Julie Lusk, Author at Wholesome Resources

Get-a-Dose of MindBody Bliss

June 21, 2021 by Julie Lusk

What’s your morning routine most days? This is your choice to make. It really will influence the rest of your day.

It’s said a bird doesn’t fly from its morning branch till it sings a song.

Do you drag out of bed, rush through cleaning up, gulp gobs of caffeine, get your kids and pets up, and grab your device to catch up on news, emails & your feeds?

Do you get up, eat something to fortify yourself for the day and spend time looking at something uplifting, pray, meditate, do yoga nidra, sing/chant, or stretch with yoga or tai chi?

Keep in mind that starting your day rushing and stressing will kick in stress hormones (cortisol, etc.) and beta brain waves. Anxiety and fear are sure to follow if high beta brain waves are activated.

Get-a-Dose of MindBody Bliss. Here’s how ..

If you jumpstart your day meditating, your baseline will be a happy dose of mindbody bliss, emotional ease, and mental clarity. Alpha and maybe even theta and delta brain waves will be your foundation. This helps you generate a recipe of positive and helpful neurochemicals/ neurotransmitters and hormones to see you through the day.

Here’s what can happen. Use the acronym – Get-a-Dose – for mindbody bliss. Research suggests the ones listed are only some of what happens. There’s more! Learn more about brain waves and meditation here.

Benefits of Meditation

Hormones Neurochemicals & Neurotransmitters	Purpose	Brain Waves	Purpose
GABA	Anti-anxiety	Gamma	Insight, integration, high level learning, whole brain integration
Endorphins	Pain killers, happiness	Alpha	Calm relaxation, intuitive awareness, integrates brain. Stops fear and anger.
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Anandamide	Bliss, happiness.	Gamma	Insight, integration, high level learning & memory
Dopamine	Pleasure, motivation, reward	Theta	Flow, imagery, intuition
Oxytocin	Bonding, the ‘hug drug’	Delta	Clears brain toxins, helps memory, learning
Serotonin	Happiness, emotional balance,	Alpha	Calm relaxation, intuitive awareness, integrates brain. Stops fear and anger.
Endocannabinoid Naturally made inside your body	Happiness, anti-inflammation. Improves mood & concentration	Delta	Clears brain toxins, helps memory, learning

Goose getting blissed throughout the day with mindfulness breaks, especially when you get knocked off your game when weird or upsetting stuff happens. Breathing intentionally can regulate your heartrate, nervous system and up your awareness quotient. Here’s some ideas.

Get Yoga Nidra Meditations by Julie Lusk & Bliss Brain by Dawson Church to learn more!

Author: Julie Lusk, MEd, E-RYT 500, has over 35 years of expertise in stress relief, yoga, relaxation training, guided imagery and meditation as an international author, recording artist and workshop leader. Julie is the author of Yoga Nidra Meditations: 24 Scripts for True Relaxation, Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, Yoga Meditations, two volumes of 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, and Desktop Yoga®. Her audio downloads and CDs include Wholesome Relaxation, Power of Presence, Yoga Nidra Essentials, Blue Moon Rising, and many others. Learn more at JulieLusk.com

Calling Your Spirit Back

August 8, 2020 by Julie Lusk

For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet by Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is the USA’s 2020 Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold this honor. In addition to writing poetry, she plays saxophone and the Native American flute. I urge you to look her up on your search engine and YouTube. You will be amazed and inspired.

This is a 5 minute video of her sharing her poem that is below. Her intro to it is equally wonderful.

Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop.

Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote control. Open the door, then close it behind you.

Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth gathering essences of plants to clean.

Give it back with gratitude.

If you sing it will give your spirit lift to fly to the stars’ ears and back.

Acknowledge this earth who has cared for you since you were a dream planting itself precisely within your parents’ desire.

Let your moccasin feet take you to the encampment of the guardians who have known you before time, who will be there after time. They sit before the fire that has been there without time.

Let the earth stabilize your postcolonial insecure jitters.

Be respectful of the small insects, birds and animal people who accompany you.
Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have brought down upon them.

Don’t worry. The heart knows the way though there may be high-rises, interstates, checkpoints, armed soldiers, massacres, wars, and those who will despise you because they despise themselves.

The journey might take you a few hours, a day, a year, a few years, a hundred, a thousand or even more.

Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time.

Do not hold regrets.

When you find your way to the circle, to the fire kept burning by the keepers of your soul, you will be welcomed.

You must clean yourself with cedar, sage, or other healing plant.

Cut the ties you have to failure and shame.

Let go the pain you are holding in your mind, your shoulders, your heart, all the way to your feet. Let go the pain of your ancestors to make way for those who are heading in our direction.

Ask for forgiveness.

Call upon the help of those who love you. These helpers take many forms: animal, element, bird, angel, saint, stone, or ancestor.

Call your spirit back. It may be caught in corners and creases of shame, judgment, and human abuse.

You must call in a way that your spirit will want to return. Speak to it as you would to a beloved child.

Welcome your spirit back from its wandering. It may return in pieces, in tatters. Gather them together. They will be happy to be found after being lost for so long.

Your spirit will need to sleep awhile after it is bathed and given clean clothes.

Now you can have a party. Invite everyone you know who loves and supports you. Keep room for those who have no place else to go.

Make a giveaway, and remember, keep the speeches short.

Then, you must do this: help the next person find their way through the dark.

Handling Distractions

October 29, 2019 by Julie Lusk

The Distraction Disadvantage

Excerpt from Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation & Stress Relief. Julie Lusk. NHP 2015.

Most of us are out of practice when it comes to staying focused and are easily distracted. We try to do too much in too short of time by racing through the ‘to do’ list. Our thoughts, actions, and feelings jump around as quickly as the images and sounds flashing before us while watching a slew of action scenes on television. It becomes hard to stay focused with so much competing for our attention, causing us to be increasingly more scattered. Attention span and memory are prone to shrink to almost nothing. Being mentally distracted is stressful.

It seems impossible to get blocks of time to do any thinking or get anything done anymore because of multitasking and all the disruptions that come from the continual connectivity at work, home, and in the car. While writing this article, the phone rang, our new puppy needed to go out, and I got up to get a drink. – all in the span of minutes.

Have you ever looked back on your day and asked, “I was busy running around all day, but what did I get done?”

Learning to handle distractions is important.

Do your best to prevent distractions. When you notice being distracted, quickly congratulate yourself for noticing. Say something to yourself like, “Good catch.” There is no need to beat yourself up or get analytical.
Find something neutral that you feel comfortable silently saying to yourself to disengage yourself from distractions and bring your attention back to the present. Here are some examples:

- Say something like “Oh, never-mind,” then gently bring your awareness back to the present.
- A passive “Oh well,” is recommended by Dr. Benson and William Proctor in their Relaxation Revolution book (page 10).
- “Not now, maybe later,” is another good choice.
- Name the distraction and let it go. Examples include, “Noise,” or “Cold,” or “Thought,” or “Planning,” or whatever it happens to be.
- Rather than thinking “I’m feeling bored and impatient,” realize, “Here’s boredom and impatience.” Or, “Isn’t this interesting.” Remind yourself, “I am not my thoughts.”
- Use mental imagery such as thinking of thoughts as weeds to be plucked and discarded, or as clouds floating by, or imagine tossing them into a river to be carried away.
- Welcome the distraction with a “Hello restless mind,” or “Hello soreness” and explore the present moment experience. Chances are excellent that paying attention to it will lead to its disappearance. Find out for yourself.
- Play with distractions or have a conversation with them such as, “Hi, it’s you again. How about going on vacation for a while,” or “Bye, bye, off you go.”

Enjoy this 3 minute video. It shows what happens when a Samurai Warrior takes a sword to a pesky fly. This lesson on handling distractions is priceless.

Julie Lusk, MEd, E-RYT 500, has more than 35 years of expertise in stress relief, yoga, relaxation training, guided imagery, and meditation as an international author, recording artist, and workshop leader. Julie is the author of Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, Yoga Meditations, two volumes of 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, and Desktop Yoga®. Her audio downloads and CDs include Wholesome Relaxation, Power of Presence, Yoga Nidra Essentials, Blue Moon Rising, and many others. Learn more at JulieLusk.com

Mindfulness Meditation Warnings & Alerts

February 19, 2019 by Julie Lusk

Mindfulness Meditation Warnings & Alerts

Julie Lusk, M.Ed., NBCC, E-RYT-500

Mindfulness is hot. It’s in schools, the workplace and in mental health centers. It’s popular because when true mindfulness is practiced regularly, it’s been found to

Improve brain function
Balance out the nervous system
Reduce physical, mental and emotional pain
Tame mental restlessness
Increase emotional stability for more happiness and less suffering
Improve mental clarity and intuition for better decision-making and peace of mind
Help transform worry and anxiety into curiosity
- “Oh snap! What if this pain lasts forever?” vs “Oh here is muscle tension (or sadness, or whatever). How interesting?”
Heightened appreciation
- Everything from food tasting better to understanding and accepting the ups and downs in life.
More benefits HERE.

Due to its trendiness, it is often misunderstood, misused and taught incorrectly. It can be downright aggravating. Mindfulness is only one type of meditation. The two are not synonymous. It is not time spent thinking or mulling things over. Mindfulness is not for escaping either, like trying desperately to run from negativity to positivity.

“Mindfulness is the empowering practice of living fully in the present moment with awareness. In practicing mindfulness, we train our mind to be more focused and responsive and less distracted and reactive. All this happens as we learn to pay attention to what’s happening within and around us with unbiased curiosity, accuracy and open-heartedness. Care is given to neither resist nor hold on to what’s happening but to let experiences come and go, just as they are, in a friendly, evenhanded way. We learn to skillfully direct our attention in wholesome ways and take appropriate action when needed.” (Guided Mindfulness Meditations: Practicing Presence and Finding Peace, by Julie Lusk: Health Journeys, 2016)

Sophie, our sweetheart dog has been extremely ill, bringing on worry, sadness and a sick stomach. I was so grateful that I could use my mindfulness skills to help me with feeling so freaked out. I practiced mindfully focusing on the wild range of feelings, physically and emotionally. Eventually, I could feel the knots in my stomach calm down. All this eased my fears to naturally make room for some clear thinking and problem-solving. Now that she’s home from critical care, I’m enjoying my time with her without being distracted as much. Her fur feels softer.

There are many correct and incorrect ways to practice mindfulness. Body-Based Mindfulness is a great practice with long-lasting benefits for novices and seasoned meditators. It happens when one impartially watches over physical sensations as they happen. Gentle awareness is placed on the body and/or the breath. Doing so serves as a very effective anchor for ones wandering thoughts and feelings because the body and the breath can only happen in the present moment – the hallmark of meditation.

Think about it. All bodily organs can only function moment to moment. It’s impossible to breathe in the past or for the future. It only happens now. The same goes for impartially noticing places that feel unpleasant, pleasant, neutral or numb. The mind can hop, skip and jump from the present to the past or the future in a flash, making moment-to-moment awareness very challenging.

Focus Points for Body-Based Mindfulness

Sit up tall as comfortably as possible. Either close your eyes or have them half-open. Start with a few minutes, progressing to longer time-frames. Remain as curious and impartial as possible and alert to changing sensations as they happen.
Choose something concrete. Focus on your dominant hand, for example. Where is it? What position is it in? What’s its temperature? How much tension/relaxation is present? You can even focus on an ache or pain – anything that calls for your attention. As attention strays, gently refocus on the direct experience as it happens.
Choose the breath. It is subtler than most body sensations but breathing still happens here and now. If this is your focal point, go with what’s happening physically. Figure out what part of the breath is the easiest to follow. Is it the sensations at your nostrils, could it be the movement in your chest or belly? Maybe it’s the sound of it. Remember, there’s no need to change it. Simply notice it as it comes and goes.
When an emotional array of moods come up – same deal – how does this joy, this grief, this confusion, this clarity being experienced physically? Let it spark an exploration of what happens in your gut, to your heart rate, in your jaw – wherever physical sensations are showing up.

Tips

What’s fun is to center in to see what happens. Folks are often surprised how impermanent and fleeting distractions really are. All that’s needed is to watch what’s happening, with curiosity and acceptance. Whatever is showing up physically, mentally, emotionally or some combo is often just asking/crying out for attention. Soon enough, the sensation shifts. If something persists, perhaps it really is time to make a change. It’s all about moving away from reacting mechanically or unconsciously to responding with awareness.
When resistance or restlessness flairs up, rather than trying to squash or ignore it, try making peace with it. Try something like, “Oh hello restlessness. Make yourself at home.” In other words, make peace with it while it’s visiting. Notice what restlessness feels like, practicing with acceptance, more and more.
All in all, it works better when moving from the gross to the subtle. All that means is starting with the body, then perhaps to the breath, and maybe to the thinking mind. Honestly, it all seems to naturally flow that way anyway.

Warnings – Mindfulness leads to

Peace of mind
Clear thinking
Better sleep
Unconditional joy
Appreciation for the ups and downs of everyday living

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Guided Mindfulness Meditations: Practicing Presence & Finding Peace CD

Julie eases your way into being more mindful with her clean, user-friendly, body-based, joyful approach. The net effect is calmer nerves, a brighter outlook, stronger memory, sharper focus, healthier body awareness and a more balanced perspective. With repeated use, listeners become more fully attentive to what is happening right now, neither resisting nor clinging to each moment, but letting experiences come and go and be just as they are. This program offers a 5-minute track of training tips; a long (18 min) and a short (6 min) mindfulness experience; and ways to be more mindful informally during the day (4 min). (39 minutes total) Published by Health Journeys.

Price: $17.98

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Power of Presence CD

Gain the benefits of meditation with comfort and ease. You will soon solve workplace stress and easily handle personal challenges and health issues. CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more... Digital downloads of this CD are also available.

Yoga Nidra and Your Brain Wave Fluctuations

January 6, 2019 by Julie Lusk

Yoga Nidra and Your Brain Wave Fluctuations ©

Written by Julie Lusk

Yoga Nidra is an empowering meditation that starts with relaxation. It systematically changes and cycles through brain wave states, lowering beta and increasing alpha, theta and delta for the better.

Yoga nidra literally changes the ‘fluctuations of the mind’ by slowing down brain wave frequencies. Biological sleep only refreshes the bodymind and cannot promote self-realization like yoga nidra can. Feelings of meditative expansiveness are objective biological facts that can be measured in DNA, neurotransmitters, brain waves and more. The physical body changes as the mind changes.

Here’s what can happen during yoga nidra:

During stage one, physical relaxation, stress is reduced causing beta brain waves to lower considerably.
In the second stage, abdominal breathing produces a rise in the “feel good” neurotransmitter serotonin as shown on EEGs. Alpha, theta, and delta brain waves also increase. (Fumoto, et al., 2004).
The third stage of yoga nidra promotes alpha brain waves. During this stage, mental and emotional balance and mindfulness are the focus. Mindfulness stimulates all 9 functions of the frontal cortex of the brain, promoting memory, concentration, and problem-solving while reducing anxiety and depression.
Intuition and creative solutions are associated with theta, the fourth stage of yoga nidra. Anandamide, the “bliss molecule” inhibits the formation of cancer cells. Yoga nidra is happening when the brain is in delta, yet one remains aware.
In summary, yoga nidra produces low beta, increases and balances alpha and theta, and produces delta. The physical body changes as the mind changes. Yoga nidra literally changes the ‘fluctuations of the mind’ by slowing down brain wave frequencies.

Beta – Oscillates at 13-25 Hz

Beta at 13-15 Hz reflects the conscious, thinking mind and the waking state. It’s required for processing information and for linear thinking. Normal levels of beta are good. Low beta, from 13-15 Hz is associated with the body’s housekeeping duties. High beta, from 15-25 Hz, is linked to stress. Anxiety is produced in abnormally large amplitudes of high beta. High beta is also associated with “monkey mind.” It produces high levels of cortisol and adrenaline and many adverse reactions in your body. Fear and anxiety produce high beta. Many beneficial cellular functions are inhibited. Aging is much faster when your brain is bathed in high beta waves. It’s important to know how to keep beta brain waves in check.

Alpha – Oscillates at 8-13 Hz

Alpha is an optimal state of relaxed alertness. During alpha, all brain wave levels of the mind are integrated by connecting the brain’s higher and lower frequencies. Alpha links the thinking mind of beta with the associative mind of gamma with the lower frequency brain waves, which are theta and delta. This allows a flow of consciousness. The alpha state disappears with negative emotions, like fear. A truly integrated person generates large amplitudes of alpha.

Alpha tunes the brain to peak performance as well as facilitates gene expression for better health. Alpha improves the immune system.

Alpha increases levels of mood-enhancing neurotransmitters such as serotonin.

The synapses in the learning and memory circuits of the brain are enhanced at 10 Hz. The alpha frequency of 10 Hz results in significantly increased synthesis of DNA molecule (Takahashi et al., 1986)

Neurons in the brain’s hippocampus fire in the alpha range (4-12 Hz).

Heart coherence is associated with increased alpha brain wave activity. It is a state in which the interval between heartbeats is regular and constant. It produces “an orderly and harmonious synchronization among various systems in the body such as the heart, respiratory system and blood-pressure rhythms,” as reported by HeartMath. It’s produced by positive emotions such as love and compassion. Negative emotions disrupt heart coherence.

Feelings of meditative expansiveness are objective biological facts that can be measured in DNA, neurotransmitters, brain waves and more.

Theta – Oscillates at 4-8 Hz

Theta is characteristic of light sleep and with day and night dreaming. It is the dominant frequency of healers and people in highly creative states. Theta increases in people under hypnosis or in trances. (Kershaw & Wade, 2012).

Theta waves are found during DNA repair. It increases the activity of antioxidants.

Human cartilage cells are regenerated at the 6.4 Hz frequency.

Delta Brain Waves – Oscillates at 0-4 Hz

Delta is characteristic of deep, dreamless sleep. High amplitudes of delta are found in people who are in touch with nonlocal mind, even when they’re wide awake. Meditators, intuitives, and healers have much more delta than normal.

When our brains are producing delta, we are enriching our cells in a frequency that has the potential to produce a whole gamut of beneficial physiological changes at the level of our cells, from growing our telomeres and boosting GH levels to regenerating our neurons and sweeping our brains clear of beta-amyloid plaques. This is what happens during yoga nidra.

Growth hormone secretion is at its highest when delta waves peak in the brain. Growth hormone repairs and regenerates cells. It is associated with the immune system, bone mineralization, muscle mass, fat breakdown and protein synthesis, growth and regeneration of all internal organs and homeostasis.

Ahmed and Wieraszko (2008) took slices of the brain that governs memory and learning. They found that a very low delta band, 0.16 Hz, increases activity in the synaptic connections between neurons in the hippocampus. This suggests that memory and learning may be enhanced by delta activity.

Beta-amyloids are sticky plaques between neurons in the brain, characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease (Kang et al., 2009). They found that during sleep, when brains are primarily in theta and delta brain wave states, beta-amyloid production in the brain stops, and toxic material is cleared away. The effect was even greater during the delta brain wave state.

The ends of chromosomes have stretches of DNA called telomeres. Telomeres protect our genetic data, cause cells to divide, and slow aging. Telomeres normally shorten each time a cell divides. The resonant peaks for 10 telomere sequences clustered around a frequency window of 0.19 Hz and 0.37 Hz (delta). Other frequencies did not affect telomerase (Cosic, et al., 2015). Meditation preserves and increases telomere length.

Delta brain waves are seen on EEGs when people are having a sense of connection with the infinite.

Anandamide, the “bliss molecule” inhibits the formation of cancer cells.

Delta frequencies between 0.5 Hz and 3 Hz stimulate the regeneration of nerve cells (Sisken, et al., 2007).

Gamma – Oscillates at 25-100 Hz

Gamma is associated with the integration of information from all the brain’s regions, as well as with coherence as they all synchronize (Gray, 1997). It’s associated with flashes of insight, performing difficult tasks perfectly. Meditation increases gamma.

At the gamma frequency of 40 Hz, beta-amyloid decreased by half. zHz

At 50 Hz, results in the body increasing its production of stem cells, the “blank cells” that differentiate into muscle, bone, skin, or whatever other specialized cells are required (Ardeshirylajimi, & Soleimani, 2015).

At 60 Hz, expression of stress genes (cortisol) is regulated.

A frequency of 75 Hz is epigenetic, triggering the genes that produce anti-inflammatory proteins in the body (De Girolamo et al., 2013).

References: Much of this material is from Mind to Matter by Dawson Church, PhD. Hay House, 2018.

Compiled by Julie Lusk – Feb 2, 2019. JulieLusk.com

Resources: Books, Recordings & More

Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation & Stress Relief - Printed Book & Audio download

If you feel stressed out, you’re not alone. Stress is a modern-day epidemic that can take a toll on your mind, body, and spirit. That’s why it’s so important to develop relaxation skills to restore your health, happiness, and inner strength. Yoga Nidra—a powerful and unique state of deep relaxation, mental clarity, and insightful awareness—is the answer. In this book, mind-body health professional Julie Lusk presents a powerful Yoga Nidra program to stop stress in its tracks. Yoga Nidra, based on classical yoga and backed by contemporary science, focuses specifically on alleviating both mental and physical manifestations of stress so you can find your calm spot and live a more balanced, confident, and meaningful life. Packed with empowering relaxation exercises, meditations that soothe, and visualizations that renew, the practical exercises in this book will help you unwind, replenish, and feel revitalized with durable peace and unconditional joy. CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more...

Yoga Nidra Essentials CD

Find your calm spot and brighten your energy for a more enjoyable, meaningful life. Benefit from six levels of relaxation to reclaim optimal health for your body, mind and heart. Laura, a HS teacher says "This focused my mind. I was 100% worry-free. It's easy to experience. Yoga nidra is wonderful." This is from Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, a book and audio set by Julie Lusk. Digital downloads of Yoga Nidra Essentials are also available.

Guided Mindfulness Meditations: Practicing Presence & Finding Peace CD

Yoga Nidra: Guided Meditations for Relaxation & Renewal CD

Yoga nidra is a powerful and unique state of relaxation, mental clarity and insightful awareness, done lying down. Julie's clear, step=by-step guidance for experiencing deep relaxation, specialized breathing, guided imagery, and mindful awareness, creates 6 replenishing levels of relaxation and a deeply meditative state. Restless thinking and emotional upsets tend to fade away. Used together or in segments, the net effect is to discover an inner reservoir of heartfelt peace, intuitive understanding and unconditional joy. Studies show one hour of practice is equivalent of about four hours of deeply restorative sleep. Published by Health Journeys.

Yoga Nidra for High-Level Living CD (Shop @ Amazon / iTunes = We are sold out temporarily)

Brighten your energy with self-understanding for mental sharpness, emotional equilibrium and insightful awareness. Mindfulness, setting a sankalpa (resolve), autogenic training and the paradox of opposites will tame stress once and for all. Jeanne, a musician and former nun says, "Exhilarating! This truly raised my spirit. I've never experienced such deep euphoria so easily. I felt so relaxed!" This is from Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, a book and audio set by Julie Lusk. Digital downloads are also available.

Yoga Nidra for Inner Strength and Balance CD (Shop @ Amazon / iTunes = We are sold out temporarily)

Find your calm spot and live a more balanced, confident and meaningful life. Feel totally relaxed with an empowering tour of the bodymind. Guided relaxation and imagery are effectively used for balancing all your energy centers or chakras. Nancy says "This gets me totally calm and in touch with myself. Afterwards, I feel awake, refreshed, centered and ready for my day." This is from Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, a book and audio set by Julie Lusk. Digital downloads of this CD are also available.

Yoga Nidra for Unshakable Peace and Joy CD (Shop @ Amazon / iTunes = We are sold out temporarily)

Experience six amazing levels of relaxation using progressive muscle relaxation and specialized breathing techniques that reliably work. Laura, a HS teacher says "This focused my mind and I was 100% worry-free. It's easy to experience. Yoga nidra is wonderful." This is from Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, a book and audio set by Julie Lusk. Digital downloads of this CD are also available.

Real Relaxation: Yoga Nidra CD (Shop @ Amazon / iTunes = We are sold out temporarily)

by Julie Lusk

This CD takes you into a deeply relaxing and powerful state of being fully aware while being in the state of deep sleep.

Its many benefits include:

Listening for 1 hour equals 4 hours sleep
Improves immunity
Increases heart health
Relieves stress
Brings inner peace and balance

Digital downloads of this CD are also available.

CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more...

Julie Lusk, MEd, E-RYT 500, is a Hatha Yoga Nidra Ambassador. She has more than 35 years of expertise in stress relief, yoga, relaxation training, guided imagery, and meditation as an international author, recording artist, and workshop leader. Julie is the author of Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief, Yoga Meditations, two volumes of 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing, and Desktop Yoga®. Her audio downloads and CDs include Wholesome Relaxation, Power of Presence, Yoga Nidra Essentials, Blue Moon Rising, and many others. Learn more at JulieLusk.com