Yoga Nidra & Beyond | Ayla Nova

Yoga Nidra for healing and better sleep: a guided practice to meet what you have been carrying with honesty instead of blame, and let the body soften into rest.

🌙 ✨ Five States of Rest Experience: https://www.skool.com/novanidracommunity/about 
🕊 Discover Peace in Rest: https://www.novanidra.com/peaceinrestprogram

This New Moon practice is an invitation to make peace with what has been left unfinished. The words never said, the choices you would unmake, the part of it that was yours. There is nothing here to repair. Through a rotation of consciousness, breath awareness, and a Ho'oponopono journey of the heart — I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you — you're welcome to loosen the grip of self-blame and simply witness what is here.

If your heart feels heavy or sleep has felt far away, this is a place to rest. You may drift to sleep... you'll still receive many of the benefits.

✨ Sankalpa suggestions for this practice 
For Loving Acceptance: I am kind. I am loving awareness. I am true to my heart. 
For Harmony: I am calm to my core. I am at peace. I am in harmony. 
For Release: I am free. I am whole. I am caring.

00:12 Meeting Yourself with Compassion 
01:14 The Four Phrases of Ho'oponopono 
03:13 Gift of Community
04:08 Arrival
06:19 Somatic Release
07:30 The Practice Begins Now 

Please practice at your own pace and only where it's safe to fully rest, and never while driving. Yoga Nidra supports rest and regulation but isn't a substitute for medical or mental health care.

It always means the world to read your comments and insights. By following, subscribing, liking and sharing Yoga Nidra & Beyond, you help me extend these practices to those who need deep rest. A special thank-you to the Nova Nidra Community, who make these practices possible.

Rest well.
Be well,

Ayla Nova

Namaskar. 🙏

#yoganidra #nsdr #hooponopono #guidedmeditationforsleep #forgiveness #nervoussystemregulation

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Discover your Yoga Nidra practice to settle the body and mind. This session is an invitation to find deep rest exactly where you are.

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STATE FIVE EXPERIENCE: Monday, September 7 @ 10AM PT (Replay Available!)

🕊 Discover Peace in Rest: https://www.novanidra.com/peaceinrestprogram

WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/IgZ2T4gkUjw

00:00 Rest Rebels
00:42 5 States of Rest
01:10 State One
01:25 State Two
01:41 State Three
02:09 State Four
02:34 State Five
02:39 How this works
03:52 Celebration Moment
04:11 Thank You Gift!
05:32 State Five Deep Dive

Sometimes the most productive thing you can do... is stop doing. This session provides space to let go of the day, using NSDR techniques to quiet the mental chatter that keeps you feeling wired. It is a gentle process designed for anyone needing to return to a state of balance.

Through this practice, we focus on nervous system regulation to help you transition from a state of doing into a state of being. Whether you use this as a meditation for sleep or simply to pause in the middle of a busy afternoon, allow your body to lead the way.

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Rest well.
Be well,

Ayla Nova

Namaskar.

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Yoga Nidra for burnout and nervous system regulation: a guided practice to put down what has become too heavy to carry and let the body remember how to rest.

This Full Moon practice is an invitation to recognize what has reached completion. The cycles you've moved through, the weight you've been holding, the emotions asking to be felt. There is nothing here to solve. Through a rotation of consciousness, breath awareness, and a kaleidoscope journey of mind, heart and soul, you're welcome to soften the harshness you may have brought into your own thoughts and simply witness what is here.

If you've been pushing beyond your capacity, this is a place to rest. You may drift to sleep — you'll still receive many of the benefits.

✨ Sankalpa suggestions for this practice
*For Complete Rest:* I am rested. I am whole. I am enough.
*For Dissolution:* I soften. I release. I surrender.
*For Integration:* I am present. I am complete. I am home.

00:12 Honouring the Need for Deep Rest
03:58 Exploring the Five States of Rest
07:19 The Practice Begins Now
11:51 Awakening Your Sankalpa

🌙 ✨ Curious what state of rest you're moving through right now?
Take the free 5 States of Rest Quiz:
https://www.novanidra.com/quiz

🕊 Discover Peace in Rest: https://www.novanidra.com/offerings

Please practice at your own pace and only where it's safe to fully rest, and never while driving. Yoga Nidra supports rest and regulation but isn't a substitute for medical or mental health care.

It always means the world to read your comments and insights. By following, subscribing, liking and sharing Yoga Nidra & Beyond, you help me extend these practices to those who need deep rest. A special thank-you to the Nova Nidra Community, who make these practices possible.

Rest well.
Be well,
Ayla Nova
Namaskar. 🙏
#yoganidra #nsdr #burnoutrecovery #nervoussystemregulation #fullmoon #guidedmeditationforsleep

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New Moon Yoga Nidra for Trust & Manifestation | a deeply restful guided practice to calm the nervous system and meet the version of you who already became.

The new moon offers a night without reflected light, and in that darkness, the stars become easier to see. In this Yoga Nidra, you're invited to rest beyond who you are becoming and sense the one who crossed the threshold: 
the future you who learned what you are still learning, and who looks back at this moment with knowing.

Together we move through the koshas, settling the physical body, breath, beliefs and emotions, before a gentle visualization where you may recognize the qualities of your future self already alive within you. You're welcome to drift into sleep and still receive the benefits of this practice.

✨ Curious what state of rest you're moving through right now? Take the free Five States of Rest Quiz: https://www.novanidra.com/quiz

00:12 Welcome from Ayla
02:15 Settling the Body & New Moon Intention
02:40 New Moon Message
05:15 Take a Breath
05:55 Yoga Nidra Begins Now

🌙 Applications for the 2026 Nova Nidra Teacher Training are now closed... the waitlist is open for both the Teacher Training and the Peace in Rest Program https://www.novanidra.com/offerings

🌙 5 States of Rest: https://www.skool.com/novanidracommunity/about

A gentle note:
This practice is an invitation, not a prescription. Move at your own pace, rest in whatever position feels right for you, and please don't listen while driving. Yoga Nidra supports rest and well-being but isn't a substitute for medical or mental health care.

It always means the world to read your comments and insights. By subscribing, liking and sharing, you help extend these practices to those who need deep rest.

Rest well.
Be well,

Ayla Nova

Namaskar. 🙏

#YogaNidra #NSDR #NewMoon #GuidedMeditation #YogaNidraForSleep #FutureSelf

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Full Moon Yoga Nidra 🌕 | A Ritual in Rest for Release, Renewal & Nervous System Calm

This Full Moon Yoga Nidra is a ritual in rest... a guided practice for slowing down, listening inward, and meeting whatever feels illuminated beneath the light of the full moon.

If you notice yourself feeling more emotionally full, restless, energized, sensitive, or pulled between calm and chaos during this part of the lunar cycle, this practice offers a place to land it all.

🌙  5 States of Rest: https://www.skool.com/novanidracommunity/about
🎓 Nova Nidra Teacher Training — apply today: https://www.aylanova.com/peaceinrestprogram/teach

Guided by Ayla Nova, this Yoga Nidra and Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) practice moves through breath, body, awareness, and the emotional polarity of calm and chaos — inviting you to experience both without needing to fix, suppress, or hold onto either.

The full moon has long been used as a symbolic moment for reflection, culmination, release, and renewal. Rather than asking you to do more, this ritual invites you to lie down.

To rest. To notice what has become clear. To feel what is ready to be acknowledged.

And perhaps, to release what no longer needs to travel with you into the next cycle.

🌕 Let rest become the ritual.

You do not need to force yourself into calm. You do not need to eliminate the chaos.
Yoga Nidra invites you to witness both and discover the awareness spacious enough to hold them.

00:11 Ayla Nova's Welcoming Words
02:22 Ayla's Gratitude Offering
03:11 Preparing the Space & Body
05:55 The Practice of Yoga Nidra begins now
50:28 Closing Words & Return

✦ What to expect:
— A Full Moon ritual experienced entirely through rest
— Full-body rotation of consciousness for deep relaxation
— Breath awareness to settle into the energetic body
— Emotional polarity practice exploring calm and chaos
— Space for reflection, release, and renewal
— Guided visualization beneath the light of the full moon
— Sankalpa, your heartfelt intention, woven into the practice
— A gentle return into the next phase of your lunar cycle

✧☽ Mental Emotional Body: Calm & Chaos

Can you feel calm without needing to hold onto it?
Can you experience chaos without becoming consumed by it?
Within Yoga Nidra, opposites can be experienced as changing states rather than permanent truths. You are invited to witness the movement between them and rest in the awareness beneath both.

✧☽ After the Practice
Before getting up, notice what remains.

What has become illuminated?
What feels complete?
What are you ready to release?
And what would you like to carry intentionally into the cycle ahead?

There is nothing you need to resolve tonight. Let the practice continue unfolding in its own time.
If something became clear to you during your Full Moon Yoga Nidra, share your reflection below.

Your words may help someone else recognize something within themselves.

This practice is offered as a space for rest, meditation, and gentle self-inquiry and is not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Everything within the practice is an invitation.

Move at your own pace and leave out anything that does not feel supportive today.

Perfect for a Full Moon meditation, Full Moon ritual, Yoga Nidra for release, emotional release, nervous system regulation, intention setting, deep rest, Sankalpa practice, lunar meditation, and NSDR.

#FullMoonYogaNidra #FullMoonMeditation #YogaNidra #NSDR #FullMoonRitual #NervousSystemRegulation #DeepRest

Rest well.
Be well,

Ayla Nova

Namaskar. 🙏

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