The 'Backyard Wonders' Meditations
You Need to Look No Further Than Your Backyard to See the Magic of Being!
The 'Backyard Wonders' Series Includes 24 Lessons
Each Lesson Includes the Following Elements:
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The Quiet Pond
The pond teaches that stillness is not emptiness—it is presence. Within its quiet surface lives complexity, insight, and grace. To reflect clearly, we need only to become still.
The pond is a quiet keeper of truth—reflecting sky and shadow alike, while holding the unseen with gentle grace.
In its stillness, we remember how to listen deeply, feel fully, and hold space without striving.
The Spectrum Within
The rainbow is light made visible—an arc of unity born from contrast, where storm meets sun and color becomes revelation.
It reminds us that wholeness is not sameness, but the radiant harmony of every shade within.
In this meditation, we’ll explore the rainbow not only as a physical pattern of light, but as a profound metaphor for wholeness through diversity, for the integration of opposites, and for the transformation of unseen energy into visible form.
Restless Wind
The wind is the breath of the world. It cannot be seen, but it can be felt—on skin, in leaves, through the rise of a kite or the fall of a feather. It arrives without warning and moves with freedom, dancing between stillness and storm. It stirs our senses, carries scent and song, and whispers truths we might otherwise forget.
To meditate on the wind is to remember that aliveness doesn’t require form. That movement can be cleansing. That presence can be light and wild. The wind touches everything—gently or fiercely—and in doing so, reminds us that we too are meant to move, to feel, and to change the atmosphere simply by being.