Latest / RosalieYoga / Yoga Nidra for Sleep with Heavy Rain _ Dream Recall (1.5 Hrs)
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- 0:07Speaker 1: Namaste. I'm Rosalie and this is a yoga nidra designed
- 0:14Speaker 1: to help you sleep. It will help you drift into
- 0:21Speaker 1: deeper and deeper states of rest. It's also designed to
- 0:29Speaker 1: help you improve your dream recall so you may find
- 0:35Speaker 1: you remember your dreams better when you next wake up
- 0:42Speaker 1: take your time to get completely comfortable in your bed
- 0:49Speaker 1: feel free to stretch your legs out let your feet
- 0:54Speaker 1: flop to the sides maybe shift around the shoulders a
- 1:01Speaker 1: little bit making any adjustments you might need Then really
- 1:21Speaker 1: last into the support beneath you. Feel the whole weight
- 1:29Speaker 1: of your body dropping down, snuggling in to your warm
- 1:40Speaker 1: and cozy past. Is there anything you can do to
- 1:51Speaker 1: be even a tiny bit more comfortable? Now feeling the
- 2:07Speaker 1: eyelids getting heavy, closing down if they haven't already. The
- 2:22Speaker 1: day is done. There is nothing more for you to do.
- 2:34Speaker 1: It's time to deeply rest. Let yourself be cocooned in
- 2:45Speaker 1: this cozy and warm space. sheltered from any external disturbance
- 2:58Speaker 1: you're safe protected and held in this space in a
- 3:13Speaker 1: moment I'll take three breaths together and with each exhale
- 3:22Speaker 1: Could you imagine releasing any traces of your day? Letting
- 3:29Speaker 1: any residual charges or thoughts simply flow out on the exhale.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Let's take a deep inhale through the nose. Long exhale
- 3:49Speaker 1: through the mouth. And again. Sinking deeper and deeper. One
- 4:06Speaker 1: more big inhale. And allow your breath to settle back
- 4:22Speaker 1: into its natural rhythm. The whole of you settling down,
- 4:33Speaker 1: letting go. Now let your awareness gravitate to your forehead
- 4:50Speaker 1: and allow all the muscles of the forehead to completely relax.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Let it go. Could you imagine a wave of relaxation
- 5:16Speaker 1: spreading down to the eyes All the little muscles around
- 5:26Speaker 1: the eyes softening, letting go. As the eyes sink down,
- 5:42Speaker 1: becoming heavy, And this wave of relaxation flows down the face,
- 5:58Speaker 1: through the cheeks, to the jaw. Could you feel the
- 6:09Speaker 1: jaw letting go? this wave of relaxation sweeping through the
- 6:26Speaker 1: whole face all expression from the face melting away and
- 6:39Speaker 1: allowing this wave of relaxation to spread from the face
- 6:48Speaker 1: all the way down the body With every exhale, allowing
- 7:08Speaker 1: any tension to drain from the body. Sinking deeper and
- 7:17Speaker 1: deeper into the support beneath you. The whole body getting
- 7:35Speaker 1: heavier and heavier, the bones sinking down, feeling the full
- 7:48Speaker 1: weight of the body as the bones, the muscles, the tissues,
- 8:02Speaker 1: get heavier and heavier. Sensing the entire physical body lying here,
- 8:30Speaker 1: completely still. The whole of you resting deeply now. And
- 8:50Speaker 1: now welcoming our sankalpa, or heartfelt intention for this practice.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Perhaps you're working with your own. Or perhaps you might
- 9:05Speaker 1: like to use this one. I drift effortlessly into a
- 9:13Speaker 1: deep and restful sleep. And when I wake up, I
- 9:20Speaker 1: recall all my dreams. Might you whisper your Sangatpa internally
- 9:30Speaker 1: to yourself? three times and feel it through your whole
- 9:37Speaker 1: being as you say it I drift effortlessly into a
- 9:49Speaker 1: deep and restful sleep and when I wake up I
- 9:56Speaker 1: recall all my dreams Now let it go. We will
- 10:55Speaker 1: begin now to rotate our attention through the whole body.
- 11:04Speaker 1: As your awareness moves through the body, could you welcome
- 11:09Speaker 1: the energy of deep sleep to that part? As if
- 11:18Speaker 1: each part of your body was being enveloped, wrapped up
- 11:25Speaker 1: in the energy of deep and restful sleep. You might
- 11:35Speaker 1: feel this like a soothing balm or maybe a sense
- 11:42Speaker 1: of heaviness or perhaps something else. Getting at the crown
- 11:52Speaker 1: of your head. Sensing all the muscles in the crown
- 12:00Speaker 1: of your head. Letting the muscles release. Let go. And
- 12:16Speaker 1: might you welcome the sense of relaxation Slow downwards to
- 12:25Speaker 1: the forehead. Flowing down to the eyebrows. Letting the eyebrows go.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Flowing down to the eyes. all the little muscles of
- 12:54Speaker 1: the eyes releasing flowing down through the cheeks and now
- 13:14Speaker 1: to the ears sensing both ears Could you sense inside
- 13:33Speaker 1: both ears?
- 13:34Speaker 2: Listening.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Awareness flowing to the lips. The tongue. Awareness flowing down
- 14:13Speaker 1: to the chin. The whole face and scalp enveloped in
- 14:27Speaker 1: a soothing balm of restful sleep. And allowing this energy
- 14:41Speaker 1: to float down the neck. Can you feel it reaching
- 14:49Speaker 1: the shoulders? All tension melting away. And this wave of
- 15:04Speaker 1: relaxation to spread to the shoulder joints and flowing down
- 15:17Speaker 1: the arms the front and the back down to the
- 15:27Speaker 1: elbows this wave of relaxation Spreading through the lower arms.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Front and back. To the wrists. And the palms of
- 15:58Speaker 1: your hands. Just pausing here for a moment. Sensing both palms.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Could you sense your pulse in both palms? A sense
- 16:25Speaker 1: of relaxation enveloping the back of the hands. And all
- 16:36Speaker 1: the way down to the fingertips. Could you feel all
- 16:46Speaker 1: ten fingers enveloped in a soothing ball.
- 16:58Speaker 2: Of tea?
- 17:12Speaker 1: Both arms and hands completely wrapped up in the energy
- 17:22Speaker 1: of sleep and deep breath. letting this wave of relaxation
- 17:41Speaker 1: now gather back at your heart space the center of
- 17:51Speaker 1: your chest pausing here for a moment connecting to the
- 18:03Speaker 1: energy the wisdom of the heart and allowing this wave
- 18:20Speaker 1: of relaxation to continue to spread down through the front
- 18:28Speaker 1: and the back of the body through the abdomen and
- 18:35Speaker 1: the back soothing balm wrapping the entire torso all the
- 18:47Speaker 1: way down to the pausing here for a moment, feeling
- 18:58Speaker 1: both hips, and allowing this soothing ball that carries the
- 19:10Speaker 1: energy of deep rest to slowly spread down the thigh,
- 19:24Speaker 1: the back of the legs flowing down to the knees
- 19:39Speaker 1: and allowing this wave of relaxation to continue down through
- 19:48Speaker 1: the lower legs through the front of the shins the
- 19:58Speaker 1: back of the calves slowly all the way down to
- 20:11Speaker 1: the ankles and allowing this wave of relaxation to flow
- 20:26Speaker 1: down through the soles of the feet pausing here for
- 20:34Speaker 1: a moment could you feel pulse the soles of your feet.
- 20:51Speaker 1: The top of the foot wrapped up in a soothing
- 20:58Speaker 1: balm and flowing all the way down to the tips
- 21:06Speaker 1: of your toes. Could you feel all 10 toes envelops
- 21:23Speaker 1: the energy of deep rest? Now could you sense both
- 21:37Speaker 1: legs and feet wrapped up in the energy of sleep
- 21:50Speaker 1: deep rest slumber almost like a pulse of a soothing
- 22:01Speaker 1: balm would you let this energy of deep rest shift
- 22:20Speaker 1: over to the whole right side of your body the
- 22:28Speaker 1: whole right side of your body from the crown of
- 22:33Speaker 1: your head to the tips of your toes wrapped up
- 22:41Speaker 1: in the energy Take rest Shifting over now to the
- 23:00Speaker 1: whole left side of your body The whole left side
- 23:08Speaker 1: of your body filled with the scent.
- 23:16Speaker 2: Rest.
- 23:29Speaker 1: Let your awareness now shift to the whole front of
- 23:33Speaker 1: the body. The whole front of the body. Involve sense
- 23:47Speaker 1: slumber in deep, restful sleep. Now the whole back of
- 24:05Speaker 1: the body, the whole back of the body resting. Now
- 24:28Speaker 1: the whole body as one, the whole body calibrated to
- 24:41Speaker 1: the energy of deep restful meditation. As you rest here,
- 25:05Speaker 1: could you notice the breath in the body? Simply notice
- 25:14Speaker 1: the breath flowing in will count the breath down from
- 25:35Speaker 1: 10 to 1 and with each count could you feel
- 25:43Speaker 1: the body shifting down even more into deeper and deeper
- 25:52Speaker 1: states of rest on your next inhale silently whisper to
- 26:03Speaker 1: yourself 10, exhale 10, inhale 9, exhale 9, inhale 8,
- 26:26Speaker 1: exhale Continue all the way down to one in your
- 26:33Speaker 1: own allowing the body to get heavier and heavier, all
- 27:45Speaker 1: the muscles, the bones, the tissues resting the whole body
- 28:16Speaker 1: sinking deeper and deeper becoming so heavy now drifting off
- 28:40Speaker 1: allowing thoughts to flow A natural flow of sleepy, dreamlike
- 28:51Speaker 1: thoughts without taking any interest in what the thoughts might
- 28:59Speaker 1: be about. Just let them flow. Welcoming a natural flow
- 29:31Speaker 1: of images. and thoughts if you're still here you place
- 30:00Speaker 1: your attention towards the back of your eyelids. Resting your
- 30:09Speaker 1: attention here, you might notice colors, images, patterns arising here.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Let them flow freely you might welcome the following images
- 30:45Speaker 1: to rotate through your consciousness as I name them. A
- 30:55Speaker 1: golden sunset with oranges and pinks lighting up the sky.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Palm trees swaying in the wind. Your feet standing in
- 31:28Speaker 1: the sands. Sat between your toes. Waves flapping on the shore.
- 32:03Speaker 1: A flock of birds fly through the sky. The sky
- 32:19Speaker 1: Getting darker and darker. The full moon rising. Shooting stars
- 32:44Speaker 1: across the night sky. A huge crackling bonfire. And welcoming
- 33:13Speaker 1: any dreamlike images to arrive. Allowing thoughts to flow freely, effortlessly.
- 33:38Speaker 1: Not paying any attention to the thoughts or images that
- 33:43Speaker 1: might arise, just allowing them to flow freely. How would
- 34:14Speaker 1: it feel if you were ready asleep? Now might you
- 34:30Speaker 1: welcome your sankatpa once again, planting the seed deep in
- 34:40Speaker 1: your subconscious mind. Perhaps you're working with your own Sankanpa.
- 34:49Speaker 1: Or perhaps I drift effortlessly into a deep and restful sleep.
- 35:01Speaker 1: And when I wake up, I recall all my dreams.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Letting thoughts and images flow freely now as you rest
- 35:32Speaker 1: back into the support and comfort of the bed beneath you.
- 36:07Speaker 1: As you drift to sleep, set the strong intention that
- 36:14Speaker 1: you will retain the images of the dreams that you
- 36:20Speaker 1: will now have.
- 36:38Speaker 2: Drifting.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Drifting off to sleep now.
- 36:53Speaker 2: Drifting.
- 36:56Speaker 1: The energy of deep rest wrapped all around you and
- 37:05Speaker 1: spread your attention to recall your dreams let go now
- 37:29Speaker 2: Sweet dreams