Welcome.
My name is Christy and I'm so grateful to be with you and guide you through this practice.
This Yoga Nidra journey has been created to support you in working with the seventh chakra,
The sahasrara or crown chakra.
Sahasrara translates to a thousand petaled lotus.
You might imagine these thousand petals gently blooming open,
Infinitely unfolding and expanding above the crown like consciousness itself opening into divine awareness.
It is associated with the element of ether or Akash,
Which is spaciousness,
The subtle realm beyond form.
This chakra is the bridge between the physical self and the spiritual realm,
A place where we dissolve into pure presence,
Connection and remembering.
This practice invites you into deep rest,
Nourishment and spaciousness,
Supporting a connection to spirit,
To universal consciousness and to the luminous wisdom within your energy body.
As you feel ready,
Coming into a very comfortable restorative position,
Supporting yourself with props,
Pillows,
Maybe wrapping yourself in a blanket,
Covering your eyes,
Whatever allows your body to soften into effortless support,
Gently closing down your eyes,
Scanning your physical body,
Making any last adjustments that help you feel safe,
Held and grounded.
Just feeling your body resting on the earth beneath you,
Letting yourself soften even deeper into this support.
Feel yourself breathing effortlessly,
The gentle rise and fall of your belly and chest.
Now slowly deepening your breath,
Inviting now a three-part breath.
On your next inhale,
Fill up the belly,
Ribs,
Chest,
Exhaling out through the chest,
Ribs,
Belly.
Again,
Filling up the belly,
Ribs,
Chest,
Exhaling out through the chest,
Ribs,
Belly.
On your next inhale,
Fill up the belly,
Ribs,
Chest,
Exhaling out through the chest,
Ribs,
Belly.
Now returning to a natural rhythm of your breath.
Notice if your energy has been spread thin,
Given to others,
To work,
To expectations,
With each longer,
Deeper breath,
Let your energy gather back home to yourself,
Grounding here,
Nourishing here,
Restoring here.
Nothing to do,
Nowhere to be,
Just resting in awareness,
Letting your awareness move to your heart space,
Letting this awareness open the door to the heart,
Opening your awareness to the wisdom of the heart,
And welcoming in your sankalpa,
Your heartfelt intention,
A resolve that arises from the truth of the heart.
You might be working with a sankalpa,
You might also just allow space or any wisdom to arise,
Or perhaps you repeat the sankalpa,
I honor the divine within me and all living things,
Or perhaps repeating,
I am open to receive everything that is aligned and expansive,
And allowing space for whatever doesn't to fall away.
Letting your sankalpa whisper through your being now,
As you repeat it three times.
Now we'll begin to move through a rotation of consciousness,
Moving through different energetic,
Internal points throughout the body.
As I name these points,
Just floating your awareness to the points,
Noticing any sensations that arise.
You might imagine a warm healing light touching each point,
Perhaps the light is purple,
White,
Gold,
And white.
Allowing your awareness to come to the right side of the body,
Into the right hand,
Like a warm healing light into the right hand thumb,
Into the index finger,
The middle finger,
The ring finger,
The little finger.
Noticing any sensations of energy in the fingers,
Maybe around and between the fingers of the right hand,
The palm of the right hand,
The back of the hand,
The middle of the right wrist.
Warm healing light touches the heart,
Letting it wash down the right side of the waist,
Awareness to the right hip,
Any sensations that arise,
The warm healing light down the right thigh,
Knee,
Ankle and heel,
The top and sole of the right foot,
Like a healing light into the right big toe,
Second toe,
Third toe,
Fourth toe,
Little toe.
Feeling any sensations of energy in the toes and around and between the toes of the right foot,
Like a light,
Warm,
Nourishing,
Noticing any sensations of the whole right side of the body.
Let your awareness float now over to the left side,
Letting warm healing light travel down into the left hand thumb,
Index finger,
Middle finger,
Ring finger,
Little finger.
Noticing any sensations of energy in the fingers,
Between the fingers of the left hand,
In the palm of the left hand,
In the middle of the left wrist,
Elbow.
Warm healing light touching the heart center,
Washing down the left side of the waist,
Down to the left hip,
Noticing any sensations down the left thigh,
Ankle and heel,
The top and sole of the left foot,
Down into the left big toe,
Second toe,
Third toe,
Fourth toe,
Little toe.
Noticing any sensations of energy in the toes,
Between the toes of the left foot,
Like a warm healing light,
Noticing sensations in the whole left side of the body,
Noticing sensations in the right foot,
The left foot,
The left leg and hip,
The lower back,
Warm healing light,
Middle back,
Upper back,
The right arm and shoulder,
The left arm and shoulder,
Back of the head,
Light touching the crown of the head,
Opening to sensation at the crown of the head,
The space between the eyebrows,
The mind's eye center,
Like a healing light touching the center of the forehead,
To the right eye,
The right ear,
Moving through the mind space like a light to the left ear,
The right nostril,
The left nostril,
The right nostril,
The upper lip,
The lower lip,
The right side of the jaw,
The left side of the jaw,
Like a light touching the center of the throat,
Noticing any sensations that arise as healing light touches the center of the throat,
The heart center,
Noticing any sensations that arise as healing light pools here at the heart center,
Connecting down to the solar plexus center,
The navel center,
The root center,
The whole body light up with sensation,
The whole body together lighting up as one field.
Feel yourself breathing effortlessly here.
Feel the gentle rise and fall of the belly,
Riding the soft waves of the breath in and out.
Let each breath build awareness of your inner energetic field,
Expanding beyond the edges of your body.
Physical body,
Effortless,
Soft waves of prana.
Feel a nurturing darkness wash over you,
Like being in the deep center of the earth.
Deeply restorative.
Now feel prana in the form of light,
Particles of luminous energy raining down around and within you.
Feel them illuminate the darkness.
Sense the buzzing,
Pulsing prana moving through your whole field.
Begin to feel the central channel of energy running up the spine,
Steady,
Bright.
Begin to visualize a small lotus bud at the base of your spine,
Rooted,
Nourished,
Trusting the light even when unseen.
With each breath,
The lotus begins its slow,
Sacred journey upward through the central channel,
Rising through the muddy waters life offers.
As it reaches the crown of the head,
The lotus begins to open,
Like blooming lotus flowers floating across the still waters of the mind.
The petals unfold,
Softly,
Gracefully,
Gracefully,
Endlessly.
The thousand petal lotus blooms above the crown,
Opening to infinite light.
A radiant stream of light pours in through the crown,
Filling the earthly matter within,
Flowing above and in all directions.
Bask in this light.
Feel yourself floating in the thousand petal lotus,
With no separation from divine.
Feel the divine light in every fiber of your being,
Energy flowing freely,
Pure,
Spacious,
Infinite.
You are resting now in your highest essence,
Peaceful,
Luminous,
Whole,
Resting here in divine light.
Slowly let the spark of divine light illuminate your heart,
Where your sankalpa lives and resides,
Repeating it again inwardly,
Perhaps repeating I honor the divine light within me and all living things,
Or perhaps repeating I am open to receive everything that is aligned and expansive,
And allowing space for whatever doesn't to fall away.
Feeding your sankalpa,
Feel it resonate,
Feel it settle,
Feel the light within you expanding,
Filling your body,
Filling the room,
Filling the entire space around you.
Begin to sense your breath,
The weight of your body,
The surface supporting you,
The surface of your being.
Basking here in this space of integration after deep,
Deep rest,
Transitional,
Integrative space.
You might reflect on your own journey,
Like the lotus rising through muddy waters to bloom into the light,
A symbol of awakening,
Resilience,
And unfolding into your truth.
Invitation of a reflection question,
What is blooming inside of you towards the light right now?
When you feel ready,
An invitation to bring your hands to your heart in gratitude for choosing rest,
Healing,
And connection today.
And stay as long as you like,
Basking in the afterglow of this practice.
Thank you for practicing with me.
It's a true gift and blessing to guide.
I love hearing from you,
So please stay connected.
Share how you're feeling.
I'm here basking with you in that thousand petal light.
Namaste.
