of ancestors who carry Y-chromosomes.
This will be your male parent,
Their male parent and so on.
Some of the most recent line you may have known,
And some you may know of,
But very soon they will start to blur as you travel back through the mists of time.
As you do so,
Notice the billions of other people with parallel lines who can also follow their Y-chromosomal DNA back in time.
Very soon,
Perhaps in this generation or the next,
Your line will begin to join with the lines of others.
And as you go further back in time,
More and more of the lines will join.
Until you come to the point where all the lines join,
This is where Y-chromosomal Adam is.
Sense into an awareness of Y-chromosomal Adam's presence.
You might see his face or figure.
Feel sensations,
Or even hear his voice.
Or you might just know that he is there.
Notice whatever arises as you make an intentional connection.
There may be blessings,
Gratitude,
Respect,
Love,
Or something else that you wish to offer Y-chromosomal Adam.
Take time to do this now,
Knowing that as you do so,
You offer these blessings to all his descendants.
Listen for anything that Y-chromosomal Adam wishes to ask or share with you.
After a while,
You become aware that you and Y-chromosomal Adam are surrounded by his children and grandchildren,
Some of whom are your direct genetic ancestors.
All of whom are your relations.
There are many and you may recognise some of them,
While others may be dim or unclear.
But you are certain of their presence.
Take a moment to experience what it is to inhabit this space full of your relations,
In all of your diversity,
With all your commonality.
Know that whatever you are experiencing in your life right now,
Here among your relations are those who are experiencing the same emotions.
Here among your relations are those who can support you.
And here among your relations are those for whom your presence makes their life better.
Here in this space,
With Y-chromosomal Adam and all those relatives,
Share something.
It might be an expression of how you're feeling.
It might be something that inspires you.
It could be a joke.
It could be a wish,
A hope or a fear.
Whisper it in a relative's ear.
And notice as the ripple of what you shared goes out amongst the throng.
Notice what comes back to you.
Y-chromosomal Adam asks you to live in kinship with all your relatives.
Celebrate the unique something which you and each of your cousins brings to this world,
The way we impact each other.
Spend a moment imagining how this might show up in your life.
If you could trust every person to treat you as kin,
And trust yourself to treat them the same,
How might life be?
Allow scenarios to play out in front of you and allow yourself to feel it in your body at the same time.
We'll close this practice with an intention of loving kindness.
Connecting in with Y-chromosomal Adam,
Be aware of this person with a life so different from yours,
But who is nevertheless your direct ancestor,
And who nevertheless wish to be happy,
Healthy and safe.
As you connect,
Send these wishes to him now.
May you be happy.
May you be healthy.
May you be safe.
Notice how this affects him.
Now repeat that wish,
Sending it through Y-chromosomal Adam to all his descendants.
May you be happy.
May you be healthy.
May you be safe.
You may even make a commitment to doing what you can to make this wish come true.
Y-chromosomal Adam takes his leave of you and begins to fade into the distance.
You know you can always connect if you wish to.
Slowly,
His immediate children and grandchildren follow him.
And then generation after generation fade away,
Until they have all gone to their places.
And you are once again here in your practice,
In the place of the ancestors,
Alone but for those specific loving ancestors who choose to inhabit this place as you go about your ancestor work.
It's time to leave the place of the ancestors,
Knowing that you can always come back,
Stepping out of the tapestry and following the thread back through your internal landscape,
Bringing your insights with you.
Slowly,
You arrive back at the peace of that dark,
Still and quiet place within you.
From here,
Begin to turn your awareness outwards,
Becoming aware of the sounds and scents around you,
The temperature of the room,
Your body and any movement it wishes to make.
When you're ready,
You can open your eyes.
That's our practice for today.
Have a wonderful rest of your day.
