Welcome.
This practice is devoted to helping you remember and embody your shape-shifting nature.
On one level,
Our lives,
Our bodies,
They can feel quite dense and solid.
And on another level,
They are really very fluid.
So much water and space,
Bits of stardust,
Molecules,
Atoms,
Wave clusters,
Truly a constantly shifting river of energy.
And every breath cycle,
Every rest cycle,
And especially every sleep,
Is a shape-shifting opportunity.
In the words of Clarissa Pinkula Estes,
In sleep we are remade.
We are reassembled from the inside out.
So I invite you to turn your attention towards yourself and this time you've carved out for yourself with a sense of awe and wonder.
When we transition into states of rest and sleep,
The brain steadily dismantles the typical models and concepts we use to interpret the world.
And this leads to moments that are unconstrained by our usual filters of perception.
So it has this wonderful way of opening our visionary capacity from narrow to expansive,
From rigidity to wholeness and creativity,
And from clinging to the waking world as the only reality to a more liberating,
Multi-dimensional dream vision.
So in a very real way,
Rest,
Sleep,
And dreaming stretch our ability to see beyond a limited view.
Let's begin with an invocation to bless this experience and to be an offering to the magic of sleep.
So if you're willing,
Inviting these words to become your own.
As I enter this liminal space,
The eyes of my heart open to remembering the divinity inside me and inside of rest,
Dreaming and sleep.
I offer deepest love and gratitude to this body.
Even as I know I am not just this body,
I am embodied soul and spirit.
Free from the harsh glares of the outside world,
Here my vision expands into inner space,
Replenishing in peace,
Imagination wide open,
Set free into the genius mystery,
Into the field of all possibility,
Into the wise unknown.
And thus is a gateway,
A bridge between worlds.
As you settle in and tend to being as comfortable as possible,
Ask yourself,
What would you like to dedicate to this shape shifting space of possibility?
This magical dismantling and reassembling.
And let this become a kind of doorway for reimagining.
What do you want to dream into being?
And how do you want it to feel?
Notice any images,
Words,
Or feelings that arise.
And imagine them seeding themselves into this fertile void of pure potentiality,
Into the underground root levels from which everything grows.
Let your hands to rest on your belly,
Noticing warmth or coolness from the touch of your hands.
Feel waves of inhale and exhale rising and falling from this center.
Feeling your way into your back body.
The shape of your back shifting with each breath.
Feeling the spinal channel like a fountain.
Fountain flowing up and down.
The pathway from tailbone to back of skull.
Felt and massaged by breath streams.
And feel your body as a dream.
Not too solid,
Like a soft,
Fine mist.
Spirit of flow.
Palliability.
Unbound by illusions of space and time.
Beyond mundane reality.
Breathing into this dream.
And feel all your layers breathing.
Gently oscillated from the surface into the deep.
Skin breathing.
Tissues breathing.
Fits breathing.
Muscles breathing.
Bones breathing.
Cells breathing.
The space you flow from.
Breathing.
Deep inner being.
Feeling you.
Wandering currents of sensation.
No need to direct,
Simply allowing waves to flow.
Left brain.
The space around left brain.
Right brain.
Space around right brain.
Space between eyebrows.
Space behind forehead.
Deep center of brain.
The space around center of brain.
Back brain.
Space around back brain.
Jaws.
Space around jaws.
Throat.
Space around throat.
Back of neck.
Space around back of neck.
Upper back.
Space around upper back.
Heart.
Spirit of heart.
Heart like a wave.
Space around heart.
Belly.
Space around belly.
Pelvis.
Space around pelvis.
Back of thighs.
Legs.
Legs like a wave.
Space around legs.
Feet.
Space around feet.
Front body.
Back body.
Deep center of body.
Whole body as a wave.
Whole body sensation.
Space around whole body.
A field of love that can expand.
