Yuria Celidwen guides us to connect with the land, awakening gratitude and listening extra deeply into the pure areas round us.
Many trendy Western cultures don’t have a deep understanding of how we hook up with the land as a supply of collective id, story, or goal. There’s a sense that, sure, land may be beautiful—however it’s primarily seen as a supply of recreation or extraction, not essentially as an integral a part of what shapes us and future generations.
On this guided apply, Indigenous scholar and trainer Yuria Celidwen, rooted in Nahua and Maya lineages, introduces a recent approach to contemplate our connection to the pure areas round us. It is a apply that invitations reverence, gratitude, and belonging, the place our expertise of the Earth strikes from being strictly transactional to being interconnected and relational.
A Meditation on Connecting Lands and Tales
Learn and apply the guided meditation script beneath, pausing after every paragraph. Or hearken to the audio apply.
- When you haven’t executed so already, flip off your gadgets or go away them in a special place from the place you’ll do that apply. Discover a place inside straightforward attain the place you could really feel snug. If this place lets you overlook the panorama, that’s improbable. When you can sit outdoors, surrounded by the pure panorama, even higher. Wherever you resolve to take a seat, make it straightforward for you so your apply turns into accessible at any time when and wherever in your each day life.
- Let your body rest in a means that helps you keep relaxed however attentive. Whilst you might know that some meditation practices have interaction in contemplation with eyes closed, on this apply, preserve your gaze mushy however open, taking in your environment with a mushy, expansive, panoramic view.
- Pause. Discover the place your consideration is. Simply discover the place your thoughts is wandering. The place is your thoughts wandering? When is your thoughts wandering? How is your thoughts wandering? Simply discover. Collect your consideration gently. And produce it again to this current place and second.
- Request permission to enter the lands, providing your gratitude for his or her welcoming. Open. Breath, anchor, presence. Discover the feel of the lands the place you’re. What are the smells, fragrances, scents? What are the varieties, colours and shades? What are the tones, resonances, timbres, rhythms? What’s their contact, their temperature, their strokes? What are their refined tastes? Much more refined reminiscences, creativeness?
- Breathe, acknowledge, acknowledge, welcome. Welcome the lands. Pause. Who’re the lands? What are they? The place are they? Pause. The lands are telling tales. They’ve voices. They sing songs. With the utmost care, as you’ll to a treasured elder or a new child baby, simply pause to pay attention. What are the lands telling you proper now? What are they singing about themselves? What’s their story about you?
Pause to pay attention, as you’ll to a treasured elder or a new child baby. What are the lands telling you proper now? What are they singing about themselves? What’s their story about you?
- Take just a few moments to carry this expertise. Embrace our first opening into our shared sacred house, our discovering of an open welcoming of the lands. Supply them your gratitude for that opening, for welcoming you. Take a deep breath and exhale, bowing to the lands. Now let this expertise move.
- Listed here are just a few cues to animate your expertise. Really feel every of those cues as they rise in your physique, coronary heart, thoughts, reminiscence, creativeness, and belonging. Let these inquiries join you to the world. What emerges? How are the lands connecting with you? What are their languages? How are they arising? And the way do you relate and reciprocate?
