Love Your Tummy Yoga Nidra

A 2024 re-recording of Nid's Loving Tummy Yoga Nidra, also called 'Being in Your Steady Flow'. Drop into your space of deep rest in this practice to reconnect to your natural flow, so you can digest life with greater ease, and wake up ready to flow with your day, in your way!

Benefits of this practice include:
- Ease your digestive issues
- Release gut health challenges
- Embrace a love for your belly!
- Awareness of your own rhythm and where you are in a cycle of digesting life
- Improved energy and vibrancy in mind, body, and mood as your gut clears
- Clearing blocked energies in your field
- Allowing your Divine Will to flow through you into courageous action

This practice includes:
Breath awareness at the navel
Opposites of stuck and flow
Visualisation of a water journey

Transcript

Welcome to this yoga nidra.

Taking a moment to settle your body down so that it may lay still for the practice.

Ensure that you have something underneath the knees to relax the low back and anything for underneath the head or neck so that it can be softened.

Perhaps a layer over the body to keep you feeling grounded and warm throughout the practice as you remain still for the duration of the yoga nidra.

Find your back flat if that's okay for your body.

The feet are equal distance apart and the arms are away from the body about four or six inches with the palms facing up to the sky so the shoulders can open,

The heart can be soft and allow the legs to be floppy.

Wriggle and adjust the neck so that the chin can drop and there is length in the base of the skull.

Take a few rounds of releasing breath sighing it out as you settle your body and wriggle into comfort and when ready allow the eyelids to rest closed,

The mouth to close with the tongue resting behind the teeth.

Begin to listen to the sounds in your space and through this recording being aware of the space that you are in through your sense of sound.

Become aware of the sense feeling on your skin through the fabrics that touch your skin and feeling the breath across the top lip as you breathe in and out.

Observe the breath moving the body and the body feeling the support beneath you.

The points that contact the support resting down in the spaces where there is a lighter movement of air around the body.

Make the resolve to practice yoga nidra remaining present hearing the words said without analytical thought or judgment and if you wish at the end of the practice you may fall asleep and now come to your safe space it may be real or imaginary creating that feeling of safety and well-being in your body as you imagine yourself there in this very moment.

Your mind's eye filled with this space your mind's eye filled with this space where your well-being can rest into and bubble up and know that this space is available to you at any time throughout the practice or even in your waking day.

Allow your personal resolve or sankalpa to rise up in your mind's eye from your heart in the present tense as a short statement that you are currently living with that true heartfelt feeling.

And we come to the rotation of consciousness taking your awareness to different body parts as they are named.

You may sense feel or visualize them as feels appropriate moving rapidly around the body.

We begin inside the mouth in the floor of the mouth inside right cheek inside left cheek roof of the mouth the teeth the tongue inside of the mouth sinuses right eye socket left eye socket middle of the mind right ear canal right ear left ear canal left ear back of the head crown of the head forehead tip of the nose point where the lips touch the face the whole of the head base of the throat right shoulder right upper arm right elbow forearm wrist back of the right hand palm of the right hand thumb index finger middle finger ring finger pinky finger right hand right arm right armpit right side right hip right thigh knee lower leg ankle top of the right foot sole of the right foot big toe second toe third toe fourth toe fifth toe right foot right leg right side body the whole right side of the body base of the throat left shoulder left upper arm elbow forearm wrist back of the left hand palm of the left hand thumb index finger middle finger ring finger pinky finger left hand left arm left armpit left side left hip left thigh knee lower leg ankle top of the left foot sole of the left foot big toe second toe third toe fourth toe fifth toe left foot left leg left side left side of the body base of the throat center of the chest navel pubic bone front of the body whole front of the body right heel left heel right buttock left buttock right shoulder left shoulder left shoulder tail of the spine to base of head the whole back of the body the head right side of the body left side of the body front of the body back of the body the whole of the body the whole of the body the whole of the body becoming aware of the breathing the natural rise and fall of the breath at the navel as though the navel is breathing in and out and from the navel the breath moving in and out a light with the breath coming in and out of the navel allowing the breath to flow allowing the breath to move in with light to the navel and exhaling out of the navel with the light allow the breathing to be natural through the navel with this light allowing any pattern of the light or spreading of this light as you breathe in and out of the navel releasing the focus on the breathing and the light at the navel coming to the practice of sensations cultivating or remembering feeling of stuckness what does feeling stuck feel like through your body?

Where does the feeling begin?

How does this stuck feeling move through the body?

Where and how does your body feel stuck?

You're releasing the sensation and welcoming the sensation of flow maybe remembering a time of feeling in flow or noticing where flow feels and arises within the body where is there flow?

Where is the flow arising in the body?

How does the sensation of flow move through the body?

And returning to the sensation of stuck where it is in the body maybe be aware of the feelings or thoughts that arise with this sensation of stuck and return to the feeling of flow where in the body does the sensation of flow arise perhaps with a memory feeling flow and aware of any thoughts that arise with this sensation and returning to the feeling of stuck where it arises how it feels to the body how it feels to the body and any associations that come with stuck and returning to the feeling of flow where it is in the body how it moves and the associations with flow in the body releasing these sensations observing the body feeling all the sensations present returning to the breath in the abdomen and the breath out notice the pelvis heavy the shape of the pelvis a bowl a heavy bowl with clear water within it the clear water as fish moving in the water the water is flowing with the movement of the fish allowing this graceful movement and dance of light through the flowing water seeing rocks below the water as it flows and the fish dance moving downstream the water over rocks flowing downstream around and over plants with effortless ease the momentum is safe it carries you down on the water effortless ease feeling this flow around and carrying the body arrives at a pool of water surrounded by luscious green plants and a rosy sunrise fills the sky feel the gentle flowing water the rocks beneath and around the pink sky and green plants all around look into the water see your feet upon the rocks feel the water see your feet upon the rocks the feet in clear water fish swimming around the feet the movement of the water the feet are steady and stable in the water on the rocks feel the ease of the water cleansing the feet washing away the pelvis is the pool of water allow fish to be the flow of experience feet grounded to the rock the body still and moving repeat your sankalpa or personal resolve three times with that same true feeling and intention at the beginning of your practice and begin to come back into your space feeling your breathing in your body perhaps the movement of fabric on the skin and begin to hear the sounds in your space around you coming back into your environment aware of your body in this space that you are resting your practice of yoga nidra is now complete and you may wish to start to make small movements with the body coming back into your body little squeezes and releases of the fingers and toes making a stretch or giving yourself a hug before you roll over onto one side making sure that you're fully present before you go back into your day and when you come to seated maybe give yourself a little squeeze and a hug with your hands maybe rub your hands across your legs or your upper arms and have a most wonderful day

Reviews

So wonderful. This really helped with my chronic bladder pain, thank you! 🙏🏽

Wonderful! I feel peacefully, joyfully motivated. Thank you 🥰

Thank you very much for this lovely practice. It helped me relax some tensions around my belly, which provided a welcome relief.

Lovely! Your practices are always so centering. Clever name change. Many thanks and much Metta to you! ☮️💖🙏🖖🪷🕉