Counting Elephants For Sleep

This sleep meditation guides you into deep relaxation and eventually sleep through body relaxation and counting. Before you fall asleep, you are invited to recall a moment from your day that was successful, a moment you felt grateful for, and a moment of joy. You are then guided through a yoga nidra-inspired body scan to relax your mind and body, and a visualisation of watching a herd of elephants slowly walk past you, counting the elephants to ease you into sleep.

The counting continues up to 500, and you are then left to continue counting by yourself until you fall asleep.

Music by Relaxing Time
Image by Princely

Reviews

Wow! 500 elephants. I fell asleep before the count began and woke up again in the 60s. I like the way the music fades out verrry gradually over the last five minutes. 2/11/26