Awakened Conscious Conversations
Healing the world one episode at a time by offering realistic solutions to the journey of life. Both self hosted ( By The Gentle Yoga Warrior) and guest episodes.
Many of our guests have overcome significant obstacles and transformed their lives.
Rich with deep talks and solo endeavours, often offering tips on living a more conscious life.
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Awakened Conscious Conversations
Connecting with Nature's Gentle Power
Have you ever felt the deep, grounding embrace of nature? Join me, the Gentle Yoga Warrior, as I share my heartfelt journey through the majestic Kew Gardens. Inspired by this serene sanctuary, we explore the profound healing power of nature, including the poignant restoration story of the Glastonbury Thorn. Tune in to discover how simple acts like forest bathing or bringing greenery into our homes can rejuvenate our spirits and foster a deep connection with the natural world. This episode is a gentle reminder to honor our soul’s needs and embrace the nurturing energy that nature offers.
Let’s take a mindful pause and visualize a tree swaying gracefully in the breeze through a guided meditation. Feel the interconnectedness between nature and our own sense of self-love and resilience, as we practice being present and breathing deeply. This serene imagery helps us align with the beauty and tranquility of the natural world, fostering a sense of freedom and inner peace. As we bask in nature's embrace, we also reflect on our role in nurturing and protecting this precious environment. Join me on this tranquil journey and let the healing power of nature nourish your spirit.
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Hello, dear listeners, and welcome to this summer special edition of Awakened Conscious Conversations podcast. I'm your host, the Gentle Yoga Warrior, and we are in the last bit of summer. Well, it is where I am. You may be listening to this and it may not be summer. Either way, I'm here today to bring a bit of sunshine into your day, and the inspiration behind today's show was a recent visit to the wonderful place in the UK known as Kew Gardens.
Speaker 1:Kew Gardens is a botanic garden and it has the largest and most diverse collection of botanical plants etc in the world and it was founded in 1840 and they do so much things to help, like save plants or like just say, a plants on the endangered list. They will kind of store seeds and kind of restore them. They're even doing that with the Glastonbury four. So they're really they're trying to. They've cultivated because it was vandalized, so the they're even doing that with the Glastonbury Fall. So they're cultivating it because it was vandalised. So the Glastonbury Fall, unfortunately, was vandalised a few years ago. But Kew Gardens are doing this thing where they took some of the damaged branches and they're building more trees from that so that it is not lost, building more trees from that so that it is not lost? Um, because legend has it that jesus uncle came there and bought it there many years ago and some people unfortunately vandalized it. But they're trying to help with so many things.
Speaker 1:So it's such a wonderful place and before I went there I was feeling a little bit sad. It's an anniversary of a loved one passing and I made the trip into the city to go to this wonderful place and it really kind of nourished my soul. I know it's quite trendy at the moment to do forest bathing, but I've been forest bathing since I was a child. Like I love being in trees and in nature and it's find it a great sense of healing and I was feeling very kind of delicate and tender and I went there and just felt like I got a massive hug from nature and my partner was partly behind the inspiration of going there and I think sometimes we we do what we think we should do rather than what we need to do, and sometimes there are things that we have to do which we don't always want to do, like just say there's somewhere you don't want to go but you've got the obligation to do that, etc. I'm not saying not to stick to your obligations, but sometimes it's listening to what your soul needs and what feels really nourishing and kind to your soul and your individual needs. And that is the way forward in that and I felt so nourished and the trees were so beautiful. But I thought I could have done that by going and walking the countryside.
Speaker 1:Where I live, or, if you don't live in the countryside, if you, if you don't live in the countryside, you can find a park and nowadays councils are putting more and more nature everywhere and wherever you are in the world. Maybe you've got a completely set of different set of nature from the uk and I'll be very interested to hear how you feel nurtured by nature and stuff and how it feels nice for you. Luckily in the uk we don't have any dangerous animals, but I know in some places it's not always so safe to go out into the wilderness but maybe there's places like parks and places that you can go and find that sense of connection and nature has its place and it's a beautiful thing and it is the one thing that is beyond all this man-made ego and need to build and take over and control and we think we can control nature but we can't. Nature controls us. We, we aren't respectful towards nature and we hurt nature. But you know, mother earth and father sky will always prevail, I think, long after that anyone else and it's shown our love and care as much as nature. About nature, we wouldn't be alive. So we know we need to kind of show our love and care and so, since it is a special summer edition and, like I said, even if it's not summer as you listen to this, you can still bring that kind of spark and magic.
Speaker 1:I suggest, as a simple exercise maybe on holiday maybe or not is to just connect more with nature but find out what it individually means for you and what parts of nature do you love, which parts of nature maybe you're not so keen on, but how do you think nature can help embody and help you embody yourself in today? And maybe, if you're not able to get out in nature, can you bring the nature into your home with plants and things like that, and into your home and there's lots of plants that are low, low maintenance, but kind of bring that niceness into the room and they oxygenate the room and yeah, and they'll respond to you. So if you're kind of creating a happy environment, they'll respond and there's so much information nowadays on how to grow your own plants and be with your plants and be with your nature, and through that my shamanic healing work I really helped connect with nature and bring that into my healing sessions. And that's one of the things I'm really trying to do, as through the healing sessions that I offer and I find that it's important for me to be the best possible version for my clients is that if I've taken care of myself and I've connected with nature so it's summer or not, but can you go out and explore and feel within your being what being with nature really feels for you and how it's going to help you today and how can you help nature? What is the one nice thing that you can do today to help nature and let it know how much you appreciate it as it nurtures you and helps you be yourself in this world? And do you know your nature? I have an idea of a lot of trees, but there's so many. It's impossible to know every tree and there's so many different varieties. But can you learn a bit more about nature and how it acts and then if this particular plant or tree that you connect more deeply with then by knowing a bit more about that tree, I feel it builds a connection. There's a kind of the scientific stuff about the plant, and then there's how you feel about the plant and how it can help you feel. So. It's summer, holiday times, you're out and about Perfect time to connect with nature and perfect time to be so.
Speaker 1:This is a short but sweet podcast this week, but I wanted to let you know that I am still here. It's just been a very busy summer and I'm looking forward to having my holiday in the autumn, the fall, and I'm thinking of you all greatly. And we've got this meditation coming up, which is the one for this season. I may go back to doing individual ones, or at least do more than one per season. I think that feels more better. And the next week we have gotten and I'm for the first time ever I am interviewing not one but two people together. So that's going to be a completely new experience for me and we're going to learn all about a full meditation that this couple really, really believes works well and how they can teach that to you. So do listen, I'm really. I've got their book, I've got the. I've got one of their books and it's really interesting so far. So anyway, that's enough for me over and out, but enjoy your rest of the summer. But just come on, it's summertime, nature, have fun, enjoy and sending you lots of love and healing. And if you're going through something that is difficult at the moment, my go-to place is nature. So see if that works for you and do reach out if you want to be a guest on the show and anything else. But if you want a shamanic healing, as always, look at my website. Take care bye.
Speaker 1:Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back Always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, although that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching and if you're doing something that requires you concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, let's begin. So if you look at the tree in front of you either that is a physical tree or a tree that you've imagined after seeing in a book and you just have your gaze in one spot and you just allow that tree to move. You allow the branches of that tree, as you look at it, to move in the breeze, the reverberation as the wind hits against the leaves, casting a green and magical breeze like a sea in the air. And just think that wind is blowing away all your cares and you're just allowing yourself to be. Imagine that you're as perfect as can be, as beautiful as you are in the moment. Allow, allow and be. Watch as the leaves move and they dance and they sing and they prance in the wind, and the gentleness of the breeze helps to illuminate a sense of ease within your being.
Speaker 1:Perhaps today is being a little bit more difficult to navigate than other days. Meditation may feel a strain, but if you look at the tree, it can help you feel this breeze, the sense of ease as you inhale through the nostrils and you exhale and you let it all out. You allow yourself to be yourself, to be free within this moment. Allow yourself to be the greenery, why it resonates with the sense of self-love inner love, outer love, love for others, love for ourselves.
Speaker 1:Nature is so godly in the sense that it is beautiful, it is there, it is resilient. It's not that nature never has a care for. It can be difficult for nature to navigate who's eating who, who's feeding off who, but within it, nature is in the moment. Nature is in the now. Nature is so beautiful. Nature just knows how can you be in line with that nature? Take a calming, deep breath and just allow yourself to gently listen to the tree as it moves so gracefully in the breeze. And if your mind pops off somewhere, don't despair. Just come back to the breath, breathe deeply as you take in that tree. You take in that tree, just allowing yourself to feel completely and utterly free. Allow, allow, take a calming, deep breath in and out through the nostrils as you inhale, exhale, as you slowly come back into the moment, come back into the room.
