All right,
So it's time for yoga nidra.
And find yourselves here now.
Bring your awareness to your body.
Just feel your body.
As it lies against the map.
Just feel it.
And as I said,
This is the most.
.
.
Grossest level of our being.
That's not gross in the way they use it nowadays in modern language.
That's gross and big and large.
Not subtle.
And it's your body,
And you know it.
But I want you to identify just with that.
And that's difficult because the other koshas are always at play as well,
Generally speaking,
When we're living our lives.
But here we have the opportunity to explore these different sheaths.
So just be aware of your body.
And I'll mention some body parts that you can take your awareness to,
To help with that.
So if you take your awareness to your right hand,
And just feel your hand,
The sensations in your hand.
Feel the sensations in your left hand.
Feel the sensations in your right forearm.
Your left forearm.
Your right upper arm,
Your left upper arm.
Your shoulders.
Your shoulder blades and how they meet the mat,
Feel that sensation of the shoulder blades against the mat.
And the buttocks,
How they respond.
The back of your heels.
The soles of your feet.
Your shins and your knees.
The front of your legs,
The top.
The stomach area,
The heart area.
Throat area.
Your face.
Your ears.
Your eyes.
Your whole body.
Just be aware of the body.
Plying in yoga nidra.
Awareness of the physical,
That's all,
Nothing else.
And the next sheath or layer that we speak of is called the pranamaya kosha.
And the prana maya kosha is your energy center,
Your energy layer.
And it incorporates all of those systems.
Your nervous system,
Your heartbeat,
Anything that keeps you alive is what we would consider to be part of that sheath.
A lot of them we don't think about,
They just work away in the background.
And we believe the prana,
Pranamya,
Prana.
Allows them to function.
The life force energy,
In other words.
And so we use the breath to be in touch with the prana.
The majority of our energy comes from our breath.
Food,
Of course,
Too,
And other things,
Sunlight,
Too.
But the majority of the prana that we consume is from the breath.
So all I want you to do is observe the breath.
Observe that layer of your being.
Pranamir kosho.
Energy center.
Feel the body breathing.
Belly rise and belly fall.
And just like the heart beats,
The breath breathes.
And you can be the witness of that.
You don't have to do anything.
There's nothing to do.
The body will sustain itself.
Just allow the breath to move in and out of the body and be the witness of it.
And the next layer that we speak of,
Or sheaths,
Is called the manomaya kosha.
And the Malamiya Kosha is your mind.
Your analytical mind,
Not the citta.
There's four parts of mind in yoga.
So it's how you got here.
And we can access the mind,
We use imagination in this practice to access the mind.
So simply just feel cold,
Just imagine being cold.
And using the mind to imagine that.
And then we use opposites to swing it over to hop.
Just imagine the body being whole.
And then bring to mind the emotion of sadness.
Feeling sad Not for any reason in particular,
Just the emotion of sadness.
And then happy.
Taking the opposite.
Using the mind to feel happy.
Mano myo kosho.
And the next shita we speak of is called the Vijnanamaya Kosha.
Vijnanamaya Kosha is your wisdom center.
It's your.
.
.
Connection.
It's a deep layer,
It's your intuition.
It's your ability to dream.
It's your ability to manifest those dreams.
Vijnanamaya Kosho,
Subtle.
Human.
Higher level of consciousness.
And we're just going to play with it a little while now.
Just gaze at your third eye.
With your mind.
Closing down the eyes from seeing.
And allowing the third eye to see.
Just stay with that.
Watch what's going on there.
Take yourselves.
To your favorite place.
With your favorite people.
With the favorite type of weather.
Take your place in a blissful place.
And allow yourself to visit blissfulness.
It could be pure love.
Pure sense of connection.
Holding hands with the people you love.
Being in this moment.
And nothing else matters.
Bliss consciousness.
Anananda Mayakosha.
Your essence.
Where you came from.
Slowly start to move the body.
Wiggle the toes and fingers.
Stretch yourselves out.
That feels good for you.
