Journey Description
A week of restorative yoga nidra practices to reset and replenish. Each day you are guided through a restful practice that encourages a natural release of physical and mental tension, activation of natural healing processes and a restful meditation.
During Yoga Nidra,your body is guided into sleep but your consciousness remains awake and aware. This liminal state, between sleeping and waking, offers profound healing benefits as the body receives all of the beneft of deep sleep and the mind completely slows down. You are guided through various stages of relaxation, enabling a deep release of tension on every level. Because yoga nidra facilitates such a profound state of restfulness and release, it can often feel like a complete reset for the mind and body, bringing a sense of complete rejuvenation after the practice.
These meditations have been designed as replenishing 'naps' for a rest and reset during tired or stressful times. Each one can be used as a stand alone meditaiton by itself, but practicing daily for a week can have a powerful effect on physical and mental energy levels, mental clarity and sleep quality.
Because yoga nidra is so effortless and restful, there is nothing that you need to 'do' or think about as you approach the meditations. Simply give yourself the gift of some time to rest and allow the practices to work for you.
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Journey Tracks
1 - Nidra Nap
Find a quiet and comfortable place for your rest and get ready to begin. This first practice introduces you to yoga nidra with a restful journey through all of the stages of relaxation. You'll practice a relaxing body scan, breah awareness, exploring the experience of sleeping and waking together, and some time in silence to enjoy your rest.
2 - Nidra Nap For Exhaustion
Todays rest guides you into a quiet space for your body and mind to naturally rejuvenate and replenish. You are not required to do nothing but rest and receive the natural restorative benefits from the practice. After a relaxing body scan, there is a long period of quiet rest with calming background music, where rejuvenation will naturally happen.
Background music by Relaxing Time
3 - Nidra Nap For Overwhelm
For stressful times when everything feels too much, today's rest guides you back to a state of calm and clarity. You are guided through a relaxing body scan, breath awareness, and a five-minute period towards the end to rest with calming background music and allow the natural rejuvenation to happen.
Background music by Relaxing Time
4 - Nidra Nap For Healing
As you practice yoga nidra, your body's natural healing processes are activated in similar way to during deep sleep. The relaxation on every level allows for physical, mental and spiritual healing to happen effortlessly as you simply relax into the practice.
Today you will be guided through a body scan visualising healing light illuminating your body's energy centres, exploration of the opposites comfort and discomfort, a visualisation of breathing healing light into any part of your body where it is needed, and time to rest in stillness and allow healing to happen.
Background music by Relaxing Time
5 - Nidra Nap For Clarity
Yoga nidra encourages deep mental relaxation and as you rest, the mind naturally calms and settles. Today's practice guides you towards mental clarity with an invitation at the beginning to acknoweldge any area of your life that you are seeking clarity in, or to ask a question. As you rest, your mnd will naturally find its way to the answers that lie within you.
This practice includes a long body scan, breath awareness with a golden light visualisation, exploration of the opposites clarity and confusion, and time to rest and and receive the benefits of the practice with calming background music.
Background music by Gaby Lopez
6- Embodied Nidra Nap
Todays practice guides you out of your mind and into your body, allowing you to feel more grounded and present. With a focus on body awareness, you are guided through a long body scan, wave breathing, exploration of the opposites stillness and movement, and some time to quietly rest at the heart centre.
7 - Nidra Nap To Re-energise
To finish the week, this final practice guides you to re-energise and let go of any remaining feelings of tiredness or depletion. You are guided through a body scan and an exploration of the feelings of tiredness and awakeness to allow you to explore more deeply the feeling of tiredness, how it manifests in your body, and how it feels to reset. There's a long period of silence towards the end of the practice for you to simply rest and restore your energy levels.
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