Hello,
My name is Cathy French.
Welcome to our Celtic Wheel nature practice.
I'm Kathy French.
The Celtic Wheel is an ancient tool of perception to reconnect us back to what we have forgotten.
The wheeled Nidra is an opportunity for recollection of our ecological sensibilities.
While we simultaneously take care of the inner ecology of the creature of the body.
This practice is collective spiritual repair work.
It's an invitation for you to press pause on the ordinary and step into the mystery of ritual space.
To climb down out of your everyday mind.
That repetitiously pulls you out of this life to relive the past and reach for the future.
Here you can ground your body and fall open into the richness of presence.
The Irish language provides a periscopic glimpse into the soul of words used by our pagan pre-Christian Irish ancestors.
The word Díoth,
Irish for God,
Is used in our everyday greeting,
Díoghaidh.
Translating to God be with you.
Or the Irish expression for hello.
Our ancestors related to an animistic God of all things.
God is change.
God is apples,
Oak trees,
Seagulls and hermit crabs.
God is honeysuckle,
Pigeons,
And blackberries.
A single word can unlock the richness of our lives,
The landscapes we live in and our ways of seeing.
In Irish,
Words have a physical effect upon the world.
This language is inherited from people who are deeply rooted to landscape.
Directions were given in relation to the position of the sun.
Objects described as being in Aigh na Grainne,
Against the sun,
Or Idro na Grainne,
Toward the sun.
Such was the intimacy of relationship between the sun and the people.
Begin this practice by placing your hands on this body of yours.
One on your heart and one on your belly.
As you settle,
Allow yourself to connect to all the variations on this body that you've inhabited and will inhabit from your birth to when you pass.
And then invite a deep intentional breath to touch down into nowness.
A slow and steady exhale to land into loving acceptance and appreciation for this present body,
Here and now.
Continue to allow this intentional breath to reset the ions in the air.
To an atmosphere of peace and healing all around you.
Allow your intention for today's practice to float up from your heart.
And in the form of the most longed for feeling state your heart holds.
What feeling does your heart desire the most?
Rather than forming words around your intention today,
You connect this exact feeling to a simple sun symbol and place that symbol into the middle of your chest for safekeeping later on.
Dropping that simple sun symbol into the middle of your chest,
Sink back soften and fall open.
We are both individuality in this body.
And we are the manifestation of our lineage.
You might also like to hold the intent to relate to any profoundly healed and healthy ancestral guides from your own family constellation or your culture of origin.
And feed herself safe and cocooned by the collective.
Energetically held by the others who are practicing with you today.
Recognize the fractal nature of this practice.
As you rest deeper,
The whole system feels the healing effect of your work back and forward through time.
This practice is about more than a mental awareness of Earth.
For this time you'll allow the creature of your body to come into a relationship of total support and reciprocity with the weight and feel of your body on earth.
Welcome yourself to the spiral as you land on the wheel as it turns now.
Speak your name,
Saying,
I am,
In your first and second name,
Three times silently.
Announce the holy land you practice on by saying,
I am in.
And the name of the place three times now as you rest back.
Acknowledge the season,
Say it is and today's date three times as you arrive here on the Wheel of the Year.
Climbing further down out of your ordinary mind to rest back into earth.
All the resources you need are beneath you.
Sink back and open up into the magnetic pull toward the heart of the planet.
Settle into the fluid,
Unstaged self.
And welcome the potent healing medicine of total surrender.
Breath by breath.
Begin to dissolve.
Breathe presence and light into every cell.
Find more weight.
And bring your awareness inside your mouth.
Let your attention move toward your gums.
And feeling the space between your teeth and gums merge.
And tracking the feeling of teeth and gums.
Now down into your jaw.
Feel your jaw become lubricated and unhinged.
And awareness moves back inside the mouth to the root of your tongue.
And from the root of your tongue.
To the open space at the back of your throat.
Smoothing from the back of your throat,
Down your neck,
To the back of your neck.
The expanse of your shoulders.
Wrists.
Palms of your hands.
The back of your hands.
Your fingers.
Tips of your fingers.
Knuckles.
Bones of your fingers.
Than inhabiting the soles of your feet.
The tips of your toes.
The tiny bones in your feet.
And back up through the big bones in your legs.
Traveling through the bones of your arms.
Awareness now of your whole skeletal system.
From your tailbone.
Through your spine.
To the roof of your mouth.
Wave of breath.
Vibration and rhythm.
Fluid breath traveling up and down.
From the root of your body to the roof of your mouth.
Tracing the awareness.
The inside and outside of your spine.
Up and down.
In a gentle,
Steady rhythm.
Rocking your soul.
In and out.
And awareness come to the eyes again.
And feel the relief of weight in the eyeballs.
As they sink back into the fluid brain.
Heavy like pebbles.
Released of their function.
Letting the eyes soften more now.
As you continue to watch the breath flow up and down the spinal channel.
Feel the vertebrae decompress and open up.
From the center of your brain to the root of your body.
In and out of this earth body.
Head,
Arms.
Hands,
Feet.
Torso.
Your energetic heart.
Exhale.
Softening and sinking.
Back and open.
Waves of rest and peace bathe you.
Deep balance and harmony.
Emanate from you.
Your body in wholeness.
Soothed.
Solve.
Open Steady.
Meet the moment in its simplicity.
Turning to face the unknown turning toward that which you cannot see.
I'm coming into communion with the ground of being.
Becoming fluid.
And singular with everything.
A vibrating.
.
.
Collage of being.
From the infinitesimal to the infinite.
Rooted in your soft and open body.
And in a protected,
Safe space.
Resting back in the unknown.
Safe and supported.
Cooned.
By your ancestors.
Your body like fields,
Mountains and stars.
Is elementary particles.
Vibrating and fluctuating.
Between existence and non-existence.
Feel your chest light up from the inside.
With the emotional charge of your intention.
With that glow at the center of your being.
And your awareness at the point between your brows.
Lying still.
With the sun at your center.
Casting that signal out.
Pulling your future towards you.
Time,
Slow down.
To the drift of continents.
Just being.
Shimmering on the universe's edge.
Floating on the ether.
Of wakefulness.
Your body is sleep.
And with your awareness,
The infinite field of possibilities.
Looking carefully at the space between your brows.
Inviting a deeper connection.
With the magic.
Sacred.
Other than human aspects of spirit that you find here.
The sun at your center.
And your gaze between your eyebrows.
What do you find here?
From the glow of feeling at the center of your chest.
Make a heartfelt offering of gratitude.
In the form of an object.
Words.
Gesture,
A song.
And offering to the magic,
The sacred.
The spirit that you find here.
And wait patiently for your offering to be accepted.
Feel as it's absorbed and unfurled into the network and fabric of love that binds all time.
All space and all matter together.
I feel this reciprocal exchange between you and universe.
And start to bring your awareness to the back of your body connecting to earth.
Feel yourself held in a cocoon of ancestral support.
And feel your own belonging.
To this lineage and to the collective of other people.
Practicing Nidra right now.
Coming back to that relationship of total support.
The love that is at the center of all existence.
Hugging you close to the heart of the planet.
Weight and feel of your body sinking and softening even more now.
And begin to breathe.
Presence and light back into every cell.
Calling the potential.
That you hovered in.
During this time.
Back into your lived experience now.
And as you drink in your breath,
Allow it to animate you internally.
Feel it expand you from the inside out.
Until eventually the creature of your body Feels the pull to reawaken with Spinal stretch.
Reaching and curling in of your fingers and toes.
And a sense of colour and aliveness in your movement.
Pulling all of the potentiality and vibrancy you've cultivated in your practice back into your waking world.
Unfold your rush,
Welcome back.
When you're ready,
Roll over onto your side.
Rest your head in the crook of your arm.
Bring your opposite hand onto the surface you lie on.
Imagine for a moment you are on Earth.
On an exposed piece of soil or sand or water.
Or rock resting here with your hand.
On the surface of our beautiful planet.
Feel yourself curl in the fetal position around the energy of your heart center,
Sun in the middle of your being.
And feel that heartbeat connect to the heart of Earth.
Beneath you.
Remembering that we are.
Vibration before we are cognition.
We are.
Emanating from a heartbeat before we are a mind.
As you push yourself up.
Feel that rising energy from the planet moving through your limbs,
Through your spine into this Beautiful,
Dignified seat.
Feel the dignity rising through your spine.
From the root of your body to the roof of your mouth.
Take one big inhale here.
And exhale,
Bringing your hands to your belly and your heart again,
Bowing down into the genius and beauty of your own true nature.
Still retaining that sense of.
.
.
Being in a cocoon of support as you move throughout your day here.
Guruv Meera Mahagat.
Thank you very much for practicing this Celtic Wheel Nidra with me today.
Practice of Yoga Nidra is now complete.
Haryam tatsat.
Namaste.
