Month Five - Restoration
This month is about feeling well rested and balanced. This month is about focusing on recharging the battery and training ourselves NOT to go into auto pilot. The objective of month five is to re-kindle yourself to your practices, and to experience a deep dive into recharging your mental and physical batteries again, to remind you how good it feels to go deep into this practice.
This month, this playlist invites you to move a little more fluidly, to feel lucid, sensual, and confident to welcome in rest and recharge wherever you go.
Beginning journal prompts
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Intro
This month you may find yourself having an AH-HA moment.
Where you finally realise the power of moving into short deeply restorative states as apposed to thinking of merely sleep as when you recharge your batteries. Let’s explore to help you greater connect to these methods and ways of being. -
Explore
How rested are you feeling after sleep?
How does your mindset and physical body change after a meditation? -
Visualise
Consider and write down what makes you feel safe?
What imagery makes you feel safe in your body?
What sensations make you feel safe in your body?Describe the most restful experience you can possibly imagine?
How would you feel afterward?
What is the emotion? Is it relaxed? Elated? Energized? Calm? Renewed?
Take some time to sit in meditation on your own, and to visualize this, and then to channel and invite in that emotion. Use your physiology to move you in deeper like Amavi has taught you.
Week One.
Week one Has an emphasis on clearing the mind and letting go of anything keeping us from feeling rejuvenated.
In this 5 day series, we diligently and with discipline practice interrupting our day’s with moments of deep restoration. As we do, we begin to experience greater healing and vitality.
Top tip : If at first you find yourself feeling more tired, please know that this is your body showing you its true energy storage levels that you have been ignoring and pushing through, if you allow your body the chance to be nourished and present here, you will gain greater and more true energy and vitality.
Trust me when I say, your body is absolutely going to thank-you for this.
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Please do one yoga nidra practice per day either on a lunch break, or in the afternoon when you finish work. Please note this is the most powerful when you are the most drained or uninterested in doing it.
The idea is to give the body restoration where we would normally feel the need to add in a stimulant to push through. -
Any time during the day, preferably NOT before bed or after waking.
However once you have done this practice and this month, when you return to the yoga nidra meditations, you may do them whenever you like. -
Your over thinking things, and you are not trusting yourself or being overly self critical. This isnt high school. You are not going to screw anything up. Simply get back on the horse and dive into things where you left off, or if you need to, from the start will only enhance your experience.
Week Two.
Week Two we continue to a build a short/achievable morning habit. We begin to picture our future self as a way of inviting hope and possibility into the brain, mind and body.
In this 5 day series, we begin creating an inner dialogue with ourselves and our future self and although you may not see the results of this instantly, you will over time to come, see just how life-altering having an inner dialogue with your future self can become.
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Every morning, if you miss a morning, quit the self-judgment, and get back to it when you can, from where you left off is fine.
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Immediately after waking, this is when your brain waves are most malleable to information and it can be said “The doorway to the subconscious is open”.
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Whilst plenty of people report miracles in these initial sessions, my intention is for you to allow these to play in the background and start building a routine. Trust me when I say, if you are doing them first thing upon waking, your subconscious is absorbing this information whether you realise it or not consciously.
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MORNING PRACTICE
Listen to the ocean visualization every 2-3 mornings.
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EVENING PRACTICE
Do the detoxification sleep yoga before bed 2 times this week. And listen to the sleep portal as much as you like.
Week Three
Time to trust and integrate your practice.
For week’s three and four, please listen to your body and continue to use what worked for you from this months practice. However if you would like more guidance, may choose to do something like this.
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Morning practice :
Ocean visualization meditation -
Day practice: Yoga Nidra of your choosing
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Amavi radio while you prepare for your day and do any tasks that need doing to make you feel more on top of things.
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Evening : Detox yoga before sleep
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Take a break and enjoy the frequency of the work you have been puting in, time to just BE, without trying.
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Take a break and enjoy the frequency of the work you have been puting in, time to just BE, without trying.
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Begin your day with a yoga nidra practice of your choosing, followed by a vibration station, then prepare for your week and take a look at what practices you will be doing next week.
Week Four
Time to trust and integrate your practice.
For week’s three and four, please listen to your body and continue to use what worked for you from this months practice. However if you would like more guidance, may choose to do something like this.
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If you are feeling great, keep up the good work. Do something from the MOVE page and then re-visit your yoga nidra practice in the afternoon.
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Yoga nidra practice of your choosing in the afternoon.
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Evening : Sleep portal of your choosing
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Notice how you are feeling and what you are needing. Return to your favorite practice.
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Take a break and enjoy the frequency of the work you have been puting in, time to just BE, without trying.
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Time to start visiting the end of month journal prompts.
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Time to start visiting the end of month journal prompts.
Spend your Sunday inviting joy in, do something fun and creative, visit a free museum, a new park, a market, say hello to people and open your palms up to new energy.
Awareness and integration
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How did you feel before you began month five?
How do you feel after completing month five?
What do you notice is different in your physical body?
What do you notice is different in your mental body?
What would it be like to congratulate yourself for investing the time into yourself this month?
Do you find yourself healing more quickly after tired slumps?
Take time to be grateful for any positive changes noted and expand on those.
