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Bedtime Stories and Meditations for Easing Insomnia

We all spend our days awake and conscious, and our nights asleep and seemingly unconscious. This stream of activity and tranquillity pervades nature and almost all living beings. We use sleep to restore our body, mind, and energy. However, modern life seems to go against Sleep and its healing and refreshing powers. With that in mind, I have created this 15 days course, here every day at your bedtime you will have a story followed by a lying down meditation. The stories are based on Vedanta philosophy which will help you to calm the mind and bring a peaceful & positive outlook towards life, whereas in the meditation part I will guide you into a goodnight's rest.

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Meet your Teacher

Nivritti Yoga

Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Nivritti Yoga is a commitment to bringing out the completely pure and traditional forms of meditations, stemming from the roots of authentic spiritual traditions and adapting them to suit modern needs. Its founder Sandeep is a classical spiritual guide. He has learned under the traditional monasteries of India and holds a master's degree in yoga and meditation.

15 Days

8.7k students

4.7 stars

27 min / day

Acceptance

English

Lesson 1

Be Good, Do Good

This is a story from an enlightened person's life, that came to him one day five young men, born into religious families, quarrelling about the way to truth. The enlightened person not only soothes them but also inspires them towards the truth.

Lesson 2

What Is Joy?

In this story, an actual incident is shared, which helps us ponder over the question "where is happiness?". In the coming sessions, we will continue with this theme.

Lesson 3

Husband And Wife

An extraordinary story from ancient India. Where Yajnavalkya, a sage and one of the most outstanding scholars of his time, decides to divide his property among his wives and go to the forest to contemplate on the self. But his wife Maitarey is not interested in his property but in his wisdom. So she inquires about very profound & fundamental questions to her husband.

Lesson 4

Going In Circles

This story shows how we who are truly perfect, become slaves to money and wealth, relationships.

Lesson 5

A Sadhu

Story of a Sadhu and a King. This word, 'Sadhu' means, ascetic or yogi.

Lesson 6

Ribhu And Nidagha

Ribhu taught his disciple Nidagha the Truth of the real Self, The vast without a second, Nidagha, in spite of his knowledge and understanding, did not get sufficient conviction to adopt and follow the path of Knowledge but settled down in his native town to lead a life devoted to the observance of ceremonial religion. But the sage loved his disciple as deeply as the latter respected his Master. In spite of his age, Ribhu would himself go to his disciple in the town, just to see how far the latter had outgrown his ritualism. This Story gives an account of one of such visits.

Lesson 7

Shiva's Dream

The story of Shiva where his son dies yet he is not perturbed by it.

Lesson 8

Who Has Beaten You?

Story of a Monk, who was beaten by a landlond.

Lesson 9

The Bull

According to Vedanta philosophy, the Self… the real you are ever free from physicality, which means nothing physical can affect what you essentially are. So it recommends that in life neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. It is the real freedom to be affected by nothing because that's the nature of the real self. Do not merely endure but be unattached. This story will illustrate this.

Lesson 10

Karma Yoga: Yoga In Action

Karma yoga, also called Karma marga, is one of the four classical spiritual paths in Vedanta, one based on the "yoga of action". Today's story will show what this path is and how this is equal to all other paths.

Lesson 11

Maya: The Great Illusion

In Vedanta, Maya is described as a Maya magic show, an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem. Today's story shows how this great illusion keeps us deluded.

Lesson 12

Proud Dog Owner

We often entrust our spiritual development to the whims of the mind, today's story shows its dangers and how to avoid it.

Lesson 13

The Wrist-Watch

A man was frantically searching for something in a dark room. He was weeping and shouting. He was making a mess of the things kept in the room. He broke some and tumbled on others. Yet, what he was searching for, he could not get. How he gets back his wristwatch and the necessity of a guide is shown in this story.

Lesson 14

Fear

A King goes to sleep in royal palace and sees a nightmare.

Lesson 15

The Landlord And His Agent

Through the story of a landlord and his agent, the whole spiritual journey is Shown.

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Recent Reviews

Nerida

June 13, 2025

Wonderful course. Lovely to have the little stories at the beginning of the sessions. I still haven’t managed to stay awake for the whole session each night and have enjoyed very good sleeps. I feel well rested upon waking and have good energy to start the day. Many thanks! I shall continue to go to bed with you (so to speak😄) and maybe one night I’ll get to the end of a session!! I am truly very grateful to you, many many thanks 😴😌🙏

Phillip

June 2, 2025

Very soothing.

Kim

January 4, 2025

I loved the stories at the beginning of each meditation.

Vickie

January 4, 2025

I enjoy the stories and the body scans. This is a go to for my bedtime ritual. Thank you

Véronique

December 28, 2024

Yoga Nidra is so helpful to fall asleep. Thank you! Namaste 🙏🏻

Torie

December 24, 2024

So helpful for my sleep

Maggie

December 23, 2024

Thsnkyou 🙏

Debby

November 7, 2024

This program is superb. I have listened to many and for me, this is the gold standard. From day one I slept well. I cannot recommend it enough. I am so grateful I found it. Thank you so much.

Laura

September 15, 2024

A lovely course, thank you

Suzanne

September 23, 2023

I broke my wrist and had a titanium plate inserted into it. it was very painful and this allowed me to sleep longer than anything else I tried thank you.

Diana

June 30, 2023

Very really helpt me to fal a sleep 🙏

Maklana

April 22, 2023

I enjoyed the stories and slept very well.

Jen

April 11, 2023

absolutely one of my havorite courses. i plan on starting over and going through each lesson again :)

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