0:00 Take a nice deep breath in, relaxing, releasing as you do, feeling calm.
0:12 Feeling peaceful, feeling at ease. Take a deep breath in all the way down into your feet and into...
0:24 Toes. Allow that breath to go through. Relaxing, releasing, feeling at ease, feeling calm. Knowing.
0:36 Every time you meditate, every time you relax, you relax deeper, feeling more and more at ease, feeling calm. Any sound around you.
0:48 Increase in that feeling of relaxation. You are guided, you are protected at all times. Allow that breath to slowly go up through your feet.
1:00 Into your calves, up through your knees. Feeling at ease, feeling calm, feeling peaceful. That breath going up through.
1:12 Now into your thighs, now through the hips, the lower back. Have your eyes closed. Feels very comfortable. Settle your body. Again, let the thoughts.
1:24 Let's just go. There's nothing you need to take care of. Just in that moment, feeling calm and peaceful. And allow now that breath.
1:36 Slowly, feel it centre around the base of your spine. The breath slowly now going up through your spinal column, goes into.
1:48 The space is in between. Relaxing, releasing as you do, feeling at ease, feeling peaceful.
2:00 Continuing to breathe in. Slowly that breath going up through the muscles of your back. Very peaceful, very calm.
2:12 Going up to your shoulders, relax any tension in your shoulders. And now that breath going down each.
2:24 On each finger, each thumb. So the tips of your fingers lit with light, calm, your body relaxing deeper, deeper.
2:36 Each breath you breathe in now, relaxing you deeper. Any sound around you, relaxing you deeper. And the breath going through your body, going through.
2:48 Feel your organs. Feeling calm, feeling peaceful, feeling at ease, and enjoying that feeling.
3:00 Feel the breath going up through the organs, the heart, lungs, up through into the throat.
3:12 the neck, up through into the face, Kevin, that lovely comfortable darkness around your eyes, which helps you relax deeper.
3:24 of the head. So calm, so peaceful. So now the first thing you see, sense, imagine is a large stone wall, clambering plants up it.
3:36 A wizard, and in the middle a large oaked wooden door battered by the wind, sun and rain. You open it to reveal.
3:48 A huge native century, which is in the grip of winter. The first frost. Now give way to a soft, soft snow.
4:00 Underfoot. There's a coolness in the air, a shimmer of silver glitter on the land. The trees now strip bare with
4:12 Leaves fallen in their dark bark skin, spindly, long-limbed, still with the sap silently rising.
4:24 The sky is a high azure blue that is slowly shifting into dusk, and you see there is a...
4:36 Elwanin solstice sun that is slowly setting. In the sky, ascending already, trendles of red streaks.
4:48 Through the sky. You see the stone circle solemn, dark. You see that it is covered with snow.
5:00 Except for the middle of the circle, there is a clearing where the grass still comes through.
5:12 Ancient lichen covers the stones. The stones have been a witness to ancient rituals and the passage of time. It is.
5:24 The liminal point and a portal. And you step into that space, and you see there is a lantern there, the warmth of the orange glow.
5:36 Light in on the ground and snow around it. You're aware of the in-between space that it is. Slowly.
5:48 The day turn into dusk, not light nor dark. And in the circle, the past meets the present, and
6:00 You can see in the distance, as you were in this stone circle, a very, very old woman whose hair is long.
6:12 and white, whose garments are grey, her face is lined and yet her eyes are bright. She carries in her
6:24 Gnarled hands is staff, which as she walks turns the land further into ice and frost that glitters. She is dressed.
6:36 Stone coloured, she is wrapped, and she is wrapped with mists and fogs that whirl around her. All the elements respond to her.
6:48 And the land responds to her silent power, freezing in time, standing still, a time of waiting and suspense.
7:00 Stone and snow respond to her, for she is the Winter King. She is part of that sovereign.
7:12 That is both masculine and feminine, for she is a ruler. And she is a nature deity. She is the cycle of...
7:24 and being still. She walks slowly, heavy with age and yet powerful and strong, knowing and seeing.
7:36 This is the wise woman of winter. The cold creeps around her, but she doesn't feel it, and nor do you. For you're warm.
7:48 Warm lantern warms you, and in the stone circle, you watch as the winter deepens around you more, and the longest, darkest night begins.
8:00 to descend. In the winter, the Kaliak is the crone, the winter goddess. She is the knowing one. She is the
8:12 Next to her, you feel her cloak of protection around you. The crone, the winter goddess, the knowing.
8:24 You feel at ease, and then you also see under her cloak there a deer that are flanked by her small, nimble-footed.
8:36 Dull-eyed, soft-skinned, and the darkness folds more, and the day now also come into the circle, as does the keliac.
8:48 The sun now set in, and the long dark night like a thick blanket around you. The Kaliak feeling at.
9:00 Ease, calm, the deer delicately coming near you, not scared. You see her clearly, and she does not need to speak to you for you under-
9:12 Understand what is being shared with you. She represents the dark passage, the time of clearing and release. This is
9:24 A time of stillness and suspension of letting go before you come into the planting harvest season, with your warm lantern.
9:36 That sheds this beam of light. She shows you that in this dark passage, this is a time of planting a seed of intention.
9:48 More seed that will hold in the earth till spring till it germinates. You visualize this seed. You see.
10:00 Receive a beam of light from your warm orange lantern. You imagine it lying now deep within the earth that is warm and deep and dark, and it—
10:12 Protects it, conserves it, quietly bringing its strength, when at one point it will emerge, but not yet. The cave.
10:24 Heliac helps you with what has ended. You look at this year, and you look at what you wish to release. She helps you.
10:36 With what small seed do you want to protect through the winter? The deer settle around you. They're cold.
10:48 Breath, like cold mist in the air under the silver moon. And yet you feel warm, content and
11:00 She, the ancient crone, the Cailleach, invites you to be in the winter, to embrace it, to be in the darkness, knowing that light will.
11:12 Return. Spend some time in silence with the keliac. She teaches you what to release, what to plant. She teaches.
11:24 It teaches you how to sit with the darkness, and when to have hope for the return of the light. The long dark night of foes around.
11:36 Do like a cloak, giving you time, giving you silence, a chance to be, a holding, not wanting, waiting.
11:48 And in that you release, you let go what you have outgrown. Take some time now in silence with a Kaliak.
27:48 Take a nice deep breath and feel the long dark night in its zenith, your lantern warm.
28:00 Lit, showing a path of yellow, orange light. Kaliak.
28:12 has been with you. You feel her now get up, and with the deer beside, flanking her sides, Chanel takes leave.
28:24 And goes out of the stone circle, with a silent blessing as she walks, and the land continues to be snow and stone.
28:36 And ice, with the small delicate imprints of the deer. You feel lighter, despite the cold or the dark or the length of the...
28:48 Night. You have hope burning in you. You walk out of the stone circle yourself, and you see the meadow beyond.
29:00 And you see with a glimmer of moonshine and starlight that it lights the door ahead of you.
29:12 We walk back through, feet gently crunching on the fresh snow. Again, the lantern, the warmth.
29:24 of it, bringing that soft glow in you and around you. You see the door ahead of you.
29:36 You open the door and you walk back through, as you do. Take a nice deep...
29:48 Yes. And in your own time, wiggle your toes and wiggle your feet to wake up.