Ailsa Burns: Guided Relaxations

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Ailsa Burns: Guided Relaxations episodes

May 25, 2024 Yoga Nidra: Mind Awake Body Asleep
Yoga Nidra Mind Awake Body Asleep. Today’s 40 minute Yoga Nidra invites you to remain awake and aware whilst your body deeply rests. You aren’t practising Yoga Nidra in the wrong way if you fall asleep, sometimes your body needs that rest but there is fountain of experience and insight to gleaned when you try to remain awake and aware throughout the entire duration of the Yoga Nidra. Often during a Yoga Nidra you move between various states of consciousness hence that feeling of waking up that can happen. Yoga Nidra actually leads you to the hypnagogic state, the state between waking and sleeping and extends the time there to beyond the 2 to 5 minutes that we experience when we fall asleep at night. And so, today’s Yoga Nidra invites you to try to remain awake and aware and see what you feel and experience and if you fall asleep, that is absolutely okay too, wherever you land is absolutely perfect.
This voice only Yoga Nidra is designed to soothe, restore and reset your entire nervous system. Ailsa will guide you through intention, an inner resource practice, body sensing and breathwork. Get cosy, and let yourself be guided by Ailsa's soothing voice to a state of deep rest and relaxation. Ailsa's voice is female with a soft Scottish accent and there is no music accompanying the meditation.
Relax back into this 40 minute Yoga Nidra with Ailsa to support and calm the nervous system. This Yoga Nidra guided meditation is designed to utilise the systematic relaxation techniques used in Yoga Nidra to bring you into the parasympathetic division of the nervous system known as 'rest and digest'. Yoga Nidra is a technique of guided meditation that is completely effortless and accessible to all. Simply find a comfortable place to rest, relax back and just listen. The techniques used here will bring you into a deep light altered state of consciousness where you land somewhere between wakefulness and sleeping. It is here where one can disconnect from the thinking mind and rest back into a sense of your true nature. As the body undergoes healing and returns to homeostasis, emerge feeling grounded, rested, and more balanced.
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation practised lying down that leads you into a healing and deeply restful state. Yoga Nidra has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression and anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); while increasing health, resiliency and well-being. This practice, encompassing elements like body scans, stress relief, and anxiety reduction, provides an all-encompassing solution for concerns related to insomnia. The unique approach of Yoga Nidra is known for fostering non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) and can also be used to encourage the onset of sleep. Yoga Nidra serves as a form of sleep hypnosis, ushering you into a peaceful slumber or an invigorating nap as desired.
0:00 introduction
3:00 yoga nidra mind awake body asleep

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40 min
May 21, 2024 Yoga Nidra to Calm the Nervous System
20 Yoga Nidra to Calm the Nervous System. Today’s Yoga Nidra is designed to stimulate the Vagus Nerve, which can help to relax the body, calm the mind, and activate the rest and digest nervous system response. A healthy vagal tone can have wonderful benefits for autonomic nervous system health, as well as mental health and well-being. This voice only Yoga Nidra is designed to soothe, restore and reset your entire nervous system. Ailsa will guide you through intention, an inner resource practice, body sensing and breathwork. Get cosy, and let yourself be guided by Ailsa's soothing voice to a state of deep rest and relaxation. Ailsa's voice is female with a soft Scottish accent and there is no music accompanying the meditation.
Relax back into this 20 minute Yoga Nidra with Ailsa to support and calm the nervous system. This Yoga Nidra guided meditation is designed to utilise the systematic relaxation techniques used in Yoga Nidra to bring you into the parasympathetic division of the nervous system known as 'rest and digest'. Yoga Nidra is a technique of guided meditation that is completely effortless and accessible to all. Simply find a comfortable place to rest, relax back and just listen. The techniques used here will bring you into a deep light altered state of consciousness where you land somewhere between wakefulness and sleeping. It is here where one can disconnect from the thinking mind and rest back into a sense of your true nature. As the body undergoes healing and returns to homeostasis, emerge feeling grounded, rested, and more balanced.
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation practised lying down that leads you into a healing and deeply restful state. Yoga Nidra has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression and anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); while increasing health, resiliency and well-being. This practice, encompassing elements like body scans, stress relief, and anxiety reduction, provides an all-encompassing solution for concerns related to insomnia. The unique approach of Yoga Nidra is known for fostering non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) and can also be used to encourage the onset of sleep. Yoga Nidra serves as a form of sleep hypnosis, ushering you into a peaceful slumber or an invigorating nap as desired.
0:00 introduction
1:30 yoga nidra to calm the nervous system

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20 min
May 17, 2024 Yoga Nidra Before Sleep
Do you struggle with sleep? Do you wake up in the middle of the night unable to return to your slumber? Do you begin your day feeling tired? Join Ailsa for a 24 day journey to transform your approach and relationship to sleep.
The 24 Days of Yoga Nidra for Sleep is a FREE on-demand and online course which approaches sleep with the ancient wisdom of Yoga Nidra so that you can create a nurturing and self-compassionate at-home practice that helps improve the quality of your sleep and helps you to fall asleep.
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0:00 introduction 2:10 yoga nidra before bed
31 min
May 14, 2024 Yoga Nidra for Morning Energy
20 minute Yoga Nidra for Morning Energy. Join Ailsa for a 20 minute Yoga Nidra. This voice only Yoga Nidra is designed to soothe, restore and reset your entire nervous system. Today’s Yoga Nidra invites you to begin your day with meditation and aims to help you nurture peace, tranquillity, and stillness. Ailsa will guide you through intention, body sensing and breathwork. Get cosy, and let yourself be guided by Ailsa's soothing voice to a state of deep rest and relaxation. Ailsa's voice is female with a soft Scottish accent and there is no music accompanying the meditation.
Relax back into this 20 minute Yoga Nidra with Ailsa to support and calm the nervous system. This Yoga Nidra guided meditation is designed to utilise the systematic relaxation techniques used in Yoga Nidra to bring you into the parasympathetic division of the nervous system known as 'rest and digest'. Yoga Nidra is a technique of guided meditation that is completely effortless and accessible to all. Simply find a comfortable place to rest, relax back and just listen. The techniques used here will bring you into a deep light altered state of consciousness where you land somewhere between wakefulness and sleeping. It is here where one can disconnect from the thinking mind and rest back into a sense of your true nature. As the body undergoes healing and returns to homeostasis, emerge feeling grounded, rested, and more balanced.
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation practised lying down that leads you into a healing and deeply restful state. Yoga Nidra has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression and anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); while increasing health, resiliency and well-being. This practice, encompassing elements like body scans, stress relief, and anxiety reduction, provides an all-encompassing solution for concerns related to insomnia. The unique approach of Yoga Nidra is known for fostering non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) and can also be used to encourage the onset of sleep. Yoga Nidra serves as a form of sleep hypnosis, ushering you into a peaceful slumber or an invigorating nap as desired.
0:00 introduction
1:07 yoga nidra for morning energy

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21 min
May 13, 2024 Yoga Nidra to Fall Asleep into Deep Rest • 1 hour
1 hour Yoga Nidra to Fall Asleep into Deep Rest. This 1 hour sleep talk down uses Yoga Nidra techniques to guide you into a deep state of sleep and rest. This is a spoken meditation that is designed to help you fall asleep and ease insomnia. Today’s 60 minute guided meditation is designed to improve the quality of your sleep and to help you fall asleep. You can also listen to this guided meditation if you have awoken in the middle of the night and you would like to fall back asleep. This voice only meditation is great for relaxation and stress management. Even if sleep does not come, this sleep meditation will give you a much better nights rest than tossing and turning.
Ailsa will guide you through a Yoga Nidra that includes an inner resource visualisation, body sensing and breath work. This sleep meditation is guided by Ailsa Burns and is designed to reduce the stress of being awake at night, to reduce anxiety about insomnia and calm your nerves to help you get the rest you need. Let the guidance of Ailsa' voice take you to a place of complete peace and relaxation as you wind down into effortless sleep. Ailsa's voice is female with a soft Scottish accent and there is no music accompanying the meditation. This Yoga Nidra is also tailored to foster tranquillity and helps you to reset your entire nervous system. Let this soothing and relaxing form of guided meditation take you to a place of total peace and relaxation as you wind down into effortless sleep. This voice only sleep talk down can also be listened to as a lecture to fall asleep to.
This Yoga Nidra is designed to help reduce the stress caused by being awake and unable to sleep at night, to help reduce anxiety about insomnia and to calm the nerves so that you can get the rest you need. Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation practised lying down that leads you into a healing and deeply restful state. Yoga Nidra has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression and anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); while increasing health, resiliency and well-being. This practice, encompassing elements like body scans, stress relief, and anxiety reduction, provides an all-encompassing solution for concerns related to insomnia. The unique approach of Yoga Nidra is known for fostering non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) and helps to encourage the onset of sleep. Yoga Nidra serves as a form of sleep hypnosis, ushering you into a peaceful slumber or an invigorating nap as desired.
0:00 introduction
2:55 1 hour yoga nidra to fall asleep into deep rest

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1 hr
May 12, 2024 Yoga Nidra for Joy & Positive Energy
25 minute Yoga Nidra for Joy & Positive Energy. Join Ailsa for a 25 minute Yoga Nidra. This voice only Yoga Nidra is designed to soothe, restore and reset your entire nervous system. This Yoga Nidra is themed around cultivating joy and positive energy. Ailsa will guide you through intention, an inner resource practice, body sensing and breathing. Get cosy, and let yourself be guided by Ailsa's soothing voice to a state of deep rest and relaxation. Ailsa's voice is female with a soft Scottish accent and there is no music accompanying the meditation.
Relax back into this 25 minute Yoga Nidra with Ailsa to support and calm the nervous system. This Yoga Nidra guided meditation is designed to utilise the systematic relaxation techniques used in Yoga Nidra to bring you into the parasympathetic division of the nervous system known as 'rest and digest'. Yoga Nidra is a technique of guided meditation that is completely effortless and accessible to all. Simply find a comfortable place to rest, relax back and just listen. The techniques used here will bring you into a deep light altered state of consciousness where you land somewhere between wakefulness and sleeping. It is here where one can disconnect from the thinking mind and rest back into a sense of your true nature. As the body undergoes healing and returns to homeostasis, emerge feeling grounded, rested, and more balanced.
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation practised lying down that leads you into a healing and deeply restful state. Yoga Nidra has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression and anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); while increasing health, resiliency and well-being. This practice, encompassing elements like body scans, stress relief, and anxiety reduction, provides an all-encompassing solution for concerns related to insomnia. The unique approach of Yoga Nidra is known for fostering non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) and can also be used to encourage the onset of sleep. Yoga Nidra serves as a form of sleep hypnosis, ushering you into a peaceful slumber or an invigorating nap as desired.
0:00 introduction
0:50 yoga nidra for joy and positive energy

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26 min
May 11, 2024 Yoga Nidra for Sleep • 1 hour
1 hour Yoga Nidra for Sleep. This 1 hour sleep talk down uses Yoga Nidra techniques to guide you into a deep state of sleep and rest. This is a spoken meditation that is designed to help you fall asleep and ease insomnia. Today’s 60 minute guided meditation is designed to improve the quality of your sleep and to help you fall asleep. You can also listen to this guided meditation if you have awoken in the middle of the night and you would like to fall back asleep. This voice only meditation is great for relaxation and stress management. Even if sleep does not come, this sleep meditation will give you a much better nights rest than tossing and turning.
Ailsa will guide you through a Yoga Nidra that includes an inner resource visualisation, body sensing and breath work. This sleep meditation is guided by Ailsa Burns and is designed to reduce the stress of being awake at night, to reduce anxiety about insomnia and calm your nerves to help you get the rest you need. Let the guidance of Ailsa' voice take you to a place of complete peace and relaxation as you wind down into effortless sleep. Ailsa's voice is female with a soft Scottish accent and there is no music accompanying the meditation. This Yoga Nidra is also tailored to foster tranquillity and helps you to reset your entire nervous system. Let this soothing and relaxing form of guided meditation take you to a place of total peace and relaxation as you wind down into effortless sleep. This voice only sleep talk down can also be listened to as a lecture to fall asleep to.
This Yoga Nidra is designed to help reduce the stress caused by being awake and unable to sleep at night, to help reduce anxiety about insomnia and to calm the nerves so that you can get the rest you need. Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation practised lying down that leads you into a healing and deeply restful state. Yoga Nidra has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression and anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); while increasing health, resiliency and well-being. This practice, encompassing elements like body scans, stress relief, and anxiety reduction, provides an all-encompassing solution for concerns related to insomnia. The unique approach of Yoga Nidra is known for fostering non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) and helps to encourage the onset of sleep. Yoga Nidra serves as a form of sleep hypnosis, ushering you into a peaceful slumber or an invigorating nap as desired.
0:00 introduction
4:50 1 hour yoga nidra for sleep

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1 hr
May 10, 2024 Yoga Nidra • 10 minutes
Join Ailsa for a 10 minute Yoga Nidra. This voice only Yoga Nidra is designed to soothe, restore and reset your entire nervous system. Ailsa will guide you through intention, a visualisation, body sensing and breath work. Get cosy, and let yourself be guided by Ailsa's soothing voice to a state of deep rest and relaxation. Ailsa's voice is female with a soft Scottish accent and there is no music accompanying the meditation.
Relax back into this 10 minute Yoga Nidra with Ailsa to support and calm the nervous system. This Yoga Nidra guided meditation is designed to utilise the systematic relaxation techniques used in Yoga Nidra to bring you into the parasympathetic division of the nervous system known as 'rest and digest'. Yoga Nidra is a technique of guided meditation that is completely effortless and accessible to all. Simply find a comfortable place to rest, relax back and just listen. The techniques used here will bring you into a deep light altered state of consciousness where you land somewhere between wakefulness and sleeping. It is here where one can disconnect from the thinking mind and rest back into a sense of your true nature. As the body undergoes healing and returns to homeostasis, emerge feeling grounded, rested, and more balanced.
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation practised lying down that leads you into a healing and deeply restful state. Yoga Nidra has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression and anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); while increasing health, resiliency and well-being. This practice, encompassing elements like body scans, stress relief, and anxiety reduction, provides an all-encompassing solution for concerns related to insomnia. The unique approach of Yoga Nidra is known for fostering non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) and can also be used to encourage the onset of sleep. Yoga Nidra serves as a form of sleep hypnosis, ushering you into a peaceful slumber or an invigorating nap as desired.
0:00 introduction
0:45 yoga nidra 10 minutes

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12 min
April 18, 2024 Yoga Nidra to Fall Asleep at Bedtime
Do you struggle with sleep? Do you wake up in the middle of the night unable to return to your slumber? Do you begin your day feeling tired? Join Ailsa for a 24 day journey to transform your approach and relationship to sleep.
The 24 Days of Yoga Nidra for Sleep is a FREE on-demand and online course which approaches sleep with the ancient wisdom of Yoga Nidra so that you can create a nurturing and self-compassionate at-home practice that helps improve the quality of your sleep and helps you to fall asleep.
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Give yourself the gift of rest and relaxation.
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0:00 introduction 2:20 yoga nidra to fall asleep at bedtime
30 min
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