Name: The Science of Human Evolution by YaleUniversity in ArtPlant
Duration: 25 min 21 s
Description: How have humans evolved and what drives this evolution? Evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon, author of Future Humans, discusses the science of human evolution.

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This is a chakra balancing guided yoga nidra meditation. Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep, a state of conscious deep sleep for extreme relaxation and subtler spiritual exploration. This practice helps to minimize tension, relaxes the body and mind, promotes healing and instills a feeling of deep harmony and peace within. Enjoy and share!



Chakra Balancing Yoga Nidra Practice with Sounds of Nature

This is one of two meditations featured on a new release "Rest Deeply" that you can download in better quality - link below.

This album features two beautiful guided yoga nidra practices - a longer track, "Chakra Balancing Yoga Nidra" and a shorter one, "Yoga Nidra for Emotional Release". These two guided meditations offer a powerful technique to relax and unwind. Enjoy!

Full Yoga Nidra Guided Meditation - Emotional Release

This is the first guided meditation led by Gary Hennessey to accompany 'The Little Mindfulness Workbook' written by Gary Hennessey, co-founder, Breathworks.

Meditation 1: The Body Scan

A vibrant spring dawn chorus recorded on the banks of the Cudgegong River in Wollemi National Park, NSW, Australia. 

Species recorded on this track include Musk Duck, Australian Reed Warbler, White-throated Gerygone, Superb Fairywren, Grey Fantail, Rufous Whistler, Noisy Friarbird, White-eared Honeyeater, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Grey Shrikethrush, Olive-backed Oriole & Australian Raven.

Cudgegong River Morning

Cudgegong River Morning - Recorded in Wollemi National Park, NSW, Australia

How have humans evolved and what drives this evolution? Evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon, author of Future Humans, discusses the science of human evolution.

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The Science of Human Evolution

MOCKINGBIRD NIGHT SONG: A Northern Mockingbird singing at night with crickets and gray treefrogs sounding off in the background. Recorded 11:30pm 27 May 2016, near Upperville, Virginia. © Lang Elliott.

Microphone: quasi-binaural SASS (Stereo Ambient Sampling System) modified for use with Sennheiser MKH20 microphones.

THE NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD is well-known for its habit of singing at night. What most folks do not know is that the night-singers are primarily unmated males, which may sing almost continuously both day and night (especially when the moon is bright), in their quest to locate a mate.

I managed to capture the featured recording during a recent expedition, which began with a social event: my partner’s niece was graduating from high school and we went down to attend the ceremony. Given how close we were to Washington D.C., I never imagined that I would get a usable recording (too many cars and jets). But we spent the night in a ranch house surrounded by large fields, and as luck would have it, there was a resident mockingbird that sang throughout much of the night.

Resisting my urge to get some much-needed sleep (I was up until nearly 2am the night before, recording frogs), I ventured out around 11pm and walked a considerable distance to his singing tree, which was at the edge of a field. Crickets trilled gently from the grass and a chorus of Gray Treefrogs produced a drone from nearby forest, no doubt sounding off from a pond or swampy area. Not a bad catch for countryside near a major metropolis.

Although not exactly a meditative recording, I am quite pleased to document night-singing in this species, along with enough ambient sounds to add spaciousness to the recording. This particular singer is doing some imitations, but the majority of his phrases seem to be of his own device. Rather than analyze his song phrases, I’ve chosen to simply enjoy the soundscape without thinking too much about it. Mockingbird Nightsong, delivered to you on a golden platter!

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Mockingbird Nightsong

Calm & Heal are two guided yoga nidra meditations by Elena Mironov.
Yoga nidra practice not only helps to calm the mind and release stress, but also promotes a state of deep relaxation and rest. The practice has been scientifically proven to reduce anxiety, enhance healing, stimulate creativity and strengthen the immune system.

The practice is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners, and is guided in English.

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Calm Yoga Nidra Meditation

Research has shown that a meditation practice is associated with a host of positive benefits. A body scan meditation is less about relaxation and more about awareness and taking inventory of how your body feels in the moment.

Body Scan Guided Meditation - Female Voice

Research has shown that both gratitude and meditation practices are associated with higher levels of happiness. Use this guided meditation to bring awareness to the people and things in your life that you are grateful for.

Gratitude Guided Meditation - Female Voice

Research has shown that Loving Kindness meditations can boost social closeness and implicit liking of strangers (Hutcherson et al. (2008). While this is a laboratory study, the results suggest this simple technique may help increase positive social emotions and decrease social isolation.

Loving Kindess Guided Meditation - Male Voice

Gratitude Guided Meditation - Male Voice

As part of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine's quarterly issue, focusing on Ecology & Evolution, YJBM podcasters John Ventura & Huaqi Li interview Stephen Stearns, the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale about his work.

Ecology and Evolution: Episode I

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine podcast hosts, Amelia Hallworth and Kelsie Cassell provide a broad overview of the topics of ecology and evolution and highlight some of the research published in YJBM's December 2018 issue focusing on Ecology and Evolution.

Ecology and Evolution: Episode II

In the third installment of Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine's series on ecology and evolution, YJBM podcast hosts Neal Ravindra and Kartiga Selvaganesan interview Richard Prum. Professor Prum is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, a faculty member in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and affiliated with Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is also the author of the recent book, The Evolution of Beauty, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer prize. We discuss some of the concepts in that book and topics in his current research program during the episode.

Ecology & Evolution: Episode III

Pay attention! Join Amelia Hallworth and Kelsie Cassell as they discuss attention science throughout life. We start with the neuroscience behind attention as a baby, discuss how children and adult's attention is altered by technology, and finally look at the loss of attention in Alzheimer's patients at the end of life. This episode is released in conjunction with and will feature research from the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine's March 2019 issue on Attention Science.

The Science of Human Evolution

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