Connecting With Mitochondrial Eve

Hello and welcome to this session with Mitochondrial Eve and with me Keziah Gibbons.

Allow yourself to find comfort in your practice space,

Supporting your body,

Deepening your breath,

Allowing the sounds around you to pass you by.

Close your eyes and turn inwards,

Releasing the outside world and finding that quiet,

Still,

Dark and peaceful place within you.

Allow your breath to slow and your body to surrender to the space as you travel inside.

Once you're in that quietest,

Darkest,

Stillest place within you,

Find the thread that you now know will take you to the place of the ancestors and begin to follow it.

Notice the feel of the thread,

The beautiful colours,

The way you respond to it inside as you follow it through your internal landscape until you come to the rich tapestry.

On the tapestry,

You see the place of the ancestors and you use your intention to step into the place of the ancestors so familiar to you.

As you arrive in the place of the ancestors,

You may wish to announce your presence and intention by lighting a candle,

Placing flowers,

Pouring a libation or offering a song or story.

You may be aware of your loving ancestors joining you,

Welcoming you into this space.

Or you may just be aware of the sacred nature of entering this place where you do your ancestor work.

With your loving ancestors around you,

Building strength and connection through this work.

Sense into your body,

Its solidity and spaciousness,

Its collection of cells,

Each cell carrying your DNA,

The unique combination of factors that makes you,

You.

The building blocks of life that carry your ancestral experience,

That respond to your lived experience.

You may visualize a double helix or any shape that represents your DNA,

Right there in every cell of your body.

You may even notice sounds or awarenesses coming from your DNA as it hums through your body,

Singing the song of life.

Allow yourself to become aware of your mitochondrial DNA.

You might visualize this in some way.

You might feel it somewhere in your body.

You might hear its unique notes in the tune of your body.

Or you might just be conscious that you do have mitochondrial DNA and that this is enough.

Begin to be aware of the female line,

A line of direct genetic ancestry from whom you inherited this DNA.

You might just appreciate the consciousness that they existed.

Or you might even experience them standing behind or beside you.

Recent and ancient grandmothers and grandparents,

Passers on of mitochondrial DNA.

As you invite in an awareness of the vastness of thousands of generations going back into the past,

Certain things may naturally become a little hazy but this is okay,

It is enough that they are there.

And if there is a particular ancestor who wishes to develop a relationship with you,

That will happen naturally in time.

As you are aware of this long line of people who pass their mitochondrial DNA directly to you,

You may also be aware of different body shapes,

Skin tones,

Roles and identities.

One or more of your direct female ancestors may whisper part of their story in your ear,

Transmit to you a sensation or give you a glimpse into their lived experience.

However transitory,

Accept the knowledge these female ancestors wish to share with you as a sacred gift.

As you follow the line back,

Be aware of the billions of other people who are alive on the planet at this moment.

Know that each of them is also following their line back in parallel.

Before long,

Perhaps even in this generation or the next,

Your line will join with that of another living person.

And as you travel further and further back through time,

More and more lines join together.

Eventually all lines become one and there at that point stands mitochondrial Eve.

You may have an image of her,

A sensation or even the sound of a voice.

You may just know that she is there.

Simply by engaging in this practice,

You are transmitting to her that she matters enough for you to wish to honour her.

Sit with your connection to mitochondrial Eve for a moment.

And notice whatever arises.

There may be blessings,

Gratitude,

Respect,

Love or something else that you wish to offer mitochondrial Eve.

Take time to do this now,

Knowing that as you do so,

You offer these blessings to all her descendants.

Mitochondrial Eve asks you to remember that all living humans on this planet are your cousins and to treat them with the love,

Kindness,

Respect and care due to your kin.

She asks you to raise each other up,

Her descendants.

Listen now for anything else that mitochondrial Eve wishes to ask or offer you.

Finally,

Mitochondrial Eve holds out her hands and within them you see mitochondrial DNA,

The DNA that she will pass down to every descendant and that one of her female descendants will pass to the next and the next and the next until it comes to you.

You might experience this DNA as a shape or a colour.

It might have a sound attached or a resonance or a feeling.

Know that you can send loving,

Healing energy to this DNA now,

To be encoded and passed down through the generations.

Breathe in and invite gentle,

Golden energy in from source,

Which is infinite and awaiting only your intention.

And breathe out,

Sending that gentle,

Golden energy into the mitochondrial DNA,

Focusing on what you wish for mitochondrial Eve and all her descendants.

This might be peace,

Ease,

Safety,

Strength,

Resilience,

Joy,

Love or any other blessing that is really a birthright.

Continue to breathe the gentle,

Golden energy through as you charge the mitochondrial DNA.

It's time to return to the present.

And as you prefer to travel back down the generations,

You become aware of her children and her children's children.

Mitochondrial Eve sprinkles them with the charged DNA and sprinkles you as well.

As you turn your awareness to the next generation and the next.

Until you come to the most recent generations.

Keep breathing that golden energy in and out,

Offering a recharge as you move through the generations.

Until you get back to the here and now in the place of the ancestors.

Giving thanks to the ancestors,

And particularly to mitochondrial Eve and all those who have carried her DNA from the ancient past to you in the present.

You begin to take your leave of the place of the ancestors.

Stepping out of the tapestry,

You follow the thread back through your internal landscape.

Noticing any sights,

Sounds and sensations as you do so.

Eventually you get back to that still,

Quiet,

Dark place within and spend a moment to pause there.

And then you bring yourself out and back to the present,

To your practice place.

Becoming aware of the sensations in your body,

Stretching or readjusting yourself as you wish.

Noticing the sounds around you.

And if you haven't already,

You can open your eyes.

That's all for now.

Have a wonderful rest of your day.