It’s Soulstice!!!!!!!  We’re lightening up and emerging from the fertile darkness.  Today we had the sixth Saturday meeting of the12 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on “the power of ceremony”:  creating balance and celebration  We began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

. . . Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives. Let us hold space for one another in ceremony & celebration! Let us find the courage & help one another step into the sacred space with our life questions. Let us find the courage to live as earthlings in honor of nature’s seasons of life & change. Let us find the courage & help one another to enter the mysteries: our dreams & dark places. Let us find the courage & help one another to use what we have harvested with wisdom & to plant seeds of well being, love & gratitude . . . Let us give thanks!

We used grounding and stillness to really feel the energy each person radiated in our circle.  Then we returned to feeling our own place in the circle and how, together, we create the sacred space for life questions, healing and creating.  We reflected on the many things we’ve done, all the things we’ve tried, during our Daring Greatly Challenge.  We re-Membered how these experiences felt once again in our bodies, hearts and minds.  We let the feelings grow stronger to allow them to  express their own special qualities inside.  We used breath to shine on the many moments of being and doing.  In this way, we harvested the fruits of our journey.

We spent some time seeing each other – really taking each other in.  We held each person in our gaze long enough to remember or imagine some of the healing choices that they made in the first part of the journey.   We let the memory or imagining spark us up inside.  In this way we celebrated each other – seeing and being seen, hearing and being heard, feeling and being felt.

It was so powerful to hear about each others’ gratitudes and insights.  Our circle seemed to shine.  I’m so, so deeply grateful for this opportunity to live and learn with you!

While we can’t stop the earth from turning, we can choose to experience each revolution so deeply and completely that even the dark becomes luminous…” 
—Starhawk, in The Spiral Dance

Daring Greatly Gratitude Challenge Home Practice Guidelines Class 6