67 Sunsets – Wild Nidra Pair

This is one of the yoga nidrā practices included in the Treasury of Transcripts in ‘Nidrā Shakti: The Power of Rest – An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidrā’.

This is one of two short informal practices which were part of a series of nine evening meditative wild nidrās shared on Cherai Beach, each day, watching the sun set over the Arabian Sea. The intention was to mark a ‘sandhi’ the joining places between the work of the day and the evening activities. Often the practices ended with at least some of the trainees going into the sea fully clothed (as was the norm on this Kerala beach) for a swim. These yoga nidrā practices were a key part of the facilitator training process, bringing all components of nidrā out of the studio and into the natural world in brief and informal practice.

Sometimes one or two of the components were conflated (for example, inner listening becoming part of the embodied awareness) but each one displays how even in a short practice, all components are present in the usual cyclical progression.