Yoga Nidra For Embracing Your Origins And Divine Radiance

Hello and welcome.

I'm Shuri.

This practice is for those of us who have felt disconnected from the land and culture of our ancestors.

It's for anyone whose skin,

Physical being,

And ancestral origins have not been valued fully in the place they live.

This nidra will connect you back to your worth,

Your divine radiance,

And the ancestors of light who support the steps of your spirit.

Settle into your space with softness.

Place a blanket over you,

A pillow behind your head.

Attend to your physical and spiritual desire for deep rest and comfort as you set yourself up.

Let your feet and arms fall open as your eyelids meet.

Soften into the earth below.

Feel the air on your body.

Notice the texture of the blanket you're using as it meets the edges of your skin.

Invite yourself to rest down into this present moment deeply.

There is a universe that exists within you.

Begin to tune into your inner landscape.

Start to map your body from the inside out,

Using your breath as the guide for this journey of exploration.

Let breath move your awareness and your presence throughout your body.

Allow the sensation of breathing to anchor you within your inner landscape.

Sink into bone deep breathing.

Let your awareness,

Your full presence settle into your bones and muscles.

Feel the stability your body offers with love each day.

Find home in your body.

Open yourself to safety and comfort.

You are held by the earth,

By the universe,

By the galaxy that's your home.

Begin to sense the rivers of your veins moving in your body,

Carrying life force to every part of you.

Sink into the softness of your low belly.

And let your awareness settle here now.

Feel warmth radiating from your core.

Feel the temperature of your breath as it enters your body,

As it lifts your belly and moves back up through the heart space,

Through your throat,

And back out into the space around you.

Feel the divine communion of your breath with the world.

Let these deep belly breaths nourish your inner world,

Giving you exactly what you need in this moment.

Feel the organism of your skin giving form and shape to your inner universe.

Feel your skin drinking in air,

Calling life into your body.

Feel your skin from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes.

Your skin tells a story of your life,

But it's your heart which lives it.

Let your breath filter settle into your heart space,

Into the source of harmony and love within your body.

The sun around which your inner universe revolves.

Call all pieces of you to reside here now.

Feel the full presence of your wild spirit,

Whole,

Embodied.

It is now that we begin the practice of yoga nidra.

You are the legacy of your ancestors.

The texture of your hair,

The shade of your skin,

The rivers of life that move through your veins.

All of it,

A reflection of life enduring of hope,

Of love.

You lived in your mother's mother's womb.

The legacy of your ancestors lands and words are expressed in the tones of your skin and the textures of your very being.

Your skin adorns you like a robe of majesty passed down from the ancestors of light that lived and breathed to give you life and breath.

Feel this communal ancestral breath move through your body,

Your spirit.

And let yourself revel in deep gratitude,

Reverence,

Love and awe for your heart,

The home of your lived experiences,

The connector to those who breathed before you so you could breathe now.

For you to be here in this exact expression took thousands of moments and people coming together across the span of the universe.

You come from a legacy of love forged across continents.

Breathe love in.

Lay your thanks upon the altar of your body.

This love and thanks sink into you from your outermost organ and deep into the layers of your body down to your bones.

Listen to the beating of your heart,

To the wisdom and light held here.

From this place,

Connect to the ancient and eternal within you.

From the sacred space of your heart,

Allow your sun kelpa,

A vow of truth to arise.

If you already have a sun kelpa you're working with,

You can use it now.

And if you're new to the power of sun kelpa,

I'll explain.

Sun kelpa is an intention,

A truth your soul remembers formed in the heart and spoken over your life with belief.

It is a reclamation,

A declaration of truth that lives within you and exists in the realm of possibility.

For example,

I am valuable or I am worthy.

Allow your heart to speak truth in the form of sun kelpa to you.

Let this and help grow from the heart and take root in your body and your muscles and sinew.

Let it reach out to the very edges of your skin.

Feel these words of truth alive in your body and soul.

Sense these words lighting up your inner universe,

Your world of blood and bone,

Of light and dark,

Formed by source,

Born of your ancestors love,

Tended to by your infinite soul.

Repeat your sun kelpa three times,

Feeling the life force grow with each declaration.

Settle into your heart,

The great beacon of light that called your inner universe into being.

The love and light of your heart keeps your inner universe from bone to skin and beyond in balance.

Feel your heart filled with harmony.

And start to share this love,

This inner sunlight with the entirety of your being.

Send this light to your brow center.

Feel the light of your love traveling to your right temple,

Your right cheek,

Right shoulder,

Right side of the chest,

Your right upper thigh and your right ankle.

Feel the whole right side of your body filled with love and light from your innermost landscape to the beautiful skin that holds it all in.

Now send the love of your inner light to your left ankle,

Left upper thigh,

The left side of your chest,

Left shoulder,

Left cheek and your left temple.

Sense this light of love moving to your midbrain,

The space between your ears.

And let your inner light settle into the left side of your body.

Feel the whole left side of your body filled with your own love.

Sense your whole body now,

Everything alive with light and love.

Every cell,

Bone and muscle beaming,

Sparkling with love and light.

Your heart is the star that your inner universe circles,

Providing warmth,

Light and life.

See and feel your heart sharing this warmth,

This light with your whole body all at once now.

See and feel your body lit up like the brightest star in a dark sky.

You are pure light.

Become aware of the beauty,

The awe that fills you when you gaze upon the stars hanging in the velvety black of the universe.

You too are a bright light adorning the starry galaxy that is your home.

Let this truth and light pulse through your body.

Let that awe-inspired awareness land into the depths of you.

And with that same wonder and appreciation,

Notice the beauty,

The infinite,

Immeasurable worth and wonder that lives and breathes in you.

What radiance exists within you.

Your beauty is held within your heart all the way to the edges of your skin and beyond.

Worth and radiance come in many forms.

One of the great mistruths of the world is that worthiness can only come in certain shapes,

Colors,

Textures,

Sizes or places.

To see worth and beauty in this narrow way denies us the fullest expression of human life,

Freedom and all that this universe has to offer.

Radiance,

Worth and divinity grace our universe and our world in a myriad of ways.

You are an expression,

An extension of the divine.

Approach yourself with reverence,

With adoration,

With divinity.

Drop deeper and deeper still into your inner universe,

Your body.

And open yourself to the sensations alive in your inner world.

Allow yourself to feel the words that are about to be shared without attaching to any story.

Just let the felt experience of each word rise up in your body.

Know that you are safe and held as you travel through these expressions of felt experience.

What arises within you when you hear the word lie?

Where does it land?

What is the experience,

The feeling of taking in a lie as truth?

Let that dissolve entirely from your being.

And allow truth to emerge and take its place.

How does it feel when the truth is revealed to you in love?

How does truth feel in your body?

Allow that to release as well.

And return to the center of your universe,

Your heart.

Feel the rhythm of its cosmic song and let yourself dance here.

And without attachment to story,

Notice where shame takes up space in your body,

In your nervous system.

What associations or felt experiences arise when you feel shame?

And let all of that pass.

Release it entirely.

And what happens when you embody worthiness?

How does worthiness feel in your body?

Notice the sensations,

The deep felt experience that comes when worthiness recognizes that you are home.

And let that go now and settle back into the soft space of your heart,

The source of love and light in your inner world.

And feel yourself whole,

Whole and worthy.

With the senses of your heart open,

Immerse yourself in the experiences about to be shared.

A starry night sky,

Warm sun rays glistening upon the surface of water.

The shades of the earth soil holding hands with a loved one standing on the summit of a mountain at sunset.

The wind at your back.

Steam rising from a hot drink cradled between your palms.

A field of white flowers.

Water droplets on rose petals.

The grass beneath your feet.

A phoenix rising from the flames.

Your ancestors of land and soul.

Of blood and bone.

Your wild and free spirit dancing around a bonfire by the sea.

Your wild and free spirit dancing around a bonfire by the sea.

Your wild and free spirit dancing around a bonfire by the sea.

Perhaps your lips have never known the language of your ancestors' lands.

But you and your ancestors can share the language of breath too.

Feel the breath of your ancestors flowing through you,

Enlivening your inner flame.

See new life into your body.

Let yourself be reborn in the light and fire of truth.

When you walk upon this world and feel the rich soil of this earth supporting your steps,

What arises within you?

When you gaze upon the sun sharing its rays of light with the world,

What is born in your spirit?

When you look up at the dark night sky illuminated by a sprinkling of stars,

What emerges from the depths of your being?

Your skin,

Your very existence holds this same astonishing beauty and awe.

From the shades of the sunset to the hues of a night sky,

The tones and textures of this earth can be found in your skin.

The colors of the universe found a home in you.

Both the earth and the universe wear their colors with sovereignty,

Divinity,

And regality.

And so do you.

For you are a universe of your own,

Filled with worth,

Alive with purpose,

Born of a legacy.

Let the sun wrap you in its love a little longer.

When you gaze upon the starry sky,

Know that you are a direct reflection of its beauty.

Allow any lies you have been told to burn away in the fires of truth.

Let yourself be remade by the flames as you dance around the embers of burning light.

Your skin is adorned with love,

Warmth,

And light.

The story of your ancestry,

Of your life,

Is one of beauty,

Resilience,

And ultimately great love.

Fall in love with yourself,

With the skin which drapes your body and beauty in the shades of the universe,

The same shades of you.

Take that same awe and appreciation you feel when watching the sun set,

Splashing color across the sky,

And let that awe and appreciation settle with loving adoration onto your skin.

Let that feeling filter down deep into your body,

Into your life.

You are more than beauty.

You are a divine miracle living in human form.

You are soil,

Stardust,

And sinew.

You are light,

Love,

Legacy,

And land.

The ancestors of love live beside you,

Supporting the steps of your spirit.

They are the wind at your back,

Encouraging you forward towards the reclamation of you,

Loving you.

Feel the light of truth washing over you.

Let your inner world take new form around the depth of this truth.

Now,

Open yourself up to listen to the vast universe within you.

What truth lies in wait to be revealed to you?

Feel the edges of your skin recognizing home in the beautiful universe that lives around you.

Feel those edges dissolve into the vastness around you.

Surrender completely.

Welcome yourself home.

Listen into your heart,

The great source of love and light in your inner universe.

Fill up with deep adoration,

Reverence,

And love.

Feel the love you have for yourself.

Sense the worthiness of your spirit and let it fill you with joy.

And in this felt state of joy,

Repeat your sankalpa three times.

Feel your sankalpa taking root in every part of you.

As it roots within you,

Feel it rising,

Weaving itself throughout your inner universe from bone to skin.

Feel the blessing of your ancestors of land,

Light,

And love.

Sense the harmony within and around you.

The practice of yoga nidra is now complete.

Slowly start to deepen your breath.

Make circles with your ankles and wrists.

Can shift your head from side to side.

Allow a deep and full body stretch to erupt,

Letting it be as expansive as it desires.

Give yourself over to the innate intelligence of your body as you move.

Begin to roll onto your side body.

Feel yourself against the earth,

Held by the land,

The ancestors,

And the universe.

In the stillness of this moment,

Connect with your intention for the rest of your day.

Rise with the truth of your worth,

With the light of your inner sun leading the way.

Take a deep breath in and a soft,

Grounded breath out.

Stretch your arms out to your sides as you send out your intention and your love.

Begin to circle your arms overhead.

Allow your palms to meet and draw this radiant and divine energy back to the source of your universe.

Your heart.

Ariaum Tatsaat