Yoga Nidra For Sleep: Release All Attachments

Enjoy the best night's sleep ever by progressively releasing all physical, emotional, and mental attachments allowing you to repose into the absolute bliss beyond the body, mind, and senses! First, transcend all physical attachments before then releasing all emotional attachments, finally let go of all mental attachments so you can sleep deep tonight!

Transcript

Begin by lying down on your back in Shavasana,

Corpse pose,

And take these next few moments to become stable and still.

Focus on the symmetry of your body and the subtle points of contact between your body and the surface beneath you.

Take this last chance to make any final adjustments before beginning the practice of Yoga Nidra.

Now just observe your entire physical body from head to toe.

Becoming aware to all the various groups of muscles and the arms and legs.

The chest and abdomen and the muscles of respiration.

Watch the natural motions of the breath moving through your body.

Awareness to each and every breath.

Awareness to the breath,

The body,

And your inner state.

Become aware to the silence between two thoughts.

The inner silence that pervades and surrounds every thought and every sound.

Awareness to all-encompassing silence.

You may choose to recite your sankalpa or a positive affirmation three times silently.

Tell yourself,

I will now sleep.

You don't need to listen to this entire recording.

Whenever you are ready,

In your own time and way,

You can drift off to sleep and enjoy a full night of rejuvenating rest.

Now watching the wave-like motions of the breath.

Become aware to the steadiness of your right hand.

Awareness within the right hand thumb,

Second finger,

Third,

Fourth,

And fifth finger.

The palm of the hand,

Back of the hand,

The right wrist,

Lower arm,

Elbow,

Upper arm,

And shoulder,

Armpit,

Right side of the abdomen,

Hip,

Right thigh,

Back of the thigh,

Right kneecap,

Back of the knee,

Shin,

Calf muscle,

Right ankle,

Heel,

Sole of the right foot,

Top of the foot,

Right big toe,

Second,

Third,

Fourth,

And fifth toe.

The whole right side of your body,

Steady and still.

Now become aware to the steadiness within the left hand,

Left hand thumb,

Second finger,

Third,

Fourth,

And fifth finger.

Left palm,

Back of the hand,

Left wrist,

Lower arm,

Elbow,

Upper arm.

Shoulder,

The left armpit,

Left side of the abdomen,

Hip,

Upper thigh,

Back of the hip,

Right side of the thigh,

Shin,

Calf muscle,

Left ankle,

Heel,

Sole of the left foot,

Top of the foot,

Left big toe,

Second toe,

Third,

Fourth,

And fifth toe.

The whole left side of the body,

Steady and still.

Now bring your awareness to the top of the head,

Forehead,

Right eyebrow,

Left eyebrow,

The center of the brows,

Right eyelid,

Left eyelid,

Right eye,

Left eye.

Right ear,

Left ear,

And the nose,

The tip of the nose.

Your upper lip,

Lower lip,

The muscles inside of your mouth and tongue.

Throat,

Right collarbone,

Left collarbone,

Right chest muscle,

Left chest muscle.

The center of the chest,

Abdomen,

Navel,

Lower abdomen.

Roin and pelvic floor.

The whole right leg,

Whole left leg.

Both legs together.

Your whole right arm,

Whole left arm.

Both arms together.

The front side of the torso,

Back side of the torso.

Your shoulders,

Neck,

Face,

And head.

The whole body.

Become aware to your whole body from head to toe.

Practice full body awareness.

Look down on your body from above and remind yourself,

I have a body,

But I am not my body.

Now,

Transcending all false identifications with the material form of your outer being.

And now develop awareness to the subtle dimension of your being.

The dimension of the breath.

Bioenergy,

Thoughts and feelings.

Become aware to the motions of the breath throughout your body.

Just watch the wave-like motions of each breath.

The soothing ebb and flow of each inhalation and exhalation.

Listen to the sounds of your breath.

Allow the sounds of the natural breath to be your guide.

Now,

Develop awareness to inner space.

Sense your body as though it were only a hollow shell of skin.

Containing vast,

Etheric space.

And within the space of your body,

There is only stillness.

Develop awareness to the stillness of inner space.

Stillness,

Silence and space.

Silence and space.

Bring your awareness down to the region of Mooladhara.

Just below the base of the spine at the pelvic floor.

And become aware to a subtle pulsating or throbbing sensation at the pelvic floor.

This is the location of Brahma-granti,

The knot of Brahma.

It is here that you identify with the physical body and experience strong attachments to the material dimension and the objects of the senses.

Here you are bound firmly by the instinctive level of intelligence,

Characterized by survival and reproduction,

With attachments to material possessions and those physical items believed to give security as well as pleasure.

Remind yourself,

I have a body,

But I am not my body.

This body is subject to change and impermanent,

Therefore it is not self.

Consider the objects of the senses and say to yourself,

I am not these five senses,

Nor the objects that they perceive.

Again become aware to your motionless body and consider the sentient inner being that inhabits this body.

And develop awareness to inner peace,

The great contentment and joy that is your own true nature.

Now ascend your awareness up to the space of the heart,

The region of Anahata chakra,

Directly back from the sternum,

And become aware to Vishnu-Granti,

The nut of Vishnu.

Here the mental focus has taken a higher form,

Here at the heart there is socio-emotional attachment.

Become aware to the knot of social ties within the space of your heart.

This is where you form emotional attachments to family,

Friends,

As well as the members of your social circle and popular members of society.

It is here at Vishnu-Granti that you become attached to the emotional security that you derive from all these various relationships.

Become aware to whatever emotions and feelings are now manifesting on the surface of your heart.

And remind yourself,

I am not these feelings.

I have emotions,

But I am not my emotions.

These too are subject to change.

As you continue releasing the false identifications to social attachment,

You can experience the heart space beginning to expand.

The space of your heart is expanding outwards,

Beyond your chest,

Beyond your entire body,

The room,

And the building.

The building expanding outwards through your entire community,

Region,

And continent.

And the entire planet.

See this entire planet Earth within your heart.

You can feel a sense of connectedness to all sentient life.

All people are your people.

All life is your life.

Here and now,

In this moment,

There is only oneness.

Now ascend your awareness to the region of Agnya Chakra by becoming aware of the brow center,

Brumadia.

This is the location of Rudra-Granti,

Where we experience false identifications with attachments to beliefs.

Become aware to the comforting mental space of Chittakosh in front of your closed eyes.

Passively witness any and all shapes,

Patterns,

Or images that arise and subside within mental space.

Become aware to the activities of your mind as though you were a passive observer.

Remind yourself,

I am not these thoughts.

I have a mind,

But I am not my mind.

Now releasing all attachment to thoughts.

Now experiencing that expansiveness of silence.

Become aware to mental silence.

Within that silence,

You can experience cosmic unity.

The cosmic unity of featureless awareness.

Pure consciousness.

Preferring to listen to silence.

And gradually developing awareness to bliss.

The bliss of no thoughts.

Just passive awareness to the never ending flow of eternal silence.

Within silence.

There is fullness and completion.

There is only silence and bliss.

Only bliss.

Again,

Recall your sankalpa or positive affirmation from earlier and repeat it with enthusiasm.

Observe the calming sensations of the breath flowing in and out of your body.

Causing the belly to gently rise and fall.

And become aware to the points of contact between your body and the bed.

Awareness to all the various points of contact and the line of gravity between your body and the bed.

Whenever you are ready,

You can roll onto your side and enjoy this time to sleep.

Deeply restorative and rejuvenating sleep.

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

Reviews

I’ve been doing this for the last few nights- I would love to know how the ending is .. but nope … I start it and next thing I know it’s morning I’m awaken feeling refreshed, well rested , postive and lighter. I guess it’s working…
Love love love

Really helpful. I fell asleep quickly. Thank you 😊

Relaxing and affirming. Fell asleep quickly 😴💤💤
Namaste🙏

Thank you so very, very much for an incredible nidra practice. I tried to stay awake as you said many profound things throughout. Can’t wait to practice this again. Much appreciation 🙏🏻

Great company to go to sleep.