Greetings friends and welcome.
So allow yourself to settle into the place you've chosen for your meditation.
Make sure you're warm.
You might gently close the eyes and take some nice easeful inhales or exhales,
Letting breath and body relax.
Know that you are safe and allow yourself this time to surrender to the earth and as you rest in this place,
In line with the spring season and the beginning of the year,
I want you to envisage that you are a seed,
Small and shining,
Full of possibility.
As your seed self,
You have been planted into the earth,
Nestled in the soft ground and as this seed,
You have been sleeping,
Resting through the dark winter.
You may have been dreaming about the plant that you will become.
It might be a beautiful flower or healing herb,
A fruit bush of bright berries or a great tall tree of the forest.
Allow yourself to visualize this plant,
Whatever it may be.
The time has now come for a new cycle to begin.
The season of spring beckons with open arms and rosy fingers.
It is time for you to start a journey to awakening.
You may visualize the light of the spring sun and begin to feel gentle energy and warmth moving through you.
You may begin to gently reach out,
Breaking out of your shell and you can visualize sending roots deep down into the earth so that you can draw in what nourishes you.
These roots travel downwards into grounding,
Giving you strong foundations,
Drawing in nourishment and feeding your journey of growth and you can also expand upwards,
Unfurling stem and stalk,
Reaching upwards to the sun,
Your first green shoots,
Your first green leaves.
The growing light and warmth of the spring sunshine gently draws you,
Guiding you to reach skywards.
You and the elements of sky and earth above and below entwine in harmonious rhythm of drawing in and expanding out,
Drawing in what nourishes you,
Unfurling,
Unraveling,
Growing more leaves,
Deeper roots and rising in growth,
Drawing in and reaching out,
Breathing in and breathing out,
Taking up space,
Feeling into expansion.
As you continue to grow and rise you are in a process of becoming,
Becoming who you are or who you wish to be.
Let yourself stay with this feeling of growth.
With every breath you are taking in what you need,
Expanding and growing.
You can stay here as long as you wish.
This process does not need to be quick.
We grow and bloom and blossom in our own time.
What deep roots can you draw from and what does growth mean to you?
As our own beautiful spring shoots,
Then it is only when you feel ready that you need open your eyes to return home just for now.
And I thank you for joining me today and I look forward to journeying with you again soon.
Thank you and farewell.
