Hi there,
I'm Kumari Skye.
Welcome to Yoga Nidra Sanctuary.
Yoga Nidra is a effortless guided meditation that can really help you get deeply relaxed and when we are so deeply relaxed this is where things like anxiety,
Worry,
Tension in the body and the mind can be soothed.
And you can move into a greater state of peace and ease after this practice.
So I can't wait to share it with you,
And I'll see you in the video.
Hey,
If this is your first time here,
Welcome,
Welcome.
I am Kumari Skye,
The Relaxationist.
And I love guiding you through yoga nidra.
So.
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That is exactly what I'm going to do here.
You need to just get yourself comfortable.
However that might be.
So you could be resting on your couch,
On your floor,
On your bed,
You get the idea.
I know a lot of you have practiced yoga nidra regularly but in case there's some friends on here that haven't yet I want you to know that this is an effortless meditation.
There is nothing you need to do except listen to my voice.
And just allow me to guide you into a deep state of rest.
Yoga Nidra is such a beautiful way to nourish your body,
Your mind,
Your spirit.
It is a form of guided meditation where the systematic set of techniques Guide the practitioner.
Into a state where The body is sleeping.
But the mind is awake and aware and the part of the mind that is dominant and awake and aware is the subconscious.
So in essence,
We're Shutting down our just normal everyday thinking,
Cognate,
Cognating,
I don't know if that's a word,
Mind.
All of our just habits and stories,
All those 50,
000 thoughts a day.
Um,
That just gets quieted down.
And we are able to move into a space Where?
We have the opportunity to align with our true natures.
And our true nature is peace.
It is love.
It is oneness with all that is.
If you know me,
You know I always recommend covering the eyes,
Even if it's just with the sleeve of your shirt.
This is a pratyahara practice.
Pratyahara in yoga and Sanskrit means sense withdrawal.
Pratyahara is sense withdrawal.
So we're letting go of the outside sensing and moving inward.
Okay.
Closing your eyes if you haven't already.
And more simply breathing.
And being.
This practice allows us the opportunity to move from I'll be busy now.
All the thinking,
All the doing.
To being.
We rest back,
Simply being.
Feel that sense of beingness right now.
Just you and you.
In a restful position.
Open and receptive to my guidance.
And the promise of deep rest.
Let's take a breath in together.
Release.
Another big breath in.
Really blowing it out through purse lips again.
Feel any sense of holding,
Being released.
Resting back,
Simply being human.
Allowing.
And in this stillness,
Your muscles are relaxing.
Softening.
Long-held tension can relax now.
There's nothing you need to do anymore.
Welcome in a breathing practice.
A simple counted breath.
Big inhale in through the nose.
Holding the breath.
And then letting it go for the count of five,
Outburst lips.
Let's begin.
Inhale,
One,
Two,
Three.
Hold,
One,
Two,
Three,
Four.
Exhale,
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Five.
Let's do that again.
Inhale.
One,
Two,
Three.
Hold.
One,
Two,
Three.
Four,
Exhale one,
Two,
Three,
Four.
Bye.
Your body melting deeper into relaxation with each exhale.
One more round.
Inhale,
1,
2,
3.
Hold,
1,
2,
3,
4.
Exhale,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Stillness Rest is medicine.
In this place of stillness.
Call in your Synchropa.
If you're not currently working with Sankalpa from practice to practice.
I invite you to either use this one or create an intention.
You could use this as your Sankalpa.
I allow myself to rest deeply.
Or create an intention.
When you're ready,
Repeat this three times in your mind.
Us to know that this positive intention.
Has now been planted like a seed.
Deep in the subconscious.
Where it will flourish and grow.
Follow my voice,
We'll move around the body.
Awareness resting on each plane.
And perhaps a felt sense.
In each area of your body.
Of energy or awareness.
Perhaps even a physical feeling.
Or beginning at the top of the head.
And sensing the whole top.
Of your head.
And now the right ear.
Left ear.
Both ears together.
Hearing.
Both ear.
Could you imagine?
Below.
And the flesh of the ear.
Come to sense the right eye.
The left eye.
Both I.
Shrouded by their lids.
Film.
Sensing the space behind the eye.
The brain inside the skull.
And the pineal gland in the center.
Might you imagine?
The brainstem.
And the root of your tongue.
The tip of the tongue.
The whole surface of the tongue.
Bleh.
The bridge of the now.
And the whole right cheek.
The whore lefty.
And the tip of the chin.
The hollow of the throat.
Collarbones.
Sensing the collarbone.
The center of the chair.
The right thumb.
Index finger.
Middle finger.
Ring finger.
Pinky upon.
The whole right hand.
Where?
Forearm.
ELBOW Upper arm.
Shoulder.
A whole chest.
Sensing the whole chest.
The left shoulder.
Upper arm.
Elbow.
Forearm.
REH the palm.
Pinky finger.
Ring finger.
Middle finger.
Index finger.
The thumb.
Can you sense the whole left hand?
The whole right hand.
Both hands together.
Both arms.
The ribcage.
The abdomen and weight.
The pubic bone.
The left big toe.
Second toe.
3.
For And the third.
The sole of the left foot.
The whole left foot.
And gone.
Lower leg.
ME.
Thigh the left hip and glue.
The right hip and glutes.
Bye.
Knee,
Lower legs.
Inhale and exhale.
Soul of the foot.
A big toe.
Second toe.
Third,
4.
Unfair?
The whole left foot.
The whole left leg.
Now both feet together.
Both legs together.
The lower half of the body.
In the upper half of the body.
Sense the back side of the body.
The front side of the body.
The whole body as one.
Sensing the energy.
Of the whole body.
The whole body subtly vibrating.
A part of the all.
Body deeply relax.
Sensing the life force within your body.
Sense the life force as your breath inside the body.
Feel your body physically move with the breath.
Imagine the breath as a line of light.
Moving from the heart center.
To the crown of the head.
And then the exhale back down a white light back to the heart center.
And this light representing energy.
And let this light come to rest at the heart center.
Could you imagine this light moving back and forth,
Up and down the right arm?
To the center of the palm.
And then back to the heart space.
The inhale fills the right arm to the palm.
And then it comes back.
Sensing,
Feeling,
Or imagining this in whatever way.
There's no right way.
And now with this next exhale,
Coming back,
That light at the heart center.
Growing brighter and stronger.
Inhaling now through the left arm to the center of the left palm.
And back to the heart center.
Just imagining you could take a light up and down the left arm.
Coming back to the center of the chest.
Feeling the actual breath here.
And seeing the light.
Emanating from the center of the chest.
Now moving this light down the left leg.
And back up the leg to the heart.
Can you imagine a light flowing down the body,
Down the leg to the toes on your inhale?
And then coming back up to rest at the heart.
The breath has energy.
As light.
Coming back to the heart center.
The whole chest glowing with light.
Picking this light up and down the right leg.
Back to the heart space.
Come back to the heart space resting here.
A felt sense of the glow,
Of the light.
The energy.
Starting to feel your breath filling up your whole body.
Every inhale,
The body expanding with breath.
And then we exhale the breath condensing back in towards the heart center.
Start to sense this great stillness within the body.
Imagine the body like a stone,
A boulder.
Still and solid and unmoving.
The body still.
As if the breath weren't even flowing.
Now sensing this opposite the body.
We're on our way The body right in the way.
Feel the pull,
The movement of the water beneath you.
Feel the water moving your body effortlessly,
The body moving,
Flowing.
And now returning to stillness.
Great.
Stillness.
Like a statue.
The body is solid.
Unmoving.
And with this next inhale,
Feel the body flowing on the waves again.
See the body like a little boat bobbing up and down in the waves.
Bobbing up and down on the way.
Can you bring back that solidness?
Feel the solidness and the wavy,
Flowy,
Moving at the same time.
Healing these two opposites simultaneously.
Aligning with the rise and fall of the breath.
And the sacred breath.
Effortlessly.
Flow away.
Imagine yourself walking along.
Quiet forest.
Soft moss cushions each step.
And the scent of earth fills the air.
Come along on this walk through the forest.
Feeling it everywhere Ancient trees rise all around you.
You are simply being.
On this path.
Feel yourself walking as the path naturally unfolds.
Notice how the forest trusts its own rhythm.
The trees growing without.
Striving.
And the mass spreads without effort.
The sense of everything belonging exactly as it is here in this forest path.
Now a deer appears among the trees.
Sense the deer as still.
And aware and gentle.
In the deer's presence.
Reminds you.
Trust what you feel.
As if the deer is saying.
Your inner sensing is why.
And the deer moves on and the trail keeps unfolding.
Trail.
Through the mouth see.
4.
.
.
Alive with energy.
You are one with this energy that flows just like the hawk that's gliding above you now.
Sense the hawk gliding on unseen currents.
The hawk is effortless.
Study.
And its message for you is you do not need to.
To see.
The whole path.
Trust in the larger unfolding.
The hawk whisper.
Trust.
In the larger.
Unfolding.
And glides away.
Walking in the quiet,
Quiet.
Yeah.
Fill with energy.
4.
Walking with a sense of trusting your path.
Trusting the quiet wisdom within.
Walking into the cosmos.
Dissolving into oneness with all that is.
Trusting your path.
You are one with all that is.
Of staying in your divine true nature.
Floating in the vastness.
Floating in the vastness.
Rest here now.
In the fullness.
Of all that you are.
Floating.
In this sweet,
Sweet space.
Can you bring back to mind the Sankalpa?
The intention.
Watering the seeds of this intention.
Three more times.
Repeating your Sankalpa basking in this space.
Of total relaxation.
If you're ready to come back from your yoga nidra journey Start to take a deeper breath.
Maybe moving your body around.
And softly touching your thumb pads to all of the fingertips.
I'm returning to this body.
Opening and closing the hands.
Making some circles with the wrist.
Awareness flows all the way down to the feet,
The toes,
The ankle.
A lovely opportunity for reflection.
For more quiet practices.
Riding nourishing yourself.
Moving a little slower.
If you're moving on with your day or evening.
Noticing the peaceful energy that fills you.
Staying tuned in to the benefits of yoga nidra.
If you're continuing to move on.
Wishing you all the best if you're going to sleep,
Sweet dreams.
It's my honor and my pleasure to share these practices with you.
