Welcome.
Welcome to this guided journey into the elements.
I'm Allison and I will be guiding you.
Before we begin,
Come to a comfortable position that may look like lying on your back,
Perhaps sitting in a chair or on the floor and using props or blankets to support you.
Whatever shape your body chooses,
Take the next couple moments to find a nourishing position that relaxes you.
Once there,
Make any adjustments and movements before settling into the body,
Allowing the body to surrender to the earth.
If you are laying on your back,
Allow your spine to curve to its natural curvature along the floor or surface.
If you are sitting up,
Allow the spine to stack vertebrae by vertebrae like a stem of a lotus reaching up toward the water's surface.
Whatever position you choose for this journey,
Create a bit more ease and space,
Inviting your shoulders to shrug up to your ease with a light squeeze and then settling them back down between your shoulder blades.
The tension that's built up from the day releasing and softening your neck and back body.
Open your jaw slightly and give it a wiggle side to side and then soften it into stillness.
Giving your hips now a little wiggle side to side.
Notice any sensations fluttering out and then coming back to stillness.
Now bring your hands to a comfortable position,
Perhaps on your thighs turned up or down on your belly or womb space or besides you on the earth,
Palms to the sky ready to receive.
Make any last adjustments before settling into your shape.
Now that you have found your shape,
We'll take three clearing breaths together.
Inhaling through the nose,
Pausing for a moment at the top and opening the mouth to sigh out.
Once again,
Inhaling feeling the breath expand the body.
A weightless pause and a slow smooth sigh out.
And once more inhaling softly filling up.
Moment of pause and a gentle slow sigh out of the mouth.
We begin our journey.
Traveling to the east.
The element of air to the birth of dawn and the excitement of springtime.
Where the wings of inspiration fly upon the winds of insight.
Where breath dances in sacred reciprocity between yourself and the trees.
May you feel as you inhale this gift from the trees,
This life force gifted to you.
And on the exhale may you return the breath generously back.
Allowing the inhales and exhales of breath of air breathe you.
Dance you in prana.
Dance in this delight and wonder and awe of the subtle stirrings of air and of the clear vision given to you.
Journeying down to the south to the element of fire.
Of noontime sun and summer solstices.
And outward dance of long slow days.
May you feel the sun's passion as it ignites the fire within you.
Feel this passion come alive in your belly,
In your womb.
As the winds of your breath blow bellows of air into the embers of your fire igniting you.
This light that illuminates your path of where you are headed.
Be guided by this fire to pursue your purpose.
And may this flame transform and transmute what no longer serves you.
The ash returning to the earth.
A phoenix arising from the ash.
May this heat ignite your sensual and sexual nature.
Creating from the place of your burning heart's desire.
Journeying now to the west.
To the element of water.
Seeing your reflection at the water's surface.
Amongst the setting sun and the years harvest.
From a puddle to ponds to lakes and streams to rivers to the great ocean that wraps and embraces earth.
Embraces you in her weightless wisdom.
May you learn from this great shapeshifter.
Teaching you to flow effortlessly in your own life.
Releasing the intuition in each cell of your body plumped with the presence of water's wisdom.
Awaken to the water in you as a reflection of the world around you.
Pulled by the tides of the moon.
You are cleansed by her purity.
And feel the constant shifting movement flowing of your emotions within your cells.
Honor this movement to navigate so freely in your body as you soften and surrender.
Traveling now to the north element of earth.
To Pachamama,
To Gaia,
To your home.
To midnight dreaming and the solace of winter.
A turning inward.
May you learn from the earth the wisdom of stillness.
Of silence.
Of presence.
Of this moment right here.
Right now.
And feel this wisdom settle into your bones.
Supporting your body as you root deep into earth.
Connecting with all life here.
Be embraced by earth and recognize her embrace with every step you take.
She meets you wherever you are.
And may earth teach us the greatest surrender yet.
Of death.
But the wisdom of knowing.
This is purely a transition into rebirth.
We journey to the above and the below.
To the here and now.
To the element of ether.
The akasha.
The cosmos.
To the great unknown of your destiny.
Ether.
The space that holds time,
Elements,
Directions,
Rhythms,
Cycles,
Seasons.
Ether.
That births hearts.
That births wombs.
That births galaxies and pulses and vibrates all elements into aliveness.
May you feel this vibration,
This current running within your bodies.
Always pulsating,
Playing,
Dancing in the stillness.
Silence.
Presence.
Feeling the wisdom in your being.
This divine play within you.
Awaken to this dream time of creation.
And with the elements alive in you,
May you create the dream for your fully realized self.
Receiving this vibration as soft waves.
Awakening every cell,
Every particle in a harmonic song sung just for you.
Awaken the subtlest of bodies within you.
Of bliss.
Of peace.
Truth.
Love.
Joy.
Grace.
Of the infinite possibilities.
Embodying these elements,
Fire,
Fire,
Water,
Earth,
Ether.
Feeling them come alive,
Expressed as your intuition.
Your intelligence.
Your emotions.
Your physical being.
And your bliss.
Slowly,
Slowly,
Slowly,
Slowly,
Slowly coming back into your surroundings.
Back into the room.
Bringing your awareness where your body and the earth meet.
Allowing your mouth to fall open and have breath come in and out of your body naturally.
Expanding your body.
Feeling the rising and falling of breath.
Bringing your awareness to the tips of your fingers and toes.
Breathing movement into them.
Slowly move your head from one side to the other.
Awakening the back of your skull and neck with small movement.
Making your movements larger now.
Perhaps a yawn slips out.
Perhaps a stretch is in order.
Taking a deep inhale through the nose,
Expanding.
And sighing out of the mouth.
Softening.
Bringing your palms together.
Giving them a little rub.
Cultivating a bit of heat between the palms.
And then placing them over your heart.
Thanking the elements alive in you for their unconditional presence and support on your journey.
Again,
Rubbing the palms together.
And now placing them over your eyes.
Feeling the warmth transfer.
And when you're ready,
Blinking.
Blinking your eyes open to the comfort of your palms.
And slowly taking in the room again.
Thank you for coming on this journey into the elements.
Feeling the elements come alive in you.
May this journey meet your day ever so gently.
