Latest / RosalieYoga / Guided Sleep Meditation _ Yoga Nidra for Sleep
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Namaste. I'm Rosalie and this is a yoga nidra designed
- 0:08Speaker 1: to help you sleep. It will help you drift into
- 0:14Speaker 1: deeper and deeper states of rest and slumber. You may
- 0:22Speaker 1: also find you're able to remember your dreams better when
- 0:26Speaker 1: you next wake up. Begin by making sure everything is
- 0:35Speaker 1: done and you're now ready for bed. If you're not
- 0:40Speaker 1: quite ready, I encourage you to pause this video and
- 0:45Speaker 1: do anything else you might need to get ready for
- 0:49Speaker 1: a nice, long, restful sleep. Take your time to get
- 1:01Speaker 1: completely comfortable Make any adjustments to really land into the
- 1:09Speaker 1: support beneath you. Nestling down, using any props you might
- 1:18Speaker 1: need to feel warm and cozy, completely comfortable. You may
- 1:28Speaker 1: like a blanket on top of you. Can you snuggle in,
- 1:33Speaker 1: create a little cocoon for yourself? You may like a
- 1:40Speaker 1: pillow beneath your head, maybe something to cover your eyes.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Perhaps adjusting your headphones, making sure they're completely comfortable. Is
- 1:55Speaker 1: there anything you could do? to be even a tiny
- 1:59Speaker 1: bit more comfortable. When you're ready, close your eyes, allowing
- 2:15Speaker 1: yourself to be cocooned in this cozy, warm space you've created.
- 2:25Speaker 1: sheltered from any external disturbances, feeling safe, protected, held. We'll
- 2:40Speaker 1: begin with three big cleansing breaths. Take a deep inhale
- 2:45Speaker 1: through the nose. Long exhale through the mouth. And again.
- 3:03Speaker 1: One more big inhale. The whole of you settling down.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Bring all your awareness now to the forehead. All the
- 3:32Speaker 1: little muscles of the forehead relaxing, letting go. And could
- 3:41Speaker 1: you imagine a wave of relaxation flowing down to the eye?
- 3:51Speaker 1: All the little muscles around the eyes and behind the
- 3:57Speaker 1: eyes softening, letting go. The eyes sinking back down into
- 4:11Speaker 1: their sockets. The eyelids becoming heavy Relaxation flowing down to
- 4:28Speaker 1: the jaw. The whole jaw softening, letting go. The whole face.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Releasing.
- 4:51Speaker 1: All the expression in the face melting away. With every exhale,
- 5:05Speaker 1: allowing any tension to drain from the body, sinking deeper
- 5:11Speaker 1: and deeper into the support beneath you. And might you
- 5:26Speaker 1: imagine softening the muscle of your mind, letting go of
- 5:35Speaker 1: any gripping in the mind, releasing any sense of needing
- 5:44Speaker 1: to be or do anything else. The day is done.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Time to deeply rest is now. Let your bones become heavy.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Each bone resting deeply. Becoming heavier and heavier. Feeling the
- 6:20Speaker 1: full weight of the bones as the body gets heavier
- 6:28Speaker 1: and heavier. Sinking deeper and deeper into the support beneath you.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Now bring your awareness to the front of your body.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Notice any sensations, perhaps the warmth or the softness of
- 6:57Speaker 1: your clothes or your blankets. Notice any sensations from the
- 7:06Speaker 1: air around you. And might you imagine and feel the
- 7:18Speaker 1: walls around you The ceiling above you. Sensing the entire
- 7:28Speaker 1: physical body lying here completely still. The whole of you
- 7:44Speaker 1: resting deeply. And notice the breath in the body. Just
- 7:58Speaker 1: noticing that sense of expansion as you inhale. And softening
- 8:06Speaker 1: as you exhale. And could you begin to lengthen the exhales.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Making each exhale a little longer than the inhale. Perhaps
- 8:27Speaker 1: inhaling to a count of four and exhaling to a
- 8:32Speaker 1: count of six or seven. The exhales longer than the inhales.
- 9:05Speaker 1: Breath flowing in and out, expanding, releasing like waves rolling in,
- 9:21Speaker 1: rolling out. Now welcome a heartfelt intention, a sankalpa. Might
- 9:44Speaker 1: you whisper to yourself, I drift effortlessly into a deep slumber,
- 9:53Speaker 1: allowing my body to fully recharge. And when I wake up,
- 9:59Speaker 1: I able to recall all my dreams. Could you feel
- 10:07Speaker 1: this intention with your whole body as you silently whisper
- 10:14Speaker 1: to yourself, I drift effortlessly into a deep slumber, allowing
- 10:25Speaker 1: my body to fully recharge. When I wake up, I'm
- 10:31Speaker 1: able to recall all my dreams. to rotate our awareness
- 10:47Speaker 1: through the whole body. As your awareness moves through the body,
- 10:55Speaker 1: could you welcome the energy of deep sleep to that part?
- 11:02Speaker 1: As if each part of your body was being enveloped
- 11:08Speaker 1: by the energy of deep and restful slumber. Beginning inside
- 11:16Speaker 1: the mouth. Noticing all the sensations inside the mouth. The tongue.
- 11:30Speaker 1: From the tip of your tongue to the root of
- 11:34Speaker 1: your tongue. The roof of your mouth. Inside the right cheek.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Inside the left cheek. Sensing the teeth, the gums. All
- 11:58Speaker 1: your awareness now to the right ear. The whole right ear.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Now inside the right ear. Noticing the right ear listening.
- 12:24Speaker 1: And now the left ear. The whole left ear. And
- 12:33Speaker 1: inside the left ear listening. Both ears. listening, receptive to
- 12:50Speaker 1: each sound. Now the center of the forehead. And from
- 13:05Speaker 1: the center of the forehead, awareness spreading downwards to the temples.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Relaxing each temple.
- 13:20Speaker 2: The right. The left.
- 13:28Speaker 1: Sensing the right eye. The left eye. The cheekbones.
- 13:43Speaker 2: The right.
- 13:47Speaker 1: The left. The bridge of the nose. The tip of
- 13:55Speaker 1: your nose. The right nostril. The left nostril. The sensation
- 14:09Speaker 1: of air flowing in and out. The upper lip. The
- 14:23Speaker 1: bottom lip. The chin. The center of your throat. The
- 14:38Speaker 1: base of your throat. Down to the heart space. the
- 14:50Speaker 1: right side of your chest, the right shoulder, an awareness
- 15:02Speaker 1: flowing down through the upper arm, the elbow, the forearm,
- 15:18Speaker 1: the wrist, The palm of your hand. The back of
- 15:27Speaker 1: your hand. The right thumb. First finger. Second. Third. And
- 15:45Speaker 1: little finger. All five fingertips of the right hand. Sensing
- 15:57Speaker 1: all five fingertips. The space between the fingers. Could you
- 16:10Speaker 1: notice where the space within the fingertips ends? And the
- 16:18Speaker 1: space beyond begins. Awareness back to the palm, wrist, forearm, elbow,
- 16:46Speaker 1: upper arm, The right shoulder. The whole right hand and arm.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Sensing the whole right hand and arm wrapped in the
- 17:05Speaker 1: energy of deep sleep. The heart space. The left side
- 17:19Speaker 1: of the chest. The left shoulder. Awareness flowing down through
- 17:32Speaker 1: the upper arm.
- 17:36Speaker 2: Elbow.
- 17:40Speaker 1: Forearm.
- 17:44Speaker 2: Wrist.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Palm of your hand, the back of your hand, the
- 17:58Speaker 1: left thumb, first finger, second, third, little finger, sensing all
- 18:15Speaker 1: five fingertips of the left hand. And the space in
- 18:24Speaker 1: between the fingers. Could you notice where the space within
- 18:32Speaker 1: the fingertips ends and the space beyond begins? Simply noticing.
- 18:49Speaker 1: Awareness back to the palm. wrist, forearm, elbow, upper arm, shoulder,
- 19:11Speaker 1: the whole left hand and arm, sensing the whole left
- 19:18Speaker 1: hand and arm wrapped in the energy deep sleep. Now
- 19:31Speaker 1: both hands and arms together, the right, the left, both
- 19:42Speaker 1: hands and arms wrapped in the energy of deep sleep.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Sleep.
- 19:54Speaker 1: Back to the heart space. Awareness flowing down through the
- 20:04Speaker 1: torso to the belly. the right side of the hip,
- 20:16Speaker 1: the whole right thigh, the front, the back, flowing down
- 20:28Speaker 1: to the knee, the shin, the calf, ankle, the sole
- 20:49Speaker 1: of your foot, the top of your foot, the right
- 21:00Speaker 1: big toe, second, third, fourth, and little toe. All five
- 21:16Speaker 1: toes of the right foot. And the space between the toes.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Attention back. The top of the foot. The sole of
- 21:39Speaker 1: the foot.
- 21:42Speaker 2: The ankle.
- 21:45Speaker 1: The lower leg, knee, thigh, up to the hip, the
- 21:58Speaker 1: whole right foot and leg, deeply resting, the sacrum, and
- 22:13Speaker 1: over to the left hip, Awareness flowing down through the
- 22:22Speaker 1: whole left thigh, front and back, the knee, the shin,
- 22:36Speaker 1: the calf, the heel of the foot, the ankle, The
- 22:49Speaker 1: sole of your foot. The top of your foot. The
- 22:58Speaker 1: left big toe.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Second.
- 23:05Speaker 1: Third. Fourth. And little toe. All five toes of the
- 23:17Speaker 1: left foot.
- 23:24Speaker 2: The toes.
- 23:30Speaker 1: Attention back to the top of the foot, sole of
- 23:38Speaker 1: the foot, the ankle flowing up through the lower leg,
- 23:49Speaker 1: the knee, All left foot and leg deeply resting. Now
- 24:08Speaker 1: both feet and legs together. All wrapped up in the
- 24:17Speaker 1: energy of deep sleep. Now sensing the whole back of
- 24:32Speaker 1: your body, from the back of your head all the
- 24:39Speaker 1: way down to your heels.
- 24:44Speaker 2: The whole back.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Body releasing, deeply resting. The whole front of your body,
- 25:05Speaker 1: from the crown of the head to the tips of
- 25:10Speaker 1: your toes, sensing the whole front of your body. The
- 25:20Speaker 1: whole front of the body, deeply resting. Now the whole
- 25:36Speaker 1: body as one, the entire physical body wrapped in the
- 25:45Speaker 1: warm embrace of a dreamy Now notice the natural rhythm
- 26:10Speaker 1: of your breath, sensing the expansion as you inhale, the
- 26:19Speaker 1: release as you exhale. And as you notice your natural breath,
- 26:31Speaker 1: we'll count the breaths down from 20 to one. with
- 26:39Speaker 1: each count feeling your body relaxing deeper and deeper. You
- 26:50Speaker 1: might imagine yourself at the top of a stairwell. Could
- 26:58Speaker 1: you picture yourself taking a step down with each step
- 27:07Speaker 1: shifting down Into a deeper state of rest. Even deeper
- 27:15Speaker 1: than before. At the top of the stairs. Inhale as
- 27:25Speaker 1: you internally repeat.
- 27:27Speaker 2: 20.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Exhale, stepping down.
- 27:32Speaker 2: 20. Inhale. 19.
- 27:40Speaker 1: Exhale, stepping down, 19. Inhale, 18. Exhale, stepping down, 18.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Continue all the way down to.
- 28:00Speaker 2: 1 in your own count. Thank you. Thanks for watching!
- 30:14Speaker 1: And now begin to feel your whole body becoming heavy.
- 30:22Speaker 1: The whole body sinking deeper and deeper into the support
- 30:28Speaker 1: beneath you. The whole body. Imagine the body, the mind
- 30:50Speaker 1: so sleepy now. Sleepy and drifting off. Allowing thoughts to flow.
- 31:10Speaker 1: A natural flow of sleepy dreamlike thoughts without taking any
- 31:25Speaker 1: interest in what the thoughts might be about just let
- 31:31Speaker 1: them flow freely welcoming a natural flow of images thoughts
- 31:55Speaker 1: your attention towards the back of your closed eyelids. You
- 32:02Speaker 1: might notice spontaneous colors or images arising here. Or you
- 32:11Speaker 1: might welcome the following images to rotate through your consciousness
- 32:18Speaker 1: as I name them. Might you imagine Your bare feet
- 32:27Speaker 1: in the soft green grass. A meadow of wild flowers
- 32:42Speaker 1: dancing in the wind. Lush, rolling green mountains. A huge, bright,
- 32:59Speaker 1: yellow sunflower. Sunrays glistening on a lake. A beautiful sunset.
- 33:20Speaker 1: A dark night sky. A blanket of stars lighting up
- 33:30Speaker 1: the dark night sky An owl sitting in a tree
- 33:43Speaker 1: A full moon rising up higher and higher Welcoming any
- 34:00Speaker 1: dreamlike images to arise. Allowing thoughts to flow freely. How
- 34:30Speaker 1: would it feel if you were already asleep? If you're
- 34:54Speaker 1: still awake, might you welcome your Sankalpa once again as
- 35:01Speaker 1: we plant the seed deep in your subconscious mind. Might
- 35:09Speaker 1: you repeat to yourself, I drift effortlessly into a deep slumber,
- 35:18Speaker 1: allowing my body to fully recharge. And when I wake up,
- 35:27Speaker 1: I'm able to recall all my dreams.
- 35:41Speaker 2: The whole body heavy, drifting.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Drifting off to sleep now. The energy, Deep breaths.
- 36:14Speaker 2: All around you. Sleeping.
- 36:40Speaker 1: Remembering your intention to recall your dreams as you drift
- 36:48Speaker 1: off to sleep.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Sweet dreams. you you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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- 55:04Speaker 2: you you Thank you. for watching. Thank you. you Thank you. Bye.
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- 1:09:46Speaker 2: is the first time I've ever seen this kind of
- 1:09:47Speaker 2: thing in real life. Thank you. Thank you. you Thank you.
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