One of the reasons dreams have fascinated people across so many cultures is because they rarely speak in straightforward language. Dreams tend to arrive in symbols. A house. A river. A staircase. A storm. An animal. A child. A doorway. Whhhhhat does this remind you of!? Any guesses? SHARE Below... My Peace in Rest Members you have a slight advantage here. These images often carry emotional truth, even when they don’t make logical sense. And that’s important, because not all truth arrives logically. Some truths are symbolic before they are verbal... Some truths are carried in image because the deeper mind is not trying to explain itself, fam... it is trying to reveal itself. Yoga Nidra often opens this symbolic layer. As the body enters a state of profound rest, awareness loosens from its usual mental habits. The mind becomes less literal. Inner imagery becomes more available. This is part of why guided imagery can be so powerful in the practice./ Imagery is communication. A lake, a cave, the moon, light moving through the body, a path through a forest. These are not simply... “nice visuals.” They speak to deeper structures in the psyche and nervous system. They offer the body something to organize around. Something safe, spacious, and resonant... some even activating or awakening. We do not need to over-interpret every symbol that arises! LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN! We do not need to over-interpret every symbol that arises! But we can learn to honour them. To notice what returns. To feel where an image lands in the body. Anyone curious where all this dream talk is leading!?

We still don’t fully understand dreaming. Some say it helps process emotion. Others point to memory, creativity, or learning. But what’s becoming clear is this: Dreaming is connected to how we metabolize experience. And most of what we live through doesn’t just disappear at the end of the day. It lingers... in the body, in our nervous system. If there isn’t enough rest, safety, or space to metabolize it… it stays unfinished. This is part of why dreams can feel so charged. They’re one of the places where the system continues its work. Where what hasn’t been processed begins to reorganize. Yoga Nidra touches this same territory, but consciously. You’re not asleep or trying to figure anything out. You’re resting… while the system begins to metabolize what’s been held. And when that happens, insight doesn’t feel forced. It feels like something finally had the space to land. We explore this more deeply inside the Peace in Rest Program If you feel the pull to understand this in your own system, you can join the waitlist.

When most people hear the word dreaming, they think of what happens at night. The strange images, the emotional fragments, the stories the mind makes while the body is asleep. But dreaming begins much earlier than that. The mind is always weaving. In waking life, it weaves memory, emotion, sensation, and anticipation. At night, that weaving becomes more visible. What lives beneath the surface begins to speak in image, symbol, feeling, and movement. This is part of why Yoga Nidra can feel so mysterious to people at first. You may not be fully asleep, and yet something in you is moving through a dreamlike space. You may still hear the voice guiding you, and yet your body feels far away. You may leave the practice with an image, a colour, a sensation, or a feeling you can’t quite explain. That doesn’t mean you “drifted off” or did it wrong. It means you entered a different layer of awareness. Yoga Nidra lives in that threshold space. Not fully awake or fully sleeping... It's a bridge. And the threshold matters because this is where the thinking mind loosens its grip. It stops organizing everything into a linear sense and becomes more receptive or abstract. This is one reason dreams can feel so important after a period of deep rest. When the nervous system is under constant strain, we often lose contact with these subtler layers. We sleep, but not always deeply. We dream, but don’t remember or wake carrying tension instead of insight. Yoga Nidra helps restore the conditions for dreaming to become more vivid, more coherent, and more meaningful by supporting the body in feeling safe enough to enter rest more fully. And dreaming, in this way, is not just about what happens at night. It’s also about imagination. Inner vision.The symbolic language of the deeper self. So when we speak of dreaming with Yoga Nidra, we’re not only speaking about nighttime dreams. We’re speaking about learning how to listen when the surface mind quiets and something deeper begins to speak.

@Ayla Nova i hope to join tomorrow for the New moon - it is 3am for me so I will leave it to my body to wake or not. 🌑💚 thank you for holding the space for us all. Photo of the sunflowers on my kitchen table And one of the two cord cutting rituals I have done this week 🌳💕

This will be the final yoga nidra in the astrological archetype series… Pisces! It has me wondering... Who here is a Pisces?!