Crystal Path Yoga Nidra
Safe and Relaxed
Alchemy crystal sound opens your psychic and mental state, releasing habitual patterns of holding on to the familiar. This is its magic and benign power. Once released into this cool zone of relaxation, you have a safe place where to explore and rediscover the very ground of your being. To break out of those old, tired habits, you can rely on instructions and methods that take you there.
Wisdom Tradition Journeys
There are so many teachings and methods that can guide you along a path to true being. Aki Sound Studio is aligned with wisdom traditions that are beautifully enhanced by our high-tech alchemy crystal bowls. Whichever path we explore, a new kind of journey opens out into a field of discovery. The bowls imbue the teachings with power and relevance to your own life. And you may come back again, from a different perspective, to the same essential message: your authentic presence and being, which is beyond words and has no boundaries.
What Is Yoga Nidra?
So what is our latest crystal path exploration? It’s the tradition called Yoga Nidra. Yoga is union, and nidra is sleep. In the practice of Yoga Nidra, the delta frequency of sleep is reached. It is a state of letting go and relaxation. At the same time, you maintain awareness so that you know what is going on. So it is a union with the in-between state, between deep sleep and awake. You can quite naturally get there just by listening to crystal bowls in a sound bath. However, there may be a tendency toward falling asleep. The Yoga Nidra way is to stay awake in that calm delta frequency state.
The crystal thread of wakefulness in Yoga Nidra is upheld through a stream of instructions. The crystal bowls complement this by creating an incredibly soft space in a safe place. You maintain presence while remaining in both the sleep zone and awake zone. The overachieving human doing is relaxed and replaced by the soft and receptive human being. The instructions guide you skilfully and take you on a journey.
Crystal Path Yoga Nidra
What is so beautiful about this Crystal Path Yoga Nidra journey is that it mixes verbal instructions with a deeply receptive meditative state. The words have a meaning, and the meaning is personally felt beyond the words. This is the skilfulness of Yoga Nidra, and indeed of many genuine spiritual traditions. The classical Yoga Nidra first invites you to set an intention, a felt intention. Then it guides you through a very thorough body scan. Next, it invites you to follow the breath. Then it guides you in a series of opposite sensations (feel heavy, now feel light). Finally, it takes you through a series of slow-moving images, like a slideshow. Then you come back and step into the world transformed.
In our first Crystal Path Yoga Nidra presentation, we found an extraordinary enhancement of this profound journey through a specially created harmonised healing set. It included Divine Feng Shui, Platinum Heart Flower, Ruby, Great Salt Lake, and Lemurian Seed Alchemy Crystal Bowls. The set was designed with major and minor chords, and an octave of the fundamental note - G. This was a very consonant set complementing the total healing energy sphere of the Yoga Nidra.
Planting A Seed
What I found so extraordinary about crystal sound and Yoga Nidra was the sense of total confidence that a seed was planted in my being, and that this will grow and flourish. The starting point of the Yoga Nidra is to set your intention. I personally keep coming back to fully and completely feeling the very energy of the present moment beyond words. The words take me there, and the crystal sound is pure revelation.
You can get your first Crystal Path Yoga Nidra session here at Sound Tribe (7-Day free trial), beautifully led by Shannon and her soothing voice. You will also find the description of the healing set used for the session. This Yoga Nidra is the first in the series. Coming soon are the Yoga Nidras for Chakra Awakening, The Five Elements, Cosmic Consciousness, and The Heart of Compassion. There is also another exciting new collection coming soon: The Yoga Nidra of The Alchemical Transformation of the Emotions into Wisdom.
