A short meditation for the morning, day, or night to relieve stress and increase focus to bring ease. This meditation begins with a tapping exercise into the happiness point of the body, stimulating and relaxing the thymus gland. Then, a short body scan, a visualization, and a few moments of silence to balance and integrate the mind and body.  

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For those nights when you just can't sleep and your mind is racing.  Drift away from thinking and transform into resting through the practice of Yoga Nidra, Transformational Sleep. There is a hidden magic to sleep.  Deep rest is reparative and restorative and can accessed through different stages of sleep and awareness. This meditation helps you to unravel the events of the day and to aid in slowing down and reorganizing your thoughts so that you can deeply rest and restore, leaving you feeling refreshed and revitalized for the next day. 

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Soft ambient music and a calming voice allow you to drift off into peaceful waves of breath, allowing for more expansion, kindness, compassion, and love, with this 20 minute guided Yoga Nidra and Tonglen meditation.

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This Yoga Nidra is for deepest sleep.  Follow along with this forty-minute guided meditation that slows down the mind so you can fully relax and drift off to deep sleep as you are guided through the deep layers of restorative rest.

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Yoga Nidra provides the tools for maintaining a sense of wellbeing and peacefulness, allowing the fluctuations of the mind to slow and return to a state of homeostasis allowing you to drift into a conscious, deep sleep state simply through the guidance through a systematic sequence of soothing and relaxing techniques that increase your awareness and deepens your relaxation.

Throughout the practice, you’re providing extra comfort and relaxation throughout the physical body allowing your brainwaves to regulate into a resting, calm, peaceful state that has been shown to help with insomnia, stress, grief, depression, anxiety, and symptoms from PTSD. 

Yoga Nidra allows you to tap into your very own awareness and experience and there is no wrong way to practice. No prior experience is necessary.

If you’re experiencing severe anxiety symptoms, reach out to a health care professional or find help using the BetterHelp app https://www.betterhelp.com. Financial assistance is available.

Listen on  YouTube:
Yoga Nidra for Stress Reduction https://youtu.be/bJpr8iYt6Nw

Forest Walk Yoga Nidra https://youtu.be/Y_LoDQmJFlA

Deep Conscious Sleep https://youtu.be/B_jdizMejyM

Yoga Nidra Water https://youtu.be/anS5QURn0Ec

Yoga Nidra Thanksgiving https://youtu.be/lfNiJzwkGYM

Yoga Nidra Stillness https://youtu.be/s_pBRVamGWA

Yoga Nidra Tension Release https://youtu.be/kTKrO3lteNA

Practice with me on Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/elkejohnson. 

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A very big and special thank you to my beautiful teacher, Ally Boothroyd. You can find many of her amazing Yoga Nidra offerings on her YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMrEhPz-kPE or visit her website for her yoga teacher training, workshops, and retreats at https://www.sarovarayoga.ca. 

I would also like to say thank you to DJ Taz Rashid https://www.djtazrashid.com for the soothing background music. 

Thank you for practicing with me. 

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Rest in the peacefulness of the moonlit forest with this gently guided visualization meditation to ease you into sleepy brainwaves and a dreamlike state. 

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Slow your mind down with this gently guided 25 minute Yoga Nidra that is designed to soothe the nervous system with the peaceful touch of restful presence through the grace of a butterfly; culminating into a dreamlike state where thoughts and feelings are free to flow with ease or for you to drift off to sleep.

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Slow your mind down with this gently guided 25 minute Yoga Nidra that is designed to soothe the nervous system with the peaceful touch of restful presence through the grace of a butterfly; culminating into a dreamlike state where thoughts and feelings are free to flow with ease or for you to drift off to sleep.

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This gently guided 40 minute Yoga Nidra invites you to remember who you are.
The very first generation of stars drew together creating and burning enough energy to produce the elements that make it possible for all of life today. These elements, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen, are what make you, you. You were formed in stars over billions of years and multiple star lifetimes.  

Billions and billions of different stars contributed to all the matter that makes you and all of life that is our home, Earth. Billions of seeded stars created all the life on our planet and created our entire solar system. 

This is who you are. You are 50 times the energy of the sun. Your body is made of stardust and collective energy. You are stars merging and worlds beginning. You are pure, living stardust in motion with the incredible power of a neuroplastic brain.

 You are a result of supernovas, a result of stars uniting. A creation made of energy and matter. You are as vast and open as the air and space around you. You are a beautiful and important part of this universe.  Allow this to be your inner resource. You are made of timeless space and boundless energy. You’re a divine cosmic being. 

Tonight, weave a quiet intention before you sleep. Listen to the quiet, vast, open space within and state your Sankalpa, affirmation, a gentle wish, or an offering of gratitude now.  

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Find stillness and welcome in the type of listening that happens from deep within. Feel your ears open, sensitive. Feel every pore of the body begin to open and listen. Allow waves and layers of sound to sink into your flesh and deep inside your bones. 
This soothing and calm meditation calls you to be present and open to the experience of listening with your whole body.

Sink into the deep stillness of a lotus flower through this visualization meditation and become quiet, peaceful, and at ease. 

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