Alchemy of Rest | Yoga Nidra Support for Illness, Pain & Fatigue
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Journey Description
Dear Friend,
This journey offers three longer yoga nidras (also called NSDR or non-sleep deep rest) to support you when your body needs extra care. If you're living with or recovering from illness or injury, or navigating pain, fatigue, or other difficult symptoms, this journey is for you. All of you is welcome here, just as you are, just as you’re feeling and just as your body is right now.
Yoga nidra has been so supportive of my own well-being while living with multiple complex conditions that I was inspired to train in offering it to others. These practices are especially near and dear to my heart, informed by my own experiences with chronic illness flare-ups, living with chronic fatigue and pain, and recovering from major medical procedures - and they’re designed to offer the unique support needed in each instance.
Each practice is voice-only (no background music or sounds), trauma-informed, and gentle, with plenty of options so you can meet yourself where you are. There is nothing to do, change, fix, or "get right." I invite you to simply rest back and receive the nourishment of yoga nidra. The practices differ in length and emphasis, so I encourage you to explore and notice which feels most supportive on a given day.
As always, please think of my guidance as suggestion, make any adaptations that serve you, and practice in whatever supported position feels best. If you drift off to sleep, that's likely exactly what you need. Know that you're receiving all of the benefits of the practice.
I’d love to hear about your experience with these yoga nidras and learn about how I can best support your needs. If a particular type of practice or an adjustment to what or how I offer these practices would be supportive for you, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you (either privately or in the comments below).
May this journey bring you comfort and support, and may you experience the alchemy of rest.
With Love & Care,
Kelsea
Journey Tracks
Yoga Nidra Deep Rest For Chronic Fatigue & Burnout
This 25-minute yoga nidra is designed for anyone navigating fatigue, burnout, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, long COVID, POTS, or another energy-limiting condition, though it can be supportive for anyone in need of deep rest. It is intentionally invitational, simple, and effortless: no complicated breathing techniques or imagery, and no intense opposite sensations, so you can welcome what's naturally present and truly rest back. You’ll be guided to settle in, set a sankalpa (heart’s intention), rotate awareness through a body scan, rest in breath awareness, sense being held by earth and open to sky, choose a sanctuary for restoration, rest in yogic sleep, plant a sankalpa and reawaken. This track features my female voice only, without any background music or soundscapes.
Yoga Nidra Deep Rest For Chronic Illness Flare-Ups
This gentle 35-minute yoga nidra is designed for anyone navigating a flare-up of pain, fatigue, or other difficult symptoms, though it can also be supportive for anyone facing a challenge, physical or emotional. You’ll be guided through settling in, setting a sankalpa (heart’s intention), rotating awareness through a body scan, natural breath awareness and energy visualization, sensing the opposite sensations of warmth and coolness, choosing an inner refuge, resting in yogic sleep, planting your sankalpa and reawakening. This track features my female voice only, without any background music or soundscapes.
Yoga Nidra Deep Rest For Recovery From Illness, Injury & Surgery
This 30-minute yoga nidra is designed for anyone recovering from illness, injury, surgery, or medical treatment, though it can be supportive for anyone in need of deep, restorative rest. You'll be guided through settling in, setting a sankalpa (heart’s intention), contacting an inner resource, a body scan, breath awareness with a healing energy visualization, sensing the opposite sensations of expansion and contraction, a rotation of imagery, resting in pure awareness and reawakening. This track features my female voice only, without any background music or soundscapes.
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