Hilary Jackendoff

Yoga Nidra, Meditation, & Sleep Expert

This meditation is for those times when you get so lost in your mind that you lose connection to your body. Get grounded and centered to gain fresh perspective.

Meditation for when the mind disconnects from the body; grounding and centering for a new outlook.

Grounded in Your Body

This meditation is designed to help you build awareness of your thought patterns and develop the understanding that your thoughts are not necessarily true. By learning how to watch your thoughts without judgment or analysis, you will develop a deep sense of mental clarity and wisdom.

Meditation to build awareness of thought patterns, understand thoughts aren't always true, and develop mental clarity and wisdom through non-judgmental observation.

Awareness of Thoughts

It's so easy to wish that our lives were different - that we had a different job, lived in a different place or had a different partner. This is so often our pattern - break free of that pattern by acknowledging it when it arises and consciously cultivating gratitude.

Break free from wishing for a different life by acknowledging the pattern and cultivating gratitude, suggests the author.

Gratitude Meditation

When we are beginning a meditation practice, we tend to have the idea that sounds are a distraction, and we desire a perfectly tranquil, or soundproofed setting for our spiritual endeavors. Well...get over it! Learning how to be with the present moment, exactly as it is IS meditation. If sounds are part of that present moment, use them as an object of focus to help turn your attention inward.

Don't consider sounds a distraction while meditating; use them as an object of focus to help turn your attention inward and learn to be with the present moment.

Awareness of Sounds

This grounding and settling meditation are meant to help bring about a deep sense of relaxation, presence, and connectedness to the body. When you feel ungrounded, scattered, or overwhelmed, the easiest way to get out of your head is to get into your body.

This meditation promotes relaxation and connection to the body for grounding and settling when feeling overwhelmed or scattered.

Be in Your Body

So often, we try to go to sleep at night in a state of tension, in a state of holding on... as a result, we toss and turn and sleep restlessly, if at all. This meditation is designed to help you let go of your day, drop all your tensions & worries, and slip into a restful sleep.

This meditation helps you let go of tension and worries to sleep better.

Slipping into Sleep

This simple witnessing meditation will help sensitize you to where your breath flows in your body. Developing an awareness of the natural breath is a key component in learning how to settle yourself for meditation.

Sensitize yourself to your natural breath flow with a witnessing meditation to settle for meditation.

Where Does Your Breath Live?

This breath-focused meditation involves conscious breathing and equalizing the length of the inhale, exhale and space between. This practice is extremely calming for the nervous system, as well as the mind and emotions.

Breath-focused meditation equalizing inhale, exhale and space between is calming for the nervous system, mind and emotions.

Smoothing Out the Breath

This meditation is a simple, soothing, focused breathing practice that will help you learn a new way to quickly shift your state of mind. To begin, we will become aware of our natural breath, and then we will begin to breathe consciously - expanding the breath to create a 3 part inhalation - abdomen, chest and upper chest, followed by a long, smooth exhalation. *With this practice, it is important to go at your own pace, so there is no straining around the breath*

Learn how to quickly shift your state of mind with a simple, soothing breathing practice that expands the breath in three parts, but go at your own pace.

The Staircase Breath

In this meditation, you will be guided through a simple practice designed to remind you that where your attention goes, your energy flows. We will create what is known as an 'energy ball,' so that you can deeply connect to this, on an experiential level. In time, this knowing will inspire you to mindfully direct your attention, choosing thoughts and actions carefully, so that you are aligned with whatever you are seeking to energetically manifest in your life.

Meditation to create an 'energy ball' and direct attention, aligning thoughts and actions with desired energetic manifestation.

Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows

This meditation is a self-inquiry practice, designed to increase self-awareness. See yourself clearly and deepen awareness of your patterns, habits and beliefs, so you can begin to accept yourself just as you are. From a place of deep self-acceptance and self-compassion, we can create real change in our lives.

Self-inquiry meditation practice increases self-awareness and acceptance of patterns, habits, and beliefs, leading to self-compassion and real change.

See Yourself Clearly

Sleep deeply with this relaxing, soothing Yoga Nidra meditation designed specifically to help you get a good night's sleep. Follow along with the guidance and let yourself drift into a peaceful sleep.

Get a good night's sleep with a relaxing Yoga Nidra meditation that helps you drift into a peaceful slumber.

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