Welcome.
My name is Sina Vitep and I'll be your guide for our Let Freedom Bring ancestral healing meditation.
Our ancestors,
Although gone from this realm,
Travel with us closely.
We feel them in our victories as we do in our inherited and collective trauma.
They remind us of a lineage rich with fortitude,
Wisdom,
And pain.
In today's meditation,
We take a step toward healing the trauma response created by psycho-spiritual distress and brought on from enslavement and colonialism.
We do the work to acknowledge and heal from the internal oppression of being stripped of our language,
Our religion,
And our tradition.
We send our ancestors healing love and assurance that we will carry out their vision of true liberation by realizing and releasing destructive patterns that hinder the progress of our people.
We commit to evolving both individually and collectively for them,
For ourselves,
For our children,
For our grandchildren,
And for the many generations that follow.
Find a lying position on your back and take deep breaths.
Feel air travel in through your nose and out through your mouth to release any stale air from your body.
As you breathe,
Begin to invite ease and receptivity.
Allow your inhales to be full and your exhales complete.
Use each breath out to invite more soft.
Notice where you can let go.
Notice your toe and slowly work your way up until you make your way to the crown of your head.
Allow yourself to feel deep relaxation.
Allow any thoughts or distractions that enter your mind to pass with your breath out.
Welcome open awareness.
I invite you to follow the guidance of my voice as we move into visualization.
We begin our journey in nature.
We explore the root.
Our mental health is compromised by the disruption of harmony that exists within.
Through our harmonious relationship with the environment,
We not only reconnect with nature,
But also with self.
Imagine you lie down on your back at the base of a tree.
See it clearly.
Imagine the type of tree.
Its trunk,
Its branches,
The shadows it casts,
The nature surrounding.
Near the birds,
The wind.
Settle yourself.
Feel yourself sink into the grass.
Release your urge to do and allow yourself to just be.
Trust this journey.
Imagine feet of roots at the spine.
Breathe to send the roots deeper into the soil.
Allow these roots to represent a connection with the ancestral portal.
Breathe as these roots grow deeper and deeper.
Take a moment to give thanks and acknowledgement to your ancestors.
Those you know of and those you have yet to connect with.
Thank your divine guide for being open to your presence.
Thank the sacred ancestors for caring you through moments of tribulation.
Thank them for offering you insight and discernment.
Let them feel your gratitude.
Imagine the green light of love,
Kindness,
And compassion from the heart chakra filling you up.
Offer yourself forgiveness for the things you were ignorant to,
For not seeing yourself clearly,
Or perhaps for the inability to see yourself in your brothers and sisters.
Extend to them compassion and care.
Offer the same compassion to yourself.
Watch the green light contract and expand.
As it grows,
Feel your heart become lighter.
The weight of guilt and shame are being removed from your body.
Continue to breathe into this space.
Acknowledge whatever heaviness that exists.
Breathe it out to welcome lightness.
Send yourself love.
As you feel yourself become full,
Let this light travel down to the roots.
Breathe in and out and watch the light travel deeper.
With each exhale moving further down,
Send love,
Gratitude,
Forgiveness,
Reconciliation,
And compassion to the mothers and fathers sent here before you.
Hold space for all unresolved grief.
Let them know that you hold space for them and that you weep for and with their spirit.
Send whatever love messages you need through the light.
The green heart light envelops you and you feel the love exchange of your ancestors.
Allow yourself to connect and to feel.
Be held by your ancestors.
Hear them tell you it's okay.
Hear them tell you that they believe in you.
Notice your body's response.
Welcome healing.
Feel the nourishment of love.
Feel the sun at your belly giving you the power,
Courage,
And strength to receive and carry the love of your ancestors into the world by living a liberated existence.
Feel the sun's warmth.
Feel its rays travel throughout your body.
Allow its fire to burn away your self-doubt,
Your worry.
Feel the pain of degradation leave your body and transform into pride.
Release any attachment to the approval of the world.
Release whatever else needs to be burned in the flame.
Reconnect to love.
Reconnect to your empowered self.
Reclaim freedom.
Tell yourself,
I am free.
Repeat this truth in your mind's eye.
Believe it.
Feel it.
I bind any and all things that challenge your liberation.
I will you freedom from an ignorant world of implicit bias.
Freedom from miseducation.
We pray for freedom to the brothers and sisters who have fallen prey to injustice.
Freedom to our queens as we celebrate the beauty of our deeply melanated skin.
Freedom to our children as they play outside without fear.
Freedom to our kings as we remind them of their innate power.
Freedom to the black family no longer divided and unified by the truth of who we really are.
Freedom to our ancestors.
Freedom to ourselves.
Hold this in your mind's eye.
Reclaim liberation.
Feel the pride of your ancestors in your spine and filling your body with more love,
More wisdom,
More affirmation,
More power.
I am free.
We are free.
I am free.
We are free.
In this freedom,
Reclaim who you are with I am statements.
I am powerful.
I am worthy.
I am joyous.
I am intelligent.
I am beautiful.
I am unapologetic.
Let this list flow.
And as you fortify yourself,
Imagine your roots grow even stronger.
See the branches and leaves that grow from this symbolic tree that you created of yourself.
Let the branches,
Leaves,
And flowers represent the beauty of who you are,
Your family,
Your community,
And all the people in the world who feel your magnitude.
Give thanks for this opportunity to reconnect and reclaim.
Slowly allow yourself to come back to consciousness.
Notice sounds distant and near.
Notice gentle brushes against your skin.
Take a full breath in and a big breath out.
Find gentle movements that go your fingers,
Your toes.
Take a full body stretch and roll to the right side of your body in a fetal position.
Let this shape represent rebirth as you step into renewal of self,
Fully liberated.
Use your left hand to lift you to seated,
Eyes remain closed,
And hands come to heart center at prayer.
Feel the light of love and power between your palms.
Take this moment to offer gratitude to self,
To the ancestors,
And to all who remind us of our divine right to freedom.
May you always remember.
Ashe.
