Salmon’s Gift of Renewal

It is Late Summer and the Salmon have begun their instinctual journey back to the waters of their own origin. The great return has begun and the cycle of life and death, birth and transformations continues.

As I prepare to release the identity of Therapist and commit more intimately to the Earth herself, the Salmon remind me of the gifts of dying to what was, so we might be born anew each moment. This is the way of Renewal.

Our feelings are fleeting, like clouds in the sky reflected in the ripples in the stream. Our feelings flicker on the surface of our hearts, and yet are the stepping stones to love. Our feelings cannot contain the power and magnificence of the love in our hearts.

And yet, a few moments of deep stillness, silence and spaciousness can be enough to touch the peace that lives in all our hearts. And this is the gift of Renewal - dying to what was on each exhale and breathing in the Now with each inhalation.

As the Salmon remind us of the cycles of the seasons and the cycles of seasonal endings and renewal, let us share some precious moments of peace together in nature.

Come Breathe with the Forest and let us be renewed in community.