For the next eighteen months, the North Node in Aquarius highlights vision, new ideas, and new ways of creating and connecting. With Pluto also in Aquarius and Uranus in Gemini, there is a lot of Air in the atmosphere. We are seeing elevated timelines and innovative approaches to our lives! All this clarity and vision remains theoretical if it doesn't get integrated into the body.

hello friends! There’s so much unfolding at The Yin Lounge right now, I hardly know where to begin. Perhaps I’ll start at the beginning, which was four years ago today! That’s right. On Halloween of 2021 the Yin Mat was born after an online Yoga Nidra teacher training I had taken the weekend before. The instructor had us “make a nest” that would be comfortable enough to lay down on for up to an hour. Well, she was speaking my love language because making people comfortable i

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When my son, Desmond, was little, it was him and me against the world. And what it felt like - at the time - was that it was also him against me. My nervous system never had a chance to recover from a very harrowing labor/birth and the following three + years of sleep deprivation. Because of this, and virtually no support from his father or our families, I had a very short fuse. All of this did not pair well with what we call a "spirited child". My mind and body reacted to hi

By Sarah Aborn In the practice of Yoga Nidra we work with the all powerful tool of our awareness by dancing our attention, paired with our intention , through the various layers of our being. We do this in a systematic way to soothe these different dimensions of ourselves and to unlock thresholds leading to bliss. It’s so rare that we have an opportunity to acknowledge the full spectrum of who we have become AND touch into that blissful center all while deeply relaxing. Nidra

Feb 9 Written By Sarah Aborn Yoga Nidra is a deeply relaxing, meditative practice done laying down in savasana (corpse pose). The practitioner is guided through pancha maya kosha (the five layers of self) in a systematic method that promotes deep, nourishing rest and transformative healing. It is accessible to nearly everybody and easy to implement as a regular practice. The word Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit root Yuj , meaning to yoke together. Yoga is not what people i

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At this point we all know the importance of self-care. We know all the good things: the stretching, the breathing, the meditation. We...