Autumn Reiki greetings to you, dear reader! In this newsletter, you will find:
Invitations to Reiki Gatherings & Study
Field Notes, a downloadable PDF packed with ideas to nurture your walk through the Autumn season,
A Reimagining of the Five Precepts
Autumn Light Meditation
How to Practice Sacred Seeing
Resources from the Let Animals Lead Community
Shine on,
Annie
🍂 Save the Date for Reiki Gatherings & Study 🍂
🍂 Saturday, December 21: Solstice Rest Circle: Welcoming the Winter Season
Come together on the shortest day of the year for a nourishing practice that will prepare us to joyfully carry the light through the winter season of rest & reflection. The gathering will include an opportunity to reflect, journal and a guided Reiki meditation. All are welcome!
🍂 Sunday, January 18: Illuminating the Precepts: Winter Retreat (Online)
Winter is a time for quiet reflection, allowing our minds and bodies to rest and embrace the stillness of the season. From the cozy comforts of our homes, we will explore the deeper meanings of the Five Precepts and how we can embody them in our daily lives. Each precepts leads us deeper into the inner sanctuary of our hearts, the center of compassion, wisdom, and connection to the community of creation.
🍂 February - March: Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki Level One Certification, Carroll County Public Library (In-Person) Stay-tuned for more details!
🍂 Centering in The Five Precepts for the Autumn Season
Just for today:
I will listen when anger shares a message with me and return to center.
I will breathe back to center when worries arise.
I will embrace the tapestry of gratitude that connects us.
I will stay centered in my practice.
I will wrap myself and the world in a quilt of compassion.
🍂 📝 Field Notes 🍂
Field Notes are printable journal prompts and meditation ideas to nurture your spiritual walk through the changing seasons based on Reiki precepts and practices. Enjoy!
📝 Download and print your own copy of the Autumn Field Notes
🍂Autumn Light Meditation 🍂
Find a seated position that is comfortable and supportive.
Bring your hands to Gassho (palms together), offering you intention for your practice and inviting any animals to join you if they wish.
You may recite your affirmation or the Autumn Precepts.
Breathe down into your belly. On the inhale, imagine golden sunshine entering through the nose and nourishing every cell of your body with healing energy. Gather this vibrance within.
As you exhale, your own inner light radiates from your heart, mind and body into the world.
With each in and out breath, notice you stability expanding, like an Autumn sunset across a field.
Stay here, breathing, being, welcoming and releasing light as long as you like.
When you are finished, bring your palms together in gratitude for a moment embrace the life-giving energy of the Autumn season.
🍂 Sacred Seeing, Visio Divina🍂
The practice of Visio Divina, or sacred seeing, is when we spend time viewing creation, art depicting creation, or even making our own art, as a way of connecting with divine spirit. This practice pulls us into our senses as a doorway into our own heart space. Adele Ahlberg Calhoun writes that this practice helps us move into gratitude for beauty, and develop the “ability to receive what the seasons of life give us.” She suggests we gaze with openness, seeing creation as God’s sees. In Reiki practice, we sometimes say, “seeing with our Reiki eyes.”
Give it a try with the images below from the Autumn Season at Knucklehead Creek, from your own images, or go out into nature as see what arises.
🍂 Resource from the Let Animals Lead Community 🍂
Here are two great resources from Animal Reiki Source that focus on this month’s theme: Joy!
🐾 Podcast + Meditation: The Power of Inviting Joy into Our Animal Reiki Practice
🐾How Practicing Animal Reiki Supports Inviting Joy (Blog)
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