Welcome.
Find a comfortable posture,
Whatever you are.
Closing down the eyes if that feels supportive for you today.
If it doesn't,
You may choose to keep a soft gaze throughout the practice.
Allowing your hands to rest gently on your legs or by the side of the body and slowly inviting a mindful intentional breath through the nose,
Filling up the body all the way to the tips of the toes,
Tips of the fingers and the crown of the head.
Exhaling fully,
Intentionally and repeating this mindful breath for as long as you need to feel grounded to arrive to this moment.
Inviting your attention to rest in the point of contact of your sit bones and the object that you're sitting on and allowing your attention to connect to these sensations that arise from this connection of the object and the body.
Noticing any temperature,
Any texture.
Maybe noticing if you can connect with a sense of stability and balance.
Slowly bringing your attention up to the heart area and if accessible to you bringing your hands to rest on your chest.
Connecting to your heart and the rhythm of the pulsations of your heart and allowing that heartbeat to invite your attention to rest here to soften in the heart.
Now that our body and our minds are a little more still I want to invite you to imagine that you're right at the bottom of a mountain.
You look up this mountain and you see this beautiful lush green mountain.
Textures and grades of green and brown.
You see the sky,
The clouds.
You feel the invitation to start walking up this mountain following that trail that is right in front of you.
You start to climb up.
It's an easy walk up.
The more you climb this mountain the more you feel connected to the earth.
You look around and notice the beautiful trees,
Plants,
Flowers.
You notice some animals welcoming you.
You feel the whole mountain welcoming you as you keep walking up.
You arrive to the top of the mountain that looks like a flat hill.
You're in awe of the beauty surrounding you in this hill.
You notice a giant tree right in front of you.
The canopy almost covers half of this hilltop.
There is this magical water that is coming through the branches of this big tree almost as if a creek was flowing through it.
It is a beautiful and magical sight.
You close your eyes and you notice that the weather is perfect.
It is cool and warm at the same time.
You're breathing the purest air.
You open your eyes and notice the horizon,
The mountaintops and the ocean.
The Sun is shining on your skin gently and powerfully allowing you to feel warm and welcome here.
As you look around you notice a little cave in the Sun.
You intuitively know that you are invited to walk through this cave.
You start walking towards it and take a step into the entrance of this cave.
Surprisingly this cave is bright and shimmery inside.
It has this welcoming feeling.
It feels safe and secure.
It feels supportive.
You can't help but smile in this moment.
The feelings of care and love in this cave are like nothing you had experienced before.
You keep walking with curiosity until you arrive to the other side of the cave and you see the ocean right in front of you.
A beautiful blue gentle ocean.
There is a rock right at the entrance of this cave and you sit right on top of this big rock that is facing the ocean.
With a cave surrounding you,
You hear the ebbs and flow of the ocean louder as the cave echoes the voice of the sea.
In that moment you close your eyes to take it all in.
You feel even more supported by this rock that you're sitting on.
There's a wisdom and stability and balance that you connect to as this rock supports you.
You hear the ocean going in and out and you notice that your breath is completely in sync with the waves of the ocean.
Every inhalation,
Every exhalation and with every wave you go deeper into a meditative state that allows you to connect deeply and intimately with Mother Earth.
The pulsation of your heart becomes stronger and louder and you intuitively know that as you hear your heart you're also listening to the heart of the earth.
In this moment you're invited to listen closely and deeply to a message that the earth has for you.
She invites you to trust your intuition,
To allow your mind to settle,
To take a break and to connect to her and listen deeply.
You may hear her message,
Feel her message,
See her message or intuitively know her message.
Allow yourself to receive.
With immense gratitude for her message you bring your hands to your heart.
As you know it is with the warmth connection of your hands and your heart how you get to feel the earth and express your appreciation to her.
You send her your gratitude for allowing you to create this new and intimate connection to her.
Honoring and respecting her as the mother and life giver she is.
You thank the ocean,
The Sun,
The air,
The plants,
The animals and everything surrounding you before you stand up and go back to where you began this journey.
You walk back through the cave taking it all in before you exit this beautiful place.
Gently touching the walls of the cave as you walk back you breathe deeply to allow this earthly and familiar loving smell to sink deeper in your being.
You find yourself at the top of the hill again noticing the lush green,
The magical tree and water,
The horizon,
The air.
You take your time to observe and witness everything here as a sign of your appreciation and when you're ready you begin your descent down the mountain making it all the way back to the place where we began this journey.
You give the earth one last embrace and with a deep inhalation you come back into this moment,
Into the room that you're sitting in.
Taking your time to take space in this place,
To feel your body,
To feel again that connection of your body with the object that you're sitting on and slowly start to bring some movement to your body and whenever you're ready and if your eyes have been closed you may open them now.
