Starship Yoga: December 2016

Thursday, December 22, 2016

New Year Sound Healing Gong Meditation

New Year- New You

 New Year Sound healing Gong Meditation with the magic of Yoga Nidra guided by Tehila Woosley at Hikina Yoga was held on January 1st, 2017.

Gong Meditations create space for you to relax, rejuvenate and if you are willing, to explore deeper into the understandings of who you are. 

Gong are useful in resolving emotional and physical dissonance. Magic happens when there is no separation between the gong, the player and the listener. Playing and listening to gongs is about spiritual, physical and emotional resolution – opening of doors and windows to the universe, moving around energies, universal energies – to enter a spiritual dimension. The gong is psycho-acoustic gateway to heightened states of awareness and consciousness. It is an ideal tool for stress reduction, stimulation of the glandular system, and to break up emotional blockages. Gongs stimulate and resonate all cells in the human body simultaneously and recalibrate the parasympathetic nervous system. 

In india it is believed that the sound of the gong created the worlds, and was the primal sound of OM ( ॐ )

“The gong is the sound of creativity itself. One who plays the gong plays the universe.” Yogi bhajan

THE MEANING & MAGIC OF YOGA NIDRA:

YOGA- union, completeness

NIDRA- sleep

YOGA NIDRA is a sleep-based meditation practice using breath, visualization, and relaxation techniques to restore and reset the body physically, mentally and spiritually, returning us to a sense of wholeness.        

Yoga nidra is approaching to healing on a physical, mental and spiritual levels.

Yoga nidra is an energetic practice. Even if you do not understand anything in yoga nidra, it does not matter. The sound of my voice acts as a rope. Just as you take a rope and go in and out of the depths of a cave, so with the help of sound, you will venture in and out of the mind.

Yoga nidra helps with Heart rate slows, Breath regulates & Blood vessels dilate sending blood to digestion and the brain.

Yoga nidra and Sleep:                                                                                                                                   Sleep disorders affect over 40 million people in the U.S. alone. It is linked to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depression and cancer.                                                                                           Practicing yoga nidra for only 20 minutes is measured to 4-5 hours of a deep sleep.