Making any last adjustments to our diving gear, we may use this as an opportunity to become aware of our upcoming passage between two seemingly separate elements:

Earth and Water.

Earth and Water.

Earth and Water.

May we all be safe as we cross this threshold.

May we all be safe as we cross this threshold.

May we all be safe as we cross this threshold.

[Silence]

Taking a delicate breath in through our noses, then making a sonorous sigh through our mouths, much like a sea creature (whale, dolphin, or seal. whale, dolphin, or seal.) Repeating this gesture three times. The sighs increasing in volume or length, and very little effort involved, as the sighs announce our visit to the Waters–and perhaps acknowledge them as the planetary birthplace of All.

Choosing then to keep our eyes open as we jump into the sea, or closing them as the Waters make room for our bodies to welcome us. 

[Silence]

The invitation is to surrender to gravity and to embrace flow, to become wave.

“What am I called to re-encounter in the ocean? What is the ocean’s message to me that might manifest itself in the shape of a fleeting image, the language of the currents, or the seascape unfolding all around me at once: back-front-sides-above-below-and inside?” This encompassing image is one to be intuited and not so much seen with the eyes.

[Silence]

Bringing attention to our bodies in connection to their conversation with the Waters: as they float, bounce, resist, and give into the ocean–realizing the link between the Waters outside, as in the ocean encircling us, and the Waters inside the inner ocean of our bodies. These inner Waters serving as home to cells, organs, tissues, and more.

[Silence]

Each push or pull that we receive from the Waters serving to help us enter deeply, yes deeply, into the space of fluid meditation,

fluid meditation,

fluid meditation,

fluid meditation,

fluid meditation into beinghood and waterhood; into the Mother of all planetary consciousness.

Water

Waters

Water

Waters

Water

Waters

[Silence]

When distraction arises in the form of a creature showing off its splendor to us, yes to us, or an Earthly thought, we return our attention to the sensation of the bubbles of carbon dioxide coming out of our mouths through the regulators–or to our fins touching the sea bed. We use one of these two options as our anchor, much like that used by ships to pause in the sea. In our case, our anchor is breath or touch. We come back to it as many times as needed.

[Silence]

Emotions are likely to emerge, of course, especially as the Water might elicit memories and sensations that we might be able to name or not. That is fine. When this happens, we let emotions or thoughts flow with the ripples and waves, and join the dance of the sea as we return to the anchor of our choice: breath or touch; one of the two.

[Silence]

As we continue to immerse ourselves into the depths of the fluid element in which we are, the Womb of all creation, the Mother of all Mothers and Mothering, this can be a good moment to retrieve any messages that we might be called to take back to the Earth, to solid ground. “Is this a message I, we, need to keep and store in my heart, our hearts, for further contemplation, or is it one that I, we, must release and watch ride with the waves?” This is also a good moment to express gratitude for all of the gifts of the liquid realm, its beings–seen and unseen–and for its presence as a vital element in our bodies. We too, to a great extent, are walking bodies of Water.

Bodies of Water

Bodies of Water

[Silence]

There is no tangible closure to Water meditations. There is the rite of passage marked by the submersion into the Waters and the return to the solid ground that the act of emerging from the sea represents. Yes, like a birth and a rebirth from the very belly of the planet. We may bow to Waters in preparation for this conscious rebirth by thanking them: “Water, you too are in me, and we carry each other through life­—in life. Water, you too are in me, and we, we carry each other through life­—in life. Water, you too are in me, and we carry each other through life­—in life.”

[Silence]

Once on land, sitting for a few minutes, yes, eyes closed–if possible–for you, for me, for us as we watch our attention travel from the soles of our feet through our ankles, lower legs, knees, upper legs, fingers, hands, arms, belly, heart, spine, neck and throat, head.

[Silence]

Regaining our heat, or the heat in our bodies as the Fire element infuses us with love and warmth, the fire element, whether from the sun in the sky or from the heat that now emerges from us, from within. Eyes still closed watching the currents inside, the ebbs and flows.

[Silence]

Gradually opening our eyes and moving in space like an elegant octopus, or maybe like elegant octopuses, because we're many, displaying our tentacles, or like flexible jellyfishes basking in our transparency. Bringing Water and Waters with us wherever we go. “I am Water and Water is in me. We are Water and Water is in us."

[Silence]

“May we have the courage to navigate the inner storms and to wade through the caressing waves with love.“

[Smile and silence]