yoga nidra: the thread
A short practice (22 min) during which we fully immerse ourselves in whatever is arising from moment to moment, feeling the thread of unchangingness woven through it all.
yoga nidra: the gravitational pull of love
Occasionally I receive requests to post a particular practice on the website for re-listening. This meditation, which followed a conversation on the Heartfelt Desire, one of the 10 steps of iRest Yoga Nidra, explores what it feels like to yield to the heart’s deepest longing, including any feelings of fear or resistance that may arise […]
yoga nidra: and this too
This practice followed a conversation during which a number of participants shared their feelings of grief at the loss of loved ones. (Some poetic license was used in the recounting of the story from the Bhagavad Gita.)
yoga nidra: being aware
Being aware is not a doing. When there is nothing to reject and nothing to cling to, nothing to fix and nothing to change, then there is nothing to do but simply rest as multidimensional awareness in which all sensations arise and subside.
yoga nidra: resting the mind
A soft and soothing practice for those times when the mind is active or when the nervous system is agitated.
yoga nidra: the fantasy of becoming
Some day, with enough practice, I will be…If my body were different, then…If I could just get my emotions under control, then…If only I _, then… How do we break free of the belief trap that something should be different than it is?Can we sense even the possibility that nothing has to change? The “sleep” […]
yoga nidra: being oneself
Who shows up during our time of practice? The inner critic? The perfectionist? The dreamer? The martyr? The victim? The good student? The spiritual one? What do these various personas feel like? What does it feel like to be oneself? What is the feeling of self-consciousness? What is the feeling of being unguarded? Free of […]
yoga nidra: awake while asleep
Playing with the boundary between wakefulness and sleep, we enter into nidra, or yogic sleep during which we may discover that even while we are “sleeping” awareness is present.
yoga nidra: form is emptiness, emptiness is form
A practice that begins with a tune sung by Kermit the Frog, moves through an exploration of the elements in which we simultaneously experience apparently contradictory sensations, which leads us to a somatic understanding of the dictum from the Heart Sutra.
yoga nidra: who am i?
A quiet practice during which we explore the perennial question, “Who am I?”