Hi friends. Welcome back to the show and welcome to our final practice of this week.

We are embracing the spirit of both Valborg and Beltaine this week. So celebrating the fact

that the lightness and the light season is truly here.

We have spent a little bit of time thinking about and contemplating how to ward off any potential

evil spirits that might be in our lives. And also tuning into what feels really alive as we

watch nature fully come to life around us. Today, I was going to offer

you a little bit more of a traditional Beltane ritual today, or a ritual that's really aligned

with this halfway point between spring equinox and summer solstice, but I felt so inspired by

the Volboy practice that we shared yesterday

and the ancient traditions around warding off spirits. I feel it aligns with my own personal

life and I think it aligns with you as well in that sense of we are all looking to claim our own space.

We're all looking to set healthy boundaries in our lives. We're looking to really create a

day to day where we feel held up and nourished and whole. And so what I wanted to offer is a very, very simple practice that can feel so absolutely

profound. Now, I want you to, if you have the ability to stand up, go ahead and stand up. If you

can't, then just envision this for a second with me. When you're standing up, rooting your

feet down to the ground, I want you to extend your

arm straight out to the side. So left arm presses to the left, straight out to the side.

Right arm presses to the right, straight out to the side. So as you extend the arms out to the

sides, I want you to extend your wrist as if you are pressing the palms of the hands out to the

sides, making a stop sign with the palms of the hands.

And then you can experiment a little bit by bringing that palms.

So you're pressing that palm forward, bringing them forward in front of you, and then

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