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Breath is often our first teacher - steady, subtle, and always near. In the fourth stage of the Yoga Nidra journey, we return to the breath not to shape it, but to remember it. We let awareness settle into rhythm, into sensation, into the quiet intelligence of being breathed.
This five-part series explores the Breath Awareness stage from multiple angles: through yogic philosophy, subtle body mapping, intuitive guidance, and script-based support. Whether you are a teacher, a practitioner, or simply someone returning to your breath with curiosity, may these reflections invite a sense of inner spaciousness and trust.
Let the breath meet you and guide you gently inward.
Breath Awareness
A Subtle Anchor Within
The breath is always with us - quiet, steady, waiting to be remembered.
In Yoga Nidra, the breath becomes a bridge, linking body and mind, awareness and ease.
It carries us between layers of being, connecting the Praṇamaya Kosha, the energetic sheath, with the Manomaya Kosha, the layer of thought and emotion.
🌱 To follow the breath is to begin to rest.
Meeting the Breath
A Pathway Inward
The breath may be met in many ways through simple witnessing, through sensing its movement more distinctly, or through subtle refinement.
Some may rest with the natural rhythm. Others may find support in the soft lengthening of the exhale, or tracing its flow through the inner body.
There is no single doorway. Each pathway invites its own turn inward.
🌱 However it moves through you, rest there.
Praṇa and the Subtle Body
Where Awareness Meets Energy
In yogic philosophy, the breath is more than air, it is praṇa, life force. Moving with and through us, it connects the physical and subtle body.
To rest with the breath is to rest with the living current of life.
🌱 Awareness follows prana, and prana follows awareness.
Let the Breath Be the Guide
Following What’s Already Here
• Feel the breath just as it is
• Let attention rest on the rise and fall
• Follow the exhale… follow it again
• Let the inhale arrive on its own
• Be effortless.
🌱 The breath is the guide. Rest unfolds from there.
Guiding with the Breath
A rhythm spoken with care
Bring awareness to the breath, just as it is.
There is nothing to change. (pause)
Feel the breath moving through the body…rising, falling… expanding, softening. (pause)
Let each breath arrive and pass like a wave - effortless, continuous. (pause)
As the breath becomes more familiar, notice how it begins to draw awareness inward. (long pause)
🌱 Let the breath guide your pacing. Let your voice move like the breath, unforced and spacious.
An Offering For Your Voice
If you feel called to guide others into rest, there is no perfect place to begin, only the willingness to speak from the heart.
Your words may rise from silence, from experience, or from the rhythm of a trusted page.
The Book of Yoga Nidra Meditation Scripts was created to walk with you - to support the voice already within you.
🌱 Explore the book on Amazon.
