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'You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.' — Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you feel everything — if other people's moods follow you home, if a quiet day still leaves you wrung out — my newest Yoga Nidra was made for you. It speaks to the emotional body: the part of you that moves like the tide. A soft place to land while the waves move through you, with nothing to fix and nowhere your feelings have to go. Because the Tidal Heart is always learning: you are not the wave. you are the water. 🌊 🤍 Come rest with me → TIDAL HEARTS | 27 MIN
'You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.' — Jon Kabat-Zinn
3 likes • 9d
Absolutely FABULOUS contextualization. Every surfer knows the only way to get outside the break is to go under. The reminder here that under is home and emotions show their face on the surface is a beautifully profound. To experience them above and witness from below brings incredible depth to the analogy. I'm so grateful to work the bayfront here every morning and witness the ever changing seascapes, the highs and the lows, the doldrums and the rollers and during the rare storm "a churnin' urn of burnin' funk" as James Taylor puts it in Steamroller Blues. This Nidra is a masterpiece! I'll keep it close to my heart and carry it with me to shore every day. A lifesaver if ever there was one. Thank you Ayla! 💚🙏
3 likes • 6d
Ram Dass said something about cosmic humor being an essential part of our journey. I did this practice this morning and when called for the emerging Sankalpa I grasped for it and it wasn't there! Instead what rolled off the tip of my mind was(I am)"the Ocean" and just as that last consanant landed, my earbuds (which I'd been listening to for the entire ~25 minutes) blurted "CONNECTED"! 🤣😂😂🤣LMMO!
Whoopsies...
Life handed me an unexpected lesson in my own medicine this week. After yoga class, I fell riding home and broke and twisted my pinky finger. I'm now in a fairly dramatic hand brace, and I've got a specialist visit next week — fingers crossed (the ones that still bend) that we can avoid a full cast. So here's the irony I'm sitting with: I teach rest and restoration for a living, and now my body is asking me to actually practice it. I'm leaning on Yoga Nidra to help my nervous system settle, support the healing, and keep me company through the discomfort. It's humbling and kind of beautiful to be on the receiving end of the work. A practical note: Tidal Hearts Yoga Nidra won't release tonight as planned. The fall caused some technical difficulties on my end, so I'm giving it the time it needs to come out right. Thank you for your patience. If you've got a prayer or a good thought to spare, I'll happily take it. 🙏
Whoopsies...
0 likes • 10d
UUph! Boading boo boo no doubt? I feel your pain and wish you wellness on your recovery. I too suffered a 5th distal phalanx injury when my right hand got twisted in the collar of a hyperdoggie. That was two years before finding Peace In Rest here and my immediate focus was on fear of handicapped piano prowess and permanent disability anxiety. Today my approach would differ entirely thanks to being here. For example, I'd begin my scans with "left hand thumb, left. hand. thumb. "😂 I trust your master tradesmanship will navigate you nicely throughout your recovery and I'm thrilled we are all being here to support you along the way. Thank you Ayla💚🙏
Blue Moon in Sagittarius ♐️
"Now, I'm no longer alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own." A Blue Moon only comes when the month is brave enough to hold two. Tonight a Blue Moon rises in Sagittarius. Two full moons in one month. It doesn't happen often... and when it does, it feels like the month has been asking you to expand twice. We started May under the Flower Moon, blooming, sensing, and beginning. We planted seeds at the New Moon in Taurus. And now we close under a moon that's rare... because it is. What opened for you this month? What shifted, even just slightly? What question is still sitting inside you? This is a perfect night to practice. To lie down. To let the Blue Moon hold you while you do absolutely nothing required of you. 🩵 BLUE MOON RITUAL Tonight before sleep: feel the weight of your whole body, from the back of your head to your heels. Repeat before you practice a yoga nidra: "I am allowed to land here." Suggested Nova Nidra Practices Below
1 like • 26d
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SIDEBAR: i need your input!
I have just been invited as a guest for a soon-to-be-released podcast (Legendary Community Podcast)! BUT I need your help because this is about YOU all and your experiences too! This is a new podcast launching in the coming weeks. So I would LOVE to know! What do you LOVE about being in the Nova Nidra Community!? What can I share with the host that you all enjoy so much about this space!? Speak for me here! Take the Mic for me!
SIDEBAR: i need your input!
8 likes • 28d
What I love most about the Nova Nidra community is Ayla. I can't imagine many of our 1,000-plus members feel too differently. By whatever means we've arrived here, we find ourselves gathered in this remarkable space, each on our own journey, following the pathway lighting of our luminary as we "walk each other home"—a Ram Dass quote I first learned from Ayla. What I love most about being here is being here. Continually encouraged to show up as we are. Offered a safe haven to be vulnerable. Invited into that sweet spot in the middle: between sleep & wakefulness, between darkness & light, between courage & fright, between playful & profound. That middle place where magic's found With peace in rest, spirits abound Kindred here with Ayla's grace I'm grateful for this sacred space Where I can soften, feel, learn, and connect; where strangers become companions, and companions become friends.💚🙏
Oh right! The other thing!
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!?
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Oh right! The other thing!
5 likes • May 2
So strange. Inner rage, all too familiar for so very long yet today, I can barely recall it. I'm curious. Has it transmuted? Is it lying patiently in wait? How will I meet it next? I most certainly don't miss it. Gratitude for serenity runs deep and sincere. I emapthise with those who feel it and hope they avigate it's turblence safely to calmer sky's above.
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Geoff Plesa
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Geoff, Impatient spiritual explorer and animal welfare advocate pursuing love of nature and science in the Great Out Doors of Thailand. Thank Dog!

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