12/19/2024
For a few years, I’d guide a “Yoga Nidra” meditation for a room full of folks every Thursday night at Love Evolution Studio…then covid happened and the Ed Lally Foundation gained momentum and I had to let those classes go. I still have the opportunity to guide Yoga Nidra’s now and then through my meditation groups & classes with the foundation and at Salt Works Spa but I feel compelled to share the practice (and other meditation approaches) with more people, so I’ve started offering them through my new YouTube channel The Lost Way Home (link in bio).
If you’re unfamiliar with the practice, Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) or NSDR (non-sleep deep rest) is the MOST accessible style of meditation, especially for people with a mental health history like me. For starters, no fancy meditation posture is required, you just lie flat on your back with a pillow underneath your head and maybe another pillow or two stacked underneath the backs of your knees to relieve the pressure on your lower back. Beyond that, there’s no single point of focus for the duration of the meditation, instead we keep our monkey minds engaged with a variety of mindfulness techniques and breathing practices.
I just posted a new yoga nidra on The Lost Way Home youtube that I recorded during my Monday meditation group earlier this week. It’ll help you find some relaxation, peace, and start to clear out some self-limiting beliefs that are keeping you from feeling seen, heard, valued and loved like you deserve. I know that’s a struggle for many of us, it’s something I have and continue to consciously work through, thanks to the depressive history of my neural networks.
Hope you enjoy the practice. And if it resonates with you, subscribe to the channel and spread the word because there’s alot more to come!
Love yall - J