Meeting the cusp of seasonal change with a meditation

Sitting in the unknown and replenishing with a ten minute meditation for autumn

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Autumn walks with my beloveds…

Hello lovely one,

How is your heart feeling today?

I am challenging myself to write and send this in the short and sweet timeline of my little one’s hour nap today. Let’s see how it goes…

I feel as though I — just as the seasons are — am on the cusp right now. A space of in between in so many ways. Having spent the entire summer building up to my eldest daughter beginning school, now that event has happened I have turned my attention a little more towards myself, my dreams, my visions and my hopes for the coming season.

And the truth is… I am in the birth canal right now in terms of my personal heart work. I can sense a new body of work emerging through me, something deep and rich, and also something that is going to feel a little stretchy. And yet none of it is clear yet.

Ideas are flowing. Downloads are dropping in. Sparks of energy rise and then fall away. I am constantly met with a quiet, grounded whisper… ‘almost… but not yet…’

Notes on my phone. Half ideas written in journals. Possibilities… endless possibilities. But the surge of YES in my body hasn’t landed yet. The creative cycle just doing it’s ‘thing’… do you feel this too?

I have been in these cycles enough times now to know the difference between fear holding me back and genuine divine timing, and I know in my bones that this is simply a waiting game. Patience is what is needed right now.

The time will come, I trust that, but right now I am floating a little in the discombobulating period of emptiness. My soul self feels trusting. My human self feels uncomfortable.

Doubts and wobbles are surfacing, and yet also underneath that is a fizzing sensation of excitement. This next chapter feels like it will take me deeper. Deeper into my heart and soul work. Deeper into myself. Deeper into relationship with my loved ones and the world around me.

Depth… a feeling that I crave in all ways.

New chapters

At the start of this week we committed to beginning a huge project that I have dreamed of for years. The seeds have been planted for my very own garden studio and by the end of 2024, all going well, I will be able to hold intimate space from a place that I can call home.

AND… this coming weekend I am beginning a three month journey to take my space holding to another dimension with Pause Place. I have no idea what awaits me in this journey as this is a very unstructured training, and yet I feel somewhat comforted by the mystery of it all. In a world where everything is so clearly mapped out, it feels refreshing to have zero expectations.

Both of these new chapters feel both utterly exciting and also mildly terrifying because they are 100% aligned with the heart work I know I am here to bring to the world.

Yet again I am reminded that something can feel so true and right in our bones, and yet also extremely tender and wobbly. In years gone by I would have taken this as a ‘sign’ that I shouldn’t do something — that if it was meant to be it would be easy and effortless — but now I know that it is actually a message of purity.

It is vulnerable to step into the work of the heart… there is so much at risk.

Now I live my life knowing that there is a greater risk to my wellbeing if I do not follow the callings from within. And so here I am, tentatively, but purposefully, placing my feet on the ground and soothing myself lovingly as I step forward into the unknown.

How are you feeling in this ‘cusp’ season?

Little hands softly hold the constantly evolving hydrangeas as they come towards the end of their current cycle.

A sweet Autumn release

Today I felt called to share with you a short ten minute meditation, inspired by autumn, to support you in integration and creating space in the coming season.

This is a visualisation that invites you to lay down and receive a little earth inspired restoration. You can do it seated, but I thoroughly encourage you to rest fully in a position that is comfortable and cosy.

I close the practice with a little poetry to remind you of your own divine timing.

I hope you enjoy this practice. Do let me know if you do.

As I often do, I will leave this practice open for two weeks and then it will go behind the paywall for paying supporters in the Members Space (you can explore all of the practices here if you wish). If you do want to support my work and receive a library of yoga nidras and other goodies, please do consider upgrading your subscription for £5 a month or £45 a year.

Thank you for sharing this time with me, I am so grateful to you.

Somehow I have managed to write this in an hour and the baby (toddler - but she will always be a baby to me) is still asleep. It won’t be my most ‘perfect’, well-edited, pieces… but I am letting it go regardless. I know you will receive it gently, typos and all!

With so much love,

Lauren

xxx

Please note - these are guidance practices designed to support you, but do not take the place of any medical treatment, psychological, or psychiatric therapy. Please take full responsibility for yourself during your practice. If you are currently experiencing mental health concerns please seek professional support.

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