Welcome to Summer Solstice.
It's Earth's longest day in a season of peak expansion and expression.
In the next 20 minutes in this guided audio experience,
You're invited to linger here in a moment of full bloom.
The Technicolor Dream of Summer.
This experience has been created to help you reflect on the cycles and rhythms of our living planet.
Becoming conscious of our connection to the divine cosmic dance.
Of which you're a product and a part.
So let's step into Summer's golden field and into the forest together.
Letting your mind lay open to the experience of this present moment as it comes and goes.
Like a leaf on a stream or a daffodil blowing in the wind.
Thoughts and images drifting.
Coming and going as we observe them passing by.
Just witnessing.
As the summer days stretch out,
So too let your body stretch out wherever you are right now seated or laying down.
Getting comfortable and connecting to a deeper impulse to let your body move to where it needs to right now.
Tapping into the organism's deeper instinct.
Now this is not necessarily something that might make sense at the level of thought.
But just let this movement be something that the body itself knows.
You can let your body adjust itself now and at any time during this journey.
Making sure you're completely comfortable.
And at this moment you might also like to close your eyes.
And let's see if we can dissolve the body into an experience of raw sensation.
As we variously experience phenomena like pressure,
Tingling,
Pulsing,
Areas of density and areas of light in different parts of our body.
An ever changing,
Ever evolving,
Ever expanding organism.
Tune into that.
We begin to notice the body breathing.
The movement of continuous expansion and contraction.
A rhythm.
Or a cycle all its own.
To help us relax deeper from the base of the stomach,
Let's let out two audible sighs together.
Releasing tension and giving way to ease and flow.
So let's take a big full breath in.
Full breath in.
Just surrender to the natural breath now.
As the body continues to breathe itself.
In this place,
You're enough.
There's nothing to do or figure out in this space.
Nothing to do now,
Except receive.
And say yes.
To say yes to one instance,
Is to say yes to all existence.
In your mind's eye,
Now let's visualize being in a hot dry field in the height of summer.
Becoming aware of the sounds around us.
The birds singing.
A river streaming by.
Becoming aware of the feeling.
The sun in its power.
Sharing its wealth.
The warmth of its golden light kissing your skin.
The gentle breeze caressing your face.
Stabilizing as awareness in time and space and attention.
Experience always happens here and now.
I'm in this experience.
But this experience is in me.
There's a kind of spaceless quality to this.
What is the nature of here and now?
And can you tap into a feeling of your own fullness?
The energies of solstice are a celebration of nature and pleasure.
And they create a powerful crucible of lust and ecstasy.
At this time of year,
The goddess energy floods the planet.
The mother.
The ultimate creative force.
Everything is her manifestation.
The wind flowing through the trees,
Flowers and grass.
The breeze her breath.
The air lush and alive with insects.
She's Gaia.
The Earth Mother.
But she is more than that.
Imagine a luminous golden mist surrounding you.
Smaller than the tiniest quantum particle.
And pervading all forms.
In fact,
All forms are patterns of this mist.
And that is the living spirit of the Mother creating our world.
So let's bask in summer's bounty.
Reminding ourselves of its flourishing.
And getting in touch with our own wild,
Untamed selves.
When we honor the goddess,
We honor our own capacity for connection,
Clarity and compassion.
Summer is about becoming.
It's about celebration and consolidation.
Becoming who we are.
And who we want to be.
In the rawness of this moment,
Let's come alive now to what wants to emerge within you.
What would it take for you to truly flourish?
The sound of a loon calling you to step deeper into this life.
Coming home to the body.
Coming home to each other.
Coming home to the planet.
As you tune into your experience at an embodied level,
Notice how you feel.
What's happening in your system right now?
See if you can connect to that at a cellular level.
What energies are present for you right now?
Attune to that.
Sensation.
Image.
Affect.
Behavior.
The way meaning comes alive for you.
Follow that aliveness as it comes to you in each waking moment.
Aliveness is always there.
No need for anything external.
It all happens inside.
What does flourishing feel like to you?
Trusting your own internal experience here.
No gurus,
No teachers.
Just saying yes to your own truth.
The quest is to be liberated from the negative,
Which is really our own will to nothingness.
And once having said yes to the instant,
The affirmation is contagious.
It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit.
To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all that exists.
In this journey we're getting close to the way things already are.
All the colors of creation expressed in bloom,
In you.
This work is built around appreciation and gratitude.
Experiencing awareness from the totality of the whole body.
As well as meeting the world from the place of heart.
So from this place of outward expansion,
We slowly begin to reconnect with our own inner space again.
Our felt and physical bodies.
So as we come back home now,
Bring awareness to the country you're in,
The city you're in,
The room you're in.
Perhaps you'd like to introduce some subtle movement back into your body.
Gently opening the eyes.
And noticing the space that your body's in right now.
Noticing your head space.
Carrying the spirit of calm and equilibrium with you through the rest of your day.
Thank you for joining this practice of connection and may the long time sun shine upon you.
Thank you.
