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In this episode we celebrate the shift in light and season, and honor the Fall Equinox. We start with a balancing alternate nostril breath practice and then contemplate what we are harvesting in our lives right now.

Questions for inquiry:

1. What are you currently harvesting?

2. How have you grown the past few months?

3. What in your life feels balanced and/or unbalanced?

In this episode, we embrace the energy and wisdom of the New Moon. We start with a New Moon breath practice, pausing at the bottom of each exhale. Then we contemplate parts of ourselves that feel "stuck" and wonder what narratives we carry that keep us from feeling free.

Questions for Inquiry:

1. What physical parts of yourself feel stuck or uncomfortable?

2. In what aspects of your life do you feel constrained?

3. What narratives do you carry that may be keeping you from experiencing more freedom?

In this episode, we contemplate the aspects of ourselves that we tend to mask and hide. We are reminded of our fluidity and the power it holds to create, connect ,and relate to the world.

Questions for Inquiry:

1. What aspects of yourself do you tend to hide from the world?

2. How can you start to reclaim those aspects of yourself?

3. How can you use that knowledge to heal, create, and be more fully in your community?

In this meditation we embrace the full moon. We will come through an abundant, full breath practice to feel the spaciousness within. Then, we will contemplate embodying an abundant mindset to support our creative way of being.

Inspiration from Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act: A Way of Being.

"The recognition of abundance fills us with hope that our brightest ideas still await us and our greatest work is yet to come." -Rick Rubin

Questions For Inquiry:

1. What creative projects or way of being feels abundant and full right now?

2. How can you start to complete and release your work, trusting that more ideas are waiting to move through you?

3. Do you lean more towards scarcity or abundant mindset? How would your life be different if you centered abundance?

In this episode, we ground in simplicity. Meditation is simple, and yet it takes a practice of persistence. Today we focus the attention at the tip of nose and observe thoughts that take us away from the present moment. It is through persistent practice that we build the muscles of our psyche so we can access more awareness and creativity in our daily lives.

Questions for Inquiry:

1. As you focus on the breath, what thoughts arise?

2. Are you able to let them go, reset, and bring the attention back to breath? This is the hard work! This is the practice of persistence.

3. What daily rituals are helping you develop the habit of awareness? How is this supporting your creativity?

In this practice we use sound as a focal point for our meditation. We first listen for the sounds around us, as they come and go. Simply observe and let go. Then we shift to the inner soundscape, exploring sensation, emotions, and patterns of thought.

1. We often use the breath as a focus point in meditation. How was it to use sound?

2. What external sounds did you observe? What internal sounds did you observe?

3. As a creative person, where does your inspiration and content come mostly come from? If external, practice using internal material this week. If you normally engage with internal material, practice using external.

In this episode we continue to use Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act: A Way of Being to inquire about our creative life. We start with a simple body scan meditation, followed by a few questions to contemplate.

1. What do you pay most attention to?

2. What do you want to be paying more attention to?

3. How can you practice paying attention? This week, explore different daily rituals that can help support your practice.

We are back with a new meditation and contemplation. Today we are using Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act: A Way of Being to inquire about life.

Questions for Contemplations:

1. Do you identify as a creative person?

2. What does "creativity" look and feel like in your daily life?

3. What practices do you have to make attuned choices?

This is a sneak peak to what will be offered in our Wise and Wild Women's Retreat in October 2018. This meditation guides you to the source of creativity and invites you to honor, nourish, and inspire the feminine. This is an offering of breathing sweetly, moving freely, and expressing powerfully.

Breathe in and experience the fullness of the lungs, the expansion of the body, and the abundance that exists in each moment. May we think, speak, and act from this place of enough-ness and offer the practice up to the wellness and freedom for all beings.