Full Blue Moon in Aquarius Guided Meditation
Enjoy this soothing Full Blue Moon in Aries Meditation guided by Alana Roach, Founder of Explorations of Self.
Yoga Nidra for Letting Go of Anxiety & Stress
Yoga Nidra, aka as deep sleep, is a very amazing meditation technique that I personally LOVE teaching to all of my students. It can be done both laying down or sitting. depending on your environment. It’s a simple way to reduce anxiety and stress, which is needed collectively now more than we have most likely ever experienced before.
So, find a comfortable space in your mind and with your body where you can be undisturbed for the next 10 minutes, light some candles, put on your lavender aromatherapy diffuser, and enjoy this Yoga Nidra for Letting Go of Anxiety & Stress.
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A Metta Meditation Ceremony for the Lunar Eclipse in Gemini and Beyond
Namaste Explorations of Self community,
Here is your Lunar Eclipse Full Moon Meditation. Have you journaled around this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse? There is still time… A lot has been brought to the surface for everyone. Right now is a great time to have ceremony around this. After you write down insights to what you are letting go of, plus emotions and memories that come up around it, go outside and pray that this all be removed and surrendered to Divine once and for all, then set it on fire with a bowl of water near by and let the smoke carry it all away to the cosmos.
It’s time to LET IT GO. It’s time to complete and end things. This is the closing of the circle. We are starting over again during this time period. This is deep, deep work. This will most likely be around really sticky patterns from relationships from our past.
The next 3 days will be a brilliant time post-eclipse to do ceremony around surrender and release so that you can finally allow the new positive chapter to fully come in!
I strongly felt for this moon that we collectively do this Metta Meditation for kindness, compassion, forgiveness, and surrendering.
As we close this old chapter of deep wounding, we send it away with loving kindness so that we can be fully present with the beauty that IS in our present moment and create space for much more beauty in every sense of the word, to come.
With love and deep respect for your journey,
Super New Moon in Scorpio Guided Meditation
During this guided meditation with Alana you will shield, ground, re-calibrate with positive love light frequencies, release old/blocked energies/patterns, re-birth, and allow the Divine energies to cascade into your being as you prepare to rise like the phoenix into your new life’s chapter! If you like this meditation and want more free mindfulness content from me every month, please like, comment, subscribe and share my Youtube channel!
Super New Moon Oracle Card Reading: 1, 2, or 3?
1, 2, or 3? 11/11 Ascension Portal & Super New Moon oracle card message to help you navigate these powerful, globally awakening energies. These energies are heightened right now for your highest good now through Thanksgiving!!! Seize this incredible opportunity and step INTO your purpose!✨
Oct 31st 2020’s Blue Full Moon Meditation
We have had two Full Moons this month which creates what is known as a Blue Moon for the second one. This Full Blue Moon in Taurus marks the beginning of Samhain, the beginning of our darker, more introspective, yin energy Winter season. Samhain is where Halloween gets it’s roots historically, and it is said that today through tomorrow is when the “veil” between our earthly dimensions and other dimensions is the thinnest.
Taurus is the bull, the sign known for it’s strength, passion, patience, endurance, and grounding energy. This makes our Blue Full Moon a powerful one for calling in what is necessary from our inner pool of Divine endurance and grace to propel us forward to fully realizing our purpose, which is ever evolving while we are in this human form!!
This is also a powerful time of release. During this time, we are all releasing deep wounding so that we can finally let it go and MOVE ON to new life lessons. It’s important to recognize that the past is the past and that you are no longer that person that you keep recalling. You are here. You are present. You are new in this moment and each moment to follow. This Blue Full Moon Taurus calls us to balance our root chakras and ground while connecting to the New Earth Grid Consciousness. Best selling author, speaker, luminary, and visionary, Lori Spagna, relates to this New Earth Grid as, “Humanity has now moved into an entirely NEW reality which IS entirely based on energy, vibration, consciousness and free will.” Meaning, we are collectively awakening and ascending when we choose to do so.
So, take the time to connect to the Amrita (Nectar of the Moon) of this Blue Full Moon at some point throughout today or tomorrow to amplify your energies. You are always worth the self awareness and the self-care.
Here is a Guided Meditation for today’s Blue Full Moon to get you in alignment to release, regenerate, envision, and charge forward towards your Divine life purpose.
In love and deep respect for your Divine path,
Works Cited:
History.com Editors. “Samhain.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 6 Apr. 2018, www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain.
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10 Self-Care Tips for World Mental Health Day
My inner state of being and life was transformed ever since I started a regular mindfulness practice in 2009. One of the reasons I started teaching yoga and meditation in 2011 is because it helped me so much with my own anxiety. I remember feeling wound up prior to entering the studio and then basically floating out of my first heated vinyasa class at 23, knowing that I had found something important, not just for me, but for anyone who was willing to allow me to share it with them. It was a practice I folded into my life on regular basis and in conjunction with my prayer & meditation practice it began to open doors for me in my own personal mental health and wellness journey that I didn’t even fathom was possible until then.
The thing is, it opened the door to more self-love, self-care, and a deep desire to explore the deep connection to Divine that I was experiencing through these mindfulness practices, or what some mystics call the higher Self. This is how Explorations of Self was born. It was birthed from my own journey healing and reclaiming my Self. The journey to mental health and wellness has expanded to include many holistic practices and rituals over the years and I use them as self healing medicine when I start to feel anxiety or fear of the unknown creep back in. It also happens to be a lot of what I’ve become educated in to provide for you aside from acupuncture and massage.
We are all on this journey together. We are all here to be human and to evolve in joy, light, and love.
Here are 10 ways I personally use to holistically self-care to help on those off days:
- Yoga: Yoga connects us to our bodies and our breath. This amazing practice helps us radically shift the energy within our body, mind, and spirit. You can do yoga at home and I encourage you to if you are not going to gyms or studios right now. Even doing a few poses a day can be life changing.
- Meditation: Meditation can come in many forms whether it’s through seated practice or movement. Finding what works for you is key. I love my daily seated practice and then find it helps me create a meditation practice out of anything I do when I am present to it.
- Prayer, Intention Setting, Surrendering: Whatever your beliefs, where intention goes, energy flows. I enjoy praying throughout the day and have a longer practice in the morning and evening. I enjoy setting the intention for the day by continually coming back to the feeling of love, which I often cultivate by thinking about someone or something that brings me a lot of love, easily (For me that’s always my daughter.) I enjoy surrendering the negative feelings or worries to Divine as they arise and returning the feeling of love.
- Qigong and other forms of martial arts: I have been practicing Qigong more regularly lately and I have been doing various forms of martial arts for years. Qigong is an ancient practice that has been just incredible to begin the day with lately.
- Nutrition: Eating food like it’s medicine for my optimal well-being is key. I eat and drink foods and beverages intuitively in this way. For me, eating a majority vegetarian diet is what makes ME feel good and I know it’s different for everyone. Even if I am having one of those cheat meals, I bless up my food. I give thanks and energy to everything I ingest. In the documentary Superhuman they demonstrate how the energy that we send into water molecules can change them!! We can absolutely enliven our food, and make it sacred.
- Have uplifting conversations with your community: I talk to positive people every DAY. Everyday. It’s important to surround yourself with people who inspire you to be your best self and love you unconditionally for who you are.
- Acupressure: Here are few I enjoy for anxiety: https://www.healthline.com/health/pressure-points-for-anxiety#heavenly-gate
- Reiki, Shamanic, and Energy Healing: I am a conduit for energy work with my clients and I receive energy work from trusted practitioners on a regular basis.
- Salt bath: Epsom salt baths with lavender essential oils are something I love doing at least once a week. In energy medicine it’s said that it can help to move old energy or qi out of your system.
- Nature: No matter where I am in the world, being in nature on a daily basis is 100% one of the most important things I do for my sense of well being. If you know me well, you know that I love being in the water, surfing or paddle boarding. If I can’t make it to the water, I am in a forest with my daughter hiking.
What do you do for self-care to support and balance your mental health? Share in the comments below.
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Wish Granted, Now What?
Your wish is granted.
You are incredibly loved and adored.
You are abundant and experience abundance in all forms.
You are radiance like sunshine.
You are remarkably talented and easily express your unique creative genius.
You are effervescent like the lunar glow.
You are incredibly intelligent and wise beyond measure.
You are JOY embodied.
Now what?
Where do you go from here?
You have been whole your entire existence.
Now that you realize this, what do you choose to spend your time on? What are you dwelling on? Who do you spend time with? What do you think about when you are alone? What expression do you wear on your avatar? Who’s life do you touch? What words do you speak.
What wishes are you granting?
Divine One,
You are the one you have been waiting for.
You are what you seek.
Rejoice in your brilliance.
Be present with your Creator.
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep! ~Rumi
Author:
Alana Roach , Founder of Explorations of Self
Loving mother, entrepreneur, yoga teacher, meditation teacher, international wellness retreats, writer, surf enthusiast
Alana’s love for yoga came from firsthand experience with just how powerful the practice is. “In 2009, Yoga found me. Inside the studio, she experienced a deep sense of belonging, but the most profound part was what happened after. “I felt as though I was at true peace. I finally knew what the word meant. Until that moment, I had just understood it cerebrally. There is something profound to be said about Peace dropping into the heart.”