Peace and blessings and greetings.
This is a movement,
Walking,
Unhurried meditation invitation.
You will hear the sounds of airplanes and cars and geese and people.
I'm recording this from a public park.
I invite you to acknowledge and to rest into the awareness of all the noises that surround you wherever this meets you.
This invitation is inclusive to walking by foot,
Movement on a wheelchair-powered stroller.
Unhurried is the main invitation.
And being outside between the sky and the dirt is the main invitation.
So let's begin wherever this meets you.
If you are not already outside and ready and prepared,
Layered,
Warm enough,
Comfortable enough to move outside,
I invite you to pause this and make yourself available.
So let's start with a couple really deep breaths,
Honoring our existence as we are.
All the things inside of us and around us,
Showing up as we are.
So let's breathe deeply in,
Honoring our existence deeply in.
And slowly out,
Honoring the existence of others,
Those that are different than we are,
That we breathe,
Honoring our own existence deeply in.
And slowly out,
Honoring all created life around us,
Honoring all beloved sisters,
Brothers,
Non-binary beloved,
And those that are different than we are.
All beloved sisters,
Brothers,
Non-binary beloveds around us,
Alongside of us,
Across from us.
So with this,
I invite you to continue doing deep breathing if this is nourishing and needed.
And when you are ready,
I invite you to start slowly moving.
I invite you to notice the unique sounds under your feet or under the weight of your body if you're on a wheelchair.
The sounds that you are hearing are of my feet on snow.
And as we begin our movement and root into our movement,
I invite you to honor movement in it of itself,
That your body is moving,
That your lungs are expanding,
That you continue to take fragile breaths in and throughout your body,
And you continue to exhale fragile carbon dioxide out into the world and into the trees that surround you.
And we honor movement and existence in movement.
And alongside of our movement,
I invite us to imagine the flow of our veins and our neurons and all the networks inside of this body,
That as we honor more circulation,
We honor all the working wheels of these systems inside of our body to move us,
That as we move,
We honor that we are in it of itself,
That we are making more room for our blood to reach our fingers,
That we are making more room for our neurons to reach all the unique networks in our brain,
That we are making more room in our heart for more blood,
More life,
More purpose,
More meaning.
So we honor that in our steps and in our rolling.
Unhurried,
I invite you to be unhurried,
To slow down a little bit more.
I invite you to be present to the breeze as it hits your skin,
To the sun if you can feel it,
To the shape of trees,
The way they reach and twist and bend and adapt,
The way that branches reach into the spaces between,
Making more room for their own smaller branches to reach and stretch and breathe.
So as we move together in this way,
I want to also invite this idea,
This invitation,
This frame that our moving body is in it of itself,
A vein,
A branch,
A unique idiom,
Our own network expanding and reaching into the spaces between in the outside world,
Whether we're at a park in a neighborhood,
In a city,
On a city street,
Wherever we are,
That the movement of our body is winding and reaching,
That we're making more room for our unique body to be with the natural world,
To be with the unknown,
To be with the unique experiences of others that are different than we are,
That believe differently,
Think differently,
Feel differently.
That each of us carry unique,
Subjective,
Radically specific life experiences.
And in our movement,
We honor them.
We see it in the trees.
We see it in our own design.
We see it all around us.
Natural diversity,
Radical inclusion and emergence.
So if you are able,
I invite you to pause your movement and let's take a couple more deep breaths together honoring that we are making more room inside of our bodies and in the larger environmental bio-sphere body.
So let's breathe,
Making more room and breathing in that we are reaching our fingers and toes with our blood,
That we are reaching new spaces of growth and emergence in our brains,
Breathing that deeply in.
And as we breathe out,
We breathe out that our bodies and our lives are reaching and making more room for all people,
For all created life.
That we breathe deeply in,
Making more room.
Breathe deeply out,
Making more room.
Continue your movement,
Patient,
Present,
Open,
Attentive,
Awake.
So with these invitations,
I invite you to continue moving as long as it serves.
Continue seeking the trees in the sky and the soil.
Continue seeking the miracles of your body and how it moves.
Continue seeking the edges where all of us have a place in the great circle.
And what does that ask of us?
To allow room for all of us in the circle,
To allow all of who we are in the circle and to allow more room for all of us that we share the air with in the circle.
That we move with this tension,
We honor this tension,
And we expand and expand and expand and expand.
Take a collective deep breath together and I invite you to continue moving and honoring from here.
Breathing in gratitude deeply in,
Gratitude deeply out,
Humility and expansion deeply in,
Humility and expansion deeply,
Deeply out.
Peace and unhurried movement and courage to each of you.
Peace.
