Inner Healer Alchemy
This meditation was inspired by our retreat. I updated the version I used last weekend and created this version with different background music and included additional nature sounds of wind, fire and water. It is now published on my site, and uploaded to Insight Timer (It may take a few months before it is published there).
The meditation takes you through a process of releasing and transforming blocks through the elements of earth, air, fire and water. Then we access supportive resources like ancestors and spiritual beings. Finally we connect with an image of ourselves in the future, healing and offering important wisdom for our journey. All of these resources come together to deepen our awareness of the healer who lives within.
This meditation was inspired by our retreat. I updated the version I used last weekend and created this version with different background music and included additional nature sounds of wind, fire and water. It is now published on my site, and uploaded to Insight Timer (It may take a few months before it is published there).
The meditation takes you through a process of releasing and transforming blocks through the elements of earth, air, fire and water. Then we access supportive resources like ancestors and spiritual beings. Finally we connect with an image of ourselves in the future, healing and offering important wisdom for our journey. All of these resources come together to deepen our awareness of the healer who lives within.
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adapted from a prayer by Sofia Rose Smith
Bring some seeds or bulbs that you love to your ceremony. Let them rest in the palms of your hands or on your altar space. Let them be infused by your dreams, all that you want to call in, all that you are speaking into existence. Then, as you move through your ceremony, plant this seed in the ground or in a pot. Let the seeds hold your intentions and be nourished by you. Water them over the next month, and remember your dream seeds every time you nourish the plant. Have fun with this. Let it bring a smile to your face and your heart.
Prayer
Divine love and light- sun, earth, moon, waters, fire, all of our relations, animals ecosystem.
Our guides and ancestors all that is, we thank you for your guidance and protection as we open up a channel of Spring
Support us as we open up to our deepest callings
As we water and watch the seeds blossom.
Thank you for love and protection as we call our highest selves into being.
And now the channel is open.
Bring the palm of your hands to your heart center inhale and exhale
Feel your heart beat, Feel the skin of you
Deepen into your breath.
Inhale a sense of gratitude for the beating of your heart-the work that this muscle does for your body, keeping you alive, thank you to your body for the way that it flows, the way you are already so brilliant and resilient and magic.
Feeling into the soles of your feet.
Earth connected, open channel of you!
Bring one of your hands to the soles of your feet, give them a massage and a thank you for the ways they may carry you, for the work they do connecting to the core of the earth
Connecting you to stones and soil, grass and sand.
Connected to all that is:
The sky and stars and galaxies.
Continuing your breath,
Letting the energy of earth travel up through your legs, knees and hips.
Wiggle them around, spiral them, circle yourself and stretch and let the energy of earth move up through your belly your lower back, your spine, your heart center,
your armpits, your shoulder blades, down your arms and feel that magnetic energy in the palm of your hands and finger tips
Travel up your arms to your neck, your head.
Take another deep inhale and exhale…
Allow the mind to be calm.
Imagine the bright warm beautiful sun, radiating onto you.
Feel that shining brightness warmth on your skin, on your face, wherever it feels good.
Consider all that the sun makes possible in our lives
The food it grows for us
The vitamin D it brings to us,
That it makes life possible.
Greet the sun with love and gratitude for the joy of spring and summer
Connecting now with new growth---connecting with what is beginning to grow inside you.
Imagine yourself in a field, not allergic to anything around you, just enjoying the grasses and flowers, the blossoms, the sun above, inhale deeply and exhale.
In this field, imagine you in your perfect life, doing or being exactly who and what you want to be…
Consider the dream seeds that you want to plant in this season.
Calling now on your ancestors, goddess, mentor, wise women to support you in bringing this seed to the world.
See the seed, feel and honor this seed, it has a purpose, to be brought into the world
Breathe into the dream seed, imagine, see it, believe it, feel it!
Allow this dream to come out through you.
Maybe it is a movement in your body, speak it out-loud, share it in dyads, sharing it in a group.
Write it down in your journal,
Be with this dream seed, expressed by you and through your silence …..
Plant and water and talk to it, give it love!
Bring some seeds or bulbs that you love to your ceremony. Let them rest in the palms of your hands or on your altar space. Let them be infused by your dreams, all that you want to call in, all that you are speaking into existence. Then, as you move through your ceremony, plant this seed in the ground or in a pot. Let the seeds hold your intentions and be nourished by you. Water them over the next month, and remember your dream seeds every time you nourish the plant. Have fun with this. Let it bring a smile to your face and your heart.
Prayer
Divine love and light- sun, earth, moon, waters, fire, all of our relations, animals ecosystem.
Our guides and ancestors all that is, we thank you for your guidance and protection as we open up a channel of Spring
Support us as we open up to our deepest callings
As we water and watch the seeds blossom.
Thank you for love and protection as we call our highest selves into being.
And now the channel is open.
Bring the palm of your hands to your heart center inhale and exhale
Feel your heart beat, Feel the skin of you
Deepen into your breath.
Inhale a sense of gratitude for the beating of your heart-the work that this muscle does for your body, keeping you alive, thank you to your body for the way that it flows, the way you are already so brilliant and resilient and magic.
Feeling into the soles of your feet.
Earth connected, open channel of you!
Bring one of your hands to the soles of your feet, give them a massage and a thank you for the ways they may carry you, for the work they do connecting to the core of the earth
Connecting you to stones and soil, grass and sand.
Connected to all that is:
The sky and stars and galaxies.
Continuing your breath,
Letting the energy of earth travel up through your legs, knees and hips.
Wiggle them around, spiral them, circle yourself and stretch and let the energy of earth move up through your belly your lower back, your spine, your heart center,
your armpits, your shoulder blades, down your arms and feel that magnetic energy in the palm of your hands and finger tips
Travel up your arms to your neck, your head.
Take another deep inhale and exhale…
Allow the mind to be calm.
Imagine the bright warm beautiful sun, radiating onto you.
Feel that shining brightness warmth on your skin, on your face, wherever it feels good.
Consider all that the sun makes possible in our lives
The food it grows for us
The vitamin D it brings to us,
That it makes life possible.
Greet the sun with love and gratitude for the joy of spring and summer
Connecting now with new growth---connecting with what is beginning to grow inside you.
Imagine yourself in a field, not allergic to anything around you, just enjoying the grasses and flowers, the blossoms, the sun above, inhale deeply and exhale.
In this field, imagine you in your perfect life, doing or being exactly who and what you want to be…
Consider the dream seeds that you want to plant in this season.
Calling now on your ancestors, goddess, mentor, wise women to support you in bringing this seed to the world.
See the seed, feel and honor this seed, it has a purpose, to be brought into the world
Breathe into the dream seed, imagine, see it, believe it, feel it!
Allow this dream to come out through you.
Maybe it is a movement in your body, speak it out-loud, share it in dyads, sharing it in a group.
Write it down in your journal,
Be with this dream seed, expressed by you and through your silence …..
Plant and water and talk to it, give it love!
Smudging prayer...thanks Eva for the photo!
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May your hands be cleansed that they may create beautiful things.
May your feet be cleansed that they may take you where you most need to be.
May your heart be cleansed, that you may hear its message clearly.
May your throat be cleansed that you might speak rightly when words are needed.
May your eyes be cleansed, that you may see the signs and wonders of this world.
May this person and this space be washed clean by the smoke of these fragrant plants,
And may that smoke carry our prayers, spiraling to heaven.
May your feet be cleansed that they may take you where you most need to be.
May your heart be cleansed, that you may hear its message clearly.
May your throat be cleansed that you might speak rightly when words are needed.
May your eyes be cleansed, that you may see the signs and wonders of this world.
May this person and this space be washed clean by the smoke of these fragrant plants,
And may that smoke carry our prayers, spiraling to heaven.