Wild sounds,
Somatic meditation.
Take a moment to adjust your body into your preferred meditation posture.
This practice can be experienced seated upright or lying down in Shavasana.
Ensure that you have a lovely symmetry in your body.
Move the body so there's an even distribution of weight at the base,
Between legs,
Shoulder blades.
Once your body has settled,
Bring your awareness to the natural breath.
There's no need to change your breath.
Just simply notice the sensation of the breath as it moves in and out of the body.
Feel the cool air penetrating the body.
See how far you can track the coolness before the energy of your body warms the air.
And as you breathe out,
Participate in the full release of the breath,
The release of the air,
The release of toxins,
Of tension,
Of tightness.
Ensure a switch in your perspective with the breath.
You're no longer the one doing the breathing.
You're simply the one witnessing the act of breathing.
This simple shift creates a space between the center of your awareness and the physical action of the breath.
For the next few minutes,
Become beguiled by the sensation of your breath.
Once you've settled into this central seat of awareness,
Your only requirement for the remainder of this practice is still to observe.
Allow each of these beautiful sounds from the wild to envelop you,
To penetrate you,
To ripple through you,
And simply observe the effects that the sounds have on you.
Where do you feel them in your body?
Are there memories associated with the sounds?
Is there emotion that rises with the sounds?
Participate in these sound escapes as an observer and feel the life-giving effect that the natural sounds from the wild offer us.
Our practice of wild sound meditation will now begin.
And as the storm recedes,
Feel the imprint of its energy,
Its signature,
Still rippling through your body long after the sound has gone.
Bring your awareness back to your breath.
Take three purposeful breaths and reset your field of awareness back to neutral.
As the next sound wave arrives.
And as the fire recedes from your senses,
Feel its crackling imprint remaining in every cell and the spaces in between.
How has the fire sound affected you?
Have memories risen from the deep mind?
Where can you feel the fire in your body?
Now take three deliberate breaths and reset your field of awareness back to zero.
As the next sound wave approaches.
And as the fire recedes,
Feel the imprint of its energy,
Its signature,
Still rippling through your body long after the sound has gone.
And as the fire recedes,
Feel the imprint of its energy,
Its signature,
Still rippling through your body long after the sound has gone.
And as the fire recedes,
Feel the imprint of its energy,
Its signature,
Still rippling through your body long after the sound has gone.
Allow the sea to escape from your senses.
Notice signature remains imprinted in your energy field,
The sea within.
Where do you feel it more keenly in your body?
How does it make you feel?
Now take three deliberate breaths,
Recenter as the next wild sound approaches.
And as the fire recedes,
Feel the imprint of its energy,
Its signature,
Still rippling through your body long after the sound has gone.
And as the fire recedes,
Feel the imprint of its energy,
Its signature,
Still rippling through your body long after the sound has gone.
And as the fire recedes,
Feel the imprint of its energy,
Its signature,
Still rippling through your body long after the sound has gone.
And now the winds recede.
Feel their beautiful,
Airy,
Clearing motion remaining in your body,
In your mind,
In your feelings.
Where can you feel it most prominently in your body?
How does it make you feel?
Now take three deliberate breaths.
Reset your field of awareness.
As the final wave of wild sound rises.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
And as the wind recedes.
Sense the bird call receding out of your senses.
Stay very still and observe the effect of this beautiful sound on your feelings,
Your mind,
Your physical body.
Receive it like it's a gift.
Expanding your awareness now back to the whole of your body in your meditation posture.
Become aware of the whole of your body,
Head to toe in your meditation posture.
Take a moment to notice how you feel after this practice,
Compared to how you felt at the start.
Become aware of the environment around you,
The noises in the natural soundscape around you.
The time,
The day,
The season.
And this concludes our wild sound somatic meditation.
