Simple Meditation https://youtu.be/0rmfrlMqFuE 5 Breaths Practice: When we are very young, we learn to self-soothe through sounds and movements. As babies, we babbled, cried, yelled. We tossed, and we turned. We allowed ourselves to feel and then let it go. Since then, many of us have learned the performance of "I'm fine." It can feel …
Music & Movement Medicine Meditation https://soundcloud.com/leahlivefree/redstone For more gentle medicine songs, including "fern's song" please visit Leah's SoundCloud. "root to rise" the depths of my being dance into the earth with strength and patience these roots move me as they grow under the surface where I cannot see with eyes but feel in my bloodstream …
Simple Meditation: Go outsideFind wild earth (anything other than concrete)Take your shoes and socks offBreathe 3 Journaling Prompts: What is good and beautiful now, in this moment?What have you discovered along this wild journey of 2020?Where are you called to go from here? Extras: A Playlist For Your Adventures: "Kiss My Bluegrass" on Spotify by Prithipal …
The mountains know how to fall apart and build back up. The Earth is lovely and broken and whole and everything we know. Our creator, our ancestors, and our own bodies have brought us here to this moment—and we already know our way on this wild and living land. Perhaps you have been so focused …
Meditation Mantras: "I am not made wrong," "My body holds the key," "I have all I need" 3 Journaling Prompts: What are some things you've been told (or have been telling yourself) that you need to be healthy & well in this time?What of these needs feel like burdens, if any? What needs feel like …
Good Day: Strength for Your Morning Meditate: Energize: Find something cool to energize your senses this morning (Ex. Icy water to splash on your face) Write: Draw a solar system with you as a planet orbiting a sun.Think "what has been at the center of my life lately?" Write "I choose my light, and I …
Poem // Meditation Music: “Nine” by Nadayana (2016) 3 Journaling Prompts: Imagine the release of a major burden that you've been carrying lately. What part(s) of your body are connected to this burden and what does it feel like to let it go? Invite your hands to that place on your body and send it …
Poem // Meditation You know your way: Your body is the map, your heart the container to bring along all you need for the journey ahead. We rise to mountain tops and we fall into valleys. The shadows leave what is true, if we stay a while. But we don't, we seek the temporary light …
These dry, cracked, and scarred hands seem to stare back with weary eyes. They are overworked from following my restless lead. I have kept them busy storing up for my future. They've been gathering and keeping, and it all keeps slipping through my fingers. In their life of toil, these hands have hurt and they …
Yesterday—during the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere—I was still by the fireplace, overflowing with gratitude for the warmth and shelter in this sustained "winter," for solitude, for health. I listened to the wind cut through the windows causing eerie whistling and deep-bellied growls. I watched the pines dance to the wind's heavy-metal song. Then I went outside for a …
