Lakshmi Yoga Nidra

This loving guided Yoga Nidra works with the energy of Lakshmi, Goddess of auspiciousness and abundance, to invoke from within a greater sense of love, kindness, beauty, and abundance. Great to help you fall asleep or for a deep relaxation and opening at any time of day.

Transcript

Welcome to this Lakshmi guided yoga nidra session.

Prepare by making yourself comfortable lying down on your back.

Take your time to arrange yourself so that you can be completely comfortable and still throughout the practice.

Make yourself warm and cozy.

Adjusting your position,

Your clothes,

Your blankets as needed to really maximize your comfort level.

Making any final adjustments.

Pausing the recording if you need to.

So that you can find stillness.

One of the commitments that we make before a yoga nidra practice is to stay completely still throughout the practice.

Even if you become uncomfortable,

Something itches or whatever it is,

Make the commitment to yourself that you will stay still in your body.

Even if the other commitment we make in yoga nidra is to not fall asleep.

Of course sometimes you might choose to do a yoga nidra to help you fall asleep and that's a different story.

So it really depends on your purposes.

If you want to remain awake for the whole practice,

Make that commitment to yourself now.

I will not sleep and I will not move.

Begin to deepen your inhales and lengthen your exhales.

Realizing that you are safe to really rest and let go now.

This is your time to come back to you,

To honor yourself.

Perhaps even to heal yourself.

Yoga nidra is a deep form of self-care.

Feeling all the little muscles of the face start to soften.

The jaw completely lets go.

Allow the face to be like that of a sleeping baby.

Not a care in the world.

As you relax the face and the whole body,

Take a moment to energetically call back all your power,

Your energy back to yourself from the day.

Small activities,

Conversations,

Entanglements,

Problems,

Planning,

Questions,

It all comes back to you here now.

Redirecting all that energy back to this moment,

This breath.

Become aware of your entire physical body lying on the floor.

Noticing as many sensations at once as possible throughout the whole body on the level of the skin and also much deeper.

Perhaps you feel your heartbeat.

Of course you feel your breath moving in your body.

Becoming aware of any aches,

Tingles,

Pulsations.

Maybe you even notice on a deeper level than the physical.

Perhaps some subtle energetic movement.

Imagine that you are lying down in the most glorious garden.

Your own private secret garden.

It's vast.

So full of life.

This fertile,

Resplendent garden of Lakshmi.

Visualize it with as much detail as you can,

Really making it your own.

What kind of flowers are there in this garden of yours?

What does it smell like?

What does the air feel like on your skin in this garden?

You're just lying down in the middle of it and you see it all around you,

Holding you in love.

Imagine yourself surrounded by this beauty and permeated by it as well.

You are a part of the garden.

Become aware of all parts of you that are in contact with the earth.

And everywhere that your body touches the earth below,

Imagine yourself sending down roots from those places deep into the earth of your garden.

Feeling yourself quite literally grounded deeply.

The back half of you merged with the earth.

And the front of you open to the vastness of the loving sky.

Vast blue sky.

Preparing now for the rotation of consciousness.

As I call out different parts of your body,

Bring your awareness to that part.

And then when I call out the next part of your body,

Move your awareness quickly and cleanly onto that next part.

Not lagging behind and not jumping ahead.

Feel your consciousness,

Your awareness in each part of your body as I name it.

Become aware of your right hand thumb.

Pointer finger.

Middle finger.

Ring finger.

And little finger.

On your right hand,

Feeling the tip of each finger.

And feel your fingertips full of abundance.

Almost as if they could drip with Lakshmi's gold coins.

Become aware of the back of the right hand.

And the palm of the right hand.

Feel your whole right hand full of Lakshmi's generosity.

Bring your awareness to the right side wrist.

Right lower arm.

Right elbow.

Inside of the elbow.

Right upper arm.

Right shoulder.

Right armpit.

Bring your awareness now to your left hand thumb.

Pointer finger.

Middle finger.

Ring finger connected to your heart.

Pinky finger.

Feeling the fingertips on the left hand.

Dripping with Lakshmi's abundance.

Become aware of the back of the left hand.

The palm of the left hand.

Your entire left hand full to overflowing with Lakshmi's generosity.

Left side wrist.

Lower left arm.

Left elbow.

Inside of the elbow.

Left side upper arm.

Left side shoulder.

Left armpit.

Bring your awareness to your right big toe.

Right side second toe.

Third toe.

Fourth toe.

And right side pinky toe.

The top of the right foot.

The sole of the right foot.

Right heel.

The entire right foot.

Right ankle.

Lower right leg.

Right side knee.

The back of the knee.

Right side thigh.

Become aware of your entire right leg.

Full of Lakshmi's grace that you walk with,

That you walk as.

Bring your awareness now to your left big toe.

Left second toe.

Third toe.

Fourth toe.

And pinky toe.

The top of the left foot.

The sole of the left foot.

Left heel.

The entire left foot.

Bring your awareness to your lower left leg.

Left side knee.

Back of the knee.

Left thigh.

And your entire left leg.

Full of Lakshmi's grace.

Become aware of both of your legs together.

These legs that you walk with in grace,

As grace.

Become aware of both of your arms together.

These arms that help you create beauty and help you give and receive the embrace of the world.

Become aware of your entire pelvic area.

The pelvic bowl.

The pelvic floor.

The bone structure of the pelvis itself.

Become aware of your lower belly.

Your upper belly.

The whole belly full of sweetness and care.

Become aware of your right side buttocks.

Left side buttocks.

The sacrum.

Your lower back.

Your mid back.

And your upper back.

Become aware of your whole back.

Become aware of your entire head.

The back of the head.

Your neck.

Become aware of your whole face full of sweetness and ease.

Become aware of your right eye and your left eye.

Both eyes together.

And feel that from now on these eyes will see only beauty.

They will see everything they saw before but as beauty no matter what it is.

Becoming aware of your right side nostril.

Left side nostril.

Both nostrils together.

Your whole nose.

And feel that from now on you will smell only beauty.

Whatever it is your sense of smell encounters you will perceive it as beautiful,

Wonderful.

Become aware of your upper lip.

Your lower lip.

Become aware of your whole mouth.

Your lips and the inside of your mouth.

Feeling your teeth and your gums and your jaws.

Become aware of the roof of your mouth.

Your tongue.

The throat.

Become aware of the whole inside of your mouth.

Imagine and maybe know that from now on whatever you taste you will experience it as beauty.

Become aware of your right ear.

Your left ear.

Both ears together.

And know that from now on whatever you hear you will experience it as beautiful.

Become aware of the whole face,

Soft and serene.

The whole head.

Entire neck.

Right arm.

Left arm.

Right leg.

Left leg.

Whole torso.

Become aware of your right side chest.

Left side chest.

The whole chest.

The whole front half of you.

The whole back half of you.

Left foot.

Right foot.

Your whole right side.

Your whole left side.

Become aware of the entire body lying on the floor.

Feel now into your heart center space.

Bring your awareness to your heart center.

The area inside and around the chest.

Feel the quality of the energy there.

You simply bring your awareness to this space.

Feel into the glow of Lakshmi's devotion around your heart.

Realize it as the devotion that has always been you.

Feel into the love there.

The love in your heart.

Allow it now to slowly expand outwards.

To fill up eventually your entire body.

Feeling this love,

This devotion expand and fill you so full that your pores start to overflow and ooze with love,

With abundance,

With good fortune,

With beauty,

With loving kindness.

Take a moment now to see your body as if from above.

Gazing at your body,

Noticing the clothes you're wearing,

Your position.

Gazing at your body with eyes full of love.

This body that has always been there with you.

Of course it's constantly changing as you've grown older but it has never left you.

This body that loves you no matter what,

Just like the giving tree.

See your body as a temple that is always and already perfect,

Just as it is right now.

Now come back inside the body.

This temple of yours full of love and grace and delightful generosity in the way that you move through the world.

Bringing your awareness back to the here and now.

You have been practicing yoga nidra.

Remember to deepen your breath,

Feeling your Lakshmi energy completely activated.

Your new eyes and ears,

Nose and mouth,

Your whole body full of love.

Take a moment here to perhaps set an intention for the rest of your day or the night ahead.

As you slowly start to reanimate the body,

Consider rubbing your hands over your whole body,

Your hands of love.

Realize the beauty of your own body,

The kindness that you are.

Take your time.

Enjoy yourself.

You are Lakshmi.

Om.