Guided Meditation with Julia

Namaste, blessings to you on this beautiful solstice day. I'm going to lead you through a guided meditation with the intention of harmonizing our energies with the sun and awakening our own inner radiance. So invite you to find a comfortable position, ideally seated if you can be really relaxed and comfortable maybe sitting on a chair with a spine upright or if you prefer you're welcome to lie down. If you're in a place where there is sunshine you might even want to take yourself outside and sit in the sun and just allow yourself to connect with the energy of the sun as we go through this meditation or maybe lighting a candle just to again just to ignite the light in your space. So choosing where you want to be and how you can be comfortable and then when you get there just allowing the eyes to close, finding a deep breath in and exhale out through the mouth let the belly relax, just sighing it out, releasing the belly. Again, deep breath in and exhale, relax the belly. If you're sitting up just allowing the spine to straighten, crown of the head to reach up towards the sun and feeling the shoulders relax, jaw soften, soft inner body. Imagine a beautiful golden sun above your head and feel the sunlight pouring down over your head, down over your body and starting to connect with the energy of the sun, just receiving the sunlight. Very lightly with one finger just touching the crown of the head, the center of the crown of the head, receiving that area, that energy center, releasing the hand and just receiving the sunlight directly into this energy center, into the crown chakra. Feel this golden light pooling in the top of the head, allowing this light to clear, to balance, to illuminate this energy center. Just relaxing and allowing it in. Deep breath in, exhale, lightly touching with one finger just between the eyebrows, around the third eye point, letting the awareness drop a few inches inside the body so you move into the center of the intuition, inner seeing, inner vision. Just feeling that center allow this golden sunlight to pour down through the crown of the head down into the third eye, just receiving this golden energy effortlessly, allowing it to clear, to balance and illuminate this energy center. Bringing a finger in lightly resting it at the base of the throat, binding this energy center of the throat chakra and then allowing this golden sunlight to pour down through the crown of the head, down through the third eye, down into the base of the throat. Just receiving the sunlight, this radiant energy into the throat center of communication. Feel this energy center, the throat chakra clearing, feel it coming into balance, feel it harmonizing and illuminating as you receive the light of the sun. Bringing a finger and gently placing it in the center of the chest around the heart chakra, letting the awareness drop into this area of the body and with it allowing the golden sunlight to pour down through the crown of the head, down into the heart center. And just again, just receiving this radiant light into the heart, feel it growing brighter, clearing any stagnant energy, balancing, harmonizing, illuminating the heart center. Feel it glowing brighter and brighter. Heart of the sun connecting to your heart.

Bringing a finger in lightly placing it around the solar plexus an inch or so above the navel. Bringing the awareness now down into this energy center, the center of the will and receiving the sunlight into this place. Feeling the sunlight dripping down through the crown of the head, down through the center channel of the body, down into the third chakra, the solar plexus, Manipura chakra, just receiving the golden light. Feeling this area release any stagnant energy, clearing, balancing, illuminating. Golden sun in the center of your being. Placing one finger lightly just a few an inch or so below the navel, finding the area of the second chakra, the seat of creativity, allowing this golden light to pour down from the sun, down, down through the central column, down into this area in the lower belly. And again just receiving this golden light, feeling it pooling, brightening, clearing, harmonizing, illuminating this energy center. Deep breath in, exhale. And then allowing the awareness to drop down into the base of the spine. And feeling this golden light pouring down from the sun, down through the central channel, all the way down into the base of the spine and simply receiving this light at the base of your spine. Feeling this energy center clearing, releasing any stagnant stale energy, balancing, harmonizing and illuminating. Deep breath in, exhale. As you breathe in, drawing more of the sunlight into the central channel, feeling this shashumna nadi, the central column of energy in your body, bright, bright, bright light. And as you exhale, sending it out through your body. Inhale, receiving even more of the sunlight into the central column and exhale, expanding it out through your body. With each breath, feeling your body start to brighten, illuminate. In the Upanishads, it says that there is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, very highest heavens. That is the light within your heart. So feeling the radiance in the heart center ignited by the sun and dropping deeper into the center of the heart, finding this brilliant light in the center of the heart, brighter even than that of the sun. As you breathe in, dropping deeper into the heart center and as you exhale, again, feeling it radiating out throughout your whole being. Dropping deeper into the light in the heart, your essence, your source. Feeling it radiating out through all of your being. One more time, inhale, drawing, dropping deeper into the heart center, into your own inner light. Exhale, allowing it to radiate out in all directions, just resting here, radiant being of light. Receiving yourself.

Feeling the fullness of your being and perhaps finding gratitude for this. I invite you to stay here as long as feels good. Just receiving your own light, otherwise just taking a deeper breath in. Exhale and gently allowing the hands to meet at the heart center. We'll share one om together. Be inhaling for one om. I bow to the light within you, within all things. May this light guide you, protect you and illuminate your path. This solstice, many blessings. Namaste.