This Solstice marks the darkest night of the year and the true beginning of winter, a season of retreat, lowered energy, and inward listening.

Over the past year, what was once a largely women-oriented clinical practice has shifted into walking nearly equally alongside men. It has been a profound privilege.

Again and again, I’ve been hearing the same themes: deep fatigue, loneliness, a desire to retreat inward, and emotions that have waited a long time to be felt.

This meditation was created as an accompaniment to that experience.

While it uses he/him language, it is accessible to anyone who feels resonance. It offers a gentle place to land in the body, to meet heaviness without trying to fix or change it, and to honour wintering as an intelligent and necessary movement.

Listening notes:

Choose a quiet, cozy space where you won’t be interrupted. Wear Headphones.

This meditation was recorded in the Jungle, so you will hear the sounds of the Wild. Notice what that activates, allow it to be, and keep breathing.

Wintering Playlist

closing anthem: Brother by FaceSoul

A big thank you to the Jo(H)ns in my life who listen to all my meditations. my Muse.

Learn more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alchemy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rachael

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