These recordings are designed to bring calm, peace, and equanimity. Daily practices in breathing and
Yoga Nidra with Melissa
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Nidra is for setting intentions, relaxing fully, and allowing the world to move around us while we rest. Pratyahara is one of the 8 limbs of yoga (others include yoga postures, breathing exercises, and meditation). Pratyahara is sometimes referred to as "withdrawal of the senses." Unlike sense deprivation, like you would find in a float tank, we are not trying to shut off or ignore our senses. Instead, we are open to senses coming to us, without diverting our energy towards them. Without being drawn to the constant flow of our multi-sensory world, we can simply exist within it. Nidra helps with this practice, because although we are cultivating deep rest, we are also consciously awake and alert. We are attuned to the aliveness of our body.
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Guided Relaxation with Kaitlynn
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This is a guided relaxation to help you get out of corrosive thought cycles, emotional overwhelm, or return from a habit of numbing or avoiding feelings all together. We often don't want to think about our feelings, especially when they are difficult. This takes us out of thinking about feelings and into actually FEELING feelings. Bring awareness to actual sensations in your body to get out of the loop in your mind.
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Guided Relaxation with Kaitlynn
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In our first lesson we started to learn how to identify the physical sensations of emotions in our body. It can take some practice, but the idea is to take time to sit and truly feel-not analyze, not judge, not try to figure anything out or make something go away- Just Feel, and breathe into that feeling. Sometimes simply breathing into a feeling is enough to make it more manageable. In this lesson we take persistent feelings in our bodies and practice giving them an image. We then practice shifting that image as well as the sensation held in the body. This is taking ownership of our feelings, not only to sit and acknowledge them, but also to realize we can have agency in how sensations change or move within us.
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Guided Relaxation with Kaitlynn
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Feeling the physical sensations of our emotions doesn't only apply to negative feelings! When we recognize joy or compassion or love or trust or confidence or inspiration or peace or excitement or curiosity, we can also breathe into these sensations. They may also change as you sit with them. You can learn how to call on these feel-good positive sensations and experience them more fully with this mindfulness practice.
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5 Minute Savasana
This guided relaxation can be used at the end of your personal asana practice or at any time during the day! |
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