Free Resources: Guided Meditations

These short meditations and breathing practices will help you to reduce anxiety and feel much calmer in just a few minutes. They can be practised regularly at any time of day. 

COHERENT BREATHING PRACTICE
Deepen the breath, improve your heart rate variability, and calm the mind for optimal health (6 mins)

Coherent Breathing Practice
Yoga with Rachael

GUIDED RELAXATION AND BODY SCAN
Lie down and let yourself be guided through a body scan to release the day’s tension…by the end of this session you will feel blissfully relaxed (10 mins)

Guided Relaxation and Body Scan
Yoga with Rachael

BREATHING EXERCISE TO STRENGTHEN THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Practise this breathing exercise daily when recovering from respiratory illnesses such as Covid to deepen your breath and gradually strengthen the lungs and diaphragm* (5 mins)

To read more about this exercise check out my blog post here

*you should never experience any discomfort when practising any breathing exercises - seek specific advice if necessary

Breathing Exercise to Strengthen Lungs and Diaphragm
Yoga with Rachael

EXTENDING THE EXHALE
A simple guided breathing practice to help relieve stress and anxiety (7 mins)

Extending The Exhale - Guided Breathing Practice
Yoga with Rachael

5-MINUTE ‘BREATHING SPACE’
A short mindfulness meditation to help you feel more grounded and present, can be practiced regularly, throughout the day (5 mins)

Breathing Space Mindfulness Meditation
Yoga with Rachael

YOGA NIDRA (1)

Recorded live during a retreat at Ananda Mallorca (March ‘26), this Nidra will take you on a journey through the five ‘koshas’ into a state of blissful ease - starting with the physical body we take our awareness inwards through the breath/energetic body, mind layer, wisdom layer and into the bliss layer ‘anandamayakosha’. (18 mins)

Ananda Mallorca Yoga Nidra
Yoga with Rachael

YOGA NIDRA (2)

Recorded live during a Menopause Yoga Workshop at my home (May ‘26), this Nidra will take you on a journey through the seasons of life and into the woods, leading towards your essential Self. (19 mins)

Yoga Nidra: a journey through the seasons into the heart space
Yoga with Rachael