How to Hear Your Inner Guidance | A Somatic Practice for the Summer Solstice

today is the summer solstice — the longest day, the fullest light. In Chinese wisdom, fire is the element of the heart, and the heart and mind are one. So this feels like a significant moment to ask: where in your life does the light need to shine? In this video I share why I've made choices that looked illogical from the outside — leaving a promising career, turning down a top university, moving countries with nothing sorted on the other end — and what I was actually listening to when I made them. And I invite you into a short practice to help you hear what your own heart needs now, moving into summer and the rest of the year. The heart practice is here: Wild Soul Rising retreat — super early bird ends this weekend: https://helenesu.short.gy/wsr2026-yt 00:00 Solstice Light Question 00:23 Sun Energy and Heart Fire 00:38 Heart Mind Connection 01:05 Following the Heart Calling 01:56 Balancing Head and Heart 02:45 Guided Illumination Practice 03:07 Closing and Invitation ✦ FREE RESOURCES → Playful Power Reset — a free micro course to help you reclaim your energy, voice and inner guidance Access here: https://helenesu.short.gy/playful-reset → Somatic Moving Heart Meditation — a free nurturing guided meditation to bring you back into your heart Access here: https://helenesu.short.gy/heart-medit... ✦ WORK WITH HELENE → Visionary Somatic Insight Session — a bespoke 90-minute somatic inquiry session, plus replay and your personal Integration Note. Book your session: https://helenesu.short.gy/vs-yt → Free Your Dance — a 7-week self-study somatic dance programme to help you move freely, express fully, and reconnect with your creative aliveness. Find out more: https://helenesu.short.gy/dance-somatic → Reclaim You — the signature group programme for coaches, therapists, healers, artists, and creatives ready to come home to themselves. Find out more: https://helenesu.short.gy/reclaimyou-yt → Work with Helene 1:1 — Visionary Somatic Coaching for those ready for deep, personalised work. Apply here: https://helenesu.short.gy/tP7APP