Sleep Series: Dawn

Dawn - A guided meditation to lead you gently over the threshold between night and day. An invitation to begin your day at the pace of the changing light, in rhythm with the natural world and to experience each shifting moment as precious and unique. To be listened to at the dawn itself or whenever you want to transition peacefully and positively between rest and activity. Listen to the full series to give you the full experience of a deep restful night and a gentle awakening.

Music by Sietze Bouma

Transcript

I can't miss any day,

No no no.

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There is a moment when light begins to return and somewhere in our animal bodies we know it let yourself tune into that instinct let it begin to sing to you like the first bird breaking the silence beginning the dawn chorus one moment there is silence and the next there is a tiny lone voice and the next moment another and another and another as the birds sing it's as though they are singing goodbye to the stars and singing in the colour of the day let your awareness brighten at the pace of the changing light slowly but unfulturingly let thoughts come in but let them in slowly let your silent,

Wordless,

Wise body be the ground upon which dawn breaks first let it speak to you of what this particular dawn means let the dawn break over all of the shapes of your life the creatures and objects that surround you and the inner landscape of your own being watch with the fresh morning eyes as each shape shows itself watch as each shape emerges first from the greyness and then showing itself in colour see what these fresh eyes can show you before the shapes around you and inside you become so familiar that you think you know them let your body and your fresh eyes guide you into meeting this day as the rising sun draws back the curtains of the night see your whole world as a stage every part of it flooded with the light of a new possibility sense into this moment of choice this moment of choosing how to step onto the stage of the day feel both a fine thread that still holds you to the gentleness of the night that may still pull you backwards but no more strongly the draw of the rising light the draw that is asking your body to move that is showing it how the same instinct that is calling the birds to sing the same instinct that is calling you to sing there is the shimmering light of dawn broadens into the clear light of all day let your body lead you into that full day let your body's wise instincts show you how to move and think and sing in the

Reviews

Just miraculous ✨
The birds singing, the voice, the music, the poetic words🌿
Thank you deeply 🙏

What a beautiful way to greet the morning. Thank you for this gift. I’ll return to it many times. 🙏