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Welcome ~ your heart and my heart are very old friends.
This meditation is an excerpt from The Ecstasy of Practice Audiobook. The healing meditation includes three traditional practices: a breathing experience, a classic meditation and guided imagery exercise, culminating with the Blue Medicine Buddha mantra. In just seven minutes enter into deep calm, insight and peace.
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Maha Bhanda (1).pdf
Welcome to the Garden
each month new
where nature meets nurture
& every moment flowers with meaning
Nestle into the Garden
November season we delve into:
🌿 Gratitude Traditions
🌿 Seasonal Rosemary & Tea Olive
🌿November Flower Journey: Rose
🌿 Gardeners' Gift ~ Grateful Heart ~ qi flow video
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Gratitude Traditions
Indigenous First Peoples
Among Indigenous First Peoples, the language of flowers is not symbolic, it is relational. Flowers are kin, carrying medicine, memory, and spirit. The Lakota honor the prairie crocus as a sign of spring’s renewal, while the Ojibwe revere the wild rice flower as sacred sustenance. In the Maxakali peoples of Brazil, the Tayra song catalogs 33 bee species, each linked to specific flowers and woven into oral storytelling. This is floriography not as a code, yet as communion, a living language spoken through seasonal cycles and ceremony.
Across continents and centuries, cultures have turned to the natural world as a mirror for gratitude. May this season of gratitude invite heartful presence of beauty and joy blooming within.
🌎 Global Gratitude
✨ The Haudenosaunee (people of the longhouse) of Northeastern America speak gratitude as invocation... naming each aspect of life and living with the art of ceremony. With every utterance, they invite waters, winds, plants, animals, and stars to take their place in the circle, co-creating a world renewed through recognition.
✨ In Japan, Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) is an act of gratitude by walking gently among trees, touching bark, breathing in and listening with the environment. A healing art, one enters a reciprocal relationship with nature.
✨ South Africa – Ubuntu “I am because we are” is a philosophy rooted in the Bantu languages, translated as “a person is a person through other people.”
In this worldview, gratitude is relational. It arises from the understanding that our lives are shaped by others: ancestors, community, and the Earth itself. To live with Ubuntu is to live in recognition of this shared becoming.
✨ In Hinduism, pranam and nature offerings are acts of gratitude that embody reverence, reciprocity, and cosmic alignment honoring the divinity in all life. Pranam is a gesture of reverence, bowing in namaste, touching the feet of elders, deities or sacred places with humility, respect, and surrender. By bowing to rivers, mountains, elders, the great compassionate light, one enters a sacred relationship of recognition.
✨ In Denmark, Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) is a Danish cultural ethos that celebrates coziness, connection, and contentment. It’s a way of being where gratitude is felt in the warmth of shared meals, flickering candles, and slow evenings with loved ones. Hygge is the art of thanking life for its gentle moments.
🌎 Gratitude takes many forms across the globe through acts of generosity, sweetness of laughter, and true recognition. Whether sung to the moon, skipped into the sidewalks, gifted with fragrance, these traditions remind us gratitude is a way of being.
May this season be a discovery of your own waters of kindness.
May gestures and acts of joy flow through you effortlessly.
May your presence be a radiant blessing.
Rosemary
The Flower of Remembrance
Long revered for its clarity of mind, ancestral memory, devotion, and protection, rosemary invites us to pause and remember.
Visualize a sprig kissed by morning dew. Its scent rising like an energy of awakening calling forth ancient wisdom.
Let this moment be an offering:
I remember who I am. I honor the roots that nourish me and the clarity that guides me forward.
Tea Olive
The Flower of Quiet Joy
A symbol of gentle strength, sweetness of spirit, ancestral grace, and autumnal devotion, Tea Olive invites us into stillness.
Visualize golden blossoms releasing their sweet tangerine like fragrance into the twilight air, their scent wrapping around you like a memory, soft and enduring.
Let this moment be a quiet affirmation:
I embody quiet joy. My presence is gentle, my essence unforgettable.
Breathe with Rose
Breathe in love, breathe out compassion for yourself and others.
Feel your heart opening like rose petals, layer by beautiful layer.
Novemeber
Flower Journey
Rose for Love & Beauty
Access the 18 luminous flower journeys anytime ~ filled with breath, reflection, a journey, yoga & qi moves.
here
Journey with Rose
through this rich sensory meditation
into your beautiful heart.
Gardener's Monthly Gift
Grateful Heart ~ Qi Flow Video
