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We visit the area above Little Paradise Falls. Our first experience here - the first of many, as we will have our session there every other week for Term 3, Winter....
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July

We visit the area above Little Paradise Falls. Our first experience here - the first of many, as we will have our session there every other week for Term 3, Winter.

We created a home space. A homespace to return to time and again. A homespace with warmth,  connection and meaning - in the environment and in ourselves. 

We entered the space through a grounded walking meditation - our path defined by the age-old task of wood gathering, weaving from leaf to branch to gather fuel for our home hearth. 

We trancended the physical tasks and infused them with sacred intent and experience.  As we flicked the lighter, we honored those before us,  and the awe-inspiring knowledge of igniting flame without a match.  Our breath was both a focus of meditation and the energy that fanned the emerging flames. We tended carefully - our concentration was on placement of twig and inhaltion of the first breaths of smoke. We gazed at the dance of the flames. Our proximity and mindful intent gifting a direct connection to this most elemental life force. 

Closing our eyes for seated meditation,  drawing the gaze inwards,  we felt the warmth of the campfire on our face. In creating  inner homespace for meditation we explored our inner landscape for our individual heart-felt desires and reasonings for meditation practice. With closed eyes, we spoke these to the fire, to each other. A campfire is after all a place of sharing stories. 

The breath led a gentle re-emerging movement of the body. The union of breath and body movement shifted energies and insights. We cradled our forehead to the earth,  arms out long in front of us.  Our physical stretch invited a devoted and spirit full view point - to the campfire,  to the creation of homespace. 

A walking yatra around the natural gathering space that will be a Centre point for future explorations led us from the space. All the while we were visioning the trees,  rock,  bushes as kin. Sharing dialogue of introduction and welcoming with the landscape itself.  We offered gratitude to our our humaness. Gratitude to others.