I want to welcome you today.
We're going to take a journey inside.
We're going to take some time to be together,
To breathe together,
To connect together.
This is sacred time.
This is your time.
Time to be with everything that's happening in you and everything that's happening all around you.
Sometimes the things happening around us are so big,
So challenging,
So difficult,
That we avoid going inside entirely because we're so distracted.
We're so caught by the attention of everything that's around us.
So when you're joining me today,
That means that you're taking a moment to breathe,
A moment to pause,
A moment to go inside,
A moment to know yourself differently than you do when you're just in the outside.
This is a sacred time.
A time of kindness and generation,
Generosity,
A kindness and generosity to yourself.
Take a deep breath in through your nose and begin to center yourself.
Very good.
A deep breath in through your nose,
Expanding your chest and gently and slowly releasing out of your mouth.
Finding our way inside,
Into our center,
Into our heart space.
Knowing that where we are is a sacred and beautiful place,
A place just for us to explore,
To question,
To wonder.
You could be in so many places and yet here you are with you,
With the sounds around you,
The sound of my voice,
With the knowing that all is well.
This is your time right now.
To be gentle,
To be kind,
To be generous.
Everything that you need is right here right now.
And take another deep breath in through your nose and out of your mouth,
Knowing that it is time right now to begin whatever journey we are going to take.
Getting your body comfortable,
Wiggling your shoulders,
Wiggling your hips,
Your legs,
Allowing your hands to come rested either on your legs or by your side.
Another deep breath in,
Guiding your attention into your heart,
Into the space where you're held,
A space of knowing that you're safe.
Journeying for those places where we are best served,
We are best known.
And breathing one more time in through your nose,
Out through your mouth,
Allowing inside of us the burning desire to rise.
What is it that you so deeply long for?
What is it that you so deeply long for?
Just pause a moment and see what floats forward in your consciousness.
What is it that I most deeply long for?
And breathe into that.
I long for peace.
I long for serenity.
I long for clarity.
I long for forgiveness,
But the kind of forgiveness that goes deep and heals all the past,
All those moments,
All those people,
All those situations,
Deep forgiveness.
I long for acceptance.
I long for being loved exactly the way I want to be loved.
I long for being gentle with myself.
I long for adventure.
I long for playfulness.
I long for long,
Beautiful walks in the sand.
I long for journeying through the mountains of China,
Through Africa,
And the Great Serengeti,
Through the Barrier Reef in Australia.
I long to see places I've never seen before.
I long to be in places I've never been before.
I long to taste food I've never tasted before.
I long to meet people who are meant to be on my path.
There is so much I long for.
And what do you notice come forward in your body?
In the longing?
Is there anticipation and excitement?
Is there emptiness,
Sadness?
What comes forward as you long for something in your life?
What gets revealed as you long for something in your life?
That's right.
Just allowing yourself to dream,
Allowing the expansiveness of your dreams,
Of your visions,
To come forward for you now.
I received a beautiful poem that I'm going to share with you today by Jay Susskind.
It's called The Reach.
When we follow our visions and work them into actuality,
We witness an opening that calls upon collaboration and wise creators.
The small spark starts to spread and we expand with it,
Guided by a shared rhythm,
By dancing expressions of inspiration that radiate from the center of our collective dream.
This is an outcome worthy of boundless effort.
And together,
We reach beyond ourselves with an invitation so infinite and inclusive that it knows not a single limit.
What if there was no limits?
All the things you just witnessed yourself longing for,
There was no limit.
An infinite collective wisdom that invited you to participate in the dreams that your imagination presents.
Where would you go?
Who would you be?
What would you know?
Who would come teach you?
In your mind's eye,
Float out your third eye into the cosmos,
Into the expansiveness of the universe,
Into the unknown.
Out,
Out into the far reaches of the unknown.
Find yourself there floating,
Held by something invisible,
Effortless,
Graceful,
Clear,
Strong,
Confident,
Powerful,
And breathe into this space.
And now,
A shaman sits before you,
In this space.
There is nowhere else to be.
There is nothing else to do.
This shaman holds you,
Comforts you,
And has great wisdom for you.
It's time for you to share what you long for with this shaman.
To share your imagination,
Your dreams,
Your hopes,
Your wants,
Your desires,
Your needs.
The shaman is here to listen and to guide.
What stories will you share?
What messages will you be open to hearing?
Go ahead and share now.
This is your time.
Remember to breathe while you do.
I'll meet you on the other side.
Beautiful.
And now,
As you sit with this shaman,
Thank them for coming,
For sharing,
For being with you.
Thank them for knowing you in a way no one else does now.
Thank them for being willing to take your imagination,
Your longings,
And enter them into the web of life,
Infusing them with willingness,
Capability,
Trust,
Courage,
Ability,
Love.
See the shaman float off into the distance,
Knowing that your longing now has a messenger.
Wherever it may go,
May it go there.
Whatever it needs to infuse it with something special,
May it go there.
Take a deep breath in through your nose,
Out through your mouth,
Knowing that you have now journeyed into the infinite,
Out beyond what's known,
Out beyond the rules and instructions of life,
Into a space of possibility,
Into the infinite,
Where all exists,
Where all is possible,
Where all is invited.
Into this space,
Together we go.
Now return to the sacredness of Mother Earth.
You feel the gravity.
You feel the pace.
You feel the expression of mankind around you,
Longing,
Longing.
And now you know what it feels like when you long for something and you share it so that you can begin planting the seeds of its manifestation.
Taking another deep breath in together,
Holding at the top,
Knowing that you have just planted a forest of your dreams.
Bringing your awareness deeply into your body,
Into your heart space,
Breathing in together,
Holding at the top and gently and slowly releasing.
We have reached a new age.
An age where going inside is way more important than the distractions of the outside.
Rising to meet ourselves,
To meet our inner counselor,
To meet our inner guidance and wisdom,
To meet our heart space,
To meet our minds and our thoughts.
To bridge the gap between our mind and our heart through our voice,
Our words and our throat,
Allowing our chakras to come into alignment so that we may be whole,
Centered,
Grounded and connected.
So that we may allow the pulse of the universe,
The spark of life,
The all-knowing to be a beautiful and precious part of ourselves.
Bringing our hands together at prayer position,
To our heart space bowing our heads in reverence to ourselves for this journey today.
I see you.
I witness you making your dreams reality,
Allowing yourself to be served by the infinite.
You are precious,
You are held,
You are loved.
I love you.
And we are here on this journey together.
And so we say,
Namaste.
