I used to use Pinterest to find corresponding pictures for the images that came to me during a nidra session. Now I have to sketch, paint and draw. Whilst painting I am impatient, I work quickly, I want to get the image out of my system. It’s crazy, then I slowly get absorbed by the colours and the process. It then becomes enjoyable and satisfying. Afterwards, I explore any further meanings conveyed by the image and the colours. It’s very healing and fascinating.

THANK YOU to everyone who signed up! This offer is now Closed. I will be reaching out to all of you with questions about your Yoga Nidra journey and to bring you into the 5-Day LIVE Experience. Most of us were taught there's one way to rest. Lie down, close your eyes, hope for the best. But there isn't one state of rest... There are five. AND the state that's out of balance for you is usually the one thing keeping you from actually feeling restored, no matter how much you sleep. I'm running a live 5-Day Experience starting Monday, August 3, where I'll guide you through a 20-minute yoga nidra practice each day — one for each of the five states of rest. Here's what each day will hold: Day 1: Safety. Settle your nervous system and remember what it feels like to be at ease in your own body. Day 2: Release the grip of holding it all together and let emotion move the way it was designed to. Day 3: Reconnect with your inner steadiness, the part of you that chooses, rather than reacts. Day 4: Soften into the deeper intelligence beneath your thinking mind and let it guide you. Day 5: Integrate all five states and feel what it's like when your whole system works together. 5 days. 5 ways to regulate. 5 states of rest. By day five, you'll know exactly which state you've been missing, and how to come back to it on your own. The details: This would normally be $497. For this round, it's free. It is LIVE ONLY... not recorded. If you can't attend live, this isn't the round for you. Spots are limited. How to join: comment the word STATES below. That's your entry. This closes Friday, July 31 at 12 PM — after that, the door shuts. Comment STATES now if you're in.

Not scrolling until your brain goes numb. What does actual, nourishing rest feel like in your body? One of our Peace in Rest members said something that stuck with me: "I approached yoga nidra to get better sleep... and then I had no idea the depth it would take me to." That's it, isn't it? Most of us come in through the door of exhaustion and end up discovering something we didn't even know we were looking for. So — I want to hear from you. Drop it below: What brought you here? What are you discovering it's actually about? Or what would you like to learn about true rest!? No right answers. Just the honest ones.

Hi beautiful community, I am writing to you from the Sacred Valley in Peru, resting deeply among mountains, rivers, and a community of kindred souls. Taurus season has a way of asking us all to slow down, find our roots, and return to ourselves. My body has been leading the way, and I am following. Over the next two weeks, I will be taking on nature’s pace; breathing with the stillness of the mountains and flowing with the current of the rivers. My response times may be slower than usual, but you are not forgotten. If anything needs urgent attention while I’m away, @Alisha Macedo is here to support you. You can reach her by emailing [email protected] and she will be happy to help. Thank you for holding this space with so much grace and care. I hope you are finding moments to slow down and let nature set the pace for you, too.

Somewhere along the way You learned that your feelings were a problem to manage. Too much. Too intense. Too hard to be around. 😭 So you got good at holding it together. Being useful. Constantly moving. Keeping juuuuuust enough distance from the bubbling underneath So you could still function. But here's what that costs: You can't rest when you're bracing or hiding yourself. The body won't rest when peace is held at arm's length. Real rest (the deep kind) requires that you feel safe enough to let what's there actually move. Not so you can be another problem to solve, but so you can just let it move. This is the second of the 5 States of Rest... (LEARN MORE) Each state gets its own month inside the membership I'm opening this week. Its own practice. Its own nervous system map. Its own way home. POLL | Which feels more true right now?