Wolf Moon Meditation Script & Mandala Vinyasa Flow
The Aspen (Celtic Birch) Moon & Walks-All-Over-The-Sky, an Indoor Practice
Light a candle and set a small bowl of water near by. This will represent the full moon and its gravitational pull on water.
The Wolf Moon aligns with a theme of emotional safety, intuition, and resilience. It is the mating season for the wolves, and the reason behind their winter howls. Wolves are communicative dogs known for intuition and courage. They represent a balance between independence and community.
Their pups are playful and dance beneath the aspen trees. Aspen is also known for its communication through its network of roots: mother nature’s basket. The aspen is grounded, its white bark known for its healing qualities. Indigenous North Americans would chew the bark for pain relief. Aspirin is derived from its bark. Often, the aspen is the first to sprouts buds along its branches at the time between the winter solstice and spring equinox — The February Moon: representing new beginnings and hope.
The energy we share tonight helps with our body’s quest for rejuvenation. Tonight, we shed old layers of stagnant psychic bark and invite personal healing, connection with others, and intuitive growth. Begin seated.
Imagine the full moon. Its light pouring down onto your head, through the crown chakra. Imagine the light flowing downwards, next, to your Third-eye Chakra, the Throat chakra, the Heart, the Solar Plexus, the Sacrum, and the Root chakra. The light of the moon now roots like the aspen into the earth. Growing and weaving together. And beneath you, seated here, you are cradled in Mother Earth’s basket.
Like the aspen trees, your roots are interconnected in vast networks, a community. When one limb is damaged another might grow somewhere else. This is the importance of honoring our community. Our family, our friends, our acquaintances, our colleagues, our supervisors, the indigent, and our providers. We bow not only to the positive but also to the negative aspects in our daily progress. Just as the moon walks across the sky and progresses into morning.
These symbols of ourselves are highly connected with Yamas and Niyamas in the Eight-Limb Yogic Practice
Yamas represent our interaction and restraint with ourselves and our pack:
We practice:
Ahimsa - non-violence
Satya - truthfulness
Asteya - non-stealing
Brahmachharya - thoughtful use of energy
Aparigraha - non-hoarding
Niyamas represent our internal duties and discipline for ourselves and our pack:
We practice:
Saucha: cleanliness
Santosha: contentment
Tapas: auster yoga
Svadhyaya: self-reflection
isvarapranidaha: spiritual surrender
The Practice:
Circular Breath
Give yourself three grounded breaths. Inhale in the nose, expanding the sides of your rib cage, follow the breath to your sacrum. Exhale until the breath hugs your heart. Repeat twice more.
Come to table, slide into child pose. Repeat the three grounding breaths. Nose, Ribs, Sacrum, Heart.
Flow (based on the Full Moon Series made into a mandala vinyasa)
Rise to table.
Cat & Cow warm up ending in down dog
right leg 3-legged down dog
step wide to right foot,
step wide with left foot,
garland pose
Rag Doll
Sun Salutations with Crescent Moon (Urdhva Hatasana) R, L, R, L switch with repeats
Repeat (left foot), Repeat (right foot), Repeat (left foot).
Chatarunga, DD
Chair Pose
tadasana
Crescent Moon to the Right
Tadasana
Step back with Left Foot
Cresent lunge
WII
Triangle Pose
Five pointed Star
Goddess pose
raise hands from lotus to finger tip circle over head
Five Point Star
revolve to your right,
cresent lunge with hands behind back
pyramid pose (narrower foot, forward fold)
release to squatting lunge, right side
Garland/Malasana
squating lunge to left side
crescent lunge with arms behind back
pyramid pose
crescent lunge
five pointed star
wide-legged forward fold (parsarita padottasana)
five pointed star
WII
Triangle
cresent lunge
tadasana
cresent moon to the left
chair pose
chataranga
repeat with left foot stepping back, finish at original front of mat,
repeat with right foot stepping back, finish mandala
Standing balance series
Tree
Half-Moon
Floor Series
half-pigeon
Mermaid seated twist: Bharadvajasana I
Thunderbolt pose with block, cow-face arms with strap
half bow/full bow
Restorative yoga
Shavasana
Meditation in Shavasana
Inspired by The Pacific Northwest Tsimshian Tribe story of Walks-All-Over-The-Sky
adapted from: Erdoes, R., & Ortiz, A. (2018). Native American myths and legends. Pantheon Books.
In the beginning, there was the Chief who lived in the sky. The Chief had two sons and a daughter. And his people were numerous, but there was no light. Only darkness.
The younger son, named The-One-Who-Walks-All-Over-The-Sky, was sad to see the sky always in darkness so he made a mask out of wood and put it on. Then, he lit it on fire and went to the east. The Chief's people saw a great light rising. The younger son had to run from east to west so that the flaming mask would not burn him. Every day he repeated his race and lit up the sky.
The sky people wished he did not run so fast across the sky. The sister, named Support-of-Sun told the Chief she would hold him back a little. So, the next time One-Who-Walks-All-Over-The-Sky rose in the east, Support-The-Sun started from the south crying “Wait for me!” She would sometimes intercept her brother in the middle of his race and held him briefly until he broke free. That is why the sun is sometimes longer in the sky. Each day he would tire from his running and would lay down to rest. Darkening the sky once more.
But the older son, Walking-About-Early, was envious of Walks-All-Over-The-Sky, and wanted to make his father proud. And when everyone slept, Walking-About-Early rubbed burning fat and charcoal over his face and he shed light out behind his soot and also walked from the east. And the people appreciated the muted light of the night.
And other things happened in the sky, when Walks-All-Over-The-Sky fell asleep, sparks would fly from the extinguishing mask and the stars were created to sparkle throughout night.
Time passed, and the animals were created to live on the world below the sky. And they asked Walks-All-Over-The-Sky to be the light of the day and make everything grow. And they asked Walking-About-Early to walk at night to keep them safe from predators.
And the wolves asked for forty days for Walking-About-Early to shine his light brightly. For they would have more light to hunt at night. But a porcupine struck the wolf who spoke with his quill and asked for thirty days and only three with his full brightness. And the rest of the animals agreed. And the wolves, so wounded, decided to cry for Walking-About-Early. Begging him to walk brighter for longer.
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