Finding your feet after summer
Hi! I’m Emma, I live in Pembrokeshire in Wales, at an ecovillage called Lammas.
I have devoted my life to learning about and sharing the power of holistic healing modalities, and my work includes a number of different approaches.
I assist in facilitating sacred plant medicine ceremonies, I am a musician, a sound healer, and trained in Ayurvedic Yoga Massage, Arvigo Abdominal Massage, and Hands of Light Energy Healing.
Mama Cacao has enhanced my world and being a thousand times over since I met with her, and she has brought so much wisdom, connection, and creativity into my life. It’s an honour to share my offerings with you all and I hope you receive exactly what you need in this moment.
You can find my website here:
It’s coming to the end of a beautiful Summer, and we’ve come into September: a month of transition, of celebration, and a slow regrounding after the excitement of the last season.
This month is the time of the earth sign Virgo and includes the Celtic festival of Mabon on the 21st September. Mabon (the Autumn Equinox) is a time of the year where the day and night are of exactly equal length, so bringing the energy of balance.
One of Cacao’s magical gifts to us is how she can help us to get into our body, to feel our bodies with more sensitivity, and to help us move and shift energies within our body. She can help bring us into presence to just be with ourselves, and help us to nurture ourselves with a more open heart, with more self-love.
Coming into the body is also coming into land, and coming in to be in our physicality, our material nature, and grounded with the Earth. This time of year is a beautiful time to give yourself a gift to bring you into your body and into connection with the Earth: self massage.
Cacao and massage are a divine combination of ultimate luxuriousness!
Below is a recipe and a ritual for you to create the space to meet with her, and to give your feet some loving touch…
Emma´s Recipe
Time to start rooting down into the ground to prepare ourselves for the inward-looking months of Autumn and Winter.
Ceremonial Cacao
- 1 tsp Maca Root Powder
- ½ tsp Cinnamon
- Honey to taste
Maca is the root of a vegetable native to Peru. This plant helps to give us energy, and is also awesome for bringing earthiness into our cup of cacao, its roots help us to ground ourselves.
Cinnamon is a warming spice, helping to move energies through our body and promoting circulation. A perfect heat to celebrate the warmth of Summer, and to open our bodies for some loving massage.
One of my absolute favourite songs is called ‘Tus Pies’, which means ‘Your Feet’ in Spanish. It’s by Nahko and Medicine For the People. Enjoy…
Ritual
Al Allow the beauty and earthiness of Mama Cacao to enhance your connection to Mother Earth, and to your own body through your feet.
Prepare a cup of Cacao in honour of the Earth, of all that mother Earth provides for us, in how she holds us, and nurtures us, no matter how she is treated by us. The energy of true unconditional love.
After making the cup of cacao, I invite you to sit on the floor to drink the cup. Feeling yourself firmly held by the ground, savour the earthy taste of the Cacao, and feel her travelling all the way through your body…down to your feet, pouring out through the soles into the ground, down to connect to the Earth mother.
You may like to meditate in this state for however long feels good, as you sink into resonance with the Earth. You can observe any thoughts or feelings that come up in this time, and notice how your body may relax and open as you allow the earth to hold you.
In the spirit of unconditional self-love, and honouring the primary way in which you connect to the ground (our feet), I invite you to give yourself a foot massage:
- Using some massage oil/coconut oil, foot cream or shea butter, take your feet one at a time and slowly warm them up, rubbing all over with your hands.
- You can trace the contours of you foot with your fingers and thumbs, rubbing deeper in little circles, finding a pressure which feels good to you.
- Allow your senses and feet to guide you to the places in need of some loving touch, you may feel called to spend more time on specific points which feel tight. The inner arch is often a really good place, as well as the centre of the ball of your foot.
- Interlace your fingers through your toes and stretch them out, use both hands to twist the foot from side to side, or circle the foot to stretch the ankle.
- Don’t forget to explore the top of your foot, working between the bones, and around the ankle and sides of the heel.
You may wish to use the reflexology chart below to guide you, as the foot is actually a map of the entire body…so really, this practice is like giving yourself a full body massage! It’s also incredible how these points connect all the parts of our body, and energetic system, to the Earth as we walk about our day…
To close the ritual, simply place your feet on the ground, either sitting or standing, and feel this opening and closer connection you have through your feet.
Make sure to drink some water in the time following this too, to help your internal system flow with the energies you have moved during the massage.
Reflections
You may like to use these questions as journaling prompts to do with this theme of grounding:
- How often do you feel completely in your body? Do you find grounding and connection to the Earth comes easily to you?
- Do you feel you make enough space for your own self-care?
- How often are you able to receive loving touch? Is this something you can bring more into your life?
Would you like to hear more of Emma and deepen your grounding practice?
She will guide us through self-massage for our feet, working with reflexology points, which will be a practice you can take away for yourselves whenever you feel you need a little self love (or teach to a partner to give to you!). It’s wonderful for moving energies throughout our whole body, allowing us to relax, and helping us to ground, physically and energetically.
Join her on September 2022 at UK Time.
For free access to her Live Event, Recording and September energy insights as well as reflection tasks check out the magical CACAO CAULDRON Membership and let yourself be enchanted with reflection tasks (as well as all content and recordings of the previous months!).
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