So lie down in a way that feels nourishing and supported.
And then finding stillness.
So today's offering is an invitation to surrender.
To soften the edges and to rest in the rhythm of your inner tides.
And to be tenderly held by the mermaids of your own sacred waters.
This is Yoganidra,
Mermaids of the sacred waters.
A mystical journey to remember that the ocean lives inside you.
There is nothing you need to change or fix,
Only to feel,
To float,
And to be.
Here in this temple of water and moonlight,
Let yourself be rocked like driftwood,
Sung to like the sea,
And carried to the shore of your own inner radiance.
This is your return to softness,
To remembering,
To home.
And let your breath become the tide.
Feel the ground beneath you,
Solid,
Cool,
Embracing.
And feel yourself slowly arriving,
Breath by breath.
Wave by wave.
Softening the muscles around your eyes.
Unclench the jaw.
Feel the face dissolve into the space around it.
Let the whole body begin to merge with the earth beneath you.
Let gravity take you deeper.
Bring your awareness to your heart center.
Here we plant a seed.
Here we plant your sankalpa,
A heartfelt intention to guide your journey tonight.
It may arise as a word,
An image,
A quality.
Or perhaps,
Just repeat inwardly,
I rest in my essence.
Allow your sankalpa to surface like a pearl from the sea.
Place it gently in your heart.
Let it glow and settle.
Imagine now that you are floating on your back in a warm,
Moonlit sea.
The breath is soft.
The body supported.
The air holds a quiet hush.
As you rest in this ocean of stillness,
You begin to sense movement in the waters around you.
You look up and around.
And then you see them.
The mermaids drawing closer.
Their shimmering presence like light through water.
They move with reverence.
Slow and spiral.
Their hair long,
Trailing like ribbons of sea kelp in a gentle tide.
They hum ancient songs that you feel in your body more than you can hear.
With every breath,
The presence of the mermaids softens you.
They do not speak.
They simply tend.
With hands that remember.
With hearts that listen.
With a love that is bolder than language.
Their song stirs something in you.
A shimmer awakening at the brow.
As though moonlight is gathered quietly behind your forehead.
Let this space glow with soft awareness.
As if touched by intuition itself.
From this luminous stillness,
A single stream begins to flow.
A spiral of silver sea water emerges from this space.
Trickling down your cheeks to the hollow between the collarbones.
Bearing it with soft magic of remembrance and release.
Hear the waters gather and glisten until they spill into a soft flowing stream down the right shoulder.
Two mermaids glide down the right arm.
Their hands gliding in simple,
Quiet spirals.
Their presence softens you.
Gentle as tide and song.
They flow into the right elbow.
Then the wrist.
Then they whirlpool in the palm of your right hand.
The waters whirl and blow.
A mermaid swirls gently in the center of your right hand.
Ripples of tenderness radiate through,
Brimming over into each and every fingertip.
Sense the whole right arm now pulsing with magic infused,
Shimmering mermaid water.
The stream flows down to the left shoulder.
On the left they return,
Tracing graceful paths of light along your shoulder,
Arm.
They flow into the wrist.
Whirlpooling once more in the left palm.
The mermaid spirals in silence,
Leaving trails of shimmer that soften the entire hand into stillness.
Overflowing into each and every finger.
Sense the whole left arm now shimmering with the radiance of these enchanted waters.
From the palms the waters begin to travel again,
This time flowing gently towards the pelvis.
Where soft waves pool at the belly.
Here the breath slows.
Awareness deepens as if you're resting in the tide of your own inner ocean.
The waters overflow down the right leg,
To the knee,
To the ankle,
Pooling in the sole of the right foot.
There another playful pod of mermaids gather at each toe,
Blessing your rest with playful presence.
Now the whole right leg shimmers with enchanted flow.
The stream flows across the left hip,
Sliding down the left leg,
To the knee,
To the ankle,
Pooling in the sole of the left foot.
Pouring into each and every toe.
Mermaids diving into the glowing waters,
Splashing gently,
Blessing your rest.
Now the whole left leg glistens with magical fluid light as the current rises like a luminous wave through the spine,
Caressing each vertebra with liquid light.
It crests at the heart where a circle of mermaids pause in stillness.
Their palms hover over your chest,
A quiet blessing not to change you,
But to honor what already lives within.
You may feel a quiet warmth here,
A soft glow expanding from the center.
Take a big breath into this space,
Let it expand gently and soften.
Sense your whole body now,
From crown to soles,
From fingertips to the heart,
Resting in radiant stillness,
A being seen in starlight,
Wrapped in time.
There is nothing to do,
Nothing to become,
Only this presence,
Only this ocean of being.
Now let the whole body grow heavy,
So heavy it sinks to the ocean floor,
The whole body heavier than thought,
Heavier than time.
You are the coral bed,
The rooted reef,
Still,
Anchored,
Whole.
And now let the weight lift and feel yourself becoming light,
A shimmer on the surface of the water,
A glimmer of moonlight across the waves,
Growing lighter and lighter.
You are the sea and the sky,
Both surrendered,
Both divine.
Now return to the breath,
Begin by simply feeling the flow of air in the nostrils,
The soft caress of breath entering and leaving inhale like the tide arriving,
Exhale like a wave slipping back to the sea,
Feel the breath swell and recede,
Feel the lift of the chest and the fall of the belly.
You are not breathing,
You are being breathed.
Let each inhale draw you inward let each exhale dissolve you into stillness let the breath become subtle like a lullaby beneath the surface.
You are the rhythm You are the tide You are the breath of the sea Drift more inward now Let awareness rest on the gentle rhythm of sensation Notice without grasping Let each flicker of thought or feeling rise and dissolve like sea foam You are not the wave You are the ocean that holds it all You may notice a quiet current behind the heart a steady pulse of inner knowing not something to understand but something to trust This is the place beneath all effort beneath all identity Here you remember who you are There is no shore no edge only presence only water upon water You are the sea dreaming itself stillness beneath the waves breath within the tide You are the ocean remembering itself from this place of deep stillness Let your sankalpa return not from memory but from the depth of the heart Let it surface like a shell from the sea floor Hold it again with reverence Let it glow Let it be Slowly begin to awaken the body Wiggling your fingers and toes Draw the arms up overhead Draw the knees up Just dropping to the side and pause here Take a moment of integration Let these final words echo within you I do not need to push the river I only need to remember Thank you everyone so much for joining It's been a real pleasure
