Welcome to your practice tonight.
As you settle in and the world goes dark,
Give yourself this opportunity to unwind,
To sink back into the surface that you sit or lay upon,
To close your eyes gently,
Letting the space behind your eyelids come to darken.
Wrapping yourself up with warm,
Comforting blankets.
Tuning in and listening to the wisdom of your own heart.
As you take a deep breath,
Send that breath down all the way down to your feet.
Anchor yourself down into the earth,
Sending your breath down straight into the core.
You are safe.
You are grounded and you are held with compassion.
Bringing that breath up the backs of your legs.
Feeling the contact with the surface that you sit or lay upon.
And spending just a few moments sending your breath into your hips.
Releasing anger,
Releasing fear,
Making room.
Ever so gently bringing that breath up through your spine,
One vertebrae at a time.
Press your shoulders down your arms,
Swirling around and resting in the palms of your hands.
And your breath gently traveling up the back of your head and coming out through the crown.
Feeling you between earth and sky.
Magically held in this suspension,
This loving embrace with the universe.
It's time to grow quiet,
To let your world darken,
To enter into this beautiful winter slumber.
The air outside grows cold and the wind whips through the trees.
It's time for the world to darken,
To draw its blinds,
Batten the hatches and grow quiet.
Still.
Dark.
Quiet.
Nothing needs tending to but the fire that burns within.
The secret plans.
This is the time of the great winter sleep,
Where we all turn inward and listen.
We listen to the wisdom of our own hearts.
We suspend ourselves between earth and sky,
Allowing our souls to reside here.
Allowing our world to grow quiet.
Souls,
Earth,
Water,
Sky.
Deeply connected,
Harnessed by our own breath,
The world darkening and growing quiet.
This beautiful slumber.
These moments of peace.
Om Nama Om.
Delicately suspended between earth and sky,
Made up of water,
Reflected in our soul.
This is where my soul resides.
Om Nama Om.
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Your soul resides perfectly right there in the silence,
In the quiet and the solitude.
The world is dark.
The air is cool,
Quiet and still.
Water is wisdom there held within your heart.
Held within the Nama Om.
Reflected in the earth.
Magnified in the sky.
A knowing and a wanting.
Deep slumber.
Let it come.
Let that air outside grow cold.
Let the world grow dark.
Still,
Dark and quiet.
Nothing needs tending to but that fire that burns within your heart.
Feel it deeply.
Feel it passionately.
Your secret plans.
This is the time of the great winter slumber.
Turn inward.
Om Nama Om.
And listen.
