Embodied Astrology

Please enjoy this meditation that supports you to enter a quiet mindstate and open field of perception. Through guided awareness towards deep relaxation and sound frequencies which assist you in releasing tension you will enter into inner quietness where you are more able to listen to your intuitive guidance. Listening to your intuition is increasingly important in today's world. The more you practice attuning to your intuition the more at peace you can be.

This meditation is inspired by the Virgo new moon on September 19, 2017. To learn more about the astrology for that new moon listen to my podcast here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/astrology-for-the-virgo-new-moon-september-19-2017

Listen to your audio horoscopes for the Virgo new moon here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/sets/virgo-new-moon-audio-horoscopes-for-all-signs-september-2017

Read your affirmations and access other astrology here:

https://www.embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes/2017/9/17/virgonm2017

The image for this meditation is made by Janna Dorothy:

https://www.instagram.com/p/4hTiPbvYGd/?taken-by=janna_dorothy

Here is a guided meditation to support you in working with addiction and craving. As I mention in the intro, as humans we all have to deal with craving, and we are all addicted to various forms of distraction. Basic mindfulness and simple meditation are incredibly powerful tools for recovery. These tools are simple, practical and always available. Practicing regularly increases their effectiveness. Please share.

This guided meditation is offered in concurrence with the Pisces full moon on September 6th, 2017. Everyone has Pisces in their chart somewhere, so whether or not your "are a pisces" we all have experiences of this energy. Pisces energy is big, overwhelming, transcendent, blissful, spaced out... and often is the instinct to lose ourselves or detach. To find out more about Pisces and the full moon listen to my podcasts here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/sets/astrology-for-the-full-moon-in-pisces-september-6th-2017-parts-12

You can read your full moon horoscopes here:

https://www.embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes/2017/9/3/go-with-the-flow-astrology-for-september-6th-2017-full-moon-in-pisces

This meditation is for those of you who are angry and know that your anger is necessary. This is not a meditation to get rid of anger. This is a meditation to help you work consciously with it so that it can serve healing, transformation and equality in the world rather than more destruction. I offer an embodied, feminist, trauma-informed lens and give many options for modification and support to work with this powerful emotion.

This meditation is offered in conjunction with the new moon and total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. If you'd like to learn more about the astrology of this event and why empowered anger is important for these times you can listen to my podcast about it here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/astronomy-astrology-eclipses

Along with anger, sexuality is another theme that will be prevalent in 2017-2018. My podcast Let's Talk About Sexual Healing encourages a healthy, body positive, sex positive, empowered approach to sexuality, sensuality and eroticism. Listen here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/lets-talk-about-sexual-healing-a-meditation-on-empowered-eroticism-for-all

This guided meditation and creative exploration invites you to explore sensual, erotic satisfaction through mindfulness, meditation, somatic (body-centered) awareness and creativity. I come from a feminist and trauma-informed lens and include lots of options for self-care and modifications throughout. This meditation is excellent for those in need of safe spaces to investigate personal healing of their bodies and sexuality, those looking to reconnect with their own desire, and those who are simply interested in exploring deeper levels of embodiment. This meditation is including in my ongoing project Let's Talk About Sexual Healing. Find out more about that project here:

http://www.reneesills.com/work/#/means-of-exchange/

This meditation is offered in conjunction with the new moon and total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. If you'd like to learn more about the astrology of this event and why sexual healing is important for these times you can listen to my podcast about it here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/sets/astronomy-and-astrology-the-great-american-eclipse-of-2017

Along with sexuality, anger is another theme that will be prevalent in 2017-2018. My podcast on Empowered Anger helps you navigate sensations of anger through your body, mind and heart so that you can be more skillful in directing your anger towards productive means while also reducing your reactivity and instincts towards personal destruction that can often accompany these powerful emotions. Listen here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/empowered-anger

*image of Lilith

This guided meditation helps you develop and maintain a clear psychic/energetic boundary so that you can live with steadiness and ease from a place of peace and centeredness. You will be guided to feel the way your nervous system interacts and relates with the outside world and build your auric container so that you can easily accept goodness and cultivate gratitude and appreciate in your relationships.

This meditation follows the last guided meditation I offered called How To Listen To Your Heart, you can find that one here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/how-to-listen-to-your-heart

This meditation was made for the Aquarius full moon and lunar eclipse on August 7th, 2017. You can learn more about the effects of this astrology on personal and interpersonal levels and how to work with it most effectively for your own wellness here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/full-moon-aquarius-2017

Read your horoscopes for this full moon here:

https://www.embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes/2017/8/6/the-future-is-now-astrology-horoscopes-for-august-7th-2017-full-moon-and-eclipse-in-aquarius

Artwork by Janna Coker: https://www.instagram.com/janna_dorothy/

This meditation is offered with love and gratitude to my friend Michael Stone. He was an amazing spiritual teacher, a profound human, a human father and a good friend. He will be missed deeply.

Living from our hearts is mysterious at the best of times. How do we listen deeply when our conditioning and fear is so loud and the world seems to be in constant chaos? Listening deeply is a choice for activism because it requires some kind of ethical code and trust in our own intent. In this meditation I explore some of the somatic, mental, emotional and spiritual sensations of listening to the heart.

In my practice of seeking to understand the world I've found that the symbolic language of astrology gives me just as much context and inspiration as any religion or philosophy. Twice a month I offer new moon and full moon astrology podcasts and horoscopes as tools for self-understanding and personal poetic license in life. This coming Sunday July 23rd is a new moon in Leo. Michael was a Leo, and in true Leonine fashion he had fabulous hair, lots of love, charisma and

great courage to speak in public. Listen to the podcast for the upcoming new moon here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/leo_newmoon_2017

Artwork by Janna Dorothy

https://www.instagram.com/janna_dorothy/

Choosing transformation and evolution depends upon our ability as individuals to cultivate inner support, extend it to others, and receive from them in turn. This guided meditation explores creating healthy boundaries, which includes being able to set (and sense) limits as well as relax them. By focusing on breath potential in the container of our skin, and easeful stability in the structures of our skeletons we can learn how to sense and cultivate healthy non-physical emotional, mental and psychic boundaries.

This meditation was inspired by the full moon in Capricorn on July 8, 2017. In the symbolic language of astrology Capricorn rules the skin and bones. Listen to this podcast where I talk about the astrology of the full moon here.

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/capricorn-fm-2017/s-BLRl2

Read your full moon horoscopes here:

This talk by Renee Sills was recorded during the Sola School Yoga Teacher's Intensive in the summer of 2017. Learn more about Sola here (www.solaschool.com)

Asteya is the ethical practice of nonstealing and is one of the yamas, or the ethical relational observances described in the practice/path of ashtanga (eight limbed) yoga. In this talk Renee describes how the ethic of nonstealing is intrinsic to cultural competency and anti-oppression work.

This talk was given at the solstice and was inspired by the astrology of the Cancer new moon on June 23rd, 2017. To learn more about that astrology listen to Renee's Embodied Astrology podcast here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/cancer-newmoon

This is a guided meditation to help you learn how to run (and walk and stand) more efficiently and effectively. Unlike other fitness instruction this approach takes a meditative approach to building body awareness and leads to joyful, resilient movement patterns. I'll guide you through a grounding meditation, breath awareness, embodiment of gravitational force through your skeleton, and neuromuscular sequencing that helps you work with weight and force to minimize impact and increase buoyancy.

I create guided somatic (body-centered) meditations that correspond to the lunar cycles. To check out my astrology podcast for this month's full moon in Sagittarius (rules the hips and thighs!) go here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/astrology-for-the-sagittarius-full-moon-june-9th-2017

To read your full moon horoscopes go here:

http://www.embodiedastrology.com/horoscopes/2017/6/8/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-on-the-road-to-freedom-astrology-for-the-full-moon-in-sagittarius-june-9th-2017

This guided meditation brings attention to the ways in which we get easily distracted and pulled into imbalance. The focus is on creating energetic attunement by learning how to recognize feelings of "centeredness" and create a strong capacity for psychic/mental discernment. This meditation was made for Gemini new moon on May 25th, 2017 and therefore focuses on some of Gemini's particular concerns including: two-mindedness, indecision, in-authenticity and communication problems.

To learn more about the astrology of this new moon listen to my podcast here:

https://soundcloud.com/embodiedastrology/astrology-for-the-gemini-new-moon-may-26th-2017/s-RTACA

To read your horoscopes for this new moon go here: