Savasana--also known as sponge pose

This recording is for reduction of stress and to cultivate shifts in the energy body through deep breathing plus visualization and progressive relaxation, which counteracts the stress response with the relaxation response.  If you haven't read Herbert Benson's books about the relaxation response, you must!  He says how in our culture that does not incorporate rituals of prayer and meditation, which induce the relaxation response, we stay in the stress response.  He recommends cultivating the relaxation response twice a day for twenty minutes. This practice of relaxing in sponge pose can be done on its own or after some yoga or other mindful physical movement.  Although you may not stay awake to hear it, you can allow yourself to fall asleep at the end, or move on with your day with a dose of the relaxation response.