Welcome my name is Trish Everett and this process is to release and renew.
To start this journey we'll start with breath breathing in and out.
Feeling the air as it comes in and as it goes out.
We'll feel the ground beneath us.
Feel the land that supports you,
That holds you and honour that land and honour those that have held the land.
The traditional owners of the land that you stand on.
I acknowledge the elders of the Tiringanj people of the land I stand on and where this journey came from.
Now feel the sky above your head,
Big powerful sky.
We honour that too.
Feel your heart,
Your big beautiful heart and let's honour that too.
In your mind's eye now see yourself as you walk down a path,
Path in the bush in the forest.
Allow this to come into your mind with all the colours of your imagination.
It opens up into a clearing,
Beautiful clearing and in the centre of this clearing there is a fire.
This is our starting point for this journey today.
Take a moment to warm yourself by the fire and know that this place is always here for you and that you can always come back and start your journey here again anytime that you wish to renew anytime you have things you need to release.
I mean this place an animal finds you now.
As you turn there'll be an animal there.
Trust whatever pops into your mind.
It is right.
Welcome this animal and follow its lead now as it leads you off down a path to the side.
This windy path that goes up and up as you walk along.
You start to hear some water,
A little creek,
A brook up ahead as you walk through the tall trees that reach up high to the sky.
The sound gets louder,
The trees get denser and you start to see some tree ferns.
These tall ferns with long trunks that are furry and textured and green ferns that reach out high into the sky and drip down and make a little space underneath each tree fern.
At the very top there's new ferns unfurling.
The next layer is beautiful deep green ferns that reach out wide and far collecting the light from the sky.
And underneath those there are brown ones that have let go of life and are starting to break down and decay.
There's a stand of five or six tree ferns with a small patch of flat in the middle.
You're invited to go and sit down on now surrounded by tree ferns and in this space feel your heart.
The gift of the tree fern is one of heart and as you sit surrounded by these ferns that are all heart feel your heart respond and expand and grow.
Let it fill up your chest with joy and love your whole body and fill up all the area all around you underneath those tree ferns.
Fill it up with your love and feel it mingling with the love that's emanating from the tree ferns.
Feel yourself being held supported and loved.
As you sit here under the tree ferns you see a fond a brown fond that's lost all its green fall from a tree fern and land on the ground.
As it does these tree ferns that hold you and as it does the release these tree ferns are having is your release to feel,
Watch,
Sense what no longer serves you dropping away as if falling from a tree fern.
It lands on the ground beside you.
The things that you have been carrying you no longer need to all that that is let it fall away while being held by these tree ferns let it fall away to the ground beside you.
Everything that you're holding that is no longer growing it is no longer alive and exciting and supporting and nurturing for you releasing and letting it go.
The old stories the stories you keep telling yourself you are small you don't have enough of this or enough of that.
Everything that is stopping you from really stepping into your power release it let it drop let it fall away land on the ground.
All that is holding you back even if you don't know what it is release it drop it let it fall away as the tree ferns release their ferns falling around you you release too.
And all that you are carrying that is actually not even yours things you carry for other people other people's worries their anxieties you may not even know what they are that you're carrying.
But let's release that now too with the support of the ferns all around you release and let that drop away just like brown ferns falling to the earth.
Releasing what no longer serves you what is not yours trusting that it is falling away.
Now notice the tree ferns around you everywhere that that fond has fallen off is part of the trunk is part of what has become the trunk with each fond that falls away the trunk gets taller longer with each fond that falls away there is more space underneath more space for flow.
Now notice the ferns all on the floor of the forest all on the floor of the bush around the ferns around you.
I watch as they break down breaking down and releasing breaking down composting releasing letting go becoming earth earth that supports earth that nurtures.
Now feel in yourself feel how the ground is right beneath you is there and is supporting you and that all that you have released is transmuted is composted it becomes fuel for you becomes nourishment becomes support for you.
Feel now how supported you are how powerful how tall.
Notice now at the top of the fence the little ferns the little babies and they're all twisted in on themselves and watch as they open themselves up unfurling releasing opening up and becoming and feel that in you the other parts of you that are ready that are ready for you to let them unfurl to reach for the light to reach for the Sun and let them unfurl now.
The animal that has been with you and watching over you all along now gets your attention it's time to leave this place but know you can always come back this is a place for you whenever you need to release and renew with your hand on your heart place your hand on each of the tree ferns and give your thanks.
It is now time to leave this place as you follow your animal away from the tree ferns and down the hill down the beautiful track and away from the creek through the trees and back down to the clearing clearing with the small fire this is the place where you can say goodbye to the animal that has supported you on this journey you can do this in your own way and now you can walk back along the path that led you here back into the room that you are in and start to become aware of yourself and your surroundings feel your body feel your legs and your arms your chest your head and your skin and the sensations feel the breath when you are ready to come back open up your eyes and become fully present in the room after this you may like to go and drink some water come and place your hands on the earth go and give thanks in your way.
This process is always here for you always to come back to whenever you need to release something to renew something and it's a beautiful practice to do in the week leading up to a new moon if it calls to you you may like to bookmark it so that it's here waiting for you at those times I honor you and I honor your journey and I wish you the very very best.
