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On those long nights when your mind is racing and the clock slowly ticks its way to dawn, sleep seems unattainable and precious. The three sessions on this audiobook offer time-honoured skills from the yoga tradition that will help you to enjoy a natural, nourishing night’s sleep. In the first session you learn to calm your mind and relax your body using a deep breathing technique with visualisations. The second session is a deep relaxation practice known as yoga nidra, or psychic sleep. It is used here as a self-hypnosis strategy for inducing sleep.

In the three practices Gillian’s soothing voice guides you into beautiful spaces of inner peace that will relax, uplift and rejuvenate you. The first practice uses a breath awareness technique and is perfect for time-out recuperation during a busy day. The second practice is a classic half-hour whole body relaxation known as yoga nidra. The third is a sitting meditation practice with healing sounds and visualisations of inner light. All three practices are suitable for both experienced and inexperienced meditators and for people of any age, religious or spiritual persuasion.

The first session is a movement meditation. The combination of gentle exercises with deep breathing and relaxing classical music calms your mind and leads you into a place of meditative stillness. Working on all the major joints of the body, the exercises are beneficial to everyone. They are especially helpful for the relief and prevention of arthritis and a great bonus for office-bound folk needing respite from work stress and computer-related strain. The second session is modelled on a technique used by popular human potential specialist Dr Jean Houston.

The benefits of yoga nidra cannot be overstated! In two Yoga Nidra sessions, Dr Gillian Ross guides the listener through deep relaxation and gentle yoga practices, bringing peacefulness and calm. Yoga Nidra or psychic sleep is an ancient practice of deep relaxation in which you draw your senses inwards and rotate your awareness through your body systematically releasing tension. It is an immensely enjoyable experience. When practised regularly, the benefits of Yoga Nidra cannot be overstated.

Dr Gillian Ross guides the listener through deep relaxation practices bringing peacefulness and calm. Destress and unwind with this beautiful audiobook accompanied by soothing musical tracks. The third eye has always been regarded by those who seek to know themselves as being a precious jewel on the forehead that marks a gateway to the inner realm of the spirit.

Escape from tension and stress with these enjoyable and easy relaxation, deep breathing and meditation techniques. The first practice is a classic relaxation technique from the yoga tradition known as yoga nidra or psychic sleep. Gillian’s soothing voice guides into a healing semi-hypnotic state then rotates your awareness around your body, systematically letting go of tension. The second practice introduces a relaxing yoga breathing technique which helps to deepen your natural breathing and release stress.

The relaxation and meditation practices in this audiobook are designed to help teenagers meet the challenges of our competitive, high speed, highly technical world. When used regularly they will improve concentration, enhance creativity and, above all, deepen self-awareness and self-esteem. And they are very enjoyable to do. There are five practices in the audiobook.

The practices in this audiobook offer a variety of easy and enjoyable relaxation techniques. Gillian’s soothing voices helps you to release tension in your body and mind guiding you into an inner space of calm and well-being. Yoga nidra is becoming a widely acknowledged healing practice. For example, it has been shown to help people with stress- and anxiety-related disorders, including insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Our externalised and mentally active lifestyles make meditation alluring but difficult. With this in mind, Gillian begins each of the two half-hour sessions with a deep relaxation practice that you are invited to do lying down. Releasing physical stress in your body and slowing down your mental activity then helps you to prepare you for your sitting meditation practice. These beautiful meditations are inspired by classic Buddhist techniques for stilling your mind and finding the inner peace and joy that awakens compassion for all beings.

The three relaxation practices available here complement each other. Used in sequence, they are designed to gradually awaken the relaxation response in even the most anxious and highly stressed people. Using breath awareness techniques from the yogic tradition, visualisations of light, and with the help of soothing music, Gillian gently guides you into a deep connection with your body. You begin to experience yourself as a harmonious whole. This is a profoundly healing state of being.

Dr Gillian Ross guides the listener through deep relaxation practices bringing peacefulness and calm. Destress and unwind with this beautiful sudiobook accompanied by soothing musical tracks. The three practices in this audiobook are suitable for both experienced and inexperienced meditators and for people of any religious or spiritual persuasion. Gillian’s soothing voice takes you into a space of deep inner stillness and healing.

Gentle stretching, when combined with deep breathing and focused body awareness, is a very powerful antidote to stress and promotes healing and general well-being. The two exercise sessions offered on this audiobook do not require any particular level of fitness or flexibility.

The gentle movements and relaxation practices in this audiobook are recommended by Gillian as a daily routine for maintaining a healthy spine, for alleviating back problems and for helping to prevent osteoporosis. Track one introduces energising breathing techniques and includes a sequence of gentle movements using the breath to both relax and strengthen your back. Track two is a deep relaxation practice known as yoga nidra in which you lie on your back and rotate your awareness passively through your body, allowing it to relax.

In the first of the two yoga sessions in this audiobook, Gillian guides you through gentle stretches and simple yoga postures with special emphasis on your breathing. The exercises are interspersed with meditative pauses and accompanied by soothing classical music. The second yoga session introduces you to a deep breathing technique and then takes you into a state of deep relaxation where, with the help of sounds from nature, you are guided into the experience of being different animals.

The two half-hour practices in this audiobook take you into deeply healing states of relaxation. The first practice releases stress and revitalises your whole body by guiding you through four different patterns of yogic breathing. In the second practice, known as yoga nidra or psychic sleep, you gently rotate your awareness through your body, letting go of tension. In both practices your self-healing and relaxation response is deepened with the use of sound vibration and light visualisations.

On learning to relax and to meditate children sleep better, play more creatively, concentrate more effectively and have more self-confidence. The four sessions in this audiobook are designed for primary aged children but with encouragement preschool children will also find them enjoyable and beneficial. The first two sessions are relaxation practices and are best done lying down. With the help of relaxing music, breath awareness and visualisations, Gillian guides young listeners into experiences of deep relaxation.