Sink your back into the surface beneath you.
Take a slightly deeper breath and with your out breath sink a little more.
Feel the surface rise up to meet you.
Feel the points of contact with the surface.
At your heels,
Calves,
Backs of thighs,
Lower back,
Middle back,
Upper back and shoulders,
Neck and back of head.
Feel the full weight of your head on your pillow.
Feel your spine from the base of your head to tailbone.
Feel the space your bones and muscles occupy.
Feel your body's outermost edges.
Be aware of the space around your body.
How it expands into deep space.
Listen for any small sounds in the space.
The susurrus of silence underneath all sounds.
Acknowledge the sacred earth somewhere beneath you.
Move inside your inner body.
Rest in this space of beingness.
Drop into your heart center.
Breathe with the deeply peaceful presence of your heart.
If you have a sankalpa or heartfelt intention,
Feel it blossom out of your heart like a rare flower in a quiet corner of a garden at night.
Say it silently to yourself three times or just continue to rest in the sanctuary of your heart.
Anamaya Kosha,
Rotation of consciousness.
Move your attention smoothly from point to point around your body and breathe freely throughout.
The crown of your head.
Point between your two eyebrows.
Right eyebrow.
Left eyebrow.
Forehead.
Right eye and eye socket.
Left eye and eye socket.
Bridge of nose.
Inside the nose.
Right cheekbone.
Hole of right ear.
Deep inside right inner ear.
Left cheekbone.
Hole of left ear.
Deep inside left inner ear.
Top lip.
Bottom lip.
Space between lips.
Inside of mouth.
Tongue lying on the bottom of the mouth.
Root of tongue.
Back of throat.
Chin.
Tip of chin.
Hollow of throat.
Right shoulder joint.
Right elbow joint.
Inside right wrist.
Back of hand.
Palm of right hand.
Right thumb.
Index finger.
Middle finger.
Fourth finger.
Little finger.
Back of left hand.
Palm of left hand.
Left thumb.
Index finger.
Middle finger.
Fourth finger.
Left small finger.
Inside left wrist.
Left elbow joint.
Left shoulder joint.
Hollow of throat.
Rest deep inside the hollow of your throat.
Upper chest.
Heart center.
Whole body.
Whole breastbone,
Strong and protective.
Right ribcage.
Left ribcage.
Stomach.
Surface of stomach.
Right waist.
Left waist.
Abdomen.
Deep inside the pelvis.
Right hip.
Top of right thigh.
Right knee joint.
Deep inside the right knee joint.
Smoothly down the right shin to the top of the right foot.
Spaces between right toes.
All the right toes together.
Left hip.
Top of left thigh.
Left knee joint.
Deep inside the left knee joint.
Smoothly down the left shin to the top of the left foot.
Spaces between left toes.
All the left toes together.
Right foot and right leg,
Released and warm.
Left foot and left leg,
Released and warm.
Base of back,
Released and warm.
Right hand and right arm,
Released and warm.
Left hand and left arm,
Released and warm.
Right side of the body,
Heavy and warm.
Left side of the body,
Heavy and warm.
Both sides of the body together.
Both sides of the body together.
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Both sides of the body together.
Imagine a sense of lightness along your body.
Feel this lightness in your face,
On top of your hands and arms.
Feel lightness on top of your feet and front of your legs.
Spread lightness along the surface of the front of your whole body.
Now experience the heaviness and darkness of your back body and lightness of your front body together.
Heaviness and darkness of the back body and lightness of the front body together.
Pranamaya Kosha.
Become aware of the presence of your breath.
Watch from deep inside yourself the in and out of your breathing.
Enjoy feeling quiet inside your breath.
Notice your breath arising from deep inside you.
Feel the rise and fall of your body as you breathe from deep inside you.
Vijnanamaya Kosha.
Now bring your attention to your closed eyelids.
Imagine a screen here.
See a night sky,
Starless and inky black,
Spreading out in every direction.
Feel the shape of your body begin to expand into this vast darkness.
Now see a single bright star above a horizon.
The North Star,
A guiding light of pilgrims and sea voyagers.
Feel your inner self as the darkness and the North Star as a point of light between your two eyebrows.
Let the starlight touch your pineal gland deep inside your midbrain.
Let it fill the inside of your head with subtle interior light.
See the fabric of the darkness itself begin to shine.
Move down into your throat chakra at the front of your throat.
Feel it open up into a vast cavernous cave.
Bears have clambered up the mountainside to hibernate here for thousands of years.
As your eyes get used to the darkness,
Start to walk further into the cave.
You round a corner and see there is a light coming from an opening in the rocky roof above you.
It is a bright full moon shining in.
You can now see images on the cave walls all around you.
Outlines of hands.
Red downward pointing triangles.
Bisons.
Two deer licking each other.
A woman at the top of what looks like a ladder collecting honey.
She is surrounded by stylized bees.
Move down into your heart center.
Find yourself in a round temple.
See yourself lighting a huge candle on a stone altar.
Turn around and see behind you a fire pit in the center.
Flames dancing.
Big shadows on the round walls.
A circle of ancient leathery faces engraved with deep lines.
They are smiling,
Deeply kind.
They are your ancestors.
Your life and happiness is of great interest to them.
Sitting in between them are your family.
And also your chosen family and soul friends.
Your beloved animal kin are here.
Those who live with you or are in the wild.
Take everyone in.
Feel their love radiating towards you.
See there is a space left for you in the circle.
Walk towards it.
Feel the warmth of the fire on your face.
And warmth in your heart.
As you sit down,
A pottery cup engraved with spirals is placed into your hands.
Drink from it.
Pure amber nectar.
Viscous and warm.
And feel blessed.
Take this warmth and love down to your solar plexus.
Feel a renewed sense of purpose here.
Know that you can choose to be a warm light of goodness.
To illuminate the darkness,
Whatever the darkness is.
Move your attention down into your pelvis and the sacred waters of your sacral chakra.
See a vast undulating ocean.
Feel yourself sinking into the ocean's watery depths and darkness.
See how yourself think deeper and deeper until you reach the seabed.
See small lights coming towards you.
Deep-sea dragonfish and snailfish.
Deep-sea dragonfish and snailfish.
The tiny bioluminescent creatures who live down here in the darkest place on earth.
Who produce their own light and live by it.
Move into your base chakra at the base of your spine.
Your ancient tailbone.
Feel your connection to the dark fertile earth.
See a seed deep inside the earth.
Waiting,
Gestating with everything you will become.
Revisit your sankalpa or feel it vibrating gently and wordlessly inside your seed.
Anandamaya Kosha.
Move deeply into the space of timeless being.
Feel how still your body is.
How deeply you are inside yourself.
Your inner energy field unified.
Sink deeper and deeper inwards.
Very gently with your eyes still closed.
Take a few moments to feel the room.
Imagine what is in here.
Come back to the surface and to your physical body.
As you begin to slowly connect to waking life.
Gently move your fingers and toes and stretch a little if that's what you feel you need.
Let your intuition guide you.
Remain on your back or roll onto your side.
The Shogunidra is now complete.
