Come into a comfortable position.
You could be sitting down,
Sitting on a pillow or in a chair.
Or you could be lying down,
Maybe on your yoga mat or even in your bed.
Wherever you are,
Make yourself really comfortable using pillows and blankets.
Allow your body to soften down into whatever you are resting on.
Let your spine grow nice and tall and long.
Relax your shoulders down away from your ears.
Open your jaw.
Let your arms just rest down along your sides.
Or if you're sitting down,
You can rest your hands in your lap.
Begin to notice your breath now.
Notice the way it sounds as you inhale and exhale.
Notice the way it feels.
Notice how your body moves as you breathe in and breathe out.
You can even take your hand to your belly and feel it rise and expand as you breathe in.
Feel it fall and deflate as you breathe out.
Let your belly fill up with your inhale and let it empty with the exhale.
Continue to take nice big breaths into your belly and let your entire body soften.
And if they're not already,
Maybe you can close your eyes.
And now with your eyes closed,
It's a little bit darker.
You can imagine that you are a tiny seed buried down into the earth.
As you breathe,
Imagine that you start to send roots down deeper,
Deeper,
Deeper into the earth.
As your roots grow down,
Feel that you are pulling energy up from the earth into your seed body.
Feel this energy fill you up.
And now you may notice that there is some warmth,
Some warmth above you.
And you decide to start to grow up out of your seed towards this warmth,
Towards a beautiful golden light just above you shining down on you.
Your roots continue to grow down.
But now you also send a little shoot,
A little leaf up,
Up,
Up.
Continue to grow as you break through the earth's surface and you feel even warmer.
As you realize that the light of the sun is shining down on you.
Continue to grow.
As you expand more and more leaves out from your body,
Your branches grow up and out,
Reaching towards the sun.
You can be any plant that you would like to be.
Maybe you are a flower.
Maybe you are a tree.
Whatever it is,
You continue to grow and expand.
Feeling the warmth of the sun on you.
And now some clouds roll in and you begin to notice tiny raindrops falling down onto your leaves and branches.
Enjoy the feeling of the cool rain.
Feel the water moisten the soil and soak down towards your roots.
Drink up the water from your roots and feel even more nourished.
With this rain,
You can grow even more as you stretch up,
Up,
Up into the sky.
Feel the breeze as it moves your branches back and forth,
Back and forth.
Maybe the breeze even turns into a wind as you sway even further back and forth,
Back and forth.
Even if the wind gets very strong and you sway even further to one side and the other side,
You are still firmly rooted into the earth.
You can be so strong and stable at the base that you are able to move in any direction with your branches.
And now let that wind settle down as you come back to stillness.
Slowly open your eyes as you remember that you are in a human body.
But know that whenever you'd like,
You can always close your eyes again and become that tree or that flower with strong roots into the earth and flexible branches and leaves that can move and flow with any weather.
Know that you are so loved.
Know that you are a beautiful part of this world.
And know that you can always come back to your breath whenever you need to feel grounded.
The light within me bows to the light within you.
Thank you for being here.
Namaste.
