The Yoga Nidra Project

Join me for a seated practice of box breathing - a powerful gateway to calm. This is a newly edited version of a previous episode that was taken down by Spotify due to the music included making it read too much as a music track and not like a true podcast episode. I've left the music out, and kept the originally intended script, with kinder timing for the breath counts, hopefully making it a more accessible practice.Offered with love, PhoebeWords: Phoebe BoonkerdVoice: Phoebe BoonkerdCover image: Shawn Suttle, via Pixabay To find me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/womensrites.au/ https://www.instagram.com/phoebe_boonkerd/

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 BoonkerdVoice: Phoebe BoonkerdCover 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.

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 Cover art: Prisca by Heather Heininge - https://hheininge-art.tumblr.com/ If you have benefitted from this podcast and would like to make a donation, please do so at paypal.me/theyoganidraproject. Your contirbutions help to keep this podcast ad-free and contributes to the cost of recording studio time and resources that help to improve the Yoga Nidra Project offering, such a books and training. It is my goal to keep this podcast freely available and ad-free, so your generosity helps me to stay true to this vision.

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.

This is a simple, bare bones yoga nidra practice, without music. The practice of Shavayatra is also known as the 61 points exercise, and is a form of yoga nidra from the Sri Vidya tantra tradition of the Himalayas. It helps us to deeply relax  and enter into pratyahara, or sense withdrawal, and merge awareness between the body and the mind. An experience of energy like a network of throughout the body may be felt. The invitation is to just be with anything you experience. The practice involves briefly resting your attention, on each of the 61 points, as you hear them named. These 61 points correspond with energy-rich areas of the body, known as marma points. Script is adapted from the description of the practice provided on https://swamij.com/ thumbnail photo by Bruce Christianson, courtesy of Unsplash Comments and feedback on this and other episodes are always welcome. This podcast is an offering to all who listen, in a world and a time where cultivation of our own personal sanctuary of inner peace and wellbeing is becoming as urgent as it is elusive. If you have any feedback at all, please email me p8_@fea.st. with love, Phoebe

This is a simple and spacious practice of conscious rest, inviting you to retreat into the nest of the deep Self. May this practice nourish your entire being. Blessings and love to all as we transition to 2022. May we find strength through conscious rest and tending to the self. May all beings be happy and free . Words: Phoebe Boonkerd Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd Music: Akshat Ratanpal via archive.org (https://archive.org/details/@akshat_ratanpal) Image: Phoebe's portrait by Gabriella Baptistel