Yin + Yoga Nidra

Join us at 5 PM on Sunday afternoons for a 90 minute for Yin and Nidra class at Metta Yoga Seacoast in Salisbury, MA. The room will be warm, Yin holds will be set to Solfeggio + Fibonacci frequencies, closing gently with an extended Yoga Nidra savasana. Yin, sacred sound ratios, and Yoga Nidra are three curative systems known for their ability to assist central nervous system strengthening and repair, and for cultivating dimensions of consciousness by improving the circulation of energy throughout and around the body.

Class included with Metta Yoga Seacoast Membership. Drop In: Mindbody ($20)

NO CLASS: April 28, May 5

The body is a memory repository for everything we have experienced; everything. There are physiological and emotional benefits to targeting layers of tissues in the body that our yang practices are not designed to address.

Yin identifies and re-directs energetic charges we have bound in the body as muscle tension —habitual blocks we have unintentionally built against distressing experiences. We don’t learn to identify and re-direct an energetic charge by repressing it, trying to get rid of it with constant movement and activity, or by filling it up with things outside ourselves.

The body’s language is slow to speak. As we practice, we learn to stay with the sensation of a charge in order to nourish ourselves with it. Becoming familiar with charge, attending to it, and redirecting it lies at the root of all clearing, transformation, and healing. 

Training: 300-hour Yin and Qi Gong (current YTT); Yoga Nidra certification 2024; Yin certification 2023; RYT-200 (Baptiste, Jean Donnelly YACEP); Usui/Holy Fire II Reiki Teacher; Advanced Sound Healing Practitioner; Bringing Trauma-Informed Yoga into Mental Health Clinical Practice (Debra Alvis); Trauma, Attachment & Yoga (Deidre Fay); Meditation and Yoga in Psychotherapy (C Alexander Simpkins, Ph.D & Annellen M. Simpkins, Ph.D.). Yoga Alliance Certification.

Pairing Sacred Sound + Yoga for Vagal Nerve Toning

How we hear a sound has a profound impact on all aspects of our being. “More diverse listening abilities equal a more diverse life.” (Dr. John Beaulieu, Human Tuning)

I pair Yin and Nidra with sacred sound ratios that pre-date modern musical genres. Here’s why: Any song we like (or don’t like) attaches to our emotional body as a neural core imprint, or in other words, music puts us in the “state” we were in the first time we heard it. In this way, music gets paired in our minds and bodies with events, behaviors, people, places, and things.

By employing solfeggio frequencies and fibonacci intervals we bypass mental and emotional barriers that can impede reset of the vagus (or 10th cranial) nerve and a deeper level experience of the self as calm but awake and aware. Each ancient sound frequency (or interval) is a turn in the spiral vibration that activates new possibilities, thereby making it easier to relax and eventually feel safe enough to let go of unwanted thoughts, experiences, and habits. There is no where to go in the conscious mind with sound frequencies because the vibration (or tone) carries the energy beyond the biases of the mental and emotional narrative to the core where they can transform without attachment interference for vagal and central nervous system regulation and repair.

Solfeggio frequencies are comprised of an open 6-tone music scale used in ancient religious chants, such as Gregorian Chants, Sanskrit Chants and Tibetan singing bowls. The significance of the 6-tone scale was rediscovered in the 1970s by Dr. Joseph Puleo, who used mathematical numeral reduction to identify them.  He calculated 6 tones for deep healing and later added 3 more tones. The scales we have in Western music today are (closed octave) 12 tone scales that began to develop during the sixteenth century. Solid scientific research into the effects of sound on the human body has suggested that the Western foundation of the closed octave 12 tone scale, and the tension and release in music, does not provide listeners with vagal nerve toning or relief from stress.  The Solfeggio scale is an open scale with the same frequencies of sounds in nature including the human body. Listen here: Whale calls and Tibetan bowls (396 Hz).

Solfeggio Frequencies often seem like they don’t “go anywhere” in the traditional Western sense, but they do immerse the listener in a positive atmosphere conducive to recuperative and transcendental experiences. Solfeggio frequencies offer a range of physical and mental health benefits, helping to synchronize brain waves to bring about deep states of relaxation. These frequencies have a special connection with the human energy field—and hence the chakras —and their corresponding energy reservoirs in the body.