In yoga nidra,
Your body relaxes into deep restorative sleep,
While paradoxically,
Your awareness opens,
Like a night blooming flower.
You can think of it like the light of the sun that is always streaming through space,
But only becomes visible when it shines on an object.
In yoga nidra,
You open to the light of awareness that streams through the luminous darkness of sleep,
The light of awareness that you are.
You may or may not experience yoga nidra itself,
It doesn't matter.
With practice,
You will arrive at this state of consciousness,
Or rather,
Be restored to it,
To your pure essence,
Which you may experience as an open field of awareness,
Pure being,
A fullness that's empty,
An emptiness that's full,
The recognition that you are not separate.
So as your body sinks into relaxation,
Set an intention for your awareness to open,
Like a night blooming flower.
Invite a seed of transformation into your life,
However it wishes to manifest.
Your soul knows what it needs.
Lay comfortably on your back in shavasana,
The corpse posture.
Lay in such a way that your head and neck and trunk and your spine are aligned,
Left and right.
Check the position of your head,
Make sure it's comfortable,
Straight,
And in alignment.
Allow your feet to be a comfortable distance apart,
Just letting them fall away from each other.
Allow your arms to be at a comfortable distance from your sides.
Palms up if comfortable,
If not,
You can allow your palms to be down.
Most important is to be comfortable and to let go.
Now becoming aware of your body,
Be aware of your whole body from head to toe and toe to head.
However you experience your body is fine,
You cannot do this wrong.
Just gently be aware of your body.
Be aware of the ability to move your body,
But you are not using that ability.
Become aware of the stillness in your body.
You can move your body,
But you are choosing not to.
Feel the stillness moving into your whole body.
You can move,
But you are choosing not to move.
Just resting in the stillness.
Surveying your body from head to toe and toe to head.
However you experience your body is fine.
Survey the body as if you are really curious,
An explorer,
An interior researcher,
Gently and non-judgmentally noticing your body.
You may notice muscles,
Bone,
Sensations,
You may notice energy in your body.
Whatever you notice is fine.
Just survey your body gently with your attention.
From the top of your head to your forehead,
Your eyebrows and eyes,
Cheekbones and cheeks,
Becoming aware of your nostrils,
The feel of the flow of the air in and out.
Feeling the muscles of your mouth,
Your jaw relaxed.
Becoming aware of your neck and throat,
Releasing any tension.
Move your attention to your shoulders,
Your upper arms,
Your elbows,
Your lower arms,
Your hands and your fingers.
Feeling relaxation move through you.
Becoming aware of the tips of your fingers.
Noticing any energy you may feel in your hands.
Bringing your attention back up to your elbows,
Your upper arms,
Your shoulders.
Becoming aware of your chest,
Your spine.
Bringing your awareness down into your belly.
Noticing with curiosity.
Moving your attention down through your hips and upper legs,
Your knees,
Your calves,
Your ankles,
Letting everything relax.
Bring your attention to your feet,
Your toes.
Noticing the tips of your toes,
Any energy you may feel in your feet.
Bringing your awareness gently back to your ankles,
Your calves,
Your knees,
Your thighs,
Your pelvis.
Bringing your awareness to your belly,
Feeling it rise and fall with your breath.
Bringing your awareness to your chest,
Your spine.
Being curious,
Noticing your shoulders,
Your upper arms,
Your elbows and lower arms,
Wrists and your hands,
Your fingers and the tips of your fingers.
Noticing aware of any energy in your fingertips,
Your hands,
Your wrists,
Lower arms and elbows,
Upper arms and the shoulders.
Becoming aware of your neck,
Your throat,
Your jaw relaxed.
Your tongue relaxed inside your mouth.
Feeling the air flow in and out of your nostrils.
Becoming aware of your cheeks and cheekbones.
Your eyes resting gently in their sockets,
Your eyebrows relaxed.
Tension leaving your forehead.
Bringing your awareness to the top of your head.
Be aware of the body as one whole being.
Be aware of the space between your eyebrows.
Breathe as though you are breathing from this space between your eyebrows.
Breathe with tender,
Intimate awareness.
Be aware of the space at your throat.
Bring tender,
Intimate awareness to your throat.
Visualize in your throat a moon.
Be aware of the space in your heart center between your breasts.
Go deep,
Deep into this space.
Deep into the silence.
Go deep into the stillness and the silence in this space deep in your heart center.
Rest with tender awareness deep in your heart center.
Be aware of the space in your heart center.
Be aware of the deep stillness and silence that is in that space.
Allow your attention to hold on to that deep stillness and silence.
Be aware of the space in your heart center.
Be aware of the space in your throat bringing with you that deep stillness and silence.
Be aware of the space in your throat.
Be aware of the space between your eyebrows.
Be aware of the space in your throat.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Feel the presence of that stillness.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Be aware of the smoothness of the breath,
The deep stillness and silence within the breath.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Be aware of the stillness of the physical body,
Deep stillness and silence.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Be aware of the quietness of your mind.
Bring that deep stillness and silence with you.
Keep it with you while you resolve to return to this place of silence and serenity that is always here for you.
Everything in you is available.
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