Root Medicine

Walk to a place where trees grow… a palace like your back yard, a park, the mountains, the forest…If you cannot travel on foot, you can travel with your Heart-Mind. When you feel that you “have arrived” to the right spot, ask permission to enter tree-space. Draw a threshold and step over it with the intention to find or be found by a tree who resonates with you as much as you vibrate with it. Trust that your feet and the trees will attract you to the right place… (MUSIC)

Now that you have found it, stand, sit or lie down under the tree canopy. Allow gravity to pull you down towards the Earth. Your body grows heavier with each breath, longing to dissolve into the same soil your Tree-friend grows from. Allow your thoughts to fly away from your body. Just follow my voice and let it become your voice. Let your voice become the voice of the tree.

Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know that I am breathing out. IN…aware of my breath…OUT aware of my breath…

Breathing in I am aware that the Tree is breathing out. Breathing out I feel the Tree breathing in.

IN, aware of me breathing Tree in…OUT, aware of Tree breathing me in…

Continue for 3 more breaths, at your pace, aware of you and Tree breathing each other in and out…

In your next inhale, feel the breeze tickling you from within inviting you to connect with the filaments of Light spiraling inside and around your navel. With each breath, feel the Light transform into roots that begin to descend from your belly button into your pelvis, through your thighs, across your knees, into your calves… watch your roots thicken as they enter your ankles to finally penetrate the Earth through the soles of your feet. Feel your roots seeking the Tree roots. Let the roots take you into the moist, rich and silent journey of the underground. Stay receptive, non-judgemental, curious and open to the chemical messages you will receive from the roots that you are merging with…

Rooted

Yamin Chehin L.Ac; Dipl O.M