Yoga Nidra For Inner Stillness

Allow your inner stillness to emerge from within, and create clarity in your body and mind. This deep rest yoga nidra practice contains relaxing forest sounds and has been designed to cultivate a somatic tone of stillness and ease. If you've enjoyed this meditation, I'd love to hear your experience of the practice, even if it's just one word for how you feel after the practice.

When you're ready to practice next, I'm here, so be sure to follow. Until then, take care.

Transcript

Welcome to this yoga nidra practice for cultivating the inner stillness within this practice is specially formulated to allow your mind and your body to feel still and quiet which can allow you to get more space and rest so whenever you're ready begin to settle in you may wish to bring an eye pillow or extra supports for your back and your knees make your physical body as comfortable as it can be today this will help you rest deeper so it is worth making some small even micro movements and adjustments to get just a bit more comfortable and now begin to close down the eyes or take a soft gaze and notice the sounds in the environment around you tune in to the layers of sound some may be far away some may be close like the sound of my voice just notice what you notice and begin to sense into the rhythm of your body beginning to notice any sensations just bringing light awareness to them and notice where you feel the breath most in your body today it may be your chest or your nostrils just notice as you rest back here and bring your awareness to your mind's eye center notice this vast and open night sky behind your eyes and in this space ask yourself what brought you here today just noticing what comes to mind as you ask yourself what brought you here today this is your sankalpa and your intention for the practice you may wish to use this one i am resting in my unique energy and allowing my nervous system to reset and restore repeat your sankalpa in your mind's eye in a supportive I or I am statement and now release your intention and allow your awareness to drift back into your third eye center and allow yourself to drop any expectations that you have for yourself or your practice today there is nothing you need to do in this moment simply soften any sensation in your mind and allow yourself to rest back bring your awareness to your nose allowing the sensations to soften here notice the flow of air through your right nostril and now notice the flow of air through your left nostril both nostrils together noticing if you can soften the touch of air through your nostrils just imagining here and notice both cheeks both ears softening the jaw releasing any tension softening the tongue center of the throat the pit of the throat absorb your awareness in the heart center the left shoulder palm of your left hand softening with your mind the palm of your left hand second finger fourth finger the navel center softening at the heart center allowing your awareness to absorb in as you rest here noticing the sensations at your heart center your right shoulder the palm of your right hand first finger second finger third finger little finger navel center left of the pelvis left thigh left big toe second toe third toe fourth toe little toe drift your awareness back up to your pelvic center the right of your pelvis your right big toe second toe third toe little toe and now allow your awareness to absorb in to your left side noticing the sensations here on the left side of your body and now allow your awareness to absorb in to the right side of your body the whole right side of your body resting deeper and deeper and now imagine you could rotate your awareness absorbing all the sensations from the front of your body and now the back of the body absorbing all the sensations here at the back of your body and now bring your awareness to the base of your spine feeling into the grounding energy here at the base of your spine and now imagine that you could draw air on your inhale up through the spine to the base of your neck and on your natural inhale imagine you could send the breath back down your spine and out back to the earth inhale with your natural breath up the spine and exhale down out to the earth allowing your exhale to release anything that isn't needed here and now imagine that your awareness could float on the surface of your body just imagining and allowing whatever comes up into your intuition that allows your awareness to float on your body just drifting on the surface and now allow your awareness to absorb deep inside your body imagining you could sense into the deep side of your body infusing your nervous system directly with soothing awareness imagining that you could sense all the intricate nerves carrying messages to and from your brain with ease and lightness as you infuse them with regulating awareness and now bring your awareness back to your natural breath without changing anything just allow your natural breath to come into your awareness here and on the inhale count up to 10 starting at 1 and exhaling 1 and then inhaling 2 exhaling 2 with your natural breath continue breathing up to 10 with your natural breath here if you get to 10 you can start again and now allow your awareness to float back up to your third eye center allowing your awareness to absorb the energy here at your third eye center and just rest back for a moment in this ease that you have created for yourself you may feel into gratitude for yourself for choosing to practice today and allowing yourself to have this experience of deep rest and carving time out to allow your nervous system to rest so that you can show up in your life from your truest and most rested self which is a service to yourself and the world and everyone around you so feel into the gratitude here for yourself and as you inhale you may notice where you begin to feel gratitude in your body it may be an openness sensation or even the absence of sensation that feels spacious just notice if you can feel the experience of gratitude in your body here the sensation of gratitude is nervous system medicine so allow yourself to bask in it here it's okay to indulge and with your awareness still resting on your mind's eye bring back into your awareness your intention or sankalpa for this practice today i am resting into my unique energy allowing my nervous system to reset and restore and now begin to notice and tune in to the sounds around you or my voice and the sounds and with your eyes still closed bring in a sense of the room around you or your environment and take a deep breath in through the nose and exhale with an audible sigh out through your mouth once more inhale through the nose and a deep exhale out through the mouth and you may wish to bring in some small movements maybe place your hands at your heart center and just notice the connection here with your body and begin to flutter your eyes open and adjust back into your waking life the practice is now complete so take your time to come back into the room and whenever you're ready you can move off into your day and whilst you're adjusting back into your waking life i would like to say thank you so much for practicing here with me today i would love to hear how you found this practice so if you wish to share even just one word of how you found the practice my word is peaceful so share with me in the comments below until you're ready to practice again take care

Reviews

Thanks for this practice. I feel reset and ready for the day. 🙏PS: I found part of your words of wisdom cutoff at the end.

Peaceful

Calming

Nice short yoga nidra, thank you. I recognised your voice, then realised you have changed your name 😊

Sweet voice, efficient relaxation with an amazing uncommon rotation or body scan, simply amazing session 🫰🏼🙏🏼❤️