Full Moon Meditation

You start by feeling your feet on the floor, then move attention up through ankles, knees, hips, palms, stomach, chest, shoulders, face and the top of your head. Noticing heat, cold, prickling, contraction or expansion helps you settle and arrive before any imagery begins. The phrase 'noticing and allowing' sums up the attitude.

You imagine breathing moonlight in through the top of your head, throat and heart, then exhaling it down through your belly and feet into the centre of the earth. Then you reverse the flow: you breathe earth energy, in any colour that comes, up through your feet, pelvic floor, stomach and heart, and exhale it up into the moon. It leaves you feeling both lit and grounded.

After the breathing, you imagine a golden thread running from your heart to the heart of the moon. Katia describes the moon's energy as receiving and allowing, and you may feel your emotions move through the body like waves. It's a way of tuning into feeling rather than thinking.

First you notice how your body is, without trying to change anything. Then the moon lowers, shrinks and is breathed in, so it floats inside your stomach. That glowing moon becomes the space where you picture the changes you want, and you sense them as if they were already real.

Katia says that's fine. You're asked what you'd let go of in health, relationships, and work and money, and you're told not to decide with your rational mind. The questions are described as seeds planted in your subconscious that may sprout answers later. She also offers examples, and says to take only what suits you completely.

You gather your images into one picture, or simply trust you'll ground them. You inhale from the sky into your stomach, hold the breath inside the moon, then exhale it down through your legs into the earth, where it turns into colourful energy. You open your eyes, smile, and if the moon is visible tonight, you're invited to go and look at it.