Peace and greetings and grace and space and openness and humanness.
So I just invite you,
If you are not already moving,
Whether by foot or on a wheelchair,
Just invite you,
If you haven't already,
Just paused to take a couple really good deep breaths.
I'm just breathing all the way in,
Slowly out.
Just breathing all the way in,
Slowly out.
So this can be during your movement.
If you're already moving,
It can be at the beginning.
So I just invite you to be just extra open and attentive to the energy between you and all,
All of creation around you.
The plants,
The trees,
The sky,
The clouds,
The people,
The critters,
The insects,
The birds.
So I just invite you to slowly begin or continue moving.
I'm recording this audio on a greenway near Denver,
Colorado.
So you're going to hear wind and cyclists and just noises of the public.
And so as I am allowing them to be with us,
I invite you just to allow the different noises and spaces and shared energies in your environment,
To not fight them or block them.
So as you move,
As you continue moving,
Just notice creation,
Notice life.
And I would invite you to ask these living things around you.
Ask them,
Invite them to speak to you,
Not necessarily in the realm of words,
But to speak to you energetically,
To speak to your shared existence.
And as you invite them to speak and to see you,
That you feel yourself absorbing their presence from the ground up,
From the outside in,
Through the pores of your skin,
Not just through your ears or even your eyes,
But that you feel almost like a vibration.
That if the trees weren't in front of you or here,
If the people weren't in front of you or here,
If the sky was always the same,
If there was no life around you,
What would it feel like?
What would it be like?
And so we don't take in our steps and in our movement,
We don't take this for granted.
And we're moving slow enough and even stopping to peer deeper,
To look deeper,
To listen in a much wider way.
And that as the leaves twist and shed and fall,
And as the stream flows,
As plants blossom,
And grow,
And even as the life forms in the automated mechanical machines,
That they're beating hearts,
And their stories,
And their experiences,
That our connection to life forms,
And what happens in between us and these elements.
It's not,
We don't need to solve it as we move,
We don't need to have answers,
We don't need to have definitions,
We don't need to have strategies.
But as we move,
We honor,
And we invite,
We open,
And we expand.
Just keep noticing.
And if you feel your mind trailing off to tasks,
To things,
To concepts,
I just invite you to pause and just go back to your breathing.
Taking a couple deep breaths,
One all the way in,
Slowly out,
All the way in,
Slowly out.
Just slowly return to movement,
Or maybe when you stop,
Maybe kneel and peer deeper into the life forms around you,
Even if it's grass coming out of pavement,
Or a small flower that's still closed up,
Or a fallen leaf,
You might pick it up and notice it.
And as you notice these details,
That you invite and ask for these details to speak to you,
To see you,
Because as we invite relationship between all of life around us,
I believe so deeply that we are just more genuinely accessing the life and beauty and uniqueness of our own journeys,
Of our own inner truths,
Of our experiences,
Of our color,
Of our capacity to shed and heal and evolve,
Of our capacity to take risk and be courageous,
Of our capacity to be moving in the unknown,
To be resilient,
And to also let go,
To root deeper,
To say radical yes and radical no,
Radical as in rooted.
So I just invite you to keep your movement unhurried,
Keep inviting life to see you and affirm you and nourish you as a pathway for us human beings to see and affirm and nourish creation around us with more intention,
With more bravery,
With more compassion,
With more dignity.
Just as your mind wanders more invitation to stop and continue with deep breathing.
So I'll leave you here to continue your connection to continue inviting radical relationship between you and all of creation.
Peace.
