EARTH SURRENDER RITES EARTH SURRENDER RITES
This ritual is best conducted outdoors and on open ground (no pavement or floors). The intent of this ritual is to stabilize individual and collective energy fields and can be done alone or in groups. In groups of three, sit in a triangle; four, a square; five, a pentagram; six, a hexagon (6-pointed star). Any more than six, form a circle. If you are just two, sit across from one another. If you are alone, sit anywhere on the ground. When you are ready to begin, close your eyes and let your awareness settle in the base of the spine; feel the gravity gather there as an anchor.
Begin the No-Form meditation practice. Once you have cultivated enough internal receptivity, find your contact point with the base of your spine. Watch your breathing and let it be natural; don't force or hold your breath. On the inhale, breathe in earth energy up through the base of the spine and on the exhale, circulate this earth energy throughout your entire body. Continue this cycle of connected breathing -- inhale the earth energy into your body; on the exhale, circulate it throughout your body.
The more earth energy you take in and circulate, the more "dense" it will tend to feel. How much density can you permit? To increase the flow, breathe deeper while you are drawing the energy up from the earth. To decrease the flow, breathe more shallow. You are looking to find your point of maximum density without losing consciousness.
Become aware of yourself as a bump on the planet. Get a sense of yourself as a protuberance of the planet itself; no difference between yourself and the planet. Be receptive to the vast support and strength of the Earth as it expresses itself through you.
Begin resonating sounds that match the frequency of this earth energy. Do not try and control the sound or create a melody. Let the frequency of the earth energy determine the tone, pitch, key, and sonic direction. Simply resonate a sound to match the energy itself. While maintaining this cycle of connected breathing, exhale earth energy through your arms and out your palms and fingertips. Keep cycling earth energy through your own body and out your hands. Continue until you feel done. Send any excess earth energy back to the planet. Return to No-Form.
NOTE: When this ritual is performed in different bioregions, the quality and intensity of the earth energy will differ according to power of the earth there.