Awakening to the Light of the Summer Solstice by lauren Hanna, Founder of sonic Yoga
June is the month that hosts the beautiful transition from spring to summer and celebrates the longest day of the year on the Summer Solstice. The outer light reflects the blossoming of our own inner light.
Now, is the perfect time to activate your vision, whether it’s psychic, intuitive, just plan old prayer or deep desire, to manifest the change that you wish to see.
The great Rishis, Yogic Sages, isolated in high mountains and deep forests, focused their attention on cultivating their Yoga vibhuti’s or psychic powers to shift their own reality and impact the world around them.
The beauty of the light of summer is that it truly awakens our inner potential. This is the perfect time to tap into that powerful surge and use it to support you in your own personal intentions.
We all have the inner ability to create change, to heal, inspire and to awaken change using our psychic vision. This is the perfect time to activate your super powers! Vision is something we all have the potential to harness, and use to empower our life’s journey.
In the Yoga tradition we believe that our psychic vision is a way to connect with the greater vision of the universe. We can learn to “see” things that will be supported by the universal consciousness. If we set a powerful intention behind that vision, the universe will support its manifestation.
Here are some ways to awaken your Inner LIght:
- Practice visualizing your dreams. Begin by practicing Nadi Shodhana pranayama to balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Sit in meditation, in stillness. Gaze to the third eye center. Begin to use your power of visualization to “see” all that you would like to manifest. See it alive and real as if watching a movie of your dreams coming true. Use all five senses to immerse yourself in this vision. Allow yourself to connect emotionally and feel the gratitude in your heart.
- Sun Gaze to awaken the inner light. Mediate on the light of the sun, drink it into your body and your energy field. Allow it to activate your solar plexus, the store house of prana and to awaken the third eye center. Caution only do this during sunrise and sunset, never during the mid day sun which can be harmful to your eyes.
- Trataka – Candle gazing – Light a candle and use it as your point of focus. Gaze at the flame for as long as you like. Notice the 3 parts of the flame, the black interior, the blue light and the exterior orange/yellow flame. Then close your eyes. Relax. Concentrate on your third eye in the mid-brain. Observe what arises. You may see a flame or a shape in any color. Gaze on that image. When you find your mind wandering, open your eyes and come back to the flame in front of you. Try to keep either the actual flame or the flame in your third eye active throughout the meditation. Continue to concentrate on the flame within and without. Hold this practice for 5 to 15 minutes.
Enjoy this sacred inner time and focus your inner energy to awaken your inner light and manifest the change you would like to see.
Join me for a Summer Solstice Meditation on June 26th at 8pm.
Blessings,
Lauren