We started offering Yoga Nidra Sound Baths at the end of the summer. We have had several so far and it has been a beautiful addition to our offerings. People are often confused and assume that Yoga Nidra includes movement. This has become an opportunity for us to educate the community that it is simply a guided meditation laying in savasana. It also serves as an opportunity to help people to discover that yoga is not just asanas, postures or movement.
Christina has been leading the Yoga Nidra and I have been accompanying her with sound.
I love the creative process of reading her visualization and hearing in my head the sounds that might accompany the words.
For instance, what does a cartwheel on grass sound like? How do you create that sound, so you not only hear the words, but you are there. You feel the grass under your hands as your legs fly above your head. How do you capture what playful moment with sound?
There is something beautiful about laying sound over voice. It becomes a bit of dance between the words and the sound. Sometimes the words lead, sometimes the sound leads. It makes moments of silence more significant, so intentional, so pure.
The sound is not as intense during our Yoga Nidra sound baths as it is during a sound journey, but the words can often help create that focus needed to find that perfect place desired for meditation. Not asleep, not awake.
