Hello and welcome.
My name is Yelena and this is your end-of-year gratitude practice called Fertile Ground.
We create Fertile Ground for our future by acknowledging the past and receiving all of the gifts that it has to offer.
For this practice all you do is receive.
So take a moment now to find your most comfortable posture,
Whether you're sitting or lying down.
Allow yourself to feel supported wherever you are.
As you nestle in,
Gently draw your gaze inward by closing or softening the eyes and just begin to notice that the body is breathing.
Bring your awareness to how the body receives the breath effortlessly.
You're not shaping the breath.
There's nothing to do and nothing to get right right now.
Feel the body's weight held by the support underneath and taking a deep breath in.
Allow the body to soften just by one degree more and invite another deep breath right into the heart space,
Allowing the body to soften just a bit more and a bit more,
Feeling your entire body held by the support.
Begin to widen your field of awareness.
Feel and sense the space surrounding the body.
Allow your awareness to witness yourself in this moment,
Here and now,
In this moment,
Here and now.
Now allow your awareness to gently travel in time to the beginning of this year.
Remember where you were,
Who you were with and who you were at the beginning of this year.
Allow that quality to come to your awareness now,
Even if you don't have a specific visual or memory attached to it.
Now begin to scan the timeline of your entire year,
Allowing whatever memories that want to surface,
Surface without effort,
Simply watching and witnessing.
And as you do,
In your mind's eye,
Imagine pouring golden white light on all the memories that surface without effort,
With your kind attention,
Pouring golden white light on the entire timeline of your year,
As you scan it in your own way,
Taking your time.
You will hear my voice in two minutes.
Wherever you are,
Begin to gently arrive to the present moment by remembering the space that you are in.
Sense the weight of your body on the support underneath.
Feel the quality of fertile ground holding and supporting you,
Always holding and supporting you.
Before you return fully from this practice,
Take a moment to acknowledge one gift that the past year has offered you and that you want to take with you into the next year.
Inviting a deeper breath into the body,
Inviting some gentle movements.
And as you return fully,
Just gently open your eyes and take a moment to notate anything you want to remember from this practice and what you want to take with you.
You are on fertile ground.
This practice is now complete.
