In honour of slow mornings, of grounding and centring, this practice is intended to support you in creating a stronger energy body and helping to reduce a feeling of being easily drained and burnt out. With repeated practice, you might find you feel the sanctuary within yourself throughout your days, and those around you sense and be inspired by your quiet strength and calm. In tending to ourselves, we become a healing presence to others. Offered with deepest love and reverence for all of our healing, may each of us contribute to the world becoming a better place for all sentient beings.

Words: Phoebe Boonkerd

Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd

Cover image by Jo Hilton, courtesy of Unsplash.

The Yoga Nidra project will continue with more consistency now that I have found some strength and purpose in the project as a part of my offerings as a naturopath and creator of some ritual self-care items, under the name Women's Rites Holistic Health. See more on Instagram @womensrites.au or my (evolving) website www.womensrites.au. To sign up to monthly email musings, podcast releases and updates on health and healing: https://womensrites.myflodesk.com/pc1jbqwofn.

Welcome back to the in-between state. This practice is in the structure taught and recommended by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, whom is a constant reference point for me in the creation of healing, gentle yoga nidra practices. You can learn more about her here: https://www.yoganidranetwork.org/.

This practice is intended to support healing and release the effects of stress on your bodymind. In it, we explore the Hamsa mantra, among other techniques.

The word Hamsa translates to "swan" in Sanskrit, and in yoga, it also refers to the breath. The mantra's two syllables, ham and sa, represent the breath's in-breath and out-breath, as well as the life force's ascending and descending currents. The mantra is thought to open a doorway to the experience that that we are identical to the Absolute, or transcendental Self, and the great Life of the cosmos.

Much love,

Phoebe

Words: Phoebe Boonkerd

Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd

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This is a seated to lying down practice that includes Chandra Bhedana pranayama, or moon-piercing breath. It is intended to connect with the lunar channel in the body, known in the subtle anatomy of yoga as Iḍā nāḍi.

We begin in a seat and explore this deeply soothing breath, and follow with a gentle yoga nidra to invoke sleep and rest. This is made with love and deep care for our collective nervous systems, hearts, and minds that are so often overwhelmed by the noise of modern living.

May your practice be blessed, and may it be for the benefit of all beings.

Much love,

Phoebe

Words: Phoebe Boonkerd

Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd

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Welcome back to the in-between state. Please enjoy this gentle yoga nidra practice, which invites pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) with the use of sound. It also features a long body scan and a visualisation intended to help awaken creativity, where precious ideas are nurtured and allowed to reveal their potential with patience and time.

This will be the last episode for 2023, I'm looking forward to sharing more in 2024. In this upside down, troubled world, may you continue to find sanctuary within. May we all be safe from harm, happy, and free.

Words: Phoebe Boonkerd

Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd

Sounds: Forest with small river birds and nature field recording, from Pixabay

Thumbnail image: White Oriental Lily Flower, photo by Annie Spratt, courtesy of Unsplash

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Join me for a seated pranayama practice and meditation practice. This practice is intentionally guided yet spacious, particularly in the latter stages, where silence is allowed for you to go deeper into your own meditation space, allowing greater autonomy while being gently guided to that space.

Nadi shodhana is the name of the breathing exercise used, and is intended to 'floss' the major energy channels (nadis) along the spine - allowing for freer flow of energy, and is also thought to support integration and balance between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

My wish is that this practice acts as a realignment and stress release while helping you gain confidence in your own capacity to 'change dials' through breathwork and meditation, allowing greater awareness and presence to permeate your life.

Words: Phoebe Boonkerd

Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd

Wind chimes: FXSaSc Wind Chimes far, courtesy of Pixabay

Image: Photo by Helen Potter, courtsey of Unsplash

This yoga nidra practice is suitable either as an initiation to sleep, or as means to tap into the in-between state during your day.

Recorded on a balmy night at the height of Australian summer, the sound of crickets can be heard in the background. It is themed around a breath and prana-balancing technique detailed in Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD's radical, wonderful book Yoni Shakti: a woman's guide to yoga and tantra.

Words: Phoebe Boonkerd

Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd

Thumbnail artwork by unknown artist, courtesy of Pinterest.

A gentle and invitational approach to the liminal space of yoga nidra, allowing the possibly of accessing one's own inner wisdom and creative thinking.

Many, many thanks to all my listeners to your patience, lovely messages, kind reviews, and continued connection with this podcast. It means the world to me and keeps me inspired to continue.

If you have any feedback, requests or suggestions, you are more than welcome to send me a DM via Instagram @phoebeboonkerd. 

Words: Phoebe Boonkerd

Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd

Field recording: 산절의 풍경 Wind bells at a mountain temple, by Abyssence, via Internet Archive, under Public Domain Mark 1.0