Samhain Celebration

Samhain marks the beginning of winter and is the end of the Celtic year and the Celtic New Year. The third of the three Celtic harvest festivals, at Samhain we acknowledge the spaces between cycles and the mysteries of the unknown and the unseen. In this first session, you'll be guided through a meditation to see this time of the year through the eyes of our ancestors and understand the significance of this important festival.

In this session, we'll look at some of the things that are celebrated at Samahin and some way to acknowledge these in your own life. We'll explore the importance of the ancesors who lived before us, death, mystery and the spirit world, along with some of the plants and animals that are especially connected with this season. You're invited to celebrate Samhain by bringing some of thiese things into your life or placing symbols of them onto your altar.

In Ayurveda, winter is the season of the vata dosha, or the air element, and it's especially important to stay warm, nourished and grounded through the winter in order to keep vata balanced for good health. This session explores the benefits of including a warm oil massage in your daily routine and including oil in your diet over teh winter.

This track talks you through a short Ayurvedic foot massage for your feet. You'll need some warm oil so place a bottle or cup of oil into a bowl of hot water to warm the oil before you begin. I'll walk you through some quick and simple massage techniques to ease tension from your feet.

A longer guided foot massage with techniques to release tension from the feet and to balance the marma points, orenergy centres, on the feet. Make sure you have your warm oil ready to begin.

Session four guides you through a meditation on the spaces between your breaths to explore the pauses between your body's cycles. Make sure you have a quiet and comfortable place to begin the meditation as soon as the session starts.

In this final session, you'll look at how the themes assoicated with Samhain are manifesting in your life with some reflective questions. You'll then be guided through a meditation to meet with a guide and enter into another realm for insight and guidance.

A yoga nidra to meet with a wise guide for insight and wisdom. The visualisation in this nidra expands on the meeting a guide meditation in session five, givig you the opportunity to spend more time connecting and communicating with your guide. If there is an area of your life that you are looking for some guidance in or that you especially want to explore, you have the opportunity to bring that intention into your meditation.

The meditation includes all of the traditional stages of yoga nidra including a long body scan, breath awareness, exploration of the opposites heavy/light and movement/stillness, and rapid visualisation of images, before the journey to meet your guide.