The Deeper Well

The Deeper Well

By Deborah EllisEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Deeper Well episodes

  • Coming soon: Beginner Meditation Series 🧘‍♀️

    Hello and welcome. Beginning on Monday the 10th of August I invite you to join the Beginners meditation series. Over the course of 8 weeks we will practice meditation together learning the basics from the foundation and building up. From breath, to body, we learn ways to sit with our thoughts, our senses, and be in the present without judgement, as we open ourselves up to curiosity and loving awareness.

    For just 5$ a month you will have access to this series and many more practices to support you through your journey and daily life. This also helps support my work in an energy exchange .

    See you soon

    Xoxo🪷🐝

    Deborah

    4 min
  • [PREVIEW] Limiting Beliefs Meditation practice.

    Hello, and Welcome to your practice. This meditation guides you safely through your awareness to help break the cycle of clinging on to those subconscious limiting beliefs that we so often hold on to be our truth.

    I fully believe and know from my experience that daily meditation, yoga nidras and affirmations can transform and rewire the neural pathways in our brains -that limit our potential and trap us into false narratives.

    Samskaras are little grooves that form in the brain from the repetitive patterns of old stories, limiting beliefs and patterns of negative thoughts. With practice, we can change our brains and remove those engrained beliefs.

    Enjoy your practice.

    Xoxo,

    Deborah 🐝🪷

    5 min
  • Morning meditative inquiry.

    Hello and welcome. In today’s practice we are taking just a few minutes to check in with ourselves and observe, our body, our breath, and our emotions. Allowing whatever is there to be on the surface without judgement.

    Invitation to find a comfortable, quiet space and go within.

    Xoxo,

    Deborah 💚🌸

    12 min
  • [PREVIEW] Moon & Meadow Spring Retreat. Day 4.

    Blossoming of the heart. 💚

    Here we are halfway through our time together. Today is all about softly and gently inviting our to slowly blossom open one breath, and one petal at a time.

    🫖🌹Today’s Tea Ritual

    Create a quiet, tender space.

    Sit with your tea.

    Invite one hand over your heart. Breath in to that sacred space.

    Invitation to close your eyes.

    Invite three slow breaths.

    With each inhale, feel the space beneath your hand, the sacred heart.

    With each exhale, allow a softening.

    Whisper inward:

    I am safe to open.

    Let the words be an invitation, and land within your heart.

    🧘‍♀️ Restorative Pose

    Supported Heart Opener

    Place a bolster or pillow lengthwise along your spine.

    Gently lie back so your heart opens.

    Let your arms fall open to the sides, palms facing upward.

    Allow the front of your body to soften.

    Stay here for 5–10 minutes.

    Let the breath move gently through the heart space.

    Affirmation invitation.

    My heart opens with gentleness and trust. Repeat gently three times like a mantra.

    🍵 Herbal Tea recipe — Rose Heart opening Blend (Single Cup)

    A soft, floral companion for a gentle, loving emotional opening.

    Ingredients

    • 1 tsp Rose

    • 1 tsp Hawthorn

    • ½ tsp Tulsi

    • small pinch Cardamom

    Preparation

    Pour 1 cup hot water over herbs.

    Cover and steep for 10–15 minutes.

    Sip slowly.

    Let it feel like a soft unfolding within the heart.

    🥣 Nourishing Recipe

    Rose Cardamom Oat Porridge

    Gentle, warm, and heart-soothing.

    Ingredients

    • oats if your choice

    • 1 tsp ghee

    • pinch Cardamom

    • pinch of cinnamon

    • 1 tsp Rose water or crushed rose petals

    • 1 tsp flax meal

    • 1tsp pumpkin seed Flour( optional)

    • drizzle of maple syrup

    Preparation

    Cook oats. Stir in ghee, rose, cardamom, cinnamon, flax, pumpkin seed at the end.

    Add berries if you choose.

    Eat warm.

    Let it feel like warm comfort moving through your whole body.

    🧘‍♀️ Meditation Practice

    After your tea and posture, come into stillness.

    Bring awareness to the center of your chest.

    Imagine a small bud resting there.

    Closed, but alive.

    With each breath, it softens.

    With each exhale, a petal gently begins to open.

    No rush.

    No expectation.

    No judgement.

    Just a quiet , gentle unfolding.

    If emotions arise, an invitation to allow them.

    Let them flow like water.

    Stay here for several minutes.

    ✍️ Journal Prompts

    Take time to reflect and put pen to paper.

    What does my heart need right now?

    Where can I offer myself more compassion?

    What am I ready to soften towards?

    Write gently. Let your words come from feelin, not thinking. .

    🌿 Closing Reflection

    Opening is not something we do all at once.

    Today, you allowed your heart to soften.

    Tomorrow, we welcome what naturally arises from an open heart…

    your creative life force.

    Meet you in the meadow. 🌸

    Xoxo, Deborah.

    5 min
  • [PREVIEW] Spring Renewal Retreat. Day 1 “Awakening”

    Welcome Beloved Community,

    Today we begin gently.

    Not with force, not with urgency, or any expectations,
    but with a soft return to the body.
    To our breath, our spirit,
    to those quiet stirrings deep within our inner landscape.

    Spring, is not loud in her beginning.
    She whispers, and today we listen with an open loving awareness to the language of what it means to awaken. To tend to the soil of our inner garden and allow ourselves to bloom, with patience, love, compassion and presence.

    Every offering over these seven days is an invitation. You can choose to do one practice, ritual or do them all. Your own space, on your own time- create a sanctuary, build an altar, and invite yourself into the space fully.

    Before you come into practice, please prepare your herbal infusion, have a journal, a pen, and all props for our restorative posture such as a blanket, pillow, and bolster.

    We meet in the Meadow 🌸

    🌙 Today’s Ritual

    Create a small moment of intention.

    Light a candle if you feel called.
    Sit quietly with your tea.
    Place one hand on your heart, one on your belly.

    Take three slow breaths.

    Whisper inward:

    I am ready to awaken gently.

    Let this be enough.

    🍵 Herbal Tea — Meadow Awakening Blend

    A soft beginning.

    Ingredients

    • 2 parts Nettle

    • 1 part Tulsi

    • 1 part Rose

    • ½ part Ginger

    • ½ part Lemon balm

      ( parts refers to measurement.) TB, 1 cup, 1: Cup etc. )

    Preparation
    1 tbsp blend + 2 cups hot water
    Steep covered for 10–12 minutes

    Sip slowly.
    Let it move through you like the first light of morning.

    🥣 Nourishing Recipe

    Warm Stewed Apples with Spice

    A gentle way to awaken digestion and ease into the day.

    Ingredients

    • 1 apple, chopped

    • pinch Cinnamon

    • pinch Cardamom

    • small slice Ginger

    • splash of water

    Preparation
    Simmer gently until soft and fragrant.

    Eat warm, slowly, with presence. If you can near a window or outside.

    ✍️ Journal Prompts

    Take a few quiet moments after your practice to put pen to paper. Allow your words to flow on the paper or in your journal without thinking about them. Allow whatever arises with each prompt to to be written.

    • What within me is beginning to awaken?

    • What did I notice in my body today?

    • What intention feels true for this week?

    Write softly. There is no need to force clarity.

    🌿 Closing Reflection

    Today is not about transformation or perfection.
    It is about beginning, a soft opening, and
    a quiet yes.

    You have already stepped onto the path.

    I will meet you tomorrow for Day 2 — Clearing & Flow.

    Xoxo, Deborah 🌸

    5 min
  • Just for today.🌼

    Good morning.

    This is your gentle return, a soft place to land in the middle of everything.

    So often many of us find ourselves living in the past, the future and ignore the beauty in the gift of presence. we believe that we have to accomplish everything we set out to do or we aren’t good enough, worthy, or capable.

    It is those small, mindful moments of being present with our bodies, our breath and the nature around us where we can set everything down for just a moment and take a deep breath into gratitude. Just for today we allow ourselves to root, to rest, and to receive.

    Come as you are.

    Take what you need.

    Leave the rest.

    Just for today, that is enough 🤍

    Xoxo,

    Deborah 🪷

    7 min
  • Morning Meditation Magic. 2/25/26

    Moving with intention.

    There is a way of moving through the world that does not require force, a way of rising that is not rushed, a way of beginning that feels like devotion instead of demand. This morning practice is a soft returning.

    Before the responsibilities, before the tending, before the creating, the offerings and holding space for others.

    It is a remembering, that you get to choose your pace, that how you move can be deliberate, that your presence is powerful when it is grounded.

    This is a breath-led practice to anchor your nervous system, soften any urgency to do, and instead infuse your day with quiet clarity.

    💚For those who are building something sacred.

    💚For those who are healing.

    💚For the those who refuse to rush their becoming.

    A invitation to find stillness before your day begins.

    Place your hand on your heart.

    And let intention lead.

    Rest well, Be Well

    🌿☀️ Xoxo, Deborah

    17 min
  • Winter Meditation Series, Day 1. “ Winter Cave”

    Hello and welcome beloved community.

    Here we are together to nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits in this Season of Rest. A sacred pause as we enter the Winter Cave.


    Winter asks us to slow in ways the world rarely allows.


    Today’s meditation practice is an invitation to step out of urgency and into shelter—to create a felt sense of safety and containment in the body. In Ayurveda, Winter is Vata season, and grounding is essential for calming the nervous system. Trust in yourself in this practice and listen to what you need. Remember this is a practice and you hold the key to your own inner world.

    Find a comfortable shape for your body, and invite Mother Earth to hold you.

    There is nothing to accomplish here, except presence, coming to yourself.

    Be well, rest well.

    Xoxo, Deborah 🪷

    12 min

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