"Deep Relaxation: Guided Yoga Nidra CD is a much needed doorway into a world of profound rest and reconnection with ourselves. Effortlessly, Jennifer Reis, leads us out of our scattered and frenetic lives to a place of healing and peace. Yoga Nidra is the antidote for modern life. Everyone should do it daily."
--- Mark Hyman, MD author of the New York Times bestseller, UltraMetabolism www.ultrawellness.com

These guided meditation CD's require no more of you than to lie down, relax, and listen! There is no way to do it wrong. The effects are powerful:
~Completly relaxes accumulated mental, muscular and emotional tensions
~Liberates one from stress and stress-related disorders
~Increases coping ability
~Retrains nervous system how to relax
~Turns off the flight-or-fight response and brings us into the relaxation response
~Awakens body’s own healing mechanisms to improve health, wellness and prevent illness
~Restores emotional and mental balance
~Strengthens memory and mind and improves concentration
~Subdues thinking mind and reduces or eliminates our habitual thought patterns
~Creates access to inner wisdom and insight
~Fosters connection with body
~Offers profound rest; deeper and more healing than from sleep
~Revitalizes and renews energy
~Awakens creativity
~Leads one not only towards health and well-being but also towards self-awakening
~Cultivates inner peace, harmony, deep calm and clarity
~Heart opening, soothing and meditative
~Nurtures self-compassion, trust, and confidence

Yoga Nidra strengthens the immune and endocrine systems, can permanently lower high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, can reduce or eliminate pain medication, cures insomnia, reduces anxiety, depression, and addictions.


DEEP RELAXATION CD ~~~ INCLUDES TRACK FOR INSOMNIA
Tracks:  1. Healing Chakra Chorus (22 mins)
      2. Seven Directions to the Source (44 mins)
       3. Sweet Dreams (12 mins) For Insomnia.This is intended to put you to sleep.
Music: Mark Kelso and Cedar Flute: Henry Horning

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF TRACKS:
The first two guided Yoga Nidra’s on Deep Relaxation follow the same basic flow. First you are guided to set your intention, or sankalpa (which you come back to at the end of the meditation when you are very open and receptive to your suggestion).  Following this is a systematic guidance through all of the layers of your being, or koshas-- body scan to witness and relax the physical body; breath awareness to balance and settle the energy and body; feeling opposite sensations in the body to harmonize mind and emotions; finally visualization or journey to cultivate higher aspects of being, the wisdom body, and to stimulate healing in physical, energetic, emotional and mind levels. 

Healing Chakra Chorus leads you through an experience of the seven major energy centers (chakras) and their associated colors and symbolic images. These energy centers correlate to the glands and nerve plexuses in the physical body. This track facilitates harmony, health and equilibrium of the sacred energy centers, glands, endocrine, and nervous system. Following this, the tantric practice of nyasa is explored by envisioning placing healing flowers and sounds into marma energy points along the energy channels. This visualization creates energetic pathways for healing to begin at the deep levels where imbalance begins.

Seven Directions to the Source is a Native American Sprituality inspired journey with Eagle into the four cardinal directions and their associated qualities such as season, energy, element, color, and animal. Then Eagle guides you into the final three directions-- earth, sky, and inward to your own source-- from within a sacred medicine wheel. From your source you are guided to discover a totem symbol. The totem symbol's energy is symbolically healing and rejuvenating, which opens up energetic pathways for healing to manifest in tangible and physical ways.

Sweet Dreams is a track to help guide you into real sleep. It is meant to be used in bed for those times when you may be experiencing insomnia. Let Yoga Nidra, with a soothing tone and pace, lullaby you into sleep. This helps you to get out of your thinking mind (which at night can often be a fearful mind) and bring you into body and breath to aid in calming your energy that you can fall asleep.


GUIDED RELAXATION: YOGA NIDRA CD
with Jennifer Reis
Music by Bob Daly and Mark Kelso

"Come home to your natural state of balance and peace with Jennifer's soothing and masterful guidance. I love this CD and use it often." 
--- Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga For Depression and new DVD Life Force Yoga to Beat the Blues, www.yogafordepression.com

"I'm not sure if I've shared with you how much the yoga nidra practice (and mostly your CD) has impacted my life in a positive way.  About a year ago I was going through a very difficult time- having a lot of anxiety attacks and long bouts of insomnia.  Your CD was often the only thing that helped me relax and eventually get to sleep.  I recommend it to all of my clients (many of whom struggle with stress and anxiety)."
--- Jill Braverman, Yoga Teacher, Holistic Health Counselor, and Personal Trainer

Jennifer's calming and melodic voice will draw you inward to a place of deep relaxation. This easy practice requires no more than laying down comfortably and listening.  Through the use of guided imagery, breath awareness and body scanning, these three guided relaxations help alleviate not only muscular tension, but also mental and emotional stress. The perfect antidote for the demands we face in our time of frantic pace and nervous system over-stimulation. The practice of Yoga Nidra transfers you to a state of harmony, health and well-being.

Stress-related illnesses are currently at epidemic levels. These illnesses effect the quality of our lives and can mean missing out on living fully, loss of income, and medical bills. This practice is specifically designed to relax and calm the nervous system to create the conditions our body needs for deep healing to take place.

Tracks:  1. Sunrise Relaxation 25 mins
2. Infinite Healing Relaxation 37 mins
3. Instant Relaxation 15 mins

Jennifer Reis has a special love for the practice and restorative power of Yoga Nidra ---  "dynamic yogic sleep". Her melodic voice will lead you through all levels of your being and into higher mind states where accessing deep healing and transformation is possible. Yoga Nidra is a meditation that is proven to foster deep relaxation and cultivate health in your daily life. You will come back into harmony, balance, and wholeness with this easy practice that requires no more than to lie down and listen. Jennifer's CD's have three tracks each which include body scanning, intention, breath meditation, awareness of energy, visualization and journeying.