Grow Your Roots

Sometimes we are in our heads and we want to come down to our bodies for clarification. This meditation is meant as a tool to help in those days. Growing your roots allows you to reconnect to your human body and the caring energy of mother Earth.

Transcript

Grow your roots with Andrea Tamaro. Find a comfortable seated position, Whether sitting cross-legged on the ground or on a chair with your feet flat on the ground. In this position start acknowledging the rhythmic breath that your body does, How with the inhale air goes through your nostrils and inside your body expanding it and how with the exhale the air goes out your nostrils and you let go. Stay for a few moments, Getting to know that rhythmic breath without changing anything, Just being there, Watching the inhale and watching the exhale, How it makes your body feel and react. And now bring your attention to the end of your spine, That point that you are sitting on and connects you to the earth. While bringing your attention there, Acknowledge how it feels, How you sense it, Maybe it might be even telling you something and allow that to be coming to you. In contact with your rhythmic breath and with the focus on that end point of your column, Roots are gonna come out of it and go inside the earth. The first gonna start to grow in the horizontal direction, As far as you need them so that you feel comfortable, Feel the shape, Feel the speed that they are growing and also feel how they move through the ground to get bigger, To extend and then after a while they start moving in the vertical direction. The roots start getting thicker and stronger and they move with determination on their path down. They first have this loose earth, You might even smell it, You sense how it feels when the roots go through there and how they move, The layers get a little bit more compact and the roots keep growing farther down the earth and the roots might encounter caves through which water runs through and the roots feel the cold and the wetness of those caves fill with water and that makes them grow farther down, Stronger and in a good rhythm, Wandering farther down the layers of the earth and they become stronger and stable and unstoppable. They even pass layers that feel warm and liquid until they reach the center of the earth where a quartz crystal represents the center and they see it and they grow towards the center of the earth and they surround the crystal with their roots and they wrap around it, Holding tight and strong. Experience the energy of the earth that pulls the crystal, The quartz crystal is sending towards you through the roots with all your senses, How it feels in your body, How you acknowledge it expanding that energy through you, Maybe a color comes to your mind or a smell or a sensation, Allow that to be there with you, To expand that feeling and expand this experience of grounding even more and acknowledge how your breath keeps that rhythm pattern and helps you expand that sensation within you, Of being whole, Of being supported with every step you take and when you feel you have had enough you thank the earth for the energetic pulse it gave you, You thank yourself for taking the time and the willingness to do this meditation and whenever you feel ready you open your eyes, You move your feet, You move your hands to come back to the present moment. Namaste.