Yoga Nidra - Peace - For Deep Relaxation

This Yoga Nidra practice guides you into a state of deep rest and inner peace. Yoga Nidra is among the deepest possible states of relaxation while still maintaining full consciousness. Please find a comfortable position lying down where you won't be disturbed to practice

Transcript

So welcome everybody to this yoga nidra.

So first finding your settled,

Comfortable position.

Lying down with covers over you with maybe something underneath your knees.

Letting your feet,

Your ankles fall away to the sides.

Letting your whole back body rest into the welcome of the ground underneath you including the back of your head,

Soft and wide.

And letting your arms be rested at the sides of your body with some space between your arms and the side body.

The palms facing up.

Softness across your forehead melting out to the sides.

The softness and your nose that melts down and away and out to the sides.

The softness through your cheeks that fall and melt away to the sides.

The softness through your chin that melts the two sides of the chin away and down to each side.

The tongue resting in your soft and spacious mouth and gently come to your collarbones and imagining skin and the collarbones soft and melting away to each side.

And slowly bringing your awareness down to your right little finger.

Noticing the tip of your right little finger soft and relaxed.

And then bringing your awareness to the ring finger,

The tip of the ring finger soft and relaxed.

Noticing the space between the little finger and the ring finger.

And coming to the middle finger,

The tip of the middle finger soft and relaxed.

And the space between the ring finger and the middle finger.

And coming to the index finger,

The tip of the right index finger soft and relaxed.

And the space between the middle finger and the index finger.

And then coming to the right thumb and the tip of the right thumb soft and relaxed.

And noticing the space between the index finger and the thumb.

And then bringing your awareness down to the right little toe and the tip of your right little toe soft and relaxed.

And the space between the little toe and the next toe,

The second toe and the tip of the second toe soft and relaxed.

And then the space between the second toe and the third toe.

And then the tip of the third toe soft and relaxed.

And then the space between the third toe and the fourth toe.

And the tip of the fourth toe soft and relaxed.

And then the space between the fourth toe and the fifth toe,

The big toe.

And then the tip of the big toe soft and relaxed.

And the inner arch of the right foot.

Noticing the space.

And coming up through to the inner knee and noticing the space and softness of the inner knee.

And coming up to the inner groin on the right and noticing the whole of the groin on the right side soft and spacious.

And slowly coming up the right side of your waist soft and spacious.

The right side of the chest soft and spacious.

The right side of your neck soft and spacious.

And the right jaw soft and spacious.

Bringing your awareness to the top of your cranium soft and round and spacious.

And then bringing your awareness down to your left little finger.

The left little finger,

Tip of the finger soft and relaxed.

The space between the little finger and the left ring finger.

Noticing the tip of the left ring finger soft and relaxed.

Noticing the space between the ring finger and the middle finger.

And coming to the tip of the middle finger soft and relaxed.

And then noticing the space between the middle finger and the index finger.

Coming to the tip of the index finger soft and relaxed.

And then the space between the index finger and the thumb.

And then coming to the tip of the thumb soft and relaxed.

And then coming down to the left little toe.

The tip of the left little toe soft and relaxed.

Noticing the space between the left little toe and the second toe.

And then noticing the second toe,

The tip of the second toe soft and relaxed.

And then the space between the second toe and the third toe.

And then the tip of the third toe soft and relaxed.

And then noticing the space between the third toe and the fourth toe.

And then the fourth toe,

The tip of the fourth toe soft and relaxed.

And then noticing the space between the fourth toe and the fifth toe,

The big toe.

And then coming to the tip of the left big toe soft and relaxed.

And bringing your awareness to the inner arch of the left foot.

Spacious and soft and up to the inner left knee.

Spacious and soft.

And up to the left groin.

Spacious and soft.

And up through the left side of your waist.

Spacious and soft.

And then the left side of your chest.

The whole left side of your chest.

Soft and spacious.

And up to the left side of your neck.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And coming up to the left side of your chest.

Soft and spacious.

And up to the left side of your neck.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And coming up to the left side of your chest.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious.

And then the left jaw.

Soft and spacious Up to the top of your cranium.

Soft,

Round and spacious.

And then imagining you could bring your awareness above,

Beyond the ceiling of the room that you're in,

Beyond the roof of the building that you're in.

And up and up into wide,

Wide,

Expansive blue sky.

This wide,

Blue sky above.

Wide,

Horizon disappearing,

Horizon wide.

And imagining how that wide,

Blue sky could come down slowly,

All the way down into your mind.

So that your mind becomes a wide,

Blue sky.

Bringing that down into your chest,

Your heart.

Wide,

Blue sky.

And resting either into wide,

Blue sky mind,

Or wide,

Blue sky heart,

You choose this constant awareness beyond mind,

Beyond heart.

Constant awareness.

And imagining clouds coming and passing,

Disappearing.

And constant awareness.

Wide,

Blue sky.

Untouched.

Always.

Constant.

Noticing the clouds disappearing and revealing a constant wide,

Blue sky.

And that the clouds could not exist if wide,

Blue sky was not there.

Noticing for a while how it is to notice the clouds coming and the clouds going.

And yet all the while this constant awareness.

Wide,

Blue sky.

And gently,

Gently letting that go.

And resting into your heart.

And offering peace to all living creatures on the planet.

Bathed and nourished in peace.

And then offering peace to all the plants,

The trees,

Forests and sea plants.

Bathed and nourished in peace.

And then imagining peace throughout the whole world.

Countries,

Cities,

Villages,

Houses,

In every human being.

Bathed and nourished in peace.

The whole of this planet.

The earth,

The core of the earth.

Bathed and nourished in peace.

And finally bringing the same wish to your heart,

To your being.

Peace.

That you are bathed and nourished in peace.

And slowly,

Slowly taking a deeper breath or two.

Remembering and reconnecting the sense of your physical body all the way from the head to the fingers and to the toes.

And when you're ready,

Remembering where you are,

Time of day.

And slowly,

Slowly opening your eyes.

Taking a gentle look around the room that you're in.

And then finding a way to roll onto your side.

And slowly,

When you're ready,

Come up to sit and take a few moments to rest,

To come back before you make any movement or gesture.

Thank you,

Beautiful beings.

Thank you for being here.

Namaste.