Name: Yoga Nidra for the Places that Have Not Known Love (Source of Love) by Michelle Darling
Duration: 32 min 24 s
Description: This yoga nidra is part of a series reflecting on Francis Weller's Gates of Grief. This second gate nidra explores the warmth of awareness, wholeness, and the source of love as a place of coming home.

Welcome to this practice of yoga nidra. A restorative experience of bringing the body into rest and wholeness. This Nidra invites the exploration of the wisdom held within a third body. This may be something that's not usually seen or witnessed but has a direct impact on your story. For example, ancestral experiences or systems like capitalism, or, it could be an internal dynamic like an unwitnessed aspect of self. In relationship with the 2024 Solar Eclipse, this Nidra weaves the thread of your embodied experience with that of being eclipsed by the third body.

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Welcome to this practice of Yoga Nidra. Find a space where your body can be supported in a restive position to journey with the refrain "All Is Well".

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All Is Well

This yoga nidra is part of a series reflecting on Francis Weller's Gates of Grief. This third gate nidra explores our capability to connect with the threads of creation and the web of life that is always communicating with us and with the Earth.

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This yoga nidra is part of a series reflecting on Francis Weller's Gates of Grief. This second gate nidra explores wholeness while welcoming the present self and all selves into an enlivened presence using the breath as a vehicle for exploration.

Yoga Nidra for the Places that Have Not Known Love

Yoga Nidra for the Places that Have Not Known Love (Storied Selves)

This yoga nidra is part of a series reflecting on Francis Weller's Gates of Grief. This fourth gate nidra journeys into the vast and spacious dark sky of the body, the threads that weave our stories and what stories are possible when we shift those connections.

Yoga Nidra for What We Expected and Did Not Receive

This yoga nidra is part of a series reflecting on Francis Weller's Gates of Grief. This fifth gate nidra explores our relationship to lineage through the planting of seeds in the Earth of the body. This nidra celebrates the creations we add to the world and what is feeding us in this cycle of creation and destruction.

Yoga Nidra for Ancestral Grief

This yoga nidra is part of a series reflecting on Francis Weller's Gates of Grief. This second gate nidra explores the warmth of awareness, wholeness, and the source of love as a place of coming home.

Yoga Nidra for the Places that Have Not Known Love (Source of Love)

Welcome to this Yoga Nidra with the theme of Enoughness. Settling into the space with shruti and humming, onto a progression through the whole and complete body with signing bowls and gong, resting in the source of wholeness, and coming back home with wholeness in the present moment.


And If you're new to Yoga Nidra here's some information to orient you to this practice:

Welcome to this yoga nidra experience!  Yoga Nidra is an indigenous liminal dream practice originating in India. In this practice, we cultivate our relationship with Yoga Nidra Shakti, the goddess of sleep. 

Within this practice, we bring our bodies into a restful position. This may be lying on a mat, cushions, sofa, bed, sitting in a recliner, or anywhere you feel that you can let the body drop into a supported position, where being still for 20 minutes will be as comfortable as possible. You may want to prepare by having pillows, blankets, or a face mask to block out light. You may also want to decide whether headphones are desired. I try to record at levels suitable for speakers, but think about how intimate you like sound in your space. 

Once you are in your nest of comfort, the nidra practice begins with an invitation to settle in and come into embodiment, and then you are guided (if you choose) to bring awareness into and through the body. During this experience some people fall asleep, or may lose track of time, they might feel as if they've been on a journey, or may have an experience of lucid dreaming, or have an experience where nothing interesting happens.  Yoga Nidra is an adaptogenic experience where you receive exactly what you need. My role as a facilitator is to create a space that invites Yoga Nidra Shakti into a form that reflects your unique request.

Yoga Nidra for the Places that Have Not Known Love (Source of Love)

Michelle Darling

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