Yoga Nidra Script
Begin to take five or six easeful breaths focusing on your exhale. Allow each exhalation to ground your body. Commit your weight to the support beneath you as though tension is falling through your body and into the ground underneath you….
Make an intention for your body to rest.
Make an intention for your body to rest deeply…
Bring your awareness to the hinge of your jaw and let it slack a little. Let the root of your tongue soften and widen in your mouth. Let your attention wander to the back of your eyes imagining a spaciousness deep in the sockets…
If your mind is busy, try to move your focus from the front of your brain behind the forehead to the back of the brain. Imagine thoughts and worries dropping back towards the ground…
Let the back of your throat relax and widen and your shoulder blades surrender to the support underneath you… Let your lungs and organs rest in the back of the body… Softening deeper with each exhale. Softening deeper with each exhale…
Visualize the muscles of your arms softening away from the bones. Visualize your skin softening away from the muscles…
Imagine your whole body settling into rest…
Imagine your whole body surrendering to rest…
Visualize your whole body resting deeply…
Permission to rest deeply…
Let your whole body rest.
A sense of deep, deep rest in your body…
A sense of deep, deep rest in your mind…
A sense of deep, deep rest in your whole being… Unchanging… Restful… Whole…
