26/09/2026
Twice a month Health All Round hosts a meditation space – once online, and once at the Art and Spirituality Centre in Gorgie. Sometimes, meditation can be challenging, other times it can mind-blowing and beautiful, as it was for M-A Elder, who came along to our online meditation session recently. She wrote this beautiful poem about her experience.
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MEDITATION MAGIC
Just the other week at Art,
we drew magical standing stones.
We used bleeding tissue and carbon paper,
black card and metallic tones…
. to depict the symbols on the stones,
some pictish, some constellations.
One stone coloured, the other black.
We cut shapes without hesitation.
The backgrounds were to make the stones shine,
to show case their magical presence.
Some aspects touched my heart,
whilst others tested my patience.
Just an hour later,
in my ecotherapy group,
In the midst of a Zen meditation,
a strange turn my experience took.
I found myself in a field at night,
full of standing stones.
I looked up to a midnight sky,
'neath a borealis zone.
As I watched above my head,
a shooting star flew by.
I felt myself begin to expand,
I felt that I could fly.
I observed many constellations,
the moon and the stars up above.
Such wonder filled my heart,
surrounded by peace and love.
I watched as equations beyond my knowledge,
fell from expansive space.
Apart from E = MC squared,
with a quizzical look on my face.
Before I knew it, I had arrived;
back in my body again.
Such an experience I’ve never had
The Universe was my friend.
I opened my eyes very slowly,
felt my body again in the chair.
As I related my journey,
how I longed to be back there.
Grateful to be alive,
I took a deep breath and sighed.
How special was that, how magical too.
Thanks to these two special teachers who..
.knew exactly how to engage,
the part of me that turned a page,
of 'WOW!– Did that really happen to me? '
I felt greatful with such humility.
M-A ELDER
14th September 2026
