Lauren Bernard

Bobcaygeon, Kawartha Lakes, ON, Canada

Nicole

Settle into your body, breathe into your heart, and reconnect with the safe sanctuary of your inner home.

English

This gentle 10-minute guided meditation invites you home to the sanctuary of your own body, breath, and heart. 

Ground in the steady presence of the Earth
Breathe into the spiral energy of your heart
Tend to the emotional soil you’re growing from
Listen for the quiet wisdom of your inner sanctuary

This is a space to soften, rest, and reconnect to what is real, lasting, and loving.

You are safe to rest.
You are home.

Homecoming 10 Minutes Of Guided Rest & Connection

Welcome love, this is a moment just for you, a gentle pause, a turning inward, a return to the sanctuary of home within. This is Emma, and all you need to do is follow the guidance of my voice. Let your body settle now, feel the ground beneath you, the steady presence of earth holding you. Gently close the eyes, outside awareness softened. With each breath, begin to arrive more fully in the body. Breath meets body, and the body meeting the breath, a rhythm of remembering, of softening, of coming home. Let the inhale invite you into presence, and the exhale be a release, a letting go of what you do not need to carry in this moment and all future moments. Let go, let the breath arrive, welcome it into the body, and let go. As you rest here, imagine your body as home, a sacred space, warm with awareness, alive with memory. Feel into the foundations, the bones, the breath, the beat of your heart. What roots you, what nourishes the soil your life grows from? Take a moment now to ask gently and without rush, what do I need to feel safe, to feel held, to feel fully myself? What does my inner sanctuary ask of me today? Let the inquiry land, expand, ripple through each cell, each layer, merging through the interstitial places and spaces, let the body feel and answer, what do I need to feel safe, to feel held, to feel fully myself? Tune in, tune into the silence between all things, listening with each breath that ebbs and flows, a word may arise, a sensation, a memory of belonging, a longing, a knowing. Tend to this with care, whatever comes, can you welcome it? This is tending the roots now, honouring the emotional soil you're growing from, simply by listening with your whole body, simply by inviting your body to speak a language beyond words, sensation, simple living sensation. And now breathe into the space of your heart, imagine its spiral energy gently unfolding, soft warmth spreading through your chest, shoulder blades, spine, protective, tender, strong, a sanctuary of loving protection. Feel the spiral of your heart expanding through the breath in your lungs, a gentle devotion to your eternal light, the spiral of your heart's energy expanding through the warm breath in your lungs, a gentle devotion to your eternal light. There's no rush here, let this be slow, let this be kind, let the simplicity of breath and light carry you inwards, carry you inwards, carry you home. You are safe to rest here, to receive, to remember, you are home. And within the loving light of your heart, let's end this practice with three gentle, generous breaths, breathing in, body softening, anchoring, breathing out, softening further, further, again, breathing out, softening, breathing in, anchoring. Let the breath flow, anchoring and softening the body, you are home. Place your hands, if you like, on your heart or belly, and silently whisper, I am home, I am safe, I am held. Thank you for showing up, for nourishing your roots, for tending the sanctuary and the inner space of your own being. When you're ready, begin to move fingers and toes, bring movement to the edges of the body, slowly returning, with reverence, carrying the feeling of home.