Hello everyone,
Welcome to class.
Thank you so much for choosing to practice with me today.
My name is Christy and this yoga nidra practice was really inspired by my own inner work with the energy of the heart and I hope this meditation really fosters a deep connection with your own heart space,
Creating an energetic radiance that can be felt.
So let's begin practice by coming to a very restful,
Comfortable position,
Perhaps lying down in shavasana,
Placing a pillow under your head to support relaxation in your neck and cover yourself with a blanket to stay warm,
Perhaps placing something underneath the backs of your knees and covering your eyes and just take up space here.
Slide your arms away from the central axis of your body.
Allow your palms to flip upward to receive and let the legs drift to a relaxed state where the feet can soften in or out.
Take some deep breaths,
Fill up with the inhale breath and exhale.
Release the breath out,
Allowing the body space to let go.
Take two more of these bigger breaths.
As you come back to a natural,
Organic breath,
Gently scan the body for held tensions,
Any attachments for needing to do as we drift into this practice of non-doing.
Within this practice of non-doing,
Where we experience everything,
Where we experience the divine spirit that rests deep within your soul,
Begin to feel the outline of the physical body and begin to feel any small spaces between the outline of the physical body and the surface under you.
As you exhale,
Allow the body to relax and get heavier,
Allowing that soft surface to catch and fill these spaces underneath you.
Imagine these spaces underneath the body as a cradle to hold the physical vessel to move deeper into the multidimensional layers of yourself.
Now begin to feel the outline of your ribcage,
Feel the back of the ribs,
The sides,
The front,
Feel the entire ribcage.
Feel the ribcage gently expanding and retracting with life force energy.
Feel this loving,
Protective container that holds your sacred heart.
Let this be a nurturing space to allow the heart to open.
As the heart opens,
Begin to visualize a golden light of energy at the heart space.
Allow this golden light to grow stronger and more vibrant with every breath.
This golden light illuminating the pure and perfect vibration or frequency of your heart.
This energetic frequency that is 5,
000 times stronger than anywhere else in the body.
This golden light radiating out from the heart.
Allow the frequency to magnetically draw forth your sankalpa,
A deep heartfelt devotional prayer,
A prayer spoken sometimes in an I am statement or perhaps a word or a phrase.
If you have a primary sankalpa you're working with,
You can invite that in or perhaps repeating the more love I offer myself,
The more love I have to give,
Or I bask in my own warmth and radiance.
Repeating your sankalpa three times now.
Feel the resonance of your sankalpa and the frequency of the heart.
Let that resonate throughout the entire body.
Allow this golden light to travel through the entire body like an elixir carrying intention and energy throughout the body from point to point.
The golden light beginning on the right side of the body.
A warm glowing golden light held in the right hand like a little river of radiance traveling down into the right hand thumb,
The second finger,
Third finger,
Fourth finger,
Baby finger.
Experience sensation of healing golden light inside the palm of the right hand,
The back of the hand,
Middle of the wrist,
Lower arm,
Elbow,
Upper arm,
Shoulder,
Armpit,
Right side of the chest,
Heart center.
Sensation of golden light travels down the right side of the waist,
Right hip,
Thigh,
Knee,
Ankle,
Heel,
Top of the foot,
Sole of the foot.
Feel a radiant river of energy into the right big toe,
Second toe,
Third toe,
Fourth toe,
Baby toe.
Experience the sensation of golden light moving through and around the entire right side of the body.
The whole right side of the body illuminated with the golden light.
Feel a sensation of warm glowing golden light held in the left hand like a little river of radiance traveling down into the left thumb,
The second finger,
Third finger,
Fourth finger,
Baby finger.
Experience sensation of healing light inside the palm of the left hand,
Back of the hand,
Middle of the wrist,
Lower arm,
Elbow,
Upper arm,
Shoulder,
Armpit,
Left side of the chest,
Heart center.
Sensation of golden light traveling down the left side of the waist,
Left hip,
Thigh,
Knee,
Ankle,
Heel,
Top of the foot,
Sole of the foot.
Feel sensation of radiance in the left big toe,
Second toe,
Third toe,
Fourth toe,
Baby toe.
Experience the sensation of golden light moving through and around the entire left side of the body.
The whole left side of the body illuminated with golden light.
Feel the whole left side and the whole right side simultaneously.
Feel both sides together enveloped in radiant healing golden light.
Feel the right foot,
Feel the left foot,
The right leg,
The left leg,
The right hip,
The left hip,
The lower back,
Middle back,
Upper back,
The right arm,
The left arm,
The right shoulder blade,
The left shoulder blade,
The back of the neck,
Back of the head,
Top of the head,
Forehead,
Right eye,
Left eye,
Mind's eye center between the eyes,
Right temple,
Left temple,
Right ear,
Left ear.
Experience the sensation of energy in the right nostril,
Left nostril,
Upper lip,
Lower lip,
Tip of the tongue,
Base of the tongue,
Right side of the jaw,
Left side of the jaw,
Center of the throat,
Heart center,
Solar plexus,
Navel center,
Root center.
Experience the whole body,
Right side,
Left side,
Front,
Back,
Sensation of illumination from the frequency of the heart space,
The entire body and around the body illuminated with golden healing light.
Feel as if you are breathing in and out of the heart,
Experiencing the warm healing golden light travel with the breath from the heart through the mind and then back down to the heart.
Feel a soothing cool glow of light connecting the heart to the mind and sending a soothing sensation through the body,
Feeling a mixture of balanced light warmth and coolness together.
Continue to feel the connection to the heart.
Visualize yourself standing in front of a vast field of blooming wildflowers.
The backdrop is the fading light of the sky as the sun sets and the moon rises.
Allow yourself to lie down in these beautiful fragrant wildflowers and rest within the soft bed of the earth as your body is held by the earth.
Allow yourself to find your roots,
Release with every exhale anything that no longer serves you.
Allow your body to release into the supportive root system under the earth's surface,
Carrying away what you no longer need into the root system below you.
Feel the body releasing and letting go.
Now start to feel growth and transformation like gentle wildflowers growing from each cell of the body.
Feel the body held by this root system encouraged to let go while simultaneously feeling this sense of blooming and growth from within.
Now just rest here in silence,
Basking in the energetic bloom of your own warmth and light to feel whole,
Peaceful and radiant.
Plug into source energy,
Finding deep gratitude for any lessons and blessings that were able to move through and be released.
Gratitude for blooming and blossoming that arises like a field of wildflowers flowers of growth in the sacred heart space,
Open and vast as far as one can see.
The heart is wide open,
Radiant and a fertile garden for your sankalpa to be rooted and planted,
To blossom and bloom.
Repeating your sankalpa once again.
The more love I offer myself,
The more love I have to give.
Or I bask in the warmth of my own light,
Noticing what feeling tones are present when your heart is open.
What does it feel like to have an open heart to growth,
Expansion and possibility?
Now just rest here in silence,
Basking in the energetic bloom of your own warmth and light to feel whole,
Peaceful and radiant as the breath fills and releases the vessel.
Exploring the sensations in the physical body with curiosity and compassion,
Observing any shifts energetically in the mind and in the heart,
Experiencing the boundary of your skin,
Touching your clothing or blanket.
Feel your fingers and toes.
Take any gentle movements you need to reawaken or just continue to rest as long as your heart's desire.
Consider how you are nourishing your heart,
The growth of your inner wildflowers and root system,
What you're feeding it with,
How you spend your time,
What you can do for yourself to nourish yourself and support your radiance and growth.
These are questions I come back to quite often,
To really stay aligned with the language of the heart.
I truly believe that when we connect with our heart's desires,
We lived a much more balanced and aligned life and it absolutely fills my heart to connect with all of you around the world.
It makes me smile seeing your comments and sharing them with you on this platform.
Thank you for practicing with me and creating this sacred space for yourself.
To feel calm and grounded and support your nervous system to regulate.
Please continue to shine your radiance out and across the world.
