The Last Slither: Year Of The Wood Snake Release

This meditation supports the natural process of shedding and release as the Wood Snake year comes to a close. You’ll be guided through grounding, breathwork, and symbolic reflection to help loosen old layers and reconnect with your emerging self. Expect a gentle, spacious practice designed to help you move forward with clarity and ease.

Transcript

So I'll give you kind of a few minutes to find a comfortable seat or if you want to lay down.

However feels right for you.

Anytime we do guided meditations you're still absorbing it through your subconscious.

So sometimes too it is the matter of just really being present and listening to the words coming through.

This guided meditation is something that I created for release and I called it the last slither because of the year of the snake.

So yeah if whenever you find that you're comfortable whether you're seated lying down if it feels right you can close your eyes or soften your gaze downward and take a deep breath in through your nose and let it out through your mouth with a sigh.

You can make some noise with it.

We're gonna take some more breaths.

We're gonna breathe in a few more times so breathe in through your nose and then releasing exhale through your mouth and then you can take another deep breath in through your nose.

We're gonna exhale make some more noise.

You can let your breath return to its natural rhythm now or you can continue to take deep intentional breaths.

This is your space.

You get to choose how you breathe.

You get to choose how you are present in your body.

We're gonna bring your awareness now though to your body right here right now whether there's distractions in the room noises being made whatever it might be that's okay this is your space and notice though first where your body is making contact with the surface beneath you feel the support underneath you the solid stable holding you you can notice the textures underneath you notice where you might be feeling tense or spaces where you can let go a little bit more are you maybe feeling uneven or balanced differently are you weighted on the right side or the left side a little differently just notice where your body's at you are here you are safe and you are held by the earth by the gravity pulling you down you are exactly where you need to be now imagine roots growing down from the base of your spine down through the floor through the earth anchoring you deep into the ground deep into the core of the earth through the layers of soil and rock you are rooted you are held just envision that again that you have roots growing down you that you're being pulled down that the earth is holding you and you are anchoring into the earth as the earth is holding you down now bring into the mind the year that's almost behind you 2025 2025 the year of the wood snake snake shed their skin when they've outgrown it not before they're ready not on anyone else's timeline when it's time and this year the snake was wrapped in the wood energy the element of trees trees that grow with deep roots and clear intention trees that bend in the wind without breaking trees that send signals through their roots to support other trees in the forest think about how trees when they lose leaves they have a vibration that they send out through the ground as they start losing their leaves they'll vibrate out to the other trees and let them know it's time to let go wood teaches us you can adapt without losing yourself you can transform while staying rooted and you are here in these final weeks feeling the tightness of what no longer fits take a moment to notice what you have outgrown this year maybe it's a story you told yourself about who you are maybe it's a belief about what you're capable of maybe it's an identity tied to your past whether it be your struggles your debt your mistakes your limitations don't search for the answer just notice what arises what have you outgrown this year now take a moment to get curious where are you growing toward what are you rooting into like a tree sending down roots while reaching for light what new vision what new version of yourself is quietly emerging where are you growing toward what are you rooting into whatever came up the old skin the new growth just acknowledge it you don't need to understand it fully right now just see it witness it now imagine yourself as the snake in these final weeks of the year 2025 you've been moving through tight spaces feeling the friction of old skin against your new self underneath and you find a safe place a rock a corner somewhere just for you this is where the shedding happens you begin to move slowly at first the old skin it catches on edges you keep moving patient patient persistent like bamboo bending in the wind flexible resilient not forcing just flowing feel yourself beginning to slip free the old story it's loosening the old identity it's peeling away the version of you that was tied to what you owed what you lacked what you thought defined you it's being left behind and underneath fresh new sensitive yes but free take a breath and feel that freedom even if it's just a glimpse breathe in through your nose exhale through your mouth you slither forward now leaving the old skin behind you you don't take it with you you do not look back to analyze it you just move forward and as you slither forward through these last weeks of the year you begin you begin to feel something shifting in your body maybe a lightness an energy a playfulness that's been dormant the light that's maybe hidden deep within you because just ahead around the corner of the new year you hear it the sound of hoof beats i just always hear this the pitter patter of the horse right running the horse year is coming and horses don't slither they run they play they make noise they definitely take up space and they move with joy and freedom and spirited energy but you're not there yet you're still in this in-between still shedding still moving through still releasing the old not yet fully in the new and that's exactly where you need to be so here's your invitation for these next six weeks but as we move into the new year give yourself permission to finish the shedding to release what's too tight to leave behind the version of you that kept you small kept you stuck kept you believing stories that were never true and as you do remember you are not doing this alone somewhere nearby or maybe far across the world others are shedding too you're moving through this together the wood snake is a collective movement of shedding the old but it does it in private isolation but when january comes when the horse year starts to warm up you'll run together play together create together but first we have to go back and be in the present the last slither the final release take a deep breath in feeling your lungs expand and as you breathe out imagine releasing one thing just one thing that you're ready to leave behind breathing in the new breathing out the old breathing in the new the fire horse energy and breathing out the old shedding that snake skin and one more breath in and one more breath in when you're ready bring your awareness back to your body back to the present moment back into the room you're in wiggle your fingers and your toes slowly blink your eyes open if they are closed and remember you are rewriting your story starting now

Reviews

The perfect accompanying meditation to the Wood Snake November full Moon Journalling I did today. Thank you very much. It was beautiful. 🪵🪾🐍🔥🐎