Yoga Nidra To Connect With Your Highest Self

This yoga nidra practice guides you to a deep space of awareness of your present self and your most expanded highest self. The two come together for an expansive, healing experience that provides wisdom for your path forward.

Transcript

My name is Julian Elizabeth and this is a deep space meditation experience.

I invite you to make yourself comfortable for the duration of our practice together.

Lie yourself down supported with pillows,

Blanket,

Covering for your eyes and anything that you may need to find a greater sense of ease within your body,

Within your heart.

This practice is one to support you in finding a deep state of rest and in that deep state of rest,

A place within your consciousness to open up to energies that are far more deep and vast than the seeing eye.

And so in preparation for this depth and for this journey,

We'll invite you to take a quick scan of your body,

Just observing any areas that feel tense or tight,

Any pockets of energy within your body that feel in flow or held with ease and just taking a general surveying scan to notice yourself lying where you are.

From the outer shell of your body now,

Bring your awareness to your breath.

Begin to witness how the breath moves from outside of your being in,

Through and out.

This flow of breath being a conduit in your connection to the outside world and a tool in your exploration of the inside world.

And as you use your breath to survey your inside world,

Bring attention to the space of your mind and just notice as if you were watching weather,

The general atmosphere of your mental body.

Now any thoughts that are lingering,

Any plans,

Any to-do lists,

Anything from before this practice,

Anything from out of this practice,

May it dissolve into a space of settled spaciousness.

Now bring your attention down to your throat and clear your throat,

Swallow and lick your lips.

Allow energy to flow through the throat,

Clearing away any blocks to your ability to receive and communicate with your expanded highest potential.

And now bring attention to the space of your heart and allow the breath now to move in and out through the heart,

Just pretending that every breath began here and every breath returns here.

And as you allow your attention to wrap around the space of your heart,

Just take note of any lingering emotions,

Any energy in motion throughout your body.

Even as if you were watching waves on an infinite ocean,

Notice the quality and size and pace of your emotional waves.

Then settle yourself on the lapping shore of your heart,

Witnessing the waves,

Witnessing the waves without being caught in them,

Just observing.

Now journey with your attention down to the space of your stomach and see if you can settle yourself in the bottom curve of your stomach and just allowing breath to drop in to this deep space.

This breath drops into this deep space,

Just allowing for the potency of digestion to arrive.

We may know that we digest food and what we drink.

However,

Here in this space,

We digest far more all the information that we take in,

The experiences,

The conversations,

The energy comes through here,

Passes through here.

And so as we rest here in this digestive space,

We open to digest the full experience and the full potential in this time together.

And so now in the space of the stomach,

Draw a connection right back up to the space of your heart.

And from your heart,

Draw a connection straight up to the space of your throat.

From the space of your throat,

Draw a connection straight up to the space of your mind,

Your brain,

All the way up to the upper dome of your crown.

And here in this connective place,

Belly,

Heart,

Throat,

Mind,

And crown,

Arrive at an intention for this meditation,

The Sencalpa,

A deep avow to yourself,

Perhaps a seed that you're planting.

And should you be new to this word Sencalpa or uncertain of an intention,

Invite the simple phrase,

I am my highest self.

Allow yourself to breathe in that intention,

I am my highest self.

Building within the capacity of your nervous system,

Of your structure,

The vision,

The power,

Potency of your highest self.

And it's here we begin the journey of yoga and Indra together.

Imagine your body draped in the most luxurious golden silk.

This fabric seems endless,

Draping all parts of your body and wrapping around you,

Creating the most opulent,

Serene,

Incredible cocoon.

This golden silk drapes along your curves,

It forms to fit into your contours and it holds you in opulence.

As you luxuriate within the folds of this silk fabric,

It begins to mold on your body.

And as it does,

It takes on an luminescent quality to it.

As you look upon your body,

Wrapped in this silk essence,

A very subtle glow begins to arise upon the point where your skin and this fabric come together.

In laying here,

You begin to drop into a state of awareness that allows you to observe the exact way that this silk fabric and its sweet feel touches upon your skin.

Time almost slows down as you notice the way that it touches upon your fingers,

Kneeling upon your thumbs and each of the five fingers on each of your hands.

You even notice how it feels upon your fingernails,

The palms and the outer shells of your hands into the knuckles and almost feeling the coolness of this fabric upon the bones of your fingers.

This luxuriating feeling carries up into the wrists and the forearms,

Extending into the upper arms and armpits,

Draping upon the collarbone and shoulder and all the way down each rib on both sides.

The luxuriating luminescent silk grazes upon your belly into the turn and edges of your hips and the curves of your outer thighs and down the outer legs over the knees and lower legs.

Tapping the sensation into your feet,

Your heels and the sole of your feet into each of your toes.

This incredible fabric touches upon the backs of your legs and backs of your thighs and all the way up into the curve of your small back,

Your middle back,

Get up your spine to your upper back.

The cool feeling of sweet silk upon your shoulder blades and into the curve of your neck.

Open up the edge of your sensitive skull to your crown and the edges of this softer fabric braves upon the line of your hair and onto your ears and its luminescent,

Mystical energy pulls into your face and you can feel its potency upon your eyes and your eyebrows,

Down the bridge of your nose and upon your cheeks,

Lips and chin.

The soft silk fabric dances upon your neck and it holds your heart in the beautiful space of softness,

Of luxury,

Of comfort and its smooth quality upon your ribs,

On your belly and all the way down to your pelvis and your pubis,

Down the fronts of your thighs and the fronts of your knees and all the way down your shins and the tops of your feet and your body is wrapped in luxury and the sweet,

Soft luminescent silk from the toes to the legs to the hips and from the hips to the belly,

The chest,

The shoulders and down the arms to the fingertips and it wraps through your neck and around your head and it gently covers your face.

This infinite silk holds you like a cocoon in grace and ease and beckons you to relax and rest in its soft embrace.

And you notice your whole body here,

Whole body in the easeful comfort and grace.

Feel your whole body wrapped in this luminous,

Luxurious silk.

In its soft embrace,

It's almost as if the barrier of outer world and inner world dissolves in its texture and you yourself are that silk.

The silky outer contours of your body take on this bioluminescent quality.

Gold silk dissolves into your outer skin shell and you yourself glow.

You glow with the opulence of luxury,

With the purity of woven silk.

Notice yourself breathe with great ease,

No force,

No control,

No holding,

Just smooth breath in and out.

Your only task is to observe it,

To ride it,

To welcome its flow.

Your only objective to fall madly in love with this beautiful breath,

With its eternal life and continuous continuum.

Another one breath goes,

Another begins,

And another transitions,

The ceaseless flow of breath.

And as you track your breath,

As you follow its flow,

You notice yourself inflow.

Ripples within your being,

Smooth into waves,

Allowing tension to rise to the surface to be observed now,

Noticing tension.

And then the ripples and waves of silky breath,

Tension subsides into release.

Notice yourself release.

And cycle by cycle,

This continuous tension arises to the surface to be noticed.

And the silky flow of breath meets it,

Guides it to release,

And you notice yourself again in release.

And any hardness that exists comes out.

The residual hardness to the surface to be noticed arises and you notice your hardness.

And silky breath meets that hardness.

Hardness arrives.

Wrapped in the sweet embrace of this silky fabric and the flow of your sweet breath,

Any areas of your spirit that have been closed,

Any hardness in the heart,

Tension in the mind is given now full permission to soften,

To release,

To open,

To open into the divine potential only just revealed in this moment.

The bioluminescent sheen upon your being begins to buzz.

Its aura expands outward,

Casting a glow seven feet beyond the perceived outer layer of your physical body.

Everything surrounding you in the room that you're in is cast a glow.

And anything that doesn't belong in your space,

Anything that doesn't represent your most expanded highest luxuriated state is revealed.

It becomes known what no longer belongs and any energies that no longer align with your most high expanded self are immediately cleared.

And a ring of protection surrounds you that prevents any incongruent energy to your destined aligned path.

They're no longer welcome here,

They're no longer needed,

And they're released with grace.

The doorway to the space that you're in appears now with a very clear gold outline.

A gold line is drawn upon the four corners of the doorway that is most close to where you lie.

Then you witness yourself in your bioluminescent form rising from your physical body.

This spiritual version of you,

Your Holy Spirit,

Means to lift away from your physical body and it hovers just above you.

This version of you hovers looking down upon your body bestowing upon you with its gaze.

A deep and profound sense of appreciation and gratitude for the physical strength and capabilities of your physical form.

It reminds you that you are safe here,

That it will return to you,

And that it has something to show you now.

With your full embodied permission,

You commit to follow this spiritual version of you,

Your Holy Spirit,

On its journey to revealing.

Moving your physical body safely and wholly home here,

You and your mind and your heart journey with this spirit through the golden doorway.

And as this bioluminescent soul begins to journey through the doorway and you follow,

You step into a world that has in and of itself a buzzing quality,

In and of itself feels a glow and brings this really deep inner smile to the space of your heart just stepping into it.

Just on the other side of the doorway,

This soul cell meets a new physical form.

This version of you looks exactly like you.

From all outer views,

It is you.

And when your spirit steps into this physical form,

This version of you comes alive.

This version of you comes alive,

Animated.

Your heart and your mind become one with this version,

This you.

And as you look out into the world through this embodiment,

You feel a confidence,

A power unlike any you felt before.

You observe how the collarbones upon your chest widen to hold your open heart.

You notice the strength of your shoulders to lift your powerful lungs.

You feel into this expanded open belly ready to digest the power of the world.

And you feel the feet of this being grounded and steady,

Connected without a doubt to this moment on earth.

And here you stand in your full expanded luxurious opulent self.

You notice the power you feel coursing through your veins and the strength you feel in your bones.

You commit your mind to noticing every moment of this embodiment,

To committing to memory this strength,

This power,

This confidence,

This knowing.

This is home.

This is who I am.

This is who I am.

Every single cell feels it.

Every single cell knows it.

Your hand slides upon your heart,

The other atop it,

And a smile arises from your heart through your throat and upon your lips.

I am my highest self.

I am my most expanded self.

I am home.

In this moment you know anything and everything is available to you,

That leaning into every moment with yes will bring you all that's meant for you.

And as you lift your gaze and you look out at the world,

You see it all.

You see everything that you've dreamed of right there in front of you in the field of infinite possibilities.

And you memorize how you walk towards those desires.

What do you notice is there?

What objects do your eyes land on that fulfill your highest,

Most excited,

Most steady self?

What plant life do you see?

Flowers?

Trees?

Do you see any animals?

Pets?

Wild animals?

And how about others?

Who is there?

A great love?

A family?

A community?

A civilization?

Gather all of the compassionate humans here to support you,

To honor you,

To be with you.

And everything living,

Everything present is cheering for you.

It's celebrating you.

You did it.

You're here.

This is who you are.

You take a scan of your environment again,

You see what you see.

Your eyes land on objects and animals and plants and people.

And there's one thing that sticks out most in your mind.

This thing is your parting glance of this world you're creating.

This thing is your beacon,

Your memory.

Should you ever become far from this knowing,

This thing will arrive and remind you.

What are your eyes looking at?

Look through your eyes.

Where?

What do you see?

You allow your seeing eyes to soften and you connect with that thing inside of your heart.

Lying once again,

One hand on your heart,

Another on top of it.

And that inner smile that carries up your throat into your lips.

I've got you.

I remember.

I am my highest self.

I am my most expanded self.

You turn towards the golden doorway that brought you into this incredible world.

Behind you stands everything,

Every plant,

Every animal,

Every being fully supporting you.

As you walk through that bioluminescent doorway,

You return to your resting space and you lie down in your luxurious,

Royal resting place.

Merge with ease into the present being that you are.

Any disconnection dissolves and you lie here embodied as your highest,

Most expanded self.

A glow with the knowing that you're home.

It's already here.

And savoring this moment wrapped in luxurious silk,

You take this time to breathe,

To soften and to release.

Your home embodied here.

Practice of yoga nidra is complete.

Add one hand onto your heart and another on top.

Witness the flow of a heart centered breath,

Cultivating the regenerative life force of gratitude.

Allowing a smile to awaken in your heart and lift like a rising cloud into your throat and arrive with grace upon your lips.

Hearing within your mind,

I am my highest self,

Recalling in your heart,

Your reminder,

What you see in the moment you forget your vision.

You forget your expansion.

Here we are.

I remember.

You can allow your breath to get a little bit deeper while remaining sweet and soft.

In the corner corners of your eyes,

Turn to meet that smile on your lips.

However wish you have to awaken from this practice,

Let it be easy.

Let it have grace,

Choosing to remain here in stillness and sweetness until it feels just right.

And eventually in your time,

Roll gently over,

Reconnect to this grounded earth that holds and gives so much.

And press yourself up,

Embodying your opulence,

Your prosperity,

And your power.

Let that embodied soft,

Compassionate power lead you forward into a continuously expanded self.

May you remember who you are.

Ariyam.

You

Reviews

Wow!! That was just wonderful ✨
What a unique yoga nidra. I loved the silk sheet during the nidra and was surprised and delighted by the ending. The whole practice was magical. Thankyou so much 🙌

What a beautiful and transformative meditation. Positive energy without empty affirmations. The body scan was different than a yoga nidra but still so valuable. Adding to my top favorites list and revisiting often.

All and nothing. Form is formless. Is. Am. Boundless.

This was amazing, I will definitely be doing this again! Namaste

Another superb meditation that made me feel much better about myself.

Wonderful. This yoga nidra was unique. I especially loved the reminder gift of my higher self. Mine was a butterfly. 🦋 Thank you!

This is a beautiful Nidra. Love this golden treasure. Wonderfully guided. Delicate music. Thankyou Julien 🙏💖🌻

What a beautiful journey. Thank you so much, it was just what I needed 🤍✨

Thank you. Loved this journey! Truly wonderful practice… Namaste 🙏