Self-inquiry: How can I offer myself the same compassion and understanding I offer others? What happens when I include myself in my own care? Be honest, be kind. Premium & VIP Members | Heart Chakra ✧☽ Upgrade to VIP for BONUS: Soul Start Solstice LIVE + Recording ✧☽

Self-inquiry: What emotions am I allowing myself to feel freely? What feelings might I be holding back out of habit, guilt, or self-protection? Let the answer be felt, not explained. Premium & VIP Members | Sacral Chakra Free Standard Members | Sacral Chakra Upgrade to VIP and receive: BONUS: Soul Star Solstice LIVE + Replay New Moon Nova Nidra + Replays

I am a new member of the Nova Nidra Community. I have been meditating daily for ~25 years. My initial guides were Deepak Chopra, Candice Pert, & Joe Dispenza, but Now I am focused on Yoga Nidra. I am a big fan of Kristyn Rose and Ayla Nova. Whom I consider Masters of the practice. ... Thank you.

Some of you have noticed that I’ve been quieter than usual in here lately. I want you to know it isn’t because I don’t care or that I’ve drifted away. I’m still here. I’ve just hit a bit of a wall… and I’ve felt really stuck and unsure of how to share or move forward. This past week brought everything into the light and it’s asked me to surrender. This is a vulnerable and transparent share for me, but the past few months? years? have held me in a wave of depression that I’ve been trying to “manage” rather than actually feel for quite some time. And strangely… letting myself stop fighting it has felt more liberating than anything I’ve done in years. I’ve been ignoring it, minimizing it, over-promising, masking it expertly, freezing, dissociating and bypassing this huge truth that, now that I am finally looking at it directly, BEFRIENDING it even, it's become the very thing that opened the cathartic release I’ve been craving. Hope Abides!! The clouds are parting! The fog is lifting! The sunrise is breaking over the horizon! Hallelujah! 😭🙌🌻 Of course, Yoga Nidra has been the one practice I keep returning to. Some days, it's been the only thing that lets my body unclench… that gives my mind permission to stop negotiating with itself. I wanted to share this because we often talk about Nidra as a tool for rest, clarity, calm… but it’s also a companion for the darker, quieter passages. The ones we don’t (or can't) always name out loud (yet). I know many of you can relate. So, if you’ve ever walked through a similar season and are willing to share.. I’d truly love to hear from you: What helped you? What supported you? Is there a Nidra, ritual, or small practice that carried you through? I’m feeling very seen, loved, and supported through this new revelation, so don’t worry — this isn’t a cry for help, other than wanting to learn from those of you who’ve walked this path before. But I did want to name my absence, let you know I’m still here and extend my hand. Community holds us not only in our good, open seasons, but also in the real work of befriending the parts of ourselves we tend to turn away from. And I know that’s what we’ve built here.. so truly, thank you.

Someone in the chilly north has encouraged me to post northern lights cell phone photos. We had a rather weak, green display in southern michigan, but my daughter in Colorado saw some great pink. Tonight should be even better.