True Refuge (With Intro)

Take refuge from all the challenges of life and rest in the sanctuary of simply being. This time of respite will leave you feeling soothed and calm and will help you drift into a deep and peaceful sleep. Recorded live on the 15th of October 2020. It's a longer version with an intro.

Transcript

I hope that for you these sessions are a space to really give yourself a break from that collective energy field and also from all of the challenges that you may be facing in your personal life I hope that these sessions are a space where you can ground,

Where we can let everything that we've taken on unpack and where there can be a digestion of all the stuff that gets accumulated So guys,

Let's get really cosy,

Let's get really comfy,

So making any final adjustments that you need to now either to your body or to your nest so that you can make a loving commitment to the stillness that lies beneath all of those challenges and all of the energy that is in the collective field making a commitment to that stillness,

It's a resource,

This is a resource that we have and really Yoga Nidra is just a reminder that within each and every one of us there is a refuge,

A refuge of your own being and Yoga Nidra invites you to drop into that sanctuary,

That refuge where we meet as one and as that dropping begins to happen I can feel you all coming right here into that space that we share and I invite you to rest as that and to stay and expect your mind to wander or expect to checking out at points because that's just habit but I will keep reminding you of this shared commitment and intention that we're bringing to really give ourselves a break so guys let's take a really deep releasing breath together to mark the transition that we're making now so inhaling really low right down into your belly,

Hunching and squeezing your shoulders right up to your ears and then let your body go and in your own time,

Yeah,

As the energies of your mind body system begin to settle down naturally let's take a few more of these really slow,

Really low releasing breaths and we'll spend a bit of time focusing on the breath because the breath is a doorway into that refuge,

Into that sanctuary and I'm inviting you now to slow your breath right down and to really take your time to give yourself all the time and space that you need to let the energies of your system come to rest in their own time so we're not forcing anything to happen but just being here is enough and just for now stay with the very simple feeling of your breath without pushing or grasping but just let your body breathe,

Let your breath be free and check that it's going really low,

It doesn't have to be a really big breath but it's more important that it goes really low because that will let your nervous system know that it's safe to just let it all go the whole lot,

The whole story of your life dropping away just for now and all of the stories of the world falling away and if they come back just let them drop again how would it be just to be here?

It requires a willingness to feel whatever's here just beneath the layer of story,

Just beneath the layer of story is the realm of feeling and sensation and it may not be comfortable there but how would it be to meet whatever's there with a loving,

Kind,

Welcome to let whatever's being held unpack and be digested in that healing balm,

It is completely effortless just for now,

Feeling the movement of your breath as body breathes and feeling the invitation that every exhalation offers to drop into the sanctuary of just being that is right here,

You don't need to work for it,

You don't need to find it,

It just feels like a sinking back hand everything over just for now can you feel the movement of your breath in the inner passageways of your nostrils as body breathes and any time that you are distracted just come right back,

Right here body,

Breathing,

Moment by moment by moment just being wide open to this whole moment,

Fully embodied the willingness to feel the life that is pulsating through you right now,

Life happening right now in this moment and a willingness to meet it all directly feel this whole body and all the energies that are coursing through this body feel the ground or the bed beneath you and let the weight of your body pour like liquid into that support not one thought is needed right now,

But just let thought be free not trying to control it and not getting involved feel where your head meets the pillow,

Just the sensation,

Head pouring into that support that support rising up to meet that sensation feel the space inside the mouth and let that feeling come to you the space inside the mouth,

The natural taste the tongue,

Root of the tongue softening the hinges of the jaw loosening,

Just the sensation the time,

The immediate feeling inside of the mouth the inner walls of the mouth,

The throat releasing and letting go,

Unpacking this is an undoing,

There is nothing to do a softening of the whole face the skin releasing its weight the eyes softening right back temples eyebrows see if you can stay right here,

Right now comfortable or uncomfortable meeting the raw energies,

The sensations with loving kindness forehead smooth the sensation behind eyes softening noticing the spaciousness of that which is noticing you,

Present and aware,

As body drops into the sweetest,

Deepest rest and sense the weight of brain give the sensation time,

Brain let it come to you,

Weight of the brain brain resting in the warm fluid that surrounds it,

As you give up trying to make sense of anything trying to figure anything out not needed now no story to maintain base of the skull back of the neck the whole right arm let the sensation right arm come to you back of right arm right hand back of right hand without referring to a memory but the current sensation give it time palm of right hand let it come to you and give it complete freedom to feel however it does,

Right palm alive with sensation thumb second finger third fourth little finger wrist forearm elbow upper arm shoulder armpit right side of back the places where right side of back meet the surface supporting it right side of chest waist hip thigh knee neck of knee shin calf ankle heel full of right foot big toe second third fourth little toe whole right side of body softening even more all all just being you are wide awake present aware even as body sleeps and now welcoming the experience left arm left arm back of left arm left hand back of left hand give the sensations time left palm without referring to the image but the actual feeling left palm alive with sensation thumb second finger third fourth little finger wrist forearm elbow upper arm shoulder armpit left side of back the parts of the back that meet the surface supporting it left side of chest waist hip thigh knee back of knee shin calf heel sole of left foot big toe second third fourth little toe the whole left side of body softening even more the whole body bathing in a warm bath of presence whole body suspended in the openness of an unconditional love where it's safe,

Really safe to unpack all that's been contained safe to really be here for whatever wants to be met fully embodied whilst resting as an undefended being no agenda no directing,

Just being so dear friends let's drop into the silence together now and be nourished there.

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Reviews

Thanks so much for sharing this practice. It really helped me to have a peaceful easy transition from a hectic day
Namaste 🙏 ❤️👍

Lovely relaxing voice and beautifully soothing music.

Thank you for your wisdom and guidance as I journey through the layers in search of my true authenticity held deep within. The stillness of this meditation is a true gift for self inquiry. May your moments unfold with peace and happiness. Namaste 🙏-Dave

Very relaxing, went right to sleep.

Thank you. I very much enjoyed listening to this session. I'm looking forward to exploring more of your work. Be well

So soothing and beautiful- thank you for the gifts you offer. Many blessings. 🙏