Your Divine Temple Yoga Nidra

This practice uses traditional techniques to aid connection with the Divine essence in each of us. These simple techniques hold a deep power of the soul's calling to leave a deep sense of calm, gratitude, peace, vibrantly alive and reverence for life. Your beautiful life. Thank you for being you.

Benefits include:
* Sense of calm and peace
* Appreciation for what is present
* A sense of the magic of life
Please note this includes visualising floating on water.

Transcript

Welcome to this yoga nidra practice.

Make sure that you're comfortably lying down with a blanket maybe over the body to give it a little bit of weight and support.

Maybe a cushion underneath your knees to ease the low back and if you need a little pillow or something underneath the neck and the head,

Do use it so that you can relax the neck,

Lengthening it long and allowing the thinking mind to rest down.

Snuggle on down and make sure you're comfy,

Letting the legs be hip width and the feet flop out and allow the hands to be a good four inches away from the body so there's space under the armpits and the palms are facing up to the sky allowing the shoulders to roll down onto the floor.

Lengthen the back of the head slightly away from the shoulders dropping the chin down,

Broaden your forehead,

Let the eyelids soften and close your mouth letting the edges of the lips slightly widen and lift up.

If you need to readjust or have a wiggle,

Maybe take a sigh before you settle down completely to try and make sure that you can stay still throughout the practice.

Once you've found your settled position,

Take a moment just to tune into the sounds around your room and space,

Just acknowledging them if you can without getting caught up in what they're about or their background story.

And then perhaps if you can hear any sounds outside of the room that you are in,

Just being aware of where you are in space,

Allowing the mind to relax in this awareness of sound.

And then bring in your attention to your body,

Take a moment to feel its contact points on the earth,

Those heavy parts where they touch the floor like the heels of the feet,

Shoulder blades and the back of the head.

Notice the fabrics touching the skin and their weight on the body,

Connecting you to the earth.

And then notice the air on your skin and maybe an awareness of the air brushing over the top lip it's different temperature as you inhale and exhale.

And then think of a place or time it can be real or imaginary that you feel like you're in a place or time,

It can be real or imaginary that you feel safe in.

Visualize and feel into being in that place right now,

Trying to connect into those feelings of safety.

And just know that this place is available to you at any time throughout the practice,

Should you feel you need it and is somewhere for you to connect into throughout your day if at any point it feels like it would be somewhere to keep you feeling safe and grounded.

And then just think of a place or time that you feel like you're in a place or time,

Feels like it would be somewhere to keep you feeling safe and grounded.

Take a moment to set an intention that you're going to remain aware of my voice throughout this practice of yoga nidra,

Keeping your mind consciously aware regardless of the state that you may drift into and also give yourself some compassion if you do drift off,

For maybe that's just what's going to serve you at this moment in time.

And then if there's an intention you're working with,

Your sankalpa or deepest heartfelt desire,

Take a moment to think of what will fill your heart with the most loving and compassionate goal in life and repeat it yourself in the present tense as though you're living it now three times.

And then release that and we come to the rotation of consciousness around your body,

Taking the attention through the body parts in rapid succession,

You can either use the body parts as a mirror or a mirror as a mirror,

Or you can use the body parts as a mirror,

And then release that and release that into the body parts in rapid succession,

You can either choose to visualize or try and sense feel into the body part as it is named.

We begin inside the mouth,

Just being aware of the sensations inside the mouth,

The tongue,

The inner cheeks,

The teeth,

The whole of the inside of the mouth.

Notice the sensation of the jaw holding the mouth and the sinuses and the right eye socket,

The left eye socket,

The point between the eyebrow center,

The middle of the mind,

The middle of the mind,

The right ear,

Middle of the mind,

The left ear,

Middle of the mind,

Back of the head,

Head,

Crown of the head,

Forehead,

Nose,

Nose,

Point where the lips touch,

The whole of the head,

The whole of the head,

The head,

Neck,

Base of the throat,

Right shoulder,

Right upper arm,

Right lower arm,

Wrist,

Back of hand,

Palm,

Right arm,

Right armpit,

Right side,

Right hip,

Right thigh,

Right lower leg,

Right ankle,

Right top of foot,

Right sole of foot,

Right foot,

Right leg,

The whole right side of the body,

Base of throat,

Left shoulder,

Left upper arm,

Left lower arm,

Left wrist,

Wrist,

Back of hand,

Palm,

Left arm,

Left armpit,

Left side,

Left hip,

Left thigh,

Lower leg,

Ankle,

Top of foot,

Sole of the foot,

Left leg,

Left side body,

The whole left side of the body,

Base of the throat,

Center of the chest,

Navel,

Pubic bone,

Front of the torso,

Front of the body,

Right heel,

Left heel,

Right buttock,

Left buttock,

Right shoulder blade,

Left shoulder blade,

Tailbone,

Base of head,

Back of the body,

The whole back of the body,

The right side of the body,

The left side of the body,

The front of the body,

The back of the body,

The head,

The whole of the body,

The whole of the body.

Bring your awareness to your breath.

Notice it coming in through the nose and down the throat and coming back up and out through the throat and the nose.

Try to deepen your awareness and the breath,

Breathing in through the nose,

Down to the navel and breathing up and out from the navel,

Through the throat and out of the nose.

Follow the breath as it goes in and down from nose to navel and exhales navel out of the throat and nose.

Keep your awareness on the journey of the breath between these points.

Keep your awareness on the journey of the breath between these points.

Releasing the focus on the breath,

Become aware of the sensation of the body on the floor,

The weight of the contact points touching the earth and the heaviness of each point in contact with the earth.

Feel the heaviness of a physical shape,

The dense weightiness of the body where it touches the earth.

Be aware of this sensation of weight and contact,

The heaviness of physical form.

And then notice the lighter points where the air can travel under,

The weightless parts of the body suspended in space,

Lighter than air.

Notice the lightness where they suspend in the space,

So light and lifted from the earth.

And lifted from the earth.

Then come back to the heaviness of the body where it touches the earth,

Being aware of the contact points,

How gravity makes there be a sensation of weight.

Be aware of the physical sensation of weight on the floor.

And then move your awareness back to those spaces,

Feeling the lightness,

Where the air can slip under the body,

Lighter than air,

Defying gravity.

And then think of a time when you were unwell,

Maybe through illness or an injury,

Where your body didn't feel its best.

And recreate some of those feelings of feeling a degree of dis-ease and comfort in your body.

Feel those feelings of discomfort and dis-ease in the body.

Just be aware of the feelings and the emotions,

Sensations and emotions of dis-ease in the body.

And then release those feelings.

Remember a time when you felt vital and healthy and vibrant,

And you felt a sense of relief.

And then release those feelings of dis-ease in the body.

And then release those feelings.

Remember a time when you felt vital and healthy and vibrant.

Recreate the physical sensations and feelings in your body,

Feeling vital,

Vibrant and healthy in your body.

Experience them fully,

Living them in this moment.

Vital,

Vibrant and healthy.

And then release all sensations.

And bring some awareness to the point between the eyebrow centre.

Notice the darkness between the eyebrow centre and as though dusk has just settled.

Before you is a night's sky.

Notice the skyscape around your body.

Feel your feet standing firm on the top of a mountain.

Be aware of that weight and solidity of the body connecting to the earth beneath you.

This large,

Expansive,

Strong mountain beneath you.

Standing high and tall,

Notice a temple on the top of the mountain with you.

And what impression it has on you.

And what impression it creates within you.

And as you witness it,

A bell sounds from the temple.

Oooo BHAWN BHAWN BHAWN Aum stood before you as a beautiful woman holding a red rose her hand gestures the rose towards you and you take it hold it close to your chest and she beckons you to walk towards the temple as you near the temple you notice to the side a long wall with a long body of water next to the wall she turns to you and gestures to go over to the wall and water in front of the wall kneel down and look in awe at the scale of the wall in front of you what appears so plain and yet each stone is unique with its own perfection and imperfection observe and notice the wholeness of the wall yet its individual components unique and yet the same observe a scale so expansive and infinite in front of you as you kneel before the wall and bow your head in reverence to its scale and size then turn your body and walk into the body of water feel the water come up around your feet and ankles lower legs and thighs it covers the hips and the waist and up to your shoulders hold the rose out above your head continue to walk into the water allowing it to cover the head and feel the body suspended weightless in the water surrender your body to the water allowing it to naturally rise and float to the top lying on your back looking up at the stars above you feel the support of the water holding you weightless beneath you and then feel soft rose petals falling from the sky like raindrops their silk skin caressing your skin as you float atop the water as the water fills with the petals their scent and aroma fill your nose and head with their soft sweetness feel your body wrapped in this rosy red sweet blanket and find your body nestled in some wreaths wrapped in this cosy blanket safe and secure rest and know that there is nowhere to go the woman's arms pull the reeds apart she scoops you into her arms and holds you like a baby feel that gentle loving embrace and feel the warm love holding you close and when you open your eyes see your face looking back holding you as you look into your own eyes the eyes that hold you through this life repeat your sankalpa three times with those same words and true feeling that you did at the beginning of your practice become aware of the breath underneath the nose feeling the inhale of the cold breath the exhale of the warm breath across the top lip let that breath travel down through your body spreading sensation through to the fingers and toes as the sensation spreads maybe begin to move a little bit bringing some physical awareness and awakening back into the body make those movements a little bigger until you're ready to move and feel the warm love make those movements a little bigger until you're ready to stretch or curl up and give yourself a hug when you're ready and in your own time rolling over to one side in that fetal shape and when you bring yourself to seated take your time to may acquaint yourself with your surroundings before you continue with your day have a wonderful day

Reviews

Another spectacular nidra practice. Thanks so very much.

🌹thank you for the relaxing visualizations 🙏🕊🧘‍♀️👐🕍💛☀️Lovely!

Beautiful

Thank you for this wonderful nidra🙏🏻

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What a wonderful way to start the day. Thank you!

Fantastic!

Beautiful nidra. Thank you 🙏

Loved it. Beauty and peace. 🙏 Thank you so much.

Wow, thank you so much for this precious gift today.

The experience of floating among the red rose petals actually matches an image that I recently cut from a magazine because that picture represented a desired sensation of beauty and safety for me - and it found me already!

I really appreciate you guiding me towards this experience, having created this meditation for us all to share. I am sending lots of appreciation and happiness in your direction.

Thank you.

👏. You are the bomb.

Thankyou Nids. Another great nidra, calm and measured. Loving the visualisation in the second part. Great way to start my morning.

Exceptional...thank you.🙌🏼

A lovely journey.
Thank you.