Relaxation & Rest
in the Realm of Body Intelligence
1: Listen to guided meditations, audiobooks, sound healing, and music that promote rest and integration.
1: Listen to guided meditations, audiobooks, sound healing, and music that promote rest and integration.Music that calms your mind, body, spirit or helps to focus on integration 🎶
- Guided Mushroom Journeys – Playlist: hours of curated music for psychedelic or intentional integration states.
- Meditation Playlist on Spotify: many hours of curated music for meditation, focus, sleep, rest, or integration.
- Binaural Beats Podcast – Meditation for Sleep: hours and hours of calming binaural music
- Binaural Beats Focus – Playlist on Spotify: Enhance your concentration by traveling through different brainwave calming musical frequencies.
- GoodVibes Binaural Beats Channel on YouTube: This collection of audio tracks utilizes the science of binaural beats to guide your brain through various states of consciousness, each tailored to help achieve specific mental and emotional benefits.
- HeartSong Integration – Playlist on Spotify: Diverse, beautiful, lyrical, & inspirating music to support your integration path.
Videos 🎦
- Chakra Balance Guided Meditation on YouTube: 15-minute quality guided meditation.
- Chakras – 7 Minute Tune-Up on YouTube: This is an easy to follow, quality chakra meditation using your breath and your voice with the simple sounds associated with each chakra. Gets energy moving.
- 10-Minute Chakra Meditation (Daily Recharge): instructive and ideal for quickly opening, cleansing and recharging your chakras daily. Really good daily meditation.
Podcasts 🎧
- The Yoga Nidra Podcast: Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep” and is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. A powerfully restorative practice to restore your mind, body, and soul.
- Yoga Nidra and Beyond Podcast: Here, you will discover the REST you deserve and need to RESTORE your nervous system on the road to a better sleep and life.
- Somatic Healing Meditations Podcast: Every episode contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way.
- Tara Brach Meditation Podcast: weekly meditation practices – Spotify link
- 12-Minute Meditation Podcast: Various great teachers guide you in regular 12-minute sessions – Spotify link.
- Mindfulness Meditation Podcast: 2x per week fun new short guided meditations with calming music.
Courses 📝
- Free 40 Day Mindfulness Daily Course by Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield: excellent way to establish a meditation practice – try it!
Apps 📲
- Insight Timer – consistently over the years a great meditation & mindfulness app that customizes to your needs and desired practice.
2: Engage in a calming breathwork practice for before sleep to ease your mind and open space for dreaming.
Books 📚
- Essential Pranayama – by Jerry Givens: one of the best classic pranayama books out there. If you follow these practices, utterly life-changing.
- The Little Book of Yoga Breathing – by Scott Shaw: Pranayama made easy. Classic and easy to follow book of pranayama breath meditation practices.
- Breath Practice Cards – by Rebecca Moore: We LOVE this deck of cards. Easy to practice techniques and self-guided meditations, including diaphragmatic breathing / belly breathing.
Podcasts 🎧
- Huberman Lab Health Podcast: this link will take you to the Huberman Lab episodes that deal with breathwork, NSDR (non-sleep deep rest), and meditation. These are really good!
- The Breathwork Club: new breath techniques in every episode – easy, guided.
- Breath, Body, Soul Podcast: Guided Breathwork and meditation practices
- Mindfulness Meditation Podcast: 2x per week fun new short guided meditations with calming music.
- Let’s Talk Yoga Pranayama Series on YouTube: A great series of breath-specific episodes, aimed at yoga teachers, but anyone can access this great info.
Videos on Alertate Nostril Breathing – great practice before sleep!
- Alternate Nostril Breathing / Nadhi Shodhana: beginner video, easy peezy!
- Find Balance with Alternate Nostril Breathing: nice yogic instruction on this breath.
Courses 📝
- Become a BreathWave Instructor: become a guide in this school of conscious breathing.
- Become a Teacher of Soma Breathwork: SOMA Breath combines transformational training with business support so you are not left guessing after certification
3: Try a restorative, yin yoga, or Yoga Nidra class in person or online for help with deep stretching and quieting the mind.
Videos 🎦
- Yoga Nidra & Meditation with Kristyn Rose – YouTube Channel: a quality channel with great Yoga Nidra and meditation content for sleep and rest.
- Ayla Nova | Yoga Nidra & Beyond – YouTube Channel: another quality channel for Yoga Nidra and diverse meditation content.
- Yin Yoga with Annie – YouTube Channel: Lovely! Hours and hours of quality simple & relaxing yin yoga.
- Yin Yoga with Matt – YouTube Channel: thanks Matt! A diverse collection of great Yin Yoga videos.
Podcasts 🎧
- The Yoga Nidra Podcast: Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep” and is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. A powerfully restorative practice to restore your mind, body, and soul.
- Yoga Nidra and Beyond Podcast: Here, you will discover the REST you deserve and need to RESTORE your nervous system on the road to a better sleep and life.
- Somatic Healing Meditations Podcast: Every episode contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way.
- Tara Brach Meditation Podcast: weekly meditation practices – Spotify link
- 12-Minute Meditation Podcast: Various great teachers guide you in regular 12-minute sessions – Spotify link.
- Mindfulness Meditation Podcast: 2x per week fun new short guided meditations with calming music.
Courses 📝
- Free 40 Day Mindfulness Daily Course by Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield: excellent way to establish a meditation practice – try it!
Apps 📲
- Insight Timer – consistently over the years a great meditation & mindfulness app that customizes to your needs and desired practice. Look up Yoga Nidra on the app!