Yoga Nidra: Grow Your Garden

Words and mediation by Nid Ra

Whether part of a new year intention/goal-setting practice or prompted by a change of season or life circumstances, taking note of progress is a proven key to personal growth. This yoga nidra practice cultivates growth by encouraging you to check-in with your progress. It will provide guidance of areas in need of further nourishing and discipline. This practice supports such self-development. 

Why this yoga Nidra practice? 

Yoga nidra is a deeply relaxing practice that can cultivate changes in the brain at a deeper level than we are consciously aware of. The hypnogogic state of the brain during yoga nidra ensures that it is open to suggestion at a level that permits new perspectives to arise. To plant a seed in yoga nidra is to create a bridge between the subconscious and conscious minds. 

Our ability to achieve our intentions is affected by our subconscious beliefs and stories and we may not always be aware of the fears, patterns and hidden stories that are preventing us from stepping fully into our potential. yoga nidra uses imagery and symbolism that can clear limiting habitual patterns of thinking or feeling.

The bridge helps us become conscious of our hidden thoughts and feelings that may be resisting our intentional changes and dreams.  Through the awareness created in yoga nidra we can create new patterns that are healthy and bountiful. The key is to bring this state of being into our daily actions to realise our intentions.

This yoga nidra practice is designed to highlight which energetic areas could benefit from some self-development work. By considering how to tend the plants in the visualisation, the actions needed for better self-love and care will become apparent. The Sankalpa or intention set at the outset of practice will reinforce this change. 

Returning to the practice and tending your inner garden at regular intervals will ensure that you are growing towards your intention. It will provide feedback as to where to focus your energy for the next phase of growth and with what attitude. 

Benefits of this meditation:

(Beyond the ‘usual’ benefits of meditation, as discussed here)

• An intentional practice to grow towards larger life goals and intentions

• Ability to review progress and note practices to support achieving intentions with ease

• Balances the chakras during the practice

• Increased awareness of each chakra and its impact on daily life

• Improved access to self-care and to nurture our inner self with kindness

• Creates more balanced moods through embracing both the dark and light of who we are

Experience this yoga nidra and return to it periodically to see how your garden is growing. 

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Nid loves all her incarnations as an energy healer and coach, massage therapist, teacher of mind-body movement through yoga and Pilates, and blog writer. She is a passionate messenger on how to find your truth and live in alignment with your soul. Her work attracts people going through major life changes, long-term pain or health issues to discover how to live life with joy in mind, body, and spirit. She can be found working on retreats and online worldwide at https://www.omegamovement.org/

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