Welcome to this Summer Solstice practice.
You can sit or lie down comfortably.
And if you'd like to bring your eyes to close,
Go ahead and blink your eyes to close.
Beginning to settle into this moment and noticing your body.
And just in a really gentle way,
Move your awareness from the top of your body all the way down to the bottom of your body or the part of your body that is in contact with whatever is beneath you.
And as you feel the foundation of your body,
Notice the floor beneath you,
Notice the earth beneath you.
Just really letting yourself touch down fully in this moment in the physical realm.
And then shift your attention to your breath and just take a gentle breath in.
As you breathe out,
Just feel the weight of your body being able to release down into the floor,
Down into the earth.
And taking a couple more breaths like that,
Just easy,
Gentle inhales,
Feeling how the body opens to receive that breath.
And then as you breathe out,
Softening,
Surrendering the weight of your body down into the earth.
Inviting your breath to become a little bit slower,
Maybe a little bit deeper.
Maybe releasing your jaw or allowing the muscles around your eyes to loosen and relax.
Inviting your shoulders to drop away from the ears,
Feeling your spine long and your belly open,
Taking up some space.
And even opening into the space of your pelvis and your hips.
As you breathe in and out,
Maybe you can feel a sense of openness through the pelvis and hips.
And we're going to open the crown chakra,
Opening the crown of the head as this is the place where we're going to invite beautiful sun to shine its light down into our beautiful bodies to nourish us and the dreams,
The desires,
The wishes,
The intentions that we hold,
That we wish to grow in our lives.
And so just very lightly place your index finger,
The tip of your index finger right up at the crown of the head.
You're just going to lightly touch this place.
And as you touch this place at the very crown of your head,
Breathe into that point and just say silently,
Or you could even say it out loud,
Open.
Open to receive the light.
Open to receive this gift,
This medicine of light.
You may feel a little bit of tingling or vibration or warmth right there at the crown of the head.
Just take one more breath into this area.
And then as you breathe out,
Just gently,
Gently allow your finger,
Allow your hand,
Your arm to release.
Stay aware of this point.
Stay aware of this open crown chakra.
And from your crown,
The very top of your head,
You just drop your awareness down.
Just a couple inches down into the middle of your head,
Your brain.
This is where the pineal gland resides.
This is just a small little gland shaped like a pine cone.
And this gland will help us receive the light.
So feel that space,
Breathe into it.
Sometimes you can feel a sense of coolness,
Like you're tapping into a reservoir of cool honey,
The center of your brain that is overflowing with goodness,
Waiting to release its magical healing elixir into the rest of your body.
And again,
Just notice your whole body as you're tapped in now to your crown chakra and to your pineal gland.
And again,
Maybe soften the outer shell of your body or just release your jaw,
Your shoulders.
Feel the breath flowing in deeply,
Expanding you as you inhale and softening and releasing the weight of your body down into the earth as you exhale.
And then in your mind's eye,
See the brilliant sun above you.
And as you connect to the sun,
The energy of the sun,
Just notice how the sun responds.
Can you feel a genuine connection with the sun?
And does the sun respond to this connection?
Be smiling towards the sun with your own presence,
Smiling towards the sun with a sense of appreciation and gratitude for the light,
The nourishment that it provides you and your life and this planet in your own way,
Through your own presence and connection to the sun,
Saying thank you for helping all things grow.
And the sun has this light to give to you.
And so now let yourself receive this gift from the sun,
This gift of brilliant life-giving light.
See the rays of the sun shining down upon you,
Brightening up the space around you,
Resting lightly upon your skin,
Giving you a warm glow.
And specifically begin to feel the sun of the light landing right at the crown of your head,
Shining down through the crown of your head and landing on your pineal gland,
Feeling your pineal gland receiving this beautiful light,
Receiving it,
Making love with this light as it takes it in,
Using this light to create its own elixir,
Which then begins to pour out of the pineal gland and down into the deepest,
Deepest space of your heart and then flowing even deeper down into the pit of your belly and even flowing deeper into the depth of your pelvis and begin to be lit up by this elixir that has been anointed by the light of the sun,
Begin to drink it in and be filled up with it.
Feel the pleasure of it as it touches you on the inside and let yourself receive this liquid gold can make anything grow.
And in this moment,
It's nourishing every cell of your body and you're welcome to just stay with that.
Maybe you are wishing to grow your own energy,
Your own wellbeing,
Your own physical health.
Stay with this moment and the sensation.
But if you do have a dream,
A desire,
A longing,
You have a seed of intention that you'd like to give some of this energy to,
If you'd like to infuse your desire with this powerful life-giving elixir.
Allow yourself to acknowledge what your desire is.
If possible,
You could conjure up an image of this desire when manifest,
Or you can simply think the thought of this desire.
And you can also just feel what you imagine it will feel like when this dream is real.
And bring that down into your center and allow this light that your cells have been receiving,
Allow your dream to be fed.
Allow it to take in the nourishment that it needs from the light to grow.
This magical light-filled elixir works in mysterious ways.
So it may feel as though your dream is just being filled up with positive energy,
Or it may feel as though there's a little energetic surgery taking place,
Where certain things are releasing,
Certain things are being reorganized,
Certain things are coming in.
You don't have to know how your dream or desire or intention is going to arise.
You don't need to know all of the steps that are needed for it to grow,
Because there is a higher intelligence at work right now wiring you and your dream to grow.
So continue to just breathe here,
Feeling this growth beginning to take place deep inside of you.
Acknowledging again the sun,
The rays of the sun,
How it lands upon the space around you and upon your skin,
The crown of your head,
The opening for the light to pass down into your body,
Touching,
Landing upon your pineal gland,
Where the pineal gland then receives that light,
Turning that light into this magical healing life-giving force that can then travel down into your body,
Feeding your body,
Nourishing your body,
And specifically nourishing your dream,
Your desire.
This elixir will continue to nourish you and your dream,
Continue to feed you,
It will continue to help organize things on the inside so that this desire of yours can begin to grow in a very organic and natural way.
Lifting your awareness up to the sun,
Notice how the sun responds as you again offer thanks to the brilliant life-giving light that it offers so freely to the planet.
Maybe even energetically bowing to the sun,
Truly honoring the sun.
And then letting go of that direct connection to the sun and just bring your awareness back to yourself,
Your body,
This planet,
This moment,
And feeling how you are naturally equipped to grow.
And now that you've really consciously tapped into this abundance of energy,
You can grow anything.
Take one last deep breath,
Breathing in.
And as you exhale,
Allow the weight of the body to rest into the earth like you could gather your poems together at the front of your chest or rest your hands over your heart,
Sealing in the summer solstice practice.
May everything that you wish for come gracefully into fruition.
Thank you for joining me.
