The Stag Within - A Journey Of Release And Renewal

Step through the door of your imagination into a sacred forest where transformation awaits.
In this deeply immersive audio healing journey, you’ll be guided to release the weight of old identities, stories, and survival patterns... symbolised by the heavy antlers of a majestic stag.
Supported by the wisdom of four spirit animals, you’ll shed what no longer serves you and awaken crowned with new antlers of pure light.
This is a journey of letting go, remembering your true self, and feeling the deep, unshakable freedom that comes from finally standing in your own shape.

Transcript

Welcome,

Beautiful soul.

If your eyes aren't closed,

Then I invite you to close them now so we can go on a very deep journey together.

To begin,

I'd like you to just let the outside world begin to fade away.

As if you're standing on the shoreline of your own soul,

Watch the tide of everything outside of you pull back further and further away.

Take long,

Slow inhales through your nose and exhale with long sighs out your mouth,

Letting all the inner noise go.

Exhale all the noise of trying to hold everything together.

Exhale the noise of endless lists of things to do.

Exhale the weight of the world,

All the stress,

All the pressure.

Feel the outside world disappearing as you come deeper and deeper inside yourself into your own inner world.

And now using your beautiful and powerful imagination,

I'd like you to see a doorway in front of you,

A door made of moonlight,

Magic,

And moss.

This is the door that leads you into the very heart of yourself.

Please make sure you leave everything outside that you don't need.

Any racing thoughts,

Any burdens.

Just leave it all outside the door for now.

And when you're ready,

Open the door,

Walk through and close the door behind you.

Welcome to your own magical inner world.

As you turn away from the closed door,

You see the most beautiful moonlit forest you've ever seen.

The trees stand tall like sentinels,

So strong and so proud.

Like they are keepers of Mother Earth's most sacred secrets.

The air smells of wet soil,

Mist,

And sage.

Soft moss cushions your feet as you walk.

And there's a gentle breeze carrying the scent of pine and transformation.

You walk slowly,

Knowing exactly where to go,

As if you're guided by something unseen.

Guided deeper into the woods,

Deeper into yourself.

And then something starts to happen.

You feel something happening inside of you,

Like your energy is changing.

It doesn't matter if you understand what's happening,

Just dare to believe it.

You start to feel a tingle at your crown,

A strange sensation in your chest,

And a quiet dissolving of the borders between body and soul.

Then magically,

Your human shape begins to change.

Trust the power of this moment.

Trust this process.

Deep inhales and deep exhales.

As your energy transforms from your human form into something more ancient,

More wild.

Feel your spine start to lengthen.

Your legs grow powerful and tall.

Your senses sharpen.

Your heart beats louder,

Stronger,

And steadier.

And in the space where your skin once was,

There is fur,

Thick,

Soft,

And protective.

And as you breathe,

Your breath fogs the air in front of you.

And as you slightly lower your head,

You feel them at your crown.

Your antlers,

Vast,

Majestic,

And very,

Very heavy,

Crowned upon your head like sculpted bone,

So heavy with all of your past,

Your history.

On this journey with me now,

You are not human.

You have become the stag,

A wild and beautiful deer,

Elegant,

Grounded,

A creature of grace and ancient dignity.

Stand still for a moment.

Feel yourself in this new form.

Feel the earth beneath your hooves,

The rhythm of your heartbeat in perfect harmony with the heartbeat of the forest.

Feel the moonlight resting on your back like a sacred blessing.

And please now,

Notice that despite your beauty and your power,

All you can feel is the heaviness on your crown,

Your antlers.

They are magnificent,

But they are old,

Overgrown with time.

They've seen way too many seasons,

And they carry the weight of everything you've survived.

Every mask you've worn,

Every belief that kept you safe,

But stuck.

These antlers are not who you are anymore.

They are who you had to be before this moment.

And they're holding you back from becoming your greatest self.

Sometimes we have to let go of the things we've held onto our whole lives in order to become who we were always destined to be.

So now,

As the beautiful,

Majestic stag that you are,

Lay down on the moss-covered ground now and get comfortable.

The forest knows it's time for you to heal,

To shed,

To transform.

And it's offering you assistance in this sacred moment.

From the trees,

A noise,

A rustling begins as four magical forest creatures come and gather around you.

So you can feel seen,

Heard,

Supported,

Guided and protected through this journey.

A red fox comes out from between the trees,

Her coat thick and rust-red.

Her eyes like amber flames as she watches you in perfect stillness.

A hedgehog appears beside you,

Quiet,

Cute and curious.

His spines glint like tiny pine needles in the moonlight.

An exquisite speckled owl glides down from the branches above you,

Landing nearby without a sound.

He blinks slowly,

His beautiful round eyes steady on you,

Calm,

Protective and supportive.

And a white rabbit hops quietly over to you and nestles itself into your side,

Soft and warm like a teddy bear.

Its fur brushes against your skin and something about its small,

Steady presence makes you feel completely safe.

These creatures come as witnesses,

To hold the space while you let the old finally fall away.

This is your moment to lay your past down.

You are the stag and you are about to set yourself free.

So feel those heavy antlers again,

Weighing down on your crown.

Heavy with everything you've carried before this moment.

Feel how heavy they are,

Each ridge shaped by a belief you've outgrown.

Each branch tangled with an old identity you no longer need.

Be willing to let it all go now,

For your greatest good.

At the very base of your heavy antlers,

You begin to feel something now,

A tingle.

There's absolutely no pain,

Just a strange tingling sensation on your crown.

Like the heaviness is beginning to magically dissolve.

Releasing.

Simply because you were ready and willing to finally let it go.

You don't need to do anything.

Feel a deep ancestral knowing in the very core of you now.

That this is the time.

And you know that you are finally ready.

And as you tap into this truth,

The tingle starts to amplify.

And the weight of your past starts to get lighter and lighter.

Like all the pain,

The trauma,

The struggle,

The dysfunction is all dissolving out your body now.

Everything that came before this moment is just floating out of you,

Up into the night sky and is devoured by the light and love of the moon.

And your old antlers fall away.

And you feel a lightness like never before.

It feels like life has returned to your soul.

Like a thousand invisible ropes have untied themselves.

Like you're finally standing in your own true self without apology or armour.

It's hard to describe the feeling you're feeling.

It's not peace,

It's not joy,

It's something older than both of them.

Something wild and wordless.

Complete and total inner freedom.

You've never felt this before.

Because until now you were always carrying something heavy.

Shoulders bent,

Head dipped.

Breath shallow.

Constantly trying.

Constantly carrying,

Enduring,

Surviving.

But now you've let that all go.

And you rise.

Now,

As a beautiful and powerful stag,

You lift your head with no more weight to drag you down.

And as this majestic creature,

You stretch the most delicious and satisfying stretch you've ever felt.

Your front legs extend forward into the moss,

Your back legs push long and strong behind you.

Your spine arches in a ripple of release.

Muscles lengthen,

Joints roll open.

Your neck reaches tall,

Free for the first time.

You tilt your head up to the sky and your gaze locks with the moon.

And an energy moves between you and the moon.

A vibration,

A transmission,

A beam of knowing.

And in this moment a message blows directly into your body.

Not words,

Not images,

But truth.

A deep inner knowing meant only for you.

You don't need to think it,

You don't need to find it.

You just need to receive it.

It doesn't come as words,

It comes as a deep inner knowing.

It downloads into you with a soft electricity,

A pulse of lunar truth that moves through every part of your being.

Only you can hear it,

And only you know what it means.

And then something else very powerful starts to happen.

A rush of energy starts rising from the core of the earth up into your body,

Recalibrating your cells,

Weaving you back into your original frequency.

You are being restored.

You are being recovered.

You are being recalibrated.

And as this process happens,

At the crown of your head a new sensation begins.

The most magical,

Beautiful sensation.

Like your third eye and crown chakras are coming back to life.

Fully opening.

Shining so bright that something new is beginning to form.

Not like before,

Not heavy,

Not burdened and not survival shaped.

You are beginning to feel the lightest and most magical antlers of pure infinite light growing out from your crown now.

Antlers made of feather light quartz crystal kissed by the moonlight.

Antlers of softness and strength.

You feel them at your crown stretching skyward,

Delicate and radiant.

Clear as glass but strong as bone.

These new antlers hum with your new truth.

Who you always were underneath everything that buried you.

Feel yourself coming back to life now in a whole new way.

The white rabbit places a small four leafed clover at your hoof.

In reverence,

Respect,

Love and honour for the work you just did here.

And even though you can't hear the rabbit speak,

Its message is clear and powerful.

Do not rush your new beginning.

Take your time and enjoy each precious moment.

This four leaf clover holds the frequency of comfort,

Safety and unconditional love.

It's a gift to soothe your entire nervous system and remind your heart it's safe to open again.

The fox comes to you next weaving through the trees.

It circles you once then sits directly in front of you.

Your eyes meet as you hear its message.

Have more trust than fear.

It's too much to expect yourself not to be afraid,

So be afraid.

Just have more trust than fear.

Then the fox stands,

Walks slowly to you and lays a small pine cone at your hoof perfectly formed.

This pine cone carries the energy of sacred wholeness.

A reminder that you are the seed of the earth,

Layered,

Alive and always becoming.

And from above you,

The owl sings low and ancient.

His wings open and close once,

Sending a breeze over you that you feel throughout your whole body.

As you hear his message reverberate inside you.

Stop searching for answers out there.

The wisdom you seek is inside you.

Trust the quiet voice underneath all the other noise.

It doesn't live in your head.

It resides in your heart and it's the voice of your soul.

And then a single feather loosens from his wing,

Drifts down through the moonlight,

Landing gently upon your back.

This feather holds the energy of guidance,

Clear perspective and deep trust.

A gift to help you stay connected to your own intuition.

When the outside world gets loud again.

And the outside world will get loud again.

And lastly,

The hedgehog waddles forward to you.

He pauses by your hoof and looks up at you.

Soft eyes,

Small body,

Loving presence.

And clutched carefully in his mouth is a tiny flat stone.

Smooth except for a single arrow etched into its surface,

Pointing forwards.

He places it down in front of you.

And you feel his message like the sweetest relief.

You don't have to move fast to be moving forward.

Small steps count.

You're still becoming even when it looks like you're at a standstill.

Just keep going.

Well done,

My beautiful and powerful dreamer.

You just let go and you just transformed.

So please bask in this newness now.

Feel the weightlessness of a new becoming.

You are not the human with too many burdens.

You're not the performer who always wears masks.

You are not the protector of everyone else's comfort.

You are the stag.

A majestic and powerful deer crowned in crystal,

Rooted in a new truth.

You have been restored.

You have been recovered.

You have been recalibrated.

And now you are free.

So when you're ready,

Start returning back to your human form.

But with your antlers still glowing.

Your heart still open and ready.

Your inner wisdom loud and strong.

Slowly,

Gently return to the here and now.

Gently feel yourself back in your own skin.

Back in the space you're in.

Back to the outside world.

Feel yourself changed forever.

And when you're ready,

Open your eyes.

Thank you for watching.

Reviews

What a wonderful meditation! Great visualizations and as always such a wonderful voice! Thank you!

Superb! Thank you 🙏🤩

This is extraordinary. A beautiful transformation; incredibly put together. I am still tingling 🫶💫🫶
Thank you Saskia 🤎

One of the most amazing visualizations I’ve listed to. Thank you

The utter brilliance of this meditation is infinite. The transformational power I experienced was profound and restorative.

Everything I needed

wow! this might be the most incredible, transformational meditation i have ever listened to! saska- please never stop making meditations — your words truly have a way of speaking to the soul.

Extraordinary. Incredibly powerful. Thank you. ✨🙏✨