Get comfortable. Shift your body if you need to adjust anything that needs adjusting. Let your hands find a place to rest, and I want you to start to pay attention to your breathing. Take it in slowly through your nose and let it go again through your nose in this time, much deeper. Filling your belly all the way, holding it, and pushing it all the way out. I want you to do that again at your own pace, all the way in filling up your belly, your lungs, your full chest, holding it, and then releasing it all, pushing it out, all the air in your chest and your body. Now pick up a normal pace, but still feel connected to the breath. Now I want you to pick your picture yourself. Standing at the entrance to a forest path, you can smell the damp earth. The tree bark. The smell of decomposing leaves is mixed with a soft smell that hints that spring is just starting to wake up. And the trees around you are brown and bare, and you can just start to see little buds forming on the branches. The leftover brambles of winter are beginning to shift from brown to faint hues of green. You are breathing as you walk, feeling very relaxed, and with every step you feel more peaceful, more present, really starting to smell and feel and hear everything surrounding you. The pathway is dirt and well worn. It's flat and clear. But as you take your next step, you start to notice patches of green, bright moss beginning to rise up from the sides of the path around you outlining a map for your new journey. At the base of a wide old tree, a cluster of mushrooms has pushed up through the soil. Then you see another cluster and then another small and unhurried. They just know it's time. You hear the birds enthusiastically chirping around you, announcing their arrival to the rest of the animals in the woods. We're back. We made it. It's time to begin again. And you keep walking the path curves and the trees begin to thin. The light changes and it opens up into a large clearing, and there in front of you is a deep, beautiful, wide lake. The water is dark and clear all at the same time. There's something almost alive about this surface and the way the wind blows across the top and creating ripples, the moss runs right down to the edge of the shore and the trees frame the far side. The whole forest feels like it's been leading you to this exact spot. You find a place at the edge of the water to sit and the ground is soft beneath you. Take a moment to breathe here, ticking in your surroundings, hearing the water lapping at your feet. Look out at the lake. Notice how it holds everything. The reflection of the sky, the trees, the light. It doesn't pick and choose what it reflects. It just receives and shows what's true. You're going to do the same for yourself right now. First, I want you to think what wants to bloom. Maybe it's something that's been pressing on you for months. It might be a project or a goal you keep circling without quite landing on. It might be a habit that if you changed, it would change everything. Maybe it's a version of yourself that you've been putting off, stepping into the one who follows your gut and faces fear head on. Or maybe it's a relationship that deserves more than you've been giving it. It might be something you've been calling someday for so long that it feels like it might be never. Let's what true for you. Come up, don't filter or judge it or question. Just go with whatever comes to you first. That quick answer is always the truest answer. That is your download. So what wants to bloom inside of you this season? Give yourself a moment to sit with that. Now, I want you to ask yourself what is ready to fall away? It might be a mindset that you've used to keep safe, and now you've realize it's actually keeping you stuck. It might be a story that you've been telling yourself that stopped being true a while ago, but you haven't been ready to let go of it. It could be the residue of a past trauma or a situation that's long over, but the feelings still linger. Maybe it's a relationship that's been costing you more than it's giving, or it could be a deep seat of guilt or shame that you're carrying for things that you're ready to release and forgive. Or maybe it's just an old version of yourself that feels small or weak or less than you know you really are and you're ready to shed. Something in this list may have landed, or you might hear a whisper of your own inner knowing, or maybe you didn't hear it, but you feel it. Instead, stay with that feeling. What is it? Sit with that name it. See it and know that you're now ready to release it. The forest doesn't hold onto last winter's dead growth out of loyalty. It doesn't mourn the falling leaves. It just makes room for what's coming. It needs to die to build what's coming to life. It uses what was to nourish what's coming next. We also take part in this cycle of death and rebirth. Just like the seasons, we can access that same flow. We can use the pieces of what we're letting fall away. To create what's ready to spring to life in ourselves, and you get to decide what you take back down the path and what you're ready to leave at the water's edge. Take a minute to breathe. Sitting at the edge of that water, sitting with your clarity and your knowing. You can feel the pieces that are ready to fall away. Shed off your body like a winter blanket revealing the fresh, vibrant you underneath, and you feel the excitement and possibility of a clean slate and the energy of something new that's already starting to bloom. You leave that blanket at the water's edge and let it slip into it. It creates a ripple across the surface and the surface and the lake absorbs it gratefully without question. Now I want you to see yourself in a few months from now, you've been feeding what you said you'd feed, and you've been setting down what you said you'd set down what feels different, what has shifted, what does it feel like in your body? What has that allowed you to change and sit with that vision. When you're ready, I want you to stand up from the edge. Take another look at the lake and turn back toward the path. You walk back through the trees, the moss is now guiding you in the opposite direction. The birds are still softly calling above you. The faint blurring through the canopy a little more visible now than when you arrived. Or maybe you're just more awake to it. And with each step back, you are further committing to both what you are releasing from your energy and what you're giving that energy to, to let bloom. They don't cancel each other out. They work together. That's how the forest grows and that's how you grow. As you take your last step out of the forest, you take another deep breath, gratitude for everything that you now have clarity on. Begin to feel the room that you're sitting in right now. Feel the weight of your actual body and the temperature of the air can wiggle your fingers and toes and roll your shoulders back. Take a deep breath in and let it go. When you feel ready, open your eyes.