Yoga Nidra: Peace Within

Find a comfortable place free from distractions and join me for this guided yoga nidra practice. This practice will bring you relaxation and allow you to connect deeply with your self through awareness. Together, we will connect to the bliss that is the peace within us!

Transcript

Welcome to the practice of Yoga Nintra.

In this practice we take some time to let go,

Relax,

And look within.

Throughout the practice I will invite you to become aware of certain things.

Do your best to follow my voice throughout this,

But don't worry if you lose my voice through thoughts or sleep.

That's okay.

Just do your best to come back to my voice when you're ready.

Let go of any expectations you have,

Any judgments or beliefs.

Let's begin by getting comfortable.

Allow yourself to find a comfortable place,

Lying down if you can,

But it's okay if you can't.

Allow yourself to be free from distractions.

Allow yourself to find comfort wherever you are,

And sink into your comfort.

Let go,

Let the eyes close,

Let the body totally relax.

Allow your muscles to let go.

Allow the tongue to relax in the mouth.

Allow the eyeballs to relax in their sockets.

Feel your head sinking,

Relaxing.

Find the most comfortable place you can,

Letting go.

We'll begin our yoga ninja practice with the sound of a bell.

I invite you now to become aware of the space around you.

Become aware of what you hear in this space.

What are the sounds within your space,

Beyond your space?

Become aware of what you hear,

And become aware of your body.

How does your body feel in this space?

How does it feel to be relaxing here?

And become aware of the breath in the body,

Without control,

Just awareness.

Is your breath feeling heavy or light?

Is it feeling deep or shallow?

Is it feeling warm or cool?

Just become aware of the breath moving in the body.

Then let's bring our awareness to the body.

First to your toes.

Feel the sensation of your toes at the tip of your body.

Feel the toes full of life and warmth and relaxation.

Bring your awareness from your toes to your feet,

Then to your ankles,

Your calves,

Your knees,

Your thighs.

Feel the sensations from your toes up to your thighs,

Your legs,

Alive with sensation,

With warmth,

With relaxation.

Then become aware of your groin,

Feeling the sensations in your groin,

The warmth,

The relaxation.

Become aware of your hips,

The right hip,

The left hip,

Moving your awareness up to your belly and your ribcage and your chest.

Feeling the torso of your body from your groin to your chest.

Feeling the sensations,

Feeling the warmth,

Feeling the relaxation.

Then bring your awareness to your shoulders,

Your right shoulder,

Your left shoulder,

To the upper arms,

The elbows,

The lower arms,

To your wrists,

To your hands.

Bring your awareness to your fingers.

Feel the sensations of your fingers.

Feel them warm and relaxed.

Feel all the sensations from your shoulders down your arms to your fingers.

Then bring your awareness back to the space between your collarbones.

Move the awareness up your throat,

To your chin,

To your lips.

Feel the lower lip,

Feel the upper lip,

Feel both your lips together.

The lips warm,

Relaxed,

Full of sensation.

Bring your awareness out to your cheeks,

To your nose,

To your eyeballs,

To your forehead,

To the crown of your head.

Feel all the sensation of your face,

Warm,

Relaxed,

Full of life.

Now feel the whole body from your toes up your legs,

Your torso,

Your arms,

Your head.

Feel all the sensation in your body.

Feel the whole body full of warmth,

Full of relaxation.

Then bring the awareness back to the crown of your head.

I invite you to visualize a beautiful violet light,

A beautiful violet light just above the crown of your head.

Notice the beautiful color and feel the warmth of that light.

And allow the violet light to move down from the crown of your head to your forehead,

Down your face,

Down your neck.

Allow the light's warmth and beauty to move down your torso and your arms,

Down your groin and your legs,

Out your toes.

Feel the whole body covered with the warmth and the beauty of this violet light.

And I invite you with this warmth and relaxation to visualize a beautiful park.

Notice the sensations of this park.

What sights do you see here?

What sounds do you hear here?

What do you smell in this beautiful park?

The park has a beautiful path and I invite you to walk along this path in this beautiful park.

Become aware of the pond as you walk down the path.

Notice the pond you see in the park.

What does the pond look like?

Do you hear the sounds of water?

Do you see birds or fish?

Are there sounds of other life around?

Notice the beautiful lily pads on the pond.

The lily pads blooming with beautiful violet lotus flowers.

Notice the colors of the beautiful lotus flowers.

Notice the scent of the beautiful lotus flowers.

Notice how you feel.

This is the most peaceful park you have ever been in.

How does it feel to be in this most peaceful place?

Stay with this feeling of peace.

Allow yourself to feel the peace while you take in the beauty.

Let this feeling fill your body just like the violet light did.

Feeling your whole body from the crown of your head down your torso,

Your arms,

Your legs,

Your body full of this peaceful feeling within.

With this wonderful feeling of peace,

Allow yourself to walk back down the path to leave the park knowing that you can always return to this peaceful,

Beautiful place.

Then begin to bring your awareness back to your own breath.

Feeling the breath in your body becoming aware of how it feels.

Does it feel warm,

Cool?

Is it shallow or deep?

Then bring your awareness to your body.

Notice feelings in your body.

Notice the sensations of your body.

Then bring your awareness back to the space you are in.

Notice the sensations of that space.

Notice the sounds you hear or sense you smell,

Maybe things you taste.

Noticing the room around you,

Noticing what you sense beyond your space.

As we close our Yoga Nidra practice,

We will walk away with this sense of peace,

Peace within,

Peace without,

And we will move through our day and our week from a place of peace.

We will end our Yoga Nidra with the sound of a bell in three,

Two,

One.

Gently begin to deepen your breath.

Slowly begin to wiggle your fingers,

Wiggle your toes,

Gently rolling your wrists,

Rolling your ankles,

Rolling your head side to side.

Bring life into the body slowly.

As you're ready,

Stretch your arms up over your head.

Give your body a nice gentle stretch as if you've just woken up,

And release.

Then keeping your eyes closed,

If you're lying down,

Roll to one side.

And when you're sitting up,

Bring your hands to your heart center into Anjali Mudra,

Gently allowing the eyes to flutter open.

Put a smile on your lips and have a beautiful,

Peaceful day ahead.

Namaste.