Creating Sacred Space For Meditation Sessions

Hello and welcome to this integrative wisdom video created specifically for the Insight Timer community.

My name is Verna Fisher and I'm delighted to be here with you in these few moments together.

This video is going to focus on a little bit extra when we get ready to meditate to create our our moment of quiet and peace.

It's about creating the space.

It's about setting an intention and I thought that I would use these next few minutes to go over that for someone who may or may not have had that experience before.

So welcome to my office.

This is the office part of the retreat space which is over there.

Next door.

But anyway,

I use this side when I'm doing the Insight Timer live meditations and and time together and so I thought I would use it for this video which will be available at any time that people need to have a reminder of how to do it.

So the first thing that I think about is what is the purpose of this time together?

What is my reason for creating sacred space?

So,

For example,

Spring is coming up when I'm doing the recording.

Oh,

Whatever's coming up,

Right?

So,

I wanna create something special for that,

Let's say.

So,

I think about where I'm at on my journey.

I think about what's coming to me and then I say,

Okay,

I'm ready and I have a few things that I'm going to use for our time in this video.

So,

Excuse me for reaching.

That's not very good,

Is it?

Okay,

Here we go.

A part of what I'm doing is creating a sense of prayer,

A sense of reaching up,

A prayer of connection.

So,

This is the perfect object for me to do that in this particular scenario.

I also like to add a bit of color,

The touch.

So,

This is an idea.

So,

For this one,

It reminds me to go within.

That's another part for me.

You will have your own ideas about what that might look like.

I like to add a source of light and this is the one that I have used recently.

I also like to include essential oils and this particular blend I received through going to Sedona,

Arizona and one of the shopkeepers there had this particular one and so I'm going to use that for this as well.

Also,

You may if it's your season where you're at to add a flower to your sacred space.

It could be a flower that's just come up because let's say it's spring.

It could be summer.

There's a weed that's growing because it's summer.

In the fall,

It could be the leaves and then in December,

Maybe the branch that the leaves have come off of and it has fallen to the ground.

So,

You use the time frame as well when you are creating your space.

So,

When we light the candle,

We say that it holds the intention of our time and my intention for this time together is to support you and anyone who might find their way here who feels like they want to add a little bit more to their practice.

They want to take it that next step to create the physical part of the meditation.

So,

Hopefully this has been a help and that you will perhaps if you are able to watch it respond to me,

Let me know and I don't know.

We can we can have a conversation at some point hopefully about that.

So,

Let's light the candle.

And I know some people have been very kind to share with me that there are those who have breathing issues and so they use a like electric light or a battery light instead of lighting a candle.

So,

Here we go.

And then,

Using that gift from Mother Nature,

The plants that have the healing properties within them.

And then we take that breath,

Right?

We take that moment,

Close our eyes and we ask,

May our intentions for this day be held in the loving embrace of the divine,

Of the universe,

Of God.

And that's going to be it for creating sacred space.

Thanks again.

And just so many blessings in whatever it is that is your intention and your heart's desire and your soul's purpose.