Yoga Nidra and Your True Nature

I’m at last home in San Juanico after a wonderful month in El Pescadero, sharing meditation, yoga of all varieties, and restorative sound baths with guests at Modern Elder Academy.

MEA calls themselves a ‘mid-life wisdom school’ and well, I guess I’m finally old enough to share some tools for uncovering wisdom. ;-) Many thanks to my good friend Teddi Dean, who is Head of Mindfulness at MEA.

While some of us might get wiser with age, the reality is… age is not the cause of wisdom. I saw a quote the other day that said,

“As time goes by, more and more of our true nature is revealed.”

I think about this a lot, especially the use of the term, “true nature.”

For those of us with a spiritual practice, true nature means something very specific.

The author of this quote, I believe, is referring to another aspect of who we are - our conditioned nature - aka our behavioral habits.

As we get older, our habits become ever more ingrained, the ruts of repeated behavior become deeper.

And so, right now, what habits are we practicing? What’s most likely to rise to the surface in the absence of choice?

Would it be our true nature as in wisdom nature - or something else?    

At MEA this past month, we spent a lot of time simply RESTING, BEING STILL and NOTICING to land on a few possible answers.

Our tools were meditation, gentle movement, restorative yoga and yoga nidra practices. Others shared music, art and contemplative conversation.

Below, you’ll find one of the yoga nidra sound bath practices I shared.

May it offer you the spaciousness in which to uncover, at least glimpse, a true nature you would happily increasingly share as time goes by.

XOXO

Sara-Mai

Step 1: Learn to set up your meditation nest here:

Step 2: Download the practice here.

May it be of benefit in helping you connect to your true nature.