Welcome to the 7 Wonders Retreat Series.
My name is Tina Bruce.
We begin by retreating inwards.
Feel your body breathing.
Sense the current of grace running through your heart and let's wander towards your soul.
Imagine now you are perched on a rock above the sea at the very edge of an ancient Greek island.
There are smooth pebbles lining the shore in cloudy blue,
Dusty pink and charcoal.
You look out at the horizon where the sunset greets the ocean.
The moon rises,
Enormous and wise,
Against a clear sky peppered with stars.
Sparkling its evening shine on the surface like dancing points of light.
The smell of salty air whips through your loose hair.
Calming waves of turquoise and aquamarine invite you to stand and look at your reflection on the surface shimmering back at you.
Something pierces your heart,
Awakening you to open and receive.
Everything is suddenly crystal clear.
How does it feel to see your own reflection?
What lives below the surface of your image,
Your projection,
Your appearance?
Too often our conditioning causes us to reject our shape,
Our form and our own physical nature.
Even illness or pain can create a feeling of disappointment towards our bodies.
Our minds constantly measuring,
Weighing,
Comparing and criticising.
This can cause our hearts to close like a clamshell,
Unable to receive the divine feminine energy of love,
Beauty and worthiness.
You feel a sudden impulse to dive beneath the surface of the water into another realm entirely.
Exhilarated and weightless,
You allow the current to take you on this journey to a sacred site so deep it is hidden and protected.
Magnetically you're drawn to the epicentre of the Mediterranean Ocean,
To the temple of Aphrodite.
Breathtakingly embodied,
The spiritual ancestor of this sacred site,
Aphrodite,
Places her soothing hand over your heart and speaks to you now.
Gorgeous woman,
Retreat to this temple when you have lost compassion,
Turned on yourself or abandoned your body.
Are you willing to let go of all your past hurts?
Are you willing to wash away your inhibitions?
Give it all over to this ocean now,
The depths of love reach deeper than any sea.
Breathe and remember who you are,
A borrowed constellation of atoms bound to return to the stardust that made them.
Your soul has chosen your body as its temple.
The pain you feel is its attempt to heal you.
Open now to receive this blessing from your ocean soul.
Soft,
Sensitive,
Feminine and supremely sovereign.
Feel yourself floating now,
Freely through liquid love,
Ignited with a propulsion to swim back to the surface,
Radiating a new frequency.
As you rise out of the ocean like a goddess connected back to the earth,
Your reflection now is love.
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