Dreaming Earth Podcast - Episode Twelve

Dear friends and fellow Dreamers,

It’s well into January now, and it’s been a while since I’ve made an episode… So thank you for being here !

This episode is a little bit different as you’ll see - I’m taking some time today to explain, from my point of view, why someone would do dreamwork at all - I hope its helpful. I’ve also created a guided prayer, which uses the body as it’s focus, and despite the fact that I announce in the recording that I’m going to try to add music, I dont! It feels too complicated in the end. So, this time at least ( I may try again next time!) you just have my crackling fire as music, and I think you’ll like it.

With Courage, Imagination and Love,

Beth

Here is where I am today, for this recording… In my house, in front of the fire.

Here is a visual reminder of the phase of the Moon, tonight we are Full !

Here is the gift I made for a friend, illustrating the Latifa prayer. Each coloured spot marks a place in the journey of the prayer in the body. You can use the picture as a reminder.

“If you have done everything except this prayer, you did not do anything. If you have done nothing but this prayer, you have done everything” Rumi

Below are the words of the prayer with the corresponding body parts. Hold your right hand with your left, and let the left hand guide.

Latifa Prayer

I exist - left lower belly

I desire - right lower belly

I hope - left lung

I trust - right lung

I let go - throat

I love - middle of chest

I am prepared - solar plexus

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Dreaming Earth Podcast - Episode Eleven

Dear friends and fellow Dreamers,

Todays episode of the podcast comes from a very soggy, boggy piece of ground beside a fast flowing river. I hope you enjoy the effort I made today for the beautiful, melodic, voice of the river as accompaniment to my own human voice :)

Theres a small fragment of a Dream today, but it potentially holds a lot of feeling, I hope there’s something to feel into for you.

Until next time, thank you for listening,

With Courage, Imagination and Love,

Beth

Here is where I am today, for this recording…

Here is a close up of the wonderful and giant Horsetail plants surrounding the river, one of my favourites, and one of the oldest plants on earth…

For those who might not be able to see the Moon, but like to know what she’s doing, here’s an image for your pleasure, she’s JUST past a Waxing Half. Full Moon is on the 27th, which is Monday, if you want to look out for it.

And for those of you who’d like to share or make use of it, here is the transcript for our Waking Dream for this episode.

The Path of Desire. 

You’re following a group of adults along a path through a grassy meadow. 

You see a faint path in the long grass to your left, and you see a young smiling boy in front of you, beckoning you to come with him. 

You look at the path you are on, and feel a desire to go with the boy. 

You run after him through the long soft waving grass, towards a large tree.

The tree is lit all around it from the low sun, in the sky behind. There is a soft bright glow all around. 

You and the boy reach the tree, and you go underneath its broad branches. 

You see the tree offering tiny sweet white buds, and you pick some and taste them - they taste so good ! Of honey and nectar. You and the boy eat your fill of the tiny white honey pearls. 

You, the Tree, and the boy, look at each other, you feel your heart in your body, it is big and open. You feel so happy that you went down this path of desire. 

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Dreaming Earth Podcast - Episode Ten

Dear friends and fellow Dreamers,

Before todays recording, I took the Dream outside in a different way. My intention was to invite the more than human life to co create and take part - the Dream, my body, and everything alive in the landscape.

I want you to feel and experience the outside world as part of your own Dream field, and I really hope this episode gives you a taste of what I mean. I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did!

Until next time,

With Courage, Imagination and Love,

Beth

Here is the location of todays recording…

For those who like to follow the Moon, here’s where we are with her at the time of the recording… Full Moon on Saturday!

Followed by an actual picture I took later in the night, it was so strange and beautiful that I came back to add this!!

Here is an image of the kind of Egyptian God that is in the Dream - now I’ve done some body work I’ll indulge in a bit of Thoth research…

And here is a littleTotem I made evoking the beautiful Kite, who not only speaks to the Egyptian Deity in the Dream, but who has followed me closely for many years, and is so often right there when I need affirmation of my path ! Thank you Kite !

And for those of you who’d like to share or make use of it, here is the transcript for our Waking Dream for this episode.

Rise up and Belong.

Imagine yourself lying down, motionless. It’s gloomy, dry and dusty. 

Your head is the head of a powerful bird, but your body is wrapped like a mummy, you feel bound and tied down. Your beak and throat is parched and dry. 

Take a big golden spoon in your right hand, and scoop sweet honey water into your wide open beak. Feel the honey water sooth your throat and dissolve down through your whole body and reviving you. It’s sweet nutrients are bringing you to life. 

Feel yourself extend upwards, bursting out of your bindings and out through the roof, into the bright clear air. Feel your huge wings unfold, and feel the strength and warmth in your feathered body as you take flight 

Fly up and up in the warm sunlit blue sky, feel the wind in your wings as you swoop and play. Suddenly you are surrounded by so many birds, all calling and playing, riding and falling in the sunshine. 

Look down on the fresh greenery far below and see all your shadows moving across the landscape. Extend your energy field to include ALL the birds. You are all the birds! And you are the ground, you are the sky, you are the wind. Feel all of this. 

Come back into your body and see yourself on the grass looking up at the circling birds. Feel your human body, your face, arms legs and trunk. Know you are all living things, and that you belong here. 

And lastly, here is the beautiful poem by my good friend, who shall remain nameless ! THANK YOU !

The wind on the skin

The wind on the skin told me

It was time to go

To go to that place

Black crack in the red ground

And listen

Lower the ear deep

To the whale song of the Earth

The hum of the unborn world

This lullaby of dreaming time.

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Dreaming Earth Podcast - Episode Nine

Dear friends and fellow Dreamers,

In todays recording, we encounter the animate world as a very real part of our Dreamfield, something we can call on to experience our Dreams within!

We not only go through the Dream and the more difficult painful feelings in it, but we end with integrating the part of ourselves with the BIG heart and the BIG hopes… And a Waking Dream to finish, which helps us embody that. I hope you love this episode as much as I do,

Until next time,

With Courage, Imagination and Love,

Beth

For those of you who’ve never met or worked with me, here I am, just after doing the recording, at the base of a giant Beech Tree, both of us ( and you!) the Dreams of the Earth.

For those who like to follow the Moon, here’s where we are with her at the time of the recording…

Here is my Waking Life Hedge, that appears, or should I say disappears, in the Dream, and is actually a stone wall covered in thick Ivy.

Here is a little video of some of the Bees - although their busyness and number is quite hard to capture, they’re still really active even now it’s getting colder…

And for those of you who’d like to share or make use of it, here is the transcript for our Waking Dream for this episode.

My Body Is Nature

Feel your body on the ground. Feel how the ground holds you, feel into your feet, your ankles, your legs, pelvis, stomach and chest. Notice your hands, arms, shoulders and neck, and up into your head. Feel your breath come in, and go out.

Feel your body, living and breathing on the ground.

See the length of you body as a stone wall, being built piece by piece, feel the composition and the weight of your stone.

See and feel Ivy sprout from the ground, all around your wall self, see green tendrils climb up and over you, filling the gaps in you, thicker and thicker, until the Ivy is part of you.

See and feel your flowers bloom towards the sky, and now see hundreds of bees, come to drink your nectar. You are the bees too! Feel all the movement, the joining, the hum, the flowers, feel the mass of green and vigour, the interwoven density and life, feel the texture and strength of the stones, and the weight of the wall, and feel the ground beneath supporting all parts of you.

Arrive back in your human body, see yourself lying on the ground, in your home, wherever you are.

Open your eyes and know that your body is the body of the earth.

And lastly, here is the beautiful poem I read by Valerie Hope Cherrin.

Earthdreambody

You Are a Dream of the Earth

Remember, Earth has Dreamed you into Being.

Given you this EarthDreamBody.

Her longing to roam around on two feet, conscious of herself,

is fulfilled in your very aliveness.

Feel her rivers your veins,

her air your lungs,

her rocks and stones your bones,

her animal nature your flesh and muscle.

Deep firey volcanic stirrings your gut.

She has dreamed you into being and you are bound to her by the force of love.

Your sweet life given to you by eons of creation and your only job here is remembering who you really are; a product of love more powerful than you can imagine.

Honor your mother, Earth. Remember and hold her love for you in the very core of your being for these few short breaths of aliveness.

When your time is done, your body will return to give more life.

Remember, Earth is dreaming you.

Filled and sourced by love.

Created to witness the beauty of creation.

Stand in this each day.

This is your task, to reawaken to the love that is patiently waiting for you in your EarthDreamBody.

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Dreaming Earth Podcast - Episode Eight

Dear friends and fellow Dreamers,

We’ve just experienced a MAD big Full Moon, the second one in August, and here, just past the height of that Full Moon, is episode 8, which you can listen to on the usual platforms, or here on my website.

I hope you enjoy the episode, I hope there is something that stands out for you, that you can actually USE, and I hope you feed back to me when you have listened !

With Courage, Imagination and Love,

Beth

I was moving about for this recording, but this is the beautiful, sunny view where I was sat for the end of this recording…

Here is a bright pink vase on my table at home, which I noticed when I got in, shedding it’s beautiful pink light, just like our pink bowl in the Dream.

And for those of you who’d like to share or make use of it, here is the transcript for our Waking Dream for this episode.

The Pink Glass Bowl and the Bull.

See yourself in a sunlit grassy field. Floating above the grass is a big, beautiful, deep pink, glass bowl.

Walk towards the bowl and as you get nearer, notice its generous shape, full bellied, clear and radiant, wide open to the  blue sky. Feel the beauty and wonder of the clear pink bowl.

Look to your left and see a huge bull, stood some way across the sunny field in the long, dry grass. He is quite still, and bathed in golden sunlight, which surrounds him in a huge bright halo. You hear his breath, and marvel at the sensual texture of his skin, the huge weight of him. He is magnificent, truly and powerfully alive. See that he is rooted - strong and stable on the still, warm earth. His strength feels protective, he is here for you, and you are quite safe.

Take the beautiful, pink, glass bowl in your arms, holding it close to your body, and pick up a large silver spoon out of the air on your right. Scoop big silver spoonfuls of golden sunlight, down from the sky, and into your pink bowl. Do this again and again, filling the bowl and stirring the light with the big silver spoon. Watch as the sunlight radiates crystal clear through the pink glass, turning everything around it pink, the skin on your arms, your clothes, your legs, your feet, down onto the grass all around you, and out in every direction.

Look up to the sunlit bull, rooted, alive and strong on the earth beneath him. Feel your own rootedness, your own aliveness, stood in the field with the bull, and your beautiful translucent pink sunlit bowl. Know that it is all for you.

Now open your eyes and see yourself, the bowl, and the bull bathe in light, for a few seconds with your eyes open.

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