Welcome to the sacred unraveling a seven-day journey Today is day one,
Arriving here.
A somatic meditation for coming home to the body as it is.
Welcome dear sister.
Welcome.
To the beginning not the beginning of something new.
But the beginning of your willingness to arrive.
To truly arrive here in this body.
In this breath.
In this exact moment of your life.
Which is unlike any moment that has come before it.
I'd like you to find a position that allows your body to feel held You may lie down or sit with your back supported.
Or curl into whatever shape feels most like coming home.
There is no correct posture for what we are about to do today together.
There is only this.
You allowing yourself.
To be here.
So I'd like you to gently close your eyes.
Begin by simply noticing that you are already breathing.
You did not have to remember to do it.
Your body has been doing it faithfully.
Every minute.
Of every hour.
Of every year of your life.
I want you to let that land for a moment.
Your body has never abandoned you.
Even when it has felt unfamiliar.
Even when it has felt like a stranger.
So take one slow breath in through your nose.
Let your belly soften and expand first.
Then your ribs,
Then the very top of your chest.
And exhale slowly.
Completely.
Through a slightly parted mouth.
As if you are releasing something you have been holding onto for a very,
Very long time.
Because perhaps You have been.
Take another breath just like that.
And another.
With each exhale,
Feel gravity doing its work,
Drawing your weight downward,
Inviting your shoulders to drop.
Your jaw to unclench.
Your hands to open like flowers turning towards the earth.
Arriving in this body.
Now bring your awareness to the soles of your feet.
Simply just notice them.
Notice the temperature of the air around them.
Or the warmth of the fabric against your skin.
You don't need to change anything.
You are simply saying,
I am here.
I am paying attention.
Slowly,
Like a warm wave of awareness,
I want it to travel upward.
Feel it into your calves.
Into your knees.
The soft weight of your thighs.
You may notice tightness or tingling or nothing at all,
And all of it is welcome.
This is a homecoming to your body.
You are moving through your own home room by room.
Turning on a gentle light.
Continue upward towards your hips and your pelvis,
The basin that has held so much.
The seat of your creativity.
Your cycles,
Your deepest feminine wisdom.
You may notice that this area holds sensation right now.
So perhaps.
Let it go.
Let go of the tension.
Let go of the grief.
Let go of any strange or unfamiliar aliveness.
Whatever is there,
Place your hand over your lower belly and simply say,
I see you.
I am here.
Let yourself travel towards your belly and your ribs and your heart and notice the rise and fall of your chest with each breath.
Notice that your heart is beating.
Faithfully.
Without asking you to do anything in return.
Rest your awareness here for a moment.
In this quiet,
Continuous act of devotion.
Your body performs for you day after day after day.
Let's move into your shoulders where so many of us carry the weight.
Of what have not yet been allowed to put down.
Let them drop.
Just a little more.
Let's move into the throat,
The place of your voice,
Your truth,
Your unspoken words.
You do not need to say anything right now.
Simply just be present to it.
And finally,
Rest your awareness at the crown of your head.
Imagine a warm,
Soft light entering through this very point.
Like sunlight through a skylight.
Traveling slowly down.
Through your entire body.
Filling every cell with permission.
Permission to be here.
Permission to be in transition.
Permission to be exactly where you are.
What the body knows dear sister is the changes you are moving through the heat that rises without warning.
The nights that refuse to sleep,
The emotions that arrive unannounced.
The question of who you are becoming.
None of this is your body failing you.
Your body is speaking.
It is unraveling the old architecture.
To make way for something ancient.
And sacred within you.
Something that has been waiting a very long time to emerge.
In the tradition of Chinese medicine,
This time of life is not called decline.
It is called your second spring.
The vital life force.
That has flowed outward in cycles.
In creation in nurturing.
Is now turning inward.
It is gathering.
It is deepening.
It is becoming wisdom.
And in the Ayurvedic tradition,
This is the time of Vata.
Of wind.
And movement.
And transformation.
The element that governs all change in the body.
When Vata rises,
We may feel unsettled.
As if the ground beneath us is shifting.
And it is shifting.
That is the truth of it.
But the ground does not disappear.
It simply becomes.
Something different.
And so do we.
You are not falling apart,
Dear one.
You are coming apart at the seams of who you used to be.
To make room for who you are becoming.
Let's go through some affirmations.
I arrive here in this body.
In this breath in this moment of my unraveling.
I don't need to understand it to trust it.
I don't need to be comfortable to be safe.
I am here,
I have always been here And here is exactly where I need to be.
So my sister,
Stay here as long as you like.
There is nowhere else you need to be.
No version of yourself you need to perform.
No symptom you need to explain or apologize for.
Simply rest in the quiet company of your own beautiful body.
Which has carried you this far.
Which carries you still.
Which knows things about you that your mind has not yet caught up to.
When you're ready begin to deepen your breath You can gently wiggle your fingers and toes.
Let awareness return slowly to the room.
The sounds.
The light.
And as you open your eyes,
Carry this one simple knowing with you.
That you have arrived.
And the unraveling has begun.
Tomorrow we're going to go deeper into the fire that rises within you.
And the ancient intelligence it carries.
But for now,
Rest here.
You've done enough.
Namaste.
