You Are the Mountain

This yoga nidra practice, You Are the Mountain, is an adventure of the mind. You'll be guided through visual imagery and systematic deep relaxation designed to enchance your feelings of strength, stability and groundedness.

Transcript

Yoga Nidra,

You are the mountain.

Hi there,

Thank you for joining me.

Get ready for an adventure.

An adventure of the mind.

Something like a guided dream.

To prepare for this adventure,

You need to hook yourself up by laying down,

Getting horizontal,

Positioning yourself,

Lying down on a bed,

A yoga mat,

Directly on the earth perhaps.

Wherever you choose,

See that you are comfortable.

And as you settle in,

You feel the support of the earth beneath you.

Perhaps you're cushioned beneath your head just slightly.

Maybe beneath your knees as well.

Allowing your arms and legs to naturally spill wide at your sides.

Making whatever adjustments to the hips,

Shoulders,

Chin to find ultimate comfort.

To find symmetry down the whole length of you.

From the crown of your head,

Through all of your spine,

In line with the soles of your feet.

And within this evenness,

You breathe with ease.

Nice and steady.

Noticing your sense of calm is heightened with each breath.

You're slowing down inside.

Feeling into your spot,

Lying down,

Grounding down,

Settling in.

You feel as though you're being held by the earth.

Enjoy the comfort of this.

Yoga Nidra is a deep relaxation technique with roots in the Himalayan tradition.

We'll be using this practice to deepen your connection to the earth with me as your guide.

You'll listen to the sound of my voice as you visualize an entire process of becoming part of the earth with the use of your imagination.

You'll slowly,

Effortlessly become a great mountain chain much like the Himalayas.

So as you lay here,

With your eyes closed,

Try something.

Try to fathom what it would feel like if you had with you now all the energy of mankind.

Going back to ancient man,

Entertain what it would feel like to be accompanied energetically by all the billions who have come before you.

As if they were joining you here in this moment,

Beneath you,

Surrounding you.

Having each and every ancestor being a part of this next breath of yours.

Feel as though each human being who has come before you is a part of this moment.

And that in this moment,

All of you,

All at once,

Stare in awe at a beautiful mountain.

A mountain bestowed with some of the greatest natural beauty you have ever seen.

Imagine you and every other human gasping in awe,

All at once.

Together sharing in the collective awe that we all behold in mountains.

Gaze upon its great size,

Its majestic peaks.

Together you look upon this mountain and see it as sacred,

A spiritual place to connect to the true nature of life.

Feel what comes to you.

Try to feel your whole body alive in this moment.

I'm fascinated by what you're feeling.

Make your next inhale long and your exhale even longer.

You're breathing in,

Taking your time and breathing out,

Taking even more time.

Connecting.

Connecting to your breath and the earth below.

And to physically relax your body even more now into a feeful stillness,

Breathe.

Make any final adjustments that your body is calling for.

Using your mind,

You'll listen to me guide you as you relax each limb systematically.

Beginning with the left arm,

Bringing your focus,

Your awareness to feel your whole left arm.

To feel your left arm getting heavy,

Your shoulder feels heavy,

Your bicep,

Elbow,

Forearm,

Wrist.

We're all getting heavier with each breath.

Your palm,

Each of your fingers,

All the way down to the tips,

All are becoming heavy,

Sinking into the earth.

Each breath more sinking and melting into the ground beneath you.

Each breath,

The whole left arm melts a little more.

The bones,

Tendons,

Tissues.

Each cell of your left arm is heavy,

Sinking deeper,

Being absorbed as it melts into the earth.

Your whole left arm completely relaxed into the ground.

Slowly shifting your focus now to your right arm.

You feel the whole right arm becoming heavy and relaxed.

Feeling the right shoulder melting your bicep,

Your elbow,

Forearm,

Wrist,

Palm,

Fingers,

All melting,

All relaxing into the earth.

Feel the heaviness of your arm sinking into the earth.

It happens more and more with each breath,

Each bone,

Tendon,

Muscle dissolving as your whole right arm is lovingly embraced by the earth.

Feeling both arms now as they are held and completely melting into the earth.

Drifting down to the left leg now,

Feeling it too becoming heavier and heavier with each relaxing breath.

Feeling your left hip,

Thigh,

Knee,

Calf and shin,

Ankle,

The sole of your foot,

Each toe,

The whole foot,

Your whole left leg becomes relaxed,

Heavy,

Sinking into the earth,

Being completely supported as the whole left leg relaxes and lets go,

Becoming totally absorbed into mother earth.

Each cell being nourished by the nutrients of the earth,

Relaxing and letting go.

Finding balance now with the right leg,

Shifting your awareness to your right leg as it becomes heavier and heavier with each breath.

And all the parts of your right leg from your hip through your thigh to your knee,

Through the shin and calf to your ankle,

Your heel,

The sole of your foot,

The top of your foot,

Down each one of your toes.

All relaxing,

Each cell in your right leg melting and sinking deeper down,

Feeling the earth welcoming you to let go.

Feel all forelimbs now becoming part of the earth.

As you breathe,

Your entire torso and head begin to follow along,

Being absorbed from the bottom surface up,

Your whole backside sinking,

Melting,

Dissolving as the letting go spreads through the thickness of your torso.

Do you feel the earth inch by inch truly embracing each organ,

Moving up from the back of the head toward the tip of your nose,

From your lower back to your belly button.

With each breath,

You sink deeper and deeper,

The whole top part of you sinking all the way down now,

Being absorbed into the earth,

Into the very elements from which you came.

You feel safe here,

You totally belong.

You are supported and a part of the whole earth.

And in this state of full absorption,

You notice how profound your breath is,

How solid it feels to have become part of the earth,

How wildly still beautiful it all feels.

As you breathe now,

You are motionless,

Fully supported,

Now a faithful part of the earth.

Staying with the sound of my voice,

You begin to take notice and sense that there are gigantic moving rocks below you,

Massive sheets of fortified,

Shifting rocks beneath you.

You come to sense the heat of them on your backside.

You realize that you happen to be right over the borders of two floating plates.

You can sense their subtle movement.

You tune into the power of the tectonic plates beneath you,

Coming to realize that maybe you can hear something from them.

That from within their subtle vibration,

They're sending you a message,

A message you can pick up on.

The message is to be ready.

Are you ready?

There's a collision coming,

A natural energetic collision.

There will be a colliding of plates and this earthly kiss will yield a new formation.

A transformation will take place and it will be you that will be transforming.

A wave of anticipation rolls through you and another one.

This time a wave of love surges through you,

Pulsing throughout you as the earth and as you take a deep breath in and pull in the air.

There's a wonderful tremble beneath you.

It turns into a powerful source of earth and energy,

Pushing up your center line,

Pushing up and away.

Nice and steady now,

The earth that you are continues to rise nicely and slowly.

Peaks growing steadily,

Getting tall up and down the entire length of you,

Very slowly.

So slow that each one of your breaths is a million years long.

Feel the sensations of growing into a mountain.

Feel the sensations of forming majestic peaks.

Feel solid and comfortable,

Positioned,

Steady and beautiful.

Feel connected,

Fiercely connected to the earth beneath you,

Unshakable and firm.

Each breath a notch on the geologic time scale.

Feel your vastness,

Feel your grandeur.

Feel each one of your sacred grains of earth dust,

Compacted and reborn.

Feel the span of you as a mountain.

You are a creation of energy.

As your breathing continues,

You notice that the length of your breath adjusts now and each breath is a mountain breath.

You're breathing as a mountain breathes.

You're noticing as a mountain notices.

You begin to feel a wind,

An oncoming wind that blows and blows,

Changing the temperature,

Changing the feel of the external environment.

You notice this,

How a mountain would notice this.

As a mountain you can feel this wind.

You know it's there,

But it does not move you.

You are not blown over by this wind.

This wind will weather you over time,

Yes,

And that is the nature of wind.

But it is also the nature of the mountain to be unshakable.

Reviews

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Beautiful journey. I feel immense calm and readiness to be in the world.

Wow this was amazing! I really got into it.

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Yes again

Thank you! Soothing voice and words of.strength 🙏🏻💕🦋

I really loved this . Becoming the Earth even ever so briefly was a wondrous gift. Thank you!

Thank you this meditation helped feel confident.

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I actually became a mountain 🗻

Amazing journey! Thank you

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Wonderful Imagery!

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