Sacred Seasons: Summer Slowdown

Summer is a wonderful time of manifestation and fulfillment. Everything you’ve been putting your energy toward and working on for the past year will arrive to you during the Summer season in joyful and unexpected ways.

Learn to focus on the fire energy of your heart as you expand and explore your inner and outer world through Summer Slowdown.

Summer energy is fiery and active. It’s a time of fulfillment and manifestation, exploration and discovery. Learn to work with the yang energy of the Summer season with a sense of lightness and fun. Everything you’ve been working on throughout the Spring, is becoming more real. Allow yourself to be swept up and carried by Summer’s quick yet laid back forward motion.

Question: What do you enjoy about Summer?

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The hot days of Summer invite you to expand, explore and melt into the flow of life, without resistance. Coming into alignment with Summertime means seeking opportunities to rest and slow down. Let yourself explore with a sense of ease and softness during this fiery season.

Question: In what areas of your life do you want to expand and grow?

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Warm Summer weather is an invitation for you to slowdown, rest and BE. As temperatures rise, our bodies and minds begin to slow down. This is a time to accept the weather for what it is, absorb the fire energy of the Summer season and seek relaxing ways to cool off. Learn to enjoy Summer weather and let it soften you – mind, body, heart and soul.

Question: How can you embrace Summer as a time for slowing down?

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Summertime is a fiery season that invites you to connect more deeply with your heart, which is associated with fire and sun. Learn to listen to your heart, follow your joy, engage your curiosity and expand in self-awareness. Listen to your desires and let them guide you during this light-filled and energetic time.

Question: What does your heart most desire?

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In this lesson you will learn that Summer is a time for boldness and self-expression. The inner work you are doing around listening to your heart provides a wonderful opportunity for you to act in accordance with what you hear. Speak up, take action, go for what you want and trust the energy of the Summer season to support and uplift you as you expand.

Question: How would you like to express yourself more fully?

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During the Summer our bodies need fresh foods in smaller portions. Take advantage of the abundance of the season and local farmer’s markets, to cool your body and keep it feeling light through the warm and active days of Summertime. And, as always, listen to what you body needs at this time.

Question: What are your favorite foods to eat in the Summer

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Today you will learn easy ways to move your body during the Summertime. It’s an active and vigorous season that invites you to move with ease because your body is already warmed up. You can explore new forms of movement without too much strain. It’s also important to find ways to help your body stay cool and light through a slow-movement practice during this heartful season.

Question: How would you like to move your body more this Summer?

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This short, guided meditation focuses on your heart-center and the fire element associated with Summer. Feed the fire of your heart, and body, through deep breathing and feel yourself expand as you become like the sun. You are full of light and radiate outward.

Question: How does your heart like to speak to you?

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Learn to look to nature’s example for how to slowdown and come into alignment with the Summer season. Engage with the energy of fulfillment and manifestation as well as ease and Beingness by going outside and observing what nature has to teach you about yourself as a part of the natural world.

Question: What do you want to manifest in your life right now?

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In this final lesson you will learn to fully embrace the Summer season and see it as an invitation to slow down and rest in the stillness of your heart, mind, soul and body. When you learn to find stillness in the midst of so much activity and Doing, you discover the stillness that’s available to you in every moment. May you enjoy slowing down this Summer as you come into alignment with your natural rhythms.

Question: What is your natural rhythm?

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