Welcome to this shamanic journey to the eternal heart.
We will be inviting in the plant spirit medicine of Rose to assist us in this journey today.
A shamanic journey is a ceremonial ritual that we can enter into with deep intention,
Holding a specific question in our awareness.
And for this journey I invite you to ask the question,
What does my heart want me to remember?
During this guided experience you'll hear the rhythmic sound of the chakapa plant inviting you to enter into an altered state of consciousness.
This will allow your spirit to go on a journey between realms or worlds where you can receive guidance or engage with helping spirits.
You will be fully guided to return back to your body at the end of this journey so you can feel very free to follow where your spirit takes you.
Listening to the sound of my voice and at any point in time when it feels right for you to let go of that you can.
So at this point in time I invite you to create a safe cozy space for yourself to relax into.
I recommend that you lay down for this practice and feel fully supported by any cushions,
Pillows,
Warm blankets,
Whatever you need to feel totally at ease.
If it's helpful for you to use an eye pillow or a scarf to guide your awareness inwards you can cover your eyes.
Beginning to settle into your cozy space now,
Inviting your awareness to shift inwards,
Letting the eyelids softly close,
Feeling the warmth of the environment around you,
The comfort of the surface below you,
The comfort of any warm clothing,
Any blankets,
Gently caressing your skin,
Sensing the earth below you and the sky above you,
Trusting in how deeply held you are between these two benevolent forces,
The sky above and the earth below and your heart within.
Taking a deep inhale in through the nose,
Filling the lungs all the way up,
Opening the mouth and letting that air go.
Doing that a few more times,
Welcoming your inhalation,
Setting the exhalation free,
Allowing the breath to carry away any places of tension,
Any spaces that are maybe holding or clenching,
Breathing in softness,
Breathing out any tension,
Bringing your awareness to your back body,
Awareness of the back body in this downward bearing energy.
Allowing yourself to get heavy,
Heavy,
Heavy.
We'll invite in now a golden light,
Imagining that this golden light is shining over the crown of the head and as you stay with the breath,
You breathe this light into the body.
Wherever the light travels,
The body relaxes.
Wherever the light travels,
Resistance releases.
Golden light sweeping down and in over the head,
Down your neck,
Trickling down your arms to the fingertips,
Golden light swirling at the heart,
In the belly,
In the pelvis,
Relaxing,
Letting go.
As that light travels into the hips,
The buttocks,
Down your legs,
Into the feet and all 10 toes,
Feeling your entire body completely relaxed and held in this warm,
Welcoming light.
From this space,
We can bring our awareness back to the intention of this journey.
Remembering that question that you wanted to ask,
Or perhaps going with the question,
What does my heart want me to remember?
What does my heart want me to remember?
Holding this intention closely inside of you,
Beginning to allow your spirit to feel light inside of you.
Your spirit beginning to rise up,
Up,
Up,
Beginning to float above the surface of the body.
Your spirit can look down and gaze upon the space where you rest now,
Seeing your body laying as you are,
Completely comfortable and connected.
Allowing yourself to follow the guidance now of your spirit,
Your spirit being called to go on this journey to the eternal heart,
To see what answers,
Guidance,
Love rests there for you.
Giving your spirit permission now to travel where it is meant to travel.
Your spirit soaring,
Soaring,
Soaring,
And eventually landing upon earth.
Feet touch down on cool,
Moist soil.
The richness of the soil squishing between your feet.
The texture of plants tickling your toes.
You find yourself walking down a path,
One foot in front of the other,
Taking in the world around you with all five senses.
Smelling the scents on the air.
Tasting that air.
Listening to the sounds of nature.
Becoming acutely aware of your own heartbeat.
The heartbeat of nature around you.
The elements.
The sky above.
The light of the moon and the sun.
As you continue to walk,
This heartbeat grows stronger.
You catch the scent of a beautiful,
Luscious floral aroma on the wind,
And you feel yourself carried forward,
Drawn towards this flower.
The pulse,
The heartbeat growing stronger.
You are carried forward as a golden light appears in the distance.
You feel its call.
You come closer and closer until the light begins to envelope you.
Golden light shining all around you.
This light is warm.
It is soft and it is gentle.
It is familiar.
As you breathe this light in,
Your gaze begins to study upon the center of this light.
You see opening up before you a beautiful rose.
Soft and luscious.
Her petals flower open all around you,
Inviting you to step in.
Her scent is strong.
Her presence is tangible.
She reaches out to you,
And you understand in this moment that she is your passageway to the eternal heart.
With all of the gratitude and humility in your heart,
You ask her for permission to step through.
To merge with her.
To be carried to the heart that connects all things.
She grants you permission,
And you step through the door.
You find yourself in a pool of water.
You can feel the pulse of life that is carried through its current.
The original heartbeat.
Feel yourself connecting spirit to spirit.
As you feel comfortable and ready,
You can ask your question.
Ask what you came here to know,
What you came here to feel and experience.
Open to allowing and receiving the wisdom of the spirit of love to flow through you and enter your own heart.
What is it that you are ready to remember?
What does your heart want you to remember?
Allow whatever form of communication expresses itself to come through.
Release any expectation and simply open your heart to absorb the guidance that is being transmitted to you now.
You understand that it is time to return now.
Take a moment here to thank the spirit for her guidance.
You understand that you now carry this wisdom,
This healing within you.
Even if it doesn't make sense right now,
You have received exactly what you were meant to receive.
Offering your gratitude to the eternal heart.
You turn and you find the roots of the rose spirit in front of you.
You ask permission to return now to your body and she opens her arms.
This time you step through the portal inside of her roots and you are carried up,
Up,
Up her stem.
Traveling higher and higher and higher past her thorns,
Past her boundaries,
Past her leaves.
Eventually finding yourself in the embrace of her soft petals,
She gently places you back upon the earth.
Feet touching down on cool,
Moist soil.
Offering your gratitude and your thanks to the spirit of rose.
You turn around and you see that same path that brought you to her.
You remember the golden light and her aroma that carried you.
Feeling whole and intact,
You begin your journey back to your body.
Connecting to the sensation of earth under feet.
The elements dancing around you,
The heartbeat of the universe.
Taking in the sounds,
The scents,
The tastes and the sensations.
Noticing the sky,
Any shifts in the environment around you.
As you continue one foot in front of the other,
Back to that space where your body is resting.
Beginning to take flight now.
Your spirit soaring in the sky above,
Soaring,
Soaring,
Soaring back to the physical body.
You feel yourself drawn near now.
You're returning home,
You're returning home to yourself.
You see the home that you're laying in.
The soft,
Cozy space you've created for the physical body.
And your spirit draws nearer and nearer,
Hovering over the body.
Gazing down upon yourself with so much love.
Loving yourself the way you would a child.
Admiration for the gift that you are.
The heart,
The love that you carry.
Your spirit begins to draw closer and closer to you.
Counting down from 10.
You land in your body in 10,
9,
8,
7.
Drawing closer and closer,
6,
5,
4.
Almost there,
3,
2,
1.
You are home.
Back in the body,
Take a full inhale in through the nose.
Open the mouth,
Let it go.
Slowly beginning to reorient into the here,
Into the now.
Continuing to breathe in and out.
Maybe wiggling your fingers or your toes.
Welcoming in a full body stretch.
Scanning from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes.
Feeling yourself fully embodied,
Fully rooted back here in this physical realm.
Take your hands,
Place them over your heart.
Find a deep breath.
Feel the sensation of your own heart beating.
Offering our gratitude here and now together,
Collectively,
To the spirit of Rose.
This wise,
Loving plant.
Thanking her for her generosity,
Her care,
Her tenderness,
Her fierceness.
All that she is and all that she shared with you today.
Understanding that it's okay to not know exactly what that was in this moment.
Allowing yourself to carry any healings,
Any offerings,
Gifts,
Visions,
Symbols,
Words,
Prayers,
Into the rest of your day,
Into the rest of your evening.
Knowing that the spirit of Rose is here to dance with you,
Here to weave your dreams.
Thank you,
Rose.
And thank you,
Heart,
For being willing to go on this journey.
To touch back home to that place of unity.
That place where all separation is simply an illusion.
Back to the eternal heart that can never be broken,
That can never be dimmed of its own light.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
