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Practicing Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidrā is a practice of conscious relaxation between sleep and awareness.

Lie down comfortably, ensuring no disruptions. This technique brings energy, power, and relaxed happiness. Follow the verbal instructions mentally. Begin by feeling and relaxing the entire body from toes to head. Place awareness on each part without stress. Form a positive mental resolution three times. The practice harmonizes the physical and energy bodies. It reveals the universe within; you are the master and the light. Feel the natural breath without forcing it. Bring awareness to the heart and inner organs. The science of yoga balances and repairs through the body's innate intelligence. The practice encompasses the five bodies, leading to oneness. Conclude by gently moving and returning to seated awareness.

"Yoga is the science of the human, and your life, or your principle, or your engineer, automatically repairing all."

"You are the light of God. You are God. In that form, which you are, the five bodies and the fifth, sixth, will lead you to feel like levitation."

So, we will begin to practice now. For practice, please take your yoga mat and lie down. You can come a little closer, friend. Yes. Be neat there. This will be very easy, very good, very peaceful, and full of joy. It doesn’t matter if you are advanced or a beginner. Make yourself very comfortable. If you want a cushion, you can have it. If you don’t like it, leave it aside. For anyone who has just come from outside, please do not open the door, but that person can practice there. I do not want anyone to disrupt our friends who are beginning to practice, and someone coming in later is not good. Thank you. If you have your telephone, please put it on silent. Do not record anything, otherwise it will make noise. This is one of the very best techniques. Yogic and yoga and daily life trainings are practiced around the whole world, and mostly people like this very much. We will begin now. That is called Yoga Nidrā. We know what yoga means. Nidrā is sleep, but this kind of sleep is between sleep and awareness, bringing more energy or power, and relaxed happiness through this technique which we are doing. You just follow mentally through my words and instruction. We can close the windows; it will make less noise. Position your legs slightly apart from the ankle joints. Relax your legs and place your hands beside the body, not on the chest. In this practice, one can block the insight about this technique or dream. If you want to see anything in this hall, after that, there will be nothing to see. So you need not open and close, open and close your eyes. Of course, if you like to open your eyes, it is also okay. But then our practice will not be complete. We begin. Ensure you are comfortable. Feel the whole body from the toes to the top of the head, and from the head to the toes. Feel the whole body: the toes, foot soles, ankle joints, calves, knees, kneecaps, and below the knees. It is just that we become aware of our body. Relax your knees, and now feel your thighs, your thigh muscles. Not in stress. Elbows slightly more relaxed, a little covered. I know that my hands are very relaxed. The fingers, palms upwards. The wrists and elbows are comfortable, relaxed, not stretched. Your upper arms and shoulders. Relax, relax. Relax your back muscles. Do not make a bridge under your back. Just relax. And now, if you want, make a wish three times, whatever. But of course, it should be positive. Congratulations. Peace. Peace…. For your health, for family, friends, business, for anything, for peace and harmony, three times repeat to yourself mentally that this will be successful. Feel the whole back muscles and release your hip joints so that your stomach is relaxed. The lower stomach, just let it relax. The abdomen is completely relaxed. Feel your navel. The stomach is very relaxed. Your lungs, your chest, the core, neck, very relaxed, no tensions. Let your neck be completely relaxed, comfortable. The shoulder muscles, the neck, relaxed, and feel your face. Our jaw is relaxed; do not bite your teeth. Let your tongue be relaxed, the chin very comfortably relaxed. Let your face muscles be completely relaxed, your lips relaxed, but your mouth should not be open. This Yoga Kṛiyā gives you harmony, relaxation, peace, and immense energy. The good energy we are bringing into the body, and all negative energy, it means we are tired, getting relaxed. There is nothing to see. There are no miracles. You are thyself, the best of the best. You are your soul. Relax your face muscles, your jaw. Relax your eyelids. Let them be very gentle, closed eyelids. Forehead, the forehead is the center of your good luck. The front of your forehead is prosperity, peace, and harmony. Relax, relax, relax your forehead. And feel the jaw, the temple near both sides of the head, the ears, and complete your happiness. Relaxed, and you are always happy, you are the best. Give thyself all from your brain, happiness. You know, tell thyself, "I know everything," but not only for me. Relax the forehead, the center of the eyebrows, and the middle of the forehead. That is what we call the inner light. That light, which is not the light we see, like sunlight or artificial light, is the light of your knowledge, your peace. I know that everything is whole, relaxed, and now the top of the head and your hair. The hair is important because it brings the immense energy through the hair into the brain. The hair may be longer, shorter, or shaved. It doesn’t matter. That is the best of the best. Energy is coming into our body through our brain and giving. My friends, feel the back of your head and your neck. Do not concentrate too strongly. Just remember what I am saying. Just let it be. Your body is completely relaxed, full of energy, very relaxed, and comfortable. Sometimes, like that, you are levitating from the earth, but it means in energy, peace, peace, energy. This is the first step of your yoga nidrā. And now feel your foot soles, palms, both ears, and forehead. These are the points you are traveling through, through your being, your five bodies. This is the first body. Feel your nose. Feel the breath. Do not stop the breath, not too long or short. Let your breath be as natural as it is. But just know that I am inhaling and I am exhaling. My breath, which is going into the lungs and the lower part of the abdomen, until then, when we inhale, it’s expanding our stomach. And we exhale. It’s going down, but pleasant, pleasant, pleasant. Listen, just relax the breath. Let your awareness, your consciousness, be with the breath in and out, with the outer world and the inner world. Relax, just relax. Now, try to realize or see your inner organs in the body, your body, your feelings, your energy, your happiness, everything. Go within thyself. No one can enter your body. It is a lock, and only you can open it. I can talk, others can talk. I am trying to give the instructions. But you are the master. You are the light of God. You are God. In that form, which you are, the five bodies and the fifth, sixth, will lead you to feel like levitation. But don’t think of that. Try to bring your awareness and feeling to your heart. Our heart is one of our best friends. It doesn’t matter what we do, but the heart is constantly working. Maybe we dive deep in the water, but still the heart is working. Deep sleeping, but our heart is running, sitting, sleeping. That’s our life, your life. Feel the expanding and contracting of your heart. We can only say, "God, support my heart as long as my life is." And in our intense time, if you can feel or think, the gallbladder, kidneys, all the organs, you are in the journey of your inner world, endless. This is how we can see the whole universe is within the body. You have nothing outside. Relax. If you cannot follow my instructions, it doesn’t matter. Just relax. Just relax, and let the breath in and out touch your navel on the stomach. That is your first point of life, the navel. Relax. I know that I’m inhaling, and very gently, my lungs and my stomach are expanding and relaxed. Let your stomach be completely relaxed from the part of our brain and navel, where our nerves are beginning in the whole body. In our body, there are 72,000 nerves. That’s what we call the prāṇa in yoga language. And in English, the life that is in our nerves. The whole energy, the physical body, the body of nourishment. Solid and liquid, relaxed. And within the nerve systems, the glands, the muscles, etc., it’s called the energy body. Yes, the energy body is more light than the physical body, but it is yours. If you are tired, your energy is not good. If you are restless, the energy is not in balance. Yoga is the science of the human, and your life, or your principle, or your engineer, automatically repairing all that we have to come to this point. If one is hungry, we do. If we are angry, we do. If we are happy, everything is within ourselves. Relax, my friend, relax. Remain in energy, expanding from your navel and beyond all the moon and sun. All is within you. You are more far and far and far. That is yogic science. Relax, relax. The balancing, keeping our body physical and energy balanced, and giving more power, is our brain, our brain. There is our knowledge. It is more than we can think, where our intellect, where the brain goes. That’s why we call the intellect that we are making our good or bad, peace or no peace, our knowledge, that we call it yoga, the intelligent, relax, relax, are that you are, final, it is you, your soul, your jīva, your life, let be thyself, my dear. Science of yoga, through that, relax. Dwell in your whole body, the five bodies. Physical body, mental body, energy body, knowledge, and the highest. You have checked the whole body, everything. And now you see your body and bring your awareness to the center of the eyebrows. And bring your awareness to the air in the two nostrils. Inhale, exhale. It brings you back to all five bodies in oneness. I know that I am inhaling, and I know that I am exhaling. I feel, and I know, my abdomen is expanding and contracting. My heart is so relaxed and comfortable. I feel my heartbeat. Your whole body in four parts: the brain, the hands, the trunk of the body, and the legs. These are like, in yogic, four horses. You are your soul, you are the rider, and your body is the coach. Relax, relax, my friends, relax. While sitting peacefully in your coach, repeat your resolution again. We should come to the truth. Same letters, same words, three times, which we were making your wish. And let it live in the whole body, in the whole, the whole. Say to thyself, "I am, I am, I am happy, joyful, comfortable. My life, my comfort." I may not know what God is, but in this technique, that God is within you, and you are that. Relax, relax, feel your whole being. All five tattvas or energies, and feel your eyelids. Feel the tips of your fingers. Feel your toes, all ten toes. As far as you can understand what it is, it means how many bones and joints are in the body, how many nerves and energy circulations there are. And you are inhaling. Expand your abdomen a little more and relax. Inhale a little more and relax. While being within thyself, try to see, relax your body. Relax, relax. Your saṅkalpa, your resolution should go with you twenty-four hours. And my dear, slowly move your toes, slightly, and slightly move your fingers and toes, thumb. Relax your ankle joint, your hands, wrists. Leave it silently, not too long. I didn’t tell you to stretch your hands up as you went, like you have to come again. Your ankle joints, calf muscles, knees, kneecaps, below the knees, thighs, hip joints, buttocks, fingers, thumbs, and wrists. I didn’t say the attitude here. Relax your hands. Don’t stretch. Just open your palm. Don’t stress. Many are doing it completely wrong. The whole tech work you did, you put it in the stress. Eyelids, your neck, don’t roll your neck here and there. Only see that your neck is here. That’s called yogic sleeping. Don’t move your body. Become life. Now you are life. And expand your stomach slowly and relax. And now, slowly raise your hands up above your head. Palms are relaxed on the ground, hence. And your toes towards the body, and heels out. Yes. Leave your hands there. Again, release the ankle joints. Let your hands be relaxed above your head on the ground. Place your hands on the ground above your head. If you don’t have them, sidewards above. Don’t lock your hands. Don’t lock. Feel the stomach. Feel the navel. And a few times, take a deep inhale and exhale. Expand your stomach and contract. And again, bring your toes toward the body. Stretch the heels out, and stretch your hands above the head on the floor. And slowly roll your body left and slowly right. Left and right, left and right, and remain again on the back, the hands beside the body. Bend your knees and place your feet on the ground, your knees towards the body. Now, with your hands, hold your knees. Of course, your feet are above the ground. Roll left and right your body. Left, right, left. Very good. Remain there, hands on the ground, your feet on the floor, knees bent. Yes. And now bring your hands on your abdomen. Relax, relax, relax. Bring all five elements in your body into awareness. Don’t be in a hurry. You are yourself. Hands again beside the body. And on one side of your body, you can roll left or right. How do you get up? Like that. Someone left side, sometimes right side. Sit up, please, and open your eyes. Close your eyes, place your hands on your thighs or interlock your fingers, and be thyself. Relax. Feel your body, feel your awareness. Where are you? How are you? Be comfortable, feel relaxed, relaxed. So that you can comfortably stand up, slowly, slowly. The whole circulation. That’s called the sleeping of the yogī in the yogic awareness in the whole. Rub your palms, hands on the face. Gently, you can massage your eyelids and open your eyes. Hari Om.

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