Happy New Year Qi Friends!

Here is a beautiful, short meditation for you to try, from Taoist scholar, writer, musician, and teacher Solala Towler. It’s a lovely way to connect to the powerful yin energy of deep wintertime. 

“Think/see yourself as a small seed, deep in the dark, rich earth...feel yourself sitting there, slowly soaking up the powerful yin energy of the living earth...

Begin to feel the warm light of the yang sun shining down upon you, thru all the layers of the earth above you...

Stay with this feeling for a while...in Daoist practice we call spiritual work "self-cultivation"...we are planting seeds of knowledge and wisdom we receive from our teachers or our ancestors and tenderly tending them as they grow up thru all the layers of ignorance and confusion, until they burst forth to grow into the beautiful plants, trees, flowers and fruits of spiritual wisdom...

Now feel your own seed making its way up thru the earth until it bursts forth into the light of a new day!”

                                                          -----Solala Towler 

I wish you all a wonderful and fruitful 2023!