Summertime Sankalpa: Yoga Nidra Meditation

The medicine that the Summer season has to offer is experienced within joy and vitality, leisure, and abundant growth. Because we are already warmed up just by nature of the temperature of the air, we have more access to tapas or our potential for transformation and sustaining new neural pathways. It’s like the peak of our transformational potential over the year where the processes and intentions we set in the depth of winter are reaching their full blooming stage.

Spiritual practice can be expanding, matching the abundance of the natural world. Intentions (Sankalpa) for transformation can be more streamlined and sustainable in the summer especially in terms of creative and artistic projects. In fact, emotional and psycho-spiritual work comes easier as well. We have more access to our heart energy and with longer, slower days, the time for processing expands so we can move through our emotions and therapy work…