Authentic Living with Gary

This is a meditation for the quiet guilt.The kind you carry in your chest… even when no one else can see it.Maybe you said the wrong thing.Maybe you stayed silent.Maybe you’ve been holding guilt for simply being who you are.This isn’t about excusing or bypassing.It’s about understanding—where the guilt came from, what it’s asking of you, and how to begin again with softness.🌿 What you'll experience:Guided breath + stillness to ground your bodyA gentle inquiry into earned vs unearned guiltA visualization to release what’s not yoursA closing reminder: you’re allowed to be human.Created by Authentic LivingSubscribe for weekly yoga nidras, meditations, bedtime stories, and emotional healing tools.Explore more at: [https://linktr.ee/authenticlivingwithgary]

Namaste, friends. Welcome to “Mountain’s Embrace,” a15‑minute Yoga Nidra designed to ground you in unshakable stillness while yourbody enters deep, cellular rest. Research shows Yoga Nidra can lower stress,calm anxiety, and improve sleep quality by activating the parasympatheticnervous system, giving your mind the space to heal.🌟 BENEFITS• Releases muscular & mental tension• Trains emotional resilience under stress• Supports deeper, more consistent sleep patterns🔗 EXPLORE MOREAll courses, meditations & podcast links:https://linktr.ee/authenticlivingwithgary🙏 Thank you for practicing with Authentic Living. If this journeysteadied you, please like, comment, and share with someone who could use amountain‑moment of calm today.

In this guided Yoga Nidra, we move gently through the landscape of sadness—without trying to fix it.You’ll explore the emotional texture of sadness and relief, and how both can coexist within you.This practice is a soft invitation to come home to your body, trust the wisdom of your emotions, and rest in the space between pain and peace.✨ Practice length: ~20 minutes🎧 Best experienced lying down, in a quiet space💛 Explore the full Making Friends with Emotions journey:authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotions🌿 More meditations & resources:linktr.ee/authenticlivingwithgary

This Yoga Nidra practice, From Ashes to Authenticity, is a guided journey through the fertile space between endings and beginnings. Inspired by the aftermath of loss and the quiet resilience found in nature, this meditation helps you release what has burned away and reconnect with the truth that remains. Through body awareness, breath, opposites, visualization, and deep rest, you’ll explore the inner landscape where ashes become soil and authenticity blooms again.Perfect for grief, transition, exhaustion, emotional release, clarity, and nervous system repair.Free 5-day journey: Making Friends with Your Emotions → https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotions#yoganidra #guidedmeditation #emotionalhealing #deeprest #authenticliving #RenewalMeditation #MeditationForGrief #healingjourney #YogaTherapyInspired

Crown Chakra Yoga Nidra | A Guided Meditation for Peace, Spaciousness & Inner WisdomThis Crown Chakra Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation designed to awaken spacious awareness, luminous peace, and a deep sense of belonging. Blending classical Bihar Yoga Nidra structure with poetic Authentic Living imagery, this practice helps balance the Sahasrara chakra and reconnect you to inner wisdom, surrender, and clarity. Ideal for overthinking, disconnection, spiritual overwhelm, or grounding your energy while opening to higher consciousness.Free 5-day journey: Making Friends with Your Emotions → https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotions#yoganidra #crownchakrahealing #sahasrara #guidedmeditation #chakrahealing #deeprest #awareness #spiritualhealing #meditationforpeace

This Third Eye Chakra Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation designed to awaken intuition, clarity, and inner vision. Through classical Yoga Nidra techniques — including Sankalpa, rotation of consciousness, breath awareness, opposites, visualization, and deep rest — this practice helps balance the Ajna chakra andrestore your natural capacity for insight. Perfect for foggy thinking, emotional confusion, overthinking, burnout, or reconnecting with inner guidance.

Yoga Nidra for Authentic Expression | Throat Chakra Healing MeditationThis guided Yoga Nidra meditation invites you to rest in the vast blue openness of the Vishuddha chakra — the energy center of truth, communication, and authentic expression.When the throat chakra is balanced, your words flow from honesty and compassion. You speak with confidence and listen deeply. When out of balance, you may feel unseen, unheard, or afraid to share your truth.This 20-minute Yoga Nidra helps you release blocks around expression, soften fear, and reconnect to your natural clarity and resonance. Through breath, awareness, and visualization, you’ll be guided to float in the open sky of truth — a space where voice and silence exist in perfect harmony.🧘‍♀️ No experience needed. Just lie down, close your eyes, and let your breath lead you home.✨ In this practice:Deep rest and nervous system repairBalance the throat chakra (Vishuddha)Cultivate honest communication and self-expressionSoothe fear of speaking or being misunderstoodAwaken your natural resonance and clarity🌙 More from Authentic Living:Heart Chakra Yoga Nidra – Love, Balance & HealingSolar Plexus Yoga Nidra – Reclaiming Your Inner FireForest for the Heart – A Meditation for Solitude in GriefFree 5-day journey: Making Friends with Your Emotions → https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotions#YogaNidra #ThroatChakra #GuidedMeditation #Vishuddha #AuthenticLiving #EnergyHealing #ChakraHealing #SpeakYourTruth #MeditationForCommunication #DeepRest

Living in Two Worlds | Yoga Nidra for Grief and Joy (Emotional Healing Meditation)This deeply personal Yoga Nidra practice invites you to rest in the space where grief and joy coexist.Inspired by my own journey—grieving the loss of my mother while celebrating the birth of my niece—this meditation offers a place for all of you to belong. You don’t have to choose between sorrow and celebration, between love and loss. There is room for both.Whether you are walking with grief, joy, or any other pair of opposites — sadness and happiness, fear and hope — this is a place to feel, breathe, and gently return to wholeness.🌿 Your next step: https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotionsA gentle invitation into rest, reflection, and reconnection.🕊️ Subscribe if you believe healing begins with presence, not perfection.

💚 Heart Chakra Yoga Nidra — Guided Meditation for Compassion, Connection & BalanceThis Yoga Nidra invites you to rest in the garden of the heart — the Anahata chakra — where love flows in balance: giving and receiving in harmony.The heart chakra is the bridge between the lower chakras of stability and the upper chakras of wisdom. When balanced, it allows you to open and close with ease — to feel deeply, connect authentically, and protect yourself with healthy boundaries.In this 20-minute guided meditation, you’ll experience:Deep relaxation to release physical and emotional tensionA body scan with soft green light to awaken the heart centerBreath awareness connecting to the element of airA visualization of walking through the garden of the heart, balancing openness and protectionAn inner sanctuary within the heart space to restore love, peace, and balance🧘‍♀️ No prior experience needed. Just lie down, listen, and receive.✨ Explore more meditations like this:Free 5-day journey Making Friends with Your Emotions: https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotionsSubscribe for weekly practices rooted in presence, not perfection

🌲 Forest for the Heart – Yoga Nidra for Solitude in Grief | Guided Meditation for Loss, Stillness & RenewalThis deeply personal Yoga Nidra invites you into the quiet sanctuary of the forest — a space where you can rest, grieve, and simply be without expectation or performance.When loss feels sharp and the presence of others feels too close, the heart sometimes longs for solitude — a space to lay down the weight you’ve been carrying.In this 20-minute guided meditation, you’ll be led into:·       A deep relaxation to quiet the nervous system·       A body scan with soft forest light for grounding and release·       Breath awareness to calm the heart and mind·       A visualization of walking into a secluded forest clearing wheregrief can sit without judgment·       An inner sanctuary in a forest cabin — a safe place you canreturn to whenever you need stillness and support🧘‍♀️ No experience needed. Just lie down and listen.✨Want more meditations like this?·       Download my free 5-day series Making Friends with Your Emotions: https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotions·       Subscribe for weekly practices grounded in presence, not perfection

🔥 Solar Plexus Chakra Yoga Nidra | Guided Meditation for Confidence, Clarity & Inner PowerThis Yoga Nidra meditation is devoted to the Solar Plexus Chakra—the energetic center of your confidence, personal power, and radiant clarity.Known in Sanskrit as Manipura, the Solar Plexus is associated with the element of fire and the color golden yellow.When balanced, it gives rise to self-trust, empowered action, and inner calm.When imbalanced, we may feel stuck in people-pleasing, perfectionism, or control.This practice invites you to reconnect with your integrated power—the kind that uplifts, not overwhelms.🧘‍♀️ You’ll be guided through:A grounding introduction to the solar plexus chakraA soothing body scan using golden healing lightBreathwork to stoke your inner fireA powerful visualization to shed old layers and remember your truthA sanctuary of flame wisdom and embodied presenceThis is not a performance. This is your return.Your power doesn’t need to be loud. It just needs to be yours.✨ No experience required. Just lie down, press play, and let the practice carry you home to yourself.—🌞 Want more meditations like this?Download my free 5-day journey: Making Friends with Your Emotions → https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotionsSubscribe for weekly practices rooted in presence, not perfection.#YogaNidra #SolarPlexusChakra #ChakraHealing #GuidedMeditation #ManipuraChakra #InnerFire #ConfidenceMeditation #AuthenticLiving #EnergyHealing #PersonalPower

This deeply personal Yoga Nidra meditation was born from the raw ache of grief. Just days after my mom passed away under the light of the full moon, I wrote her a letter—and from that letter, this practice was created.“My Pain Needs a Purpose” is not meant to fix or bypass the pain. It is a soft resting place for the heaviness, a quiet space to breathe with loss, and a bridge between the seen and unseen. If you’ve lost someone you love—whether recently or long ago—this practice is for you.This Yoga Nidra gently guides you through:Deep relaxation and nervous system repairA body scan to come home to your physical selfBreath awareness as a thread between worldsEmotional opposites: grief and love, presence and absenceA visualization to connect with your loved one in the “space between”A return to your inner sanctuary of truth and light🧡 This is a practice of remembrance, of honoring, and of walking forward with love.🙏🏼 May this bring you some peace, some presence, and the knowing that your grief is not broken. It is sacred.

Welcome to Authentic Living, a place to come home to yourself—one breath, one feeling at a time.This Yoga Nidra practice is devoted to the Sacral Chakra, or Svadhisthana—your energetic center of creativity, sensuality, emotional flow, and connection.🧡 When this chakra is balanced, you feel open, joyful, and expressive.🌊 When blocked, you might feel emotionally stuck, creatively numb, or disconnected from pleasure and your body.This meditation blends guided awareness, poetic visualization, and sacral-activating sound bowls to help you reconnect with your emotional body, creative spirit, and innate sense of sensual wholeness.✨ What you’ll experience:A soothing body scan to promote deep restImagery that awakens the emotional and sensual landscapeIntention setting (Sankalpa) to support healing and embodimentSacred pauses for integration with crystal sound bowlsLet this be your sanctuary for softening and feeling fully alive.🌺 If this practice resonated, share your experience in the comments.📩 Explore more: Join Making Friends with Emotions—a free 5-day Yoga Nidra journey into presence, reflection, and inner reconnection: https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotionsWith gratitude,Namaste, friend.

Welcome to Authentic Living, a place to come home to yourself — one breath, one feeling at a time.In this guided Yoga Nidra meditation, we focus on balancing and healing the Root Chakra (Muladhara), the energy center associated with grounding, stability, and inner safety.Through deep rest, breath awareness, and subtle visualization, you’ll be invited to reconnect with your foundation, release fear, and feel rooted in your body and in the present moment.💠 Ideal for:Nervous system regulationTrauma healing & safetySleep supportEmotional grounding🛏️ You can use this before sleep or during the day as a reset.—🎧 For the best experience:Find a quiet spaceUse headphonesLie down in stillness🌀 If you’d like to go deeper, download Making Friends with Emotions—a free 5-day Yoga Nidra journey into emotional rest and reconnection. The link is below.https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotions—#YogaNidra #RootChakra #GuidedMeditation #AuthenticLiving #MuladharaHealing #SleepMeditation #EmotionalHealing #GroundingMeditation #YogaForTrauma #NervousSystemReset #ChakraHealing

Welcome to Authentic Living. This 20-minute guided Yoga Nidra designed for the moments when you're not quite moving forward, but something deep within you is beginning to shift.This practice is for the pause. The sacred in-between. The part of you that's been held in stillness—waiting to be witnessed, not fixed.Through poetic breath awareness and a subtle inner journey, you’ll rest beside the frozen places within yourself—not to force them to change, but to simply feel what begins to thaw.Research shows Yoga Nidra can support nervous system repair, reduce stress and anxiety, and increase emotional resilience. But here, the goal isn’t healing—it’s presence.🌀 If you’d like to go deeper, download Making Friends with Emotions—a free 5-day Yoga Nidra journey into emotional rest and reconnection. The link is below.https://authenticliving.gumroad.com/l/makingfriendswithemotionsUntil next time, friend—namaste.

This meditation isn’t for the kind of loneliness solved by company—it’s for the ache that lingers even in a crowd. The kind that makes you feel unseen, unheard, untouched for too long.Together, we’ll create space for that ache—not to fix or bypass it, but to meet it with presence and breath. Through a slow, grounding body scan and gentle reflection, this practice honors your longing to belong as something sacred, not shameful.You are not broken for feeling this way. You are human. And here, in this breath, you are not alone.

Welcome to this guided Yoga Nidra session: Inner Mirror.This 20-minute practice invites you to lie down, release tension, and enter a space of deep rest and compassionate self-reflection. Unlike traditional meditation, Yoga Nidra guides you into the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep—a place where profound restoration and inner clarity arise naturally.In this session, you’ll soften your body, set a gentle intention (Sankalpa), and rest into spacious awareness. You’ll be invited to witness yourself not as a problem to fix, but as a being worthy of understanding and kindness. Through body scans, breath awareness, and soft inner imagery, this practice offers you a mirror to see yourself with tenderness—not judgment.Perfect for the end of the day or whenever you need emotional spaciousness, this is your invitation to pause, exhale, and remember who you are beneath the noise.🧘‍♀️ Just press play. Your body already knows how to rest.