Deep Relaxation: Guided Yoga Nidra with Jennifer Reis

Music Mark Kelso and Henry Horning

These guided yoga meditation CD’s require no more of you than to lie down, relax, and listen! There is no way to do it wrong. The effects are powerful. Yoga Nidra strengthens the immune system, can permanently lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, can reduce or eliminate pain medication, reduce anxiety, depression and addictions, and strengthens the endocrine system. It is also one of the best insomnia cures.

#1 best-selling CD at Kripalu for 2011.

Tracks:

Track 1. Healing Chakra Chorus (22 mins)
Track 2. Eagle Journey: 7 Directions (44 mins)
Track 3. Insomnia Track: Put Me to Sleep (12 mins)

The first two guided Yoga Nidra’s on Deep Relaxation follow the same basic flow. First you are guided to set your intention, or sankalpa (which you come back to at the end of the meditation when you are very open and receptive to your suggestion). Following this is a systematic guidance through all of the layers of your being, or koshas– body scan to witness and relax the physical body; breath awareness to balance and settle the energy body; feeling opposite sensations in the body to harmonize mind and emotions; finally visualization or journey to cultivate higher aspects of being, the wisdom body, and to stimulate healing in physical, energetic, emotional and mind levels.

Healing Chakra Chorus leads you through an experience of the seven major energy centers (chakras) and their associated colors and symbolic images. These energy centers correlate to the glands and nerve plexuses in the physical body. This track facilitates harmony, health and equilibrium of the sacred energy centers, glands, endocrine, and nervous system. Following this, the tantric practice of nyasa is explored by envisioning placing healing flowers and sounds into marma energy points along the energy channels. This visualization creates energetic pathways for healing to begin at the deep levels where imbalance begins.

Eagle Journey: Seven Directions is a Native American Sprituality inspired journey with Eagle into the four cardinal directions and their associated qualities such as season, energy, element, color, and animal. Then Eagle guides you into the final three directions– earth, sky, and inward to your own source– from within a sacred medicine wheel. From your source you are guided to discover a totem symbol. The totem symbol’s energy is symbolically healing and rejuvenating, which opens up energetic pathways for healing to manifest in tangible and physical ways.

Insomnia Track: Put Me to Sleep is a track to help guide you into real sleep. It is meant to be used in bed for those times when you may be experiencing insomnia. Let Yoga Nidra, with a soothing tone and pace, lullaby you into sleep. This helps you to get out of your thinking mind (which at night can often be a fearful mind) and bring you into body and breath to aid in calming your energy that you can fall asleep. If haven’t had success with other insomnia cures, give this a try .

“Deep Relaxation: Guided Yoga Nidra CD is a much needed doorway into a world of profound rest and reconnection with ourselves. Effortlessly, Jennifer Reis, leads us out of our scattered and frenetic lives to a place of healing and peace. Yoga Nidra is the antidote for modern life. Everyone should do it daily.”

— Mark Hyman, MD author of the New York Times bestseller, UltraMetabolism www.ultrawellness.com

“Yoga Nidra is like having chocolate — once you have it , you don’t want to live without it.”

— Stephanie Leeds

“When Jennifer is guiding us in Yoga Nidra, her voice, her words and her intention, is like being rocked by a loved one. Very comforting.”

— Suzanne Moorhead