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.

I want to introduce you to someone. In the framework I've built my work around — the 5 States of Rest — the first state is the one I see most. I call them the Rooted One. This isn't a personality type. It's a state the body moves into when it's been holding too much for too long. And know this... you might sense yourself in all five states, but most people have one that's most familiar. (I've been in a place where safety felt impossible to believe. I know what it's like to feel truly betrayed by your own body. And I also know what it feels like to come home to it again.) Let me introduce you to the Rooted One. They don't feel lazy. They feel disconnected from themselves. Sleep doesn't fully restore them. They're exhausted but wired. They keep trying to think their way out of something that actually lives in the body. Just sit with that for a moment. Your body has been working so hard to protect you. That's not failure, but your body asking to come home.

Go check your email, Nova Nidra family... your results are on their way at 11am PT! (in 40 Minutes) A few things to keep in mind as you receive them: The state you got reflects the state that was most dominant when you took the quiz. Think of it as a mirror showing you where your system is resting right now... not a permanent label, just an honest reflection of this moment. So don't overthink it. Receive it. Sit with it. Then come back here and share: 👉 Which state did you get? 👉 What landed for you? What surprised you? We'll be exploring these States of Rest more together over the coming months. For now, let your state breathe with you. 🌿 Can't wait to see what comes up in the comments!

"I know what I'm moving toward. I can feel it. I just can't always seem to close the distance between here and there." There is a particular kind of longing that lives in this state. A reaching. A knowing-without-quite-arriving. The Vijnanamaya Kosha is the wisdom body… the layer of deeper knowing, intuition, and inner vision. When we're living from this layer, we tend to be people of great perception. You sense things. You see patterns others miss. You have a relationship with your inner life that feels real and meaningful, and there is usually a vision... of who you're becoming, of what your life could hold, that pulls at you even on the ordinary days. The Dream Weaver moves between moments of profound clarity and a subtle doubt, and this oscillation can feel disorienting if you don't understand what's actually happening. It looks like an inconsistency from the outside. But from the inside, it's the soul integrating. The vision... real. The path... real. What's needed is the kind of deep rest that lets what you already know settle into the cells of the body, so it stops being something you pursue and becomes something you simply are. When you recognize yourself as a Dream Weaver, the gap between your vision and your lived reality stops feeling like evidence that something is wrong... and starts feeling like fertile ground. Rest becomes part of the work of becoming. Each practice is an act of integration, letting your inner knowing root itself more deeply into your actual life. Every month we will explore one of these states more deeply and in the fourth state you'll feel into how to honour what you already know, how to let rest become the bridge between vision and embodied reality, and what it means to trust the pace of your own unfolding. To learn more, join our VIP Supporters and gain access to our LIVE | States of Rest

So I said I had two things to share with you the other day... The second thing was this.... with Scorpio Full Moon coming in, I have been feeling... how do i say this!? A Sacred Rage... stirring. One of my friends and mentors said something along the lines of... 'rage is what shows up when your body is done negotiating your boundaries' And I feel that on a global level many of us are feeling is undercurrent of rage. I have done a lot of work over the years of feeling into what is my energy and what is the collective energy and I knew that the level of rage that has been surfacing has not been solely mine... So I am recording a Sacred Rage Yoga Nidra today I feel nervous sharing this which means, in my body... it needs to be said. I am wondering... am I the only one who feels as though they want to release this rage-y energy from their body? in a healthy way!?