Part Three: Communication with Our Inner Sangha | Guided Meditation with Peggy Rowe-Ward

Welcome, friends.

Going to offer a short guided

meditation as we

continue to explore

with the curiosity and the

openness

that we introduced on our first

session.

So to begin, we're going to do a

quick grounding.

You're getting to be

great fans of this.

So just notice very

easily your

body in space and time.

Aware of the earth beneath your

feet.

The sky overhead.

That's good. And each

breath you take just relaxing,

even more.

Settling.

Staying curious.

There's no right or wrong.

Each breath, just allowing your body

to settle and drop right

into where you are.

I find it helpful to

name the dirt or soil

or sand beneath my feet,

to honor their ancestors.

And aware of the the vertical energy

running earth to sky.

Just imagining that

their heads touching a cloud a

little bit. But your feet are on the

earth.

I'm gonna bring in the horizontal

energy.

This connects us to the earth and

each other.

People. Animals.

Plants. Minerals.

And then tipping just a little from

the back, just finding

the backside of your body and the

front side.

And a grounding superpower is

imagining you've got that big T-Rex

tail.

Relaxing the pelvis and

just being right here.

So from this place

in time,

I'd like you to imagine going to

your safe place in nature that

we explored in our first session.

Can be useful to choose the same

place, but you don't have to.

That could call the same route that

you took.

Walking magic carpet,

flying in the back of an eagle and

boom landing

into

the safe place in nature.

Thay often mentioned the island of

self.

That really works for me.

And

some of us are less comfortable with

water, so just see

where you are aware of the

sounds.

The smells.

The colors.

And the

textures.

Good. And just anchoring in that

sense of safety and beauty.

Good.

And you can say to yourself, I am

safe.

If you're not sure, just move your

head very slowly to the left

and right. And just with

soft eyes scan.

I am safe.

So in this moment, I'd like you to

allow a

question from your heart to come up.

Or a feeling or concern.

I know my heart in this day is

wishing

for more peace.

Allow that to arise.

And then we're going to welcome

or invite to your safe place

in nature

a blood or spiritual ancestor

that would like to support you

with your question or

concern.

Welcoming

this blood or spiritual ancestor

who comes forward today, maybe more

than one, but

we're opening the door to one.

And knowledge

whether you can see or just know

or just feel that

there is an inner sangha

member present.

I know mine in my practice in this

moment is Thich Nhat Hanh

who has been my deep teacher of

peace.

It might be your grandma or

your coach.

Or Jesus.

Or Mohammed.

Just welcome.

And greeting them with a bow or a

hug or a smile.

And then

asking any question you might have

in this moment with

whatever is connected to your

concern or topic.

Mine was peace.

Staying on the earth.

Staying with this inner sangha

member that came forward today.

In my practice some are

chatty.

Some just use one word,

or point at something, or use a

symbol.

Just be open

to how the communication happens.

And if you don't understand let that

being, person know.

And they can try another way to

communicate.

Good. Anything else you'd

like to ask this

inner sangha member?

Good.

Thanking that person

or persons who have come forward.

Express your gratitude and

giving them permission to leave.

And also noticing

where you can feel or sense

them in your body.

And it might be very simple, just a

little bit of warmth.

Or like a little

twitch or

jiggle.

In this moment, I'm feeling a lot of

warmth at my heart.

Just notice what you notice.

And then it's you and your

safe place in nature,

your island of self, and

taking the same route you

took back to where

you are practicing from in this

moment.

And I invite you if you choose to,

or if you're able to put a hand on

your heart and a hand on your belly.

Very good. And just to close the

practice however you choose to.

With my practice, I

like to finish with more gratitude

and sometimes

was a prayer for myself,

for my beloved.

Just settling in

we'll be enjoying the bell.

But I encourage you to stay very

curious, open, and

kind with yourself.

We all have different ways of

knowing. Perhaps it

will be a dream that will help you

connect.

Perhaps it'll be something

in nature.

So again, thanks this day for

outer community of support

and internal community

of support. Thank you for your

beautiful practice.