beginning your practice

MEDICINE WHEEL

EAST

Element: Air – Grandfather sky / divine masculine

Colour: Red

Totem: Eagle (spirit, mental/psychic clarity, command of your environment)

Values: Arrow of purpose

Creative seed / new beginnings

Change, innovation

The visionary

Question: What is in my heart?

What change is coming?

NORTH

Element: Water

Colour: Black

Totem: Goanna / lizard (surrender / letting go)

Value: Stillness and watchfulness

Patience and determination to overcoming obstacles

Surrender to your path / healing journey

The peaceful warrior energy / taking responsibility and accountability

Questions: What is my obstacle?

What is my strength?

WEST

Element: Earth – Earth mothers / earth grandmothers / divine feminine

Colour: White

Totem: Snake (healing / sexuality)

Value: Allow snake to guide you to the centre of Mother earth to shed your skin

Humility

Compassion

The healer

Question: What no longer serves me?

What needs healing?

SOUTH

Element: Fire

Colour: Yellow

Totem: Dingo / Whale

Value: Connecting with the ancestors / guides / wisdom / knowledge

Intuition

Place of teaching and learning

Place of the trickster energy / stealth

The sage / teacher / elder

Question: What is the next step?

What wisdom is here for me and how do I embody it?

CENTRE

Element: Tree / web of life (axis mundi)

Colour: Blue over green

Value: Unity

Connection

Place of Oneness

Overcoming separation

Source energy

East : Wakan Encasa(wah cahn enca shah)

North: Tsi tsi encase (si si enca shah)

West: Kawas sinawa (Kah wahs shina wah)

South: Owaca encasha (oh wah kah enca shah)

PROCESS

A few key things to creating the right space for you:

I) You need to find where the directions are in the space that you want to set it up in

II) Always start in the East and end in the centre

III) Always enter the wheel in the East when beginning

You can then set up the wheel in two ways;

I) Find where the directions are in the space that you want to set it up in

II) Stand in the East and call in the direction, element, totem, values associated with that direction. Then move to the North, West, South and Centre

III) Go into meditation and imagine yourself standing in the directions invoking as in option I

If you are in need of any the energy of any of the values, have challenges, questions or need guidance you can also go into meditation, set up the wheel and imagine yourself sitting in the direction that you are drawn too or feel most at home in i.e. if you need healing you can sit in the West and allow the energies of the earth mothers to heal and nurture you.

living without attachments

"The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
not to worry about the future,
nor to anticipate troubles,
but to live in the present
moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha

visualisation - just cruising

when the days are just too busy to stop to meditate or visualise something uplifting, don't despair.

if you are going to drive you have the perfect opportunity to om through the chakras and align your energy with the cosmic energy. you can maintain concentration, probably better then you would normally and you will arrive at your destination energised and radiant.

visualisation - om

start standing moving around your room / apartment / house. you might light to light an incense stick chanting om. sit in a comfortable lotus. drop your arms directly below your shoulders, hands up to accept the prana of the day. continue to om - slow deep oms. let the om activate the awareness of the chakra points as they come from the spine to the front of the body. imagine their colour: base is red, sacral is orange, solar plexus is yellow, heart is green / pink, throat is blue, third eye is purple, crown is white. about two hands above your head is your halo, your transpersonal chakra. bring in the light via this chakra. breathe it in and bathe in it, when you breathe out send it through every cell of your body. expanding out from your body. if you have a favourite mantra, chant it and let the cells of your body vibrate with the energy you create. watch the light from within you pulsing and shining. you are pure energy. with your eyes closed, sense this pure energy. imagine the world around you, not in it's solid form, but as pure energy, too. you are one with the all. you are the all. om, om, om

visualisation - bliss bomb

make today a sensual day. sit in lotus position, palms up to accept the prana of the day. imagine a golden halo above your head. it allows cosmic prana into your body. breathe the prana in, down the front of your body for 8 counts. hold it at the base of your spine another 8, then breathe out up the spine another 8. hold for 8, floating softly in bliss before you start again. the energy coming in through your head chakra is from the cosmic universe, it is uniting with your own sensuality. be sensual, be divine shiva or shakti. let the energy expand into the cells of your body, renewing them. let it expand beyond your skin cocooning you. visualise this energy expanding to fill your room, your apartment / house. your street, your suburb, your city, your state, your country. you are a bliss bomb! your bliss is with you, guiding you, protecting you, magnetizing you. you go today in the light of divine love. all is well in the world!

visualisation - great-full-ness

spend a few minutes thinking about how wonderful your room / apartment / house is. feel the light in your heart create a glow all around your body magnetizing you to loving people and beautiful experiences. visualize opening the door to your shop / office / studio. people are waiting outside, laughing and chatting. give them a welcoming smile and let them come in.

visualisation - monday

spend a few minutes visualizing what wonderful people your clients are. see them smiling and looking and feeling great. send them a puja - an energy beam straight from your heart.