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32 minutes

Open your heart and nourish your nervous system with this guided deep rest practice. A gentle invitation to soften inward. This meditation guides you into a place of stillness where the breath slows, the body unwinds, and the heart opens. Through diaphragmatic breath, body-based awareness, and heart-centered intention, you’ll enter a receptive state where healing and alignment naturally arise.

A supportive practice for times when you feel scattered, heavy, or in need of quiet grounding.

Recommended to practice lying down with a blanket under your knees and a cover over your body for warmth.

What to Expect:

  • Full-body deep rest through guided yoga nidra
  • Diaphragmatic breath awareness and body scan
  • Heart-centered intention setting
  • Subtle shifts into subconscious receptivity
  • Support for emotional clarity and nervous system repair

Benefits of Rest into Love Meditation:

  • Induces theta brainwave states, associated with deep creativity and healing
  • Reduces cortisol and heart rate, supporting the parasympathetic nervous system
  • Enhances interoceptive awareness, reconnecting you to inner wisdom
  • Embeds intentions through subconscious imprinting
  • Restores a felt sense of alignment and safety in mind, body, and heart

Why This Works:

Yoga nidra is more than relaxation; it’s a nervous system-supported pathway into the subconscious. Through techniques like rotation of consciousness (body scan), diaphragmatic breath awareness, and the setting of a heart-centered intention, this practice creates measurable shifts in the brain and body:

  • Induces theta brainwave states, associated with creativity, emotional integration, and deep receptivity.1
  • Reduces cortisol and heart rate, signaling the system to downshift into parasympathetic activity.2
  • Enhances interoception and somatic awareness, creating space for integration and clarity

When you set an intention while in this relaxed state, it travels beyond conscious thought and begins to embed within the nervous system as a felt sense of truth.

  1. Sharpe, E., Lacombe, A., Butler, M. P., Hanes, D., & Bradley, R. (2021). A Closer Look at Yoga Nidra: Sleep Lab Protocol. International journal of yoga therapy, 31(1), Article_20. https://doi.org/10.17761/2021-D-20-00004 ↩︎
  2. Markil, N., Whitehurst, M., Jacobs, P. L., & Zoeller, R. F. (2012). Yoga Nidra relaxation increases heart rate variability and is unaffected by a prior bout of Hatha yoga. Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 18(10), 953–958. https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2011.0331 ↩︎

Rest into Love Meditation