Today, let’s relax with a Yoga Nidra practice. On days when a nap feels like just the thing my body is calling for, I often turn to yoga nidra, a practice of conscious rest that is sometimes translated as “yogic sleep,” though it is not quite sleep, and not quite meditation in the usual sense either. Rather, it invites the body into deep relaxation while awareness remains present. For this practice, you will need a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and you may lie down, on a yoga mat or a bed, for about half an hour.
“i thank You God for most this amazing”
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
-e. e. cummings
