Walks with Jess
From my heart to yours, FREE walking meditations to support you to come home to yourself this festive season.
Receiving the medicine from an embodied entry to self and our wider ecology.
I created this process for myself out of necessity! It was summer last year and I had taken myself away for a night to rest, recharge, do some art and have mental space to tune into my intentions for my business (classic me trying to bundle everything into 24hours away). But, as is often the case, the universe saw it quite differently. My nervous system was triggered into overwhelm with a flare up of a chronic inflammation thingo I get and all I could do was walk and talk to myself. I began with acknowledging all the things I was feeling, even if it didn't make sense. I then acknowledged out loud what I could feel in my body. There was an urgency to it. Then I brought my attention to my breath and my environment. Realised that I did not need to fix anything in this moment. I focussed on my senses by closing my eyes, tuning into my sense of smell and touching surfaces around me. Orientating, grounding. My internal dialogue softened and became supportive.
My overwhelm shifted completely. My body dropped its tension and my nervous system became spacious.
These walking meditations offered to you via my website (one for overwhelm and one for anxiety) became something I wanted to record and share based on this experience last summer. I have tweaked them to become:
-Walks to care for our nervous systems.
-Walks to connect with our bodies so we can connect with the wider, deeper ecology around us.
-Walks to surrender to the medicine we are seeking and didn’t know we needed.
I walk with you, in your ear. I am speaking about my unfolding walking process as well as inviting you to connect with yours. We begin exactly where you are at. We acknowledge where you are and your authentic intention for walking today.
You will be guided to gently connect with your breath and body as we embark on our walk together. I then guide you to connect with your senses and then with whatever environment you are walking in. I even invite you to connect with those who hold wisdom from this land, those who have lived on this land before us and we ask one of your ancestors if they would like to walk with us:)
We connect to the wider, deeper ecology around us: energetically, physically and spiritually. At the end of each walk I guide you to receive the medicine- from your embodied knowing or from the deeper ecology supporting you- that you are needing in this moment. Then we go our separate ways.
The recording is low fi, recorded on my ear pod mic. It is a live recording; you will hear a bit of wind, dogs and me occasionally saying hello to people:) Click here: It is FREE!