Equinox Blessings: Take An Awe-Walk

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Birds, Books, & Awe {part 3: Awe}

In this series, I named three things that regularly inspire awe for me -

🐦 Birds

📖 Books

🧘🏽‍♀️ Meditation

All 3 regularly stop me in my tracks, and they make my jaw drop. They make me smile, wonder, and listen. They weave their way into my conversations and my dreams. In short, they inspire awe within me. 

“Awe experiences are what psychologists call self-transcendent: they shift our attention away from ourselves, make us feel like we are part of something greater than ourselves, change our perception of time, and even make us more generous toward others.” - templeton.org

Dacher Keltner - one of the foremost awe researchers - has written about taking ‘awe-walks’. Nature is an easy place to find awe, and he encourages us to go out with the intention of seeking awe. I’ve found that the more I do this, the more easily I experience it. 

We can also do this in our meditation practice. We can go on an awe-walk through our minds and our hearts. We sit with the intention of being awed by our own minds, or our own internal knowing. 

We sit with the intention of meandering through the caverns of our mind and the lake of our heart. We don’t rush, we don’t brush things off, or ignore them. 

We taste. We savor. We experience. 

There is a reason that all the Sages spoke of our inner being as a universe - one with mountains and lakes, rivers and valleys - it is because they could see that the awe we experience out in the world is the SAME experience we can have within ourselves.

Now it is our turn. 

Join me for today’s talk and guided meditation practice. 

Marking The Fall Equinox
A Virtual Mini Meditation Retreat

Fall Equinox Mini Meditation Retreat {virtual}

The seasonal markers of the year {the Solstices & the Equinoxes} are always moments of deeper meditation and intention setting for me. With the Fall Equinox, as we tip from a season of growth into a season of harvest, I am thinking a lot about right relationship with the earth. In particular, the ways that a sense of 'not-enoughness' {whether that is internal or external} so easily pushes us into a state of excess.  In this year's mini meditation retreat, we will explore enoughness, excess, ancestors, the earth and so much more.

This is a small, virtual retreat meant to mark the season with ritual and community. I would love for you to join us tomorrow -

Friday, September 22

7:00 - 8:30 p.m. ET

via Zoom

Just The Meditation

Each week, only for newsletter subscribers {that's you!}, I will be sharing a guided meditation that you can access anytime you like.
Enjoy and keep practicing!

Awe Meditation {14 minute guided meditation}

We can go on an awe-walk through our minds and our hearts. 

Meander through the caverns of our mind and the lake of our heart. 

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Rosanne Nieboer on The Chakra Way Meditation podcast. We talked all things meditation! We chatted about how to make time for your meditation practice and weave your practice into your life. 

Rosanne is a yoga and meditation teacher focusing on the Chakras.