Heart to Womb: Embracing the Cycle Within to womb Meditation

This meditation focuses on the connection between the heart and womb, considering the womb as a potent energy centre regardless of physical cycling. It draws parallels between the menstrual cycle and lunar phases to help you honour your changing energies and emotions. 

 

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Episode Transcript

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Take a moment to get really comfortable.
Maybe you are sitting, maybe you would prefer to lie down and do whatever you need.
Have a little wriggle around.
Make sure you are warm, and when you feel comfortable, place one hand on your lower belly and one hand on your heart.

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Close your eyes and begin to slow your breath.
Begin to really settle into your skin, to settle into your rhythms, the rhythm of your breath, the rhythm of your heart, and notice your two hands over.

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Lower belly over your womb space and over your heart.
Notice the warmth coming from your hands, and I imagine that infusing into your body like a healing warmth, a loving warmth, a loving light.

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Having the intention of tuning into these two very potent energy centers, your heart and your womb space, and your womb space is just as potent.
Whether you have a physical uterus or not.

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Whether you have a cycling uterus or not, it is a potent, energetic center of knowing of creativity, of death, of rebirth. 12 00:02:14,606.36363636 --> 00:02:25,76.36363636 As you breathe in, imagine that there is a thread that begins to form from your heart, and it's starting to weave its way down towards your womb space. 13 00:02:27,806.36363636 --> 00:02:32,456.36363636 And then as you breathe out, you can imagine this thread or perhaps another. 14 00:02:32,516.36363636 --> 00:02:37,316.36363636 It starts to connect back up from your womb up to your heart. 15 00:02:38,756.36363636 --> 00:02:43,556.36363636 So inhale, the energy moves down from heart to womb. 16 00:02:44,876.36363636 --> 00:02:47,966.36363636 Exhale, energy moves up from womb to heart. 17 00:02:49,706.36363636 --> 00:03:01,856.36363636 Connecting these two portals connecting heart to womb and womb to heart. 18 00:03:10,481.36363636 --> 00:03:15,131.36363636 And you can allow this beautiful rhythm to continue just somewhat in the background. 19 00:03:15,581.36363636 --> 00:03:19,571.36363636 As you now bring your full focus down to this energetic womb space. 20 00:03:32,381.36363636 --> 00:03:40,901.36363636 If you have a cycling womb, if you have a monthly bleed, just notice where you are in that cycle. 21 00:03:42,491.36363636 --> 00:03:59,636.36363636 Are you ovulating? Are you bleeding? Are you in between? And just begin to connect to the seasons of your menstrual cycle if you have one. 22 00:04:03,296.36363636 --> 00:04:16,706.36363636 And if you don't have one, I want you to consider these seasons, the seasons that we experience on our planet, but we also experience in our body whether we have a monthly bleed or not. 23 00:04:19,901.36363636 --> 00:04:21,821.36363636 So there's a part of the month. 24 00:04:25,331.36363636 --> 00:04:29,951.36363636 If we are bleeding, it's our winter, it's our place of rest. 25 00:04:31,301.36363636 --> 00:04:40,511.36363636 Intuition, deep clarity, but we need to drop into this rest to be able to access this. 26 00:04:41,141.36363636 --> 00:04:45,611.36363636 If you don't have a monthly bleed, you could use the new moon. 27 00:04:47,621.36363636 --> 00:04:51,911.36363636 This is your place of darkness, of rest of winter. 28 00:04:57,731.36363636 --> 00:05:00,611.36363636 After the new moon, we have the waxing moon. 29 00:05:00,611.36363636 --> 00:05:11,651.36363636 Just this gradual increase of energy spring or the follicular phase in your menstruation cycle. 30 00:05:13,601.36363636 --> 00:05:17,261.36363636 New energy, new ideas, new creativity bubbling up. 31 00:05:17,351.36363636 --> 00:05:25,541.36363636 Nothing to be forced but little buds and just tune into the energy of spring. 32 00:05:27,461.36363636 --> 00:05:28,931.36363636 It's different to the energy of winter. 33 00:05:28,931.36363636 --> 00:05:31,121.36363636 It's different to the energy of summer and autumn. 34 00:05:35,201.36363636 --> 00:05:39,371.36363636 You have this phase of winter and of spring every cycle. 35 00:05:41,771.36363636 --> 00:05:48,221.36363636 Can you lean into them? The full moon, that's our summer. 36 00:05:48,311.36363636 --> 00:05:53,321.36363636 That's where the sky is full of light, full of energy. 37 00:05:56,441.36363636 --> 00:06:05,471.36363636 And this would be ovulation if you ovulate monthly visibility, expression, communication, energy, confidence. 38 00:06:06,776.36363636 --> 00:06:14,156.36363636 And just tune into the energy of ovulation possibilities, potential. 39 00:06:17,786.36363636 --> 00:06:19,676.36363636 Tune into the energy of summer. 40 00:06:21,836.36363636 --> 00:06:33,506.36363636 Do you allow yourself to experience this summer, every month, and then after summer comes autumn. 41 00:06:33,956.36363636 --> 00:06:43,916.36363636 Which is the waning moon, where the moon starts to get a little darker again, on its way back to the new moon, the dark moon, and this is our luteal phase. 42 00:06:43,916.36363636 --> 00:07:00,506.36363636 It's an inner autumn where we should assert boundaries, where we're we are invited to assert boundaries, discernment, and shedding what's not needed. 43 00:07:02,66.36363636 --> 00:07:11,426.36363636 Where can you let go so that you can drop back into your winter? So then you can move fully into spring and fully into summer. 44 00:07:17,216.36363636 --> 00:07:19,286.36363636 With your attention on this womb space. 45 00:07:19,286.36363636 --> 00:07:28,76.36363636 Know that this is a cycling energetic vortex, and it might be physically cycling. 46 00:07:28,856.36363636 --> 00:07:47,276.36363636 With your menstrual cycle or energetically cycling with the moon, more energy on the full moon, less energy in a winter on the dark moon, and this isn't an abstract concept, this is you. 47 00:07:50,396.36363636 --> 00:07:56,906.36363636 You have remnants of stardust in your bones, in your cells. 48 00:07:58,286.36363636 --> 00:08:07,646.36363636 As a theory, but as fact, you have evolved through millennia. 49 00:08:10,406.36363636 --> 00:08:26,126.36363636 And actually it's only recently that we have really forgotten these inner rhythms, and this is our divine feminine wisdom dropping back into the rhythms. 50 00:08:27,761.36363636 --> 00:08:30,431.36363636 Celebrate the darkness. 51 00:08:30,491.36363636 --> 00:08:37,151.36363636 Celebrate the winter, celebrate the spring, celebrate the summer, celebrate the autumn. 52 00:08:39,41.36363636 --> 00:08:41,591.36363636 Celebrate that you are not the same every day. 53 00:08:42,11.36363636 --> 00:08:44,981.36363636 You have more energy, some days and less on others. 54 00:08:45,491.36363636 --> 00:08:52,511.36363636 You are more emotional or discerning on Sundays more than others. 55 00:08:54,41.36363636 --> 00:08:55,121.36363636 This is perfect. 56 00:09:01,406.36363636 --> 00:09:05,276.36363636 These are the mysteries of the divine feminine. 57 00:09:07,286.36363636 --> 00:09:09,356.36363636 We are always in flux. 58 00:09:09,986.36363636 --> 00:09:11,156.36363636 We are cyclical. 59 00:09:11,156.36363636 --> 00:09:17,816.36363636 We are always changing and growing, and birthing, birthing, new realities. 60 00:09:17,816.36363636 --> 00:09:22,916.36363636 If we're able to drop back into this deep inner wisdom and deep inner knowing. 61 00:09:27,626.36363636 --> 00:09:46,376.36363636 Now if it feels true for you in this moment, you can bring a challenge to mind or a discomfort to mind, and in fact, bring it down to womb. 62 00:09:47,156.36363636 --> 00:09:49,341.36363636 Bring it down to the seat of this power. 63 00:09:54,731.36363636 --> 00:10:15,101.36363636 Just allow this dynamic to sit in your body for a moment, to sit in your womb and see if your womb has any wisdom to share with you, to really try not to think and just feel. 64 00:10:15,806.36363636 --> 00:10:41,776.36363636 As if you're dropping this dynamic down into your womb and asking what needs to happen next? Is there something I need to shed here? Is there something I need to finally let go of? Is there new life that I can breathe or that can be breathed into this dynamic with that energetic imprint of that? Cyclical, nature of your womb. 65 00:10:42,376.36363636 --> 00:10:47,926.36363636 Just ask for guidance and don't second guess. 66 00:10:53,919.6969697 --> 00:11:04,749.6969697 And just how our womb cycles and how our planet cycles we cycle through our lives. 67 00:11:06,759.6969697 --> 00:11:13,659.6969697 So know that the wisdom you have perhaps gained from your womb today, it doesn't need to be an immediate fix. 68 00:11:16,629.6969697 --> 00:11:33,189.6969697 Trust that if you can continue to come back to your womb, to ask for guidance, to take the next right step, the next right step, so slowly, step by step, the path begins to unfold in front of you. 69 00:11:36,654.6969697 --> 00:11:38,4.6969697 And this is the mystery. 70 00:11:38,904.6969697 --> 00:11:40,914.6969697 I know it doesn't always feel safe. 71 00:11:43,824.6969697 --> 00:11:49,734.6969697 It can feel a little scary, but actually it's not scary. 72 00:11:49,734.6969697 --> 00:11:59,784.6969697 If you know you can trust yourself, your discernment, your wisdom, your truth, your knowing, it will never steer you wrong. 73 00:12:13,614.6969697 --> 00:12:15,894.6969697 Let's see if we can deepen our breath. 74 00:12:17,184.6969697 --> 00:12:25,584.6969697 Breathing heart to womb, breathing out womb to heart, breathing in heart to womb. 75 00:12:29,304.6969697 --> 00:12:36,54.6969697 Breathing out womb to heart and remembering that truly the answers are always in our body. 76 00:12:37,74.6969697 --> 00:12:39,564.6969697 They're not in our mind, they're not outside of us. 77 00:12:39,564.6969697 --> 00:12:47,514.6969697 We might receive clues from the outside world, but your body is trying to tell you, let's listen. 78 00:12:47,964.6969697 --> 00:12:49,44.6969697 Let's do it together. 79 00:12:50,169.6969697 --> 00:13:02,979.6969697 Let's begin to wriggle fingers and toes and your face and come into a little bit of movement, a little bit of a stretch, and you can open your eyes. 80 00:13:03,729.6969697 --> 00:13:25,689.6969697 Start to orient yourself, where am I? Planet Earth? What day is it? How old am I? Who am I? So coming back into this realm, but always knowing that you have this deep, deep, deep wisdom inside of your body that will never steer you wrong. 81 00:13:25,689.6969697 --> 00:13:25,749.6969697 I.