Koshas, Intuition, and the Bliss Body: Practical Healing with Yoga Nidra with Danielle Matthews

In this Sacred Harmony episode, brain-injury survivor and yoga therapist Danielle Matthews breaks down the five koshas (sheaths) — physical, energy, mental, wisdom, and bliss — and shows how practices like Yoga Nidra, breathwork, intention/mantra, nature time, and sound can quiet the chitta (mental noise) so intuition becomes clear. We explore why deep healing is multi-layered (thinking, feeling, being), how unresolved patterns “cloud the lake,” and what it takes to access the stillness that guides real-life decisions. If you’re curious about intuition, nervous-system regulation, meditation, trauma recovery, and spiritual anatomy, this is a direct, no-fluff roadmap you can use today.

About the guest:

Danielle Matthews is a brain-injury survivor turned yoga therapist and educator. She guides clients across physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual layers using Yoga Nidra and integrative practices to restore clarity, calm, and self-trust.

Key takeaways :

• The koshas map our embodiment from subtle to dense: bliss (anandamaya), wisdom/intuition (vijnanamaya), mental (manomaya), energy/pranic (pranamaya), and physical (annamaya).

• Unresolved experiences live like “muck” on the surface of the mind’s lake, distorting perception; clearing them restores access to source and intuition.

• Healing requires three movements: understand at the mind level (thinking), process at the body/heart level (feeling), then rest in being (witnessing).

• Yoga Nidra guides awareness beyond mind and energy into the bliss body, realigning your system by frequency (stillness) rather than willpower.

• The energy body follows the mind; repeated thoughts and emotions shape energetic grooves that can manifest physically over time.

• Intuition isn’t chased; it arrives when chitta quiets. Trying harder is counterproductive—like sinking when you strain to float.

• Stillness practices that reliably help: guided Yoga Nidra, harmonium/music and mantra (internal sound), breathwork, time in nature, mindful movement, and simple presence (petting your dog, watching children play).

• Practical cue: ask, “Will this make me more still or less still?” Choose what settles your system.

• Signs you’ve touched intuition: sensations arise from within, carry clarity without compulsive analysis, and don’t argue with themselves.

• Clearing patterns at the bliss level allows the wisdom body to see what is, as is, improving everyday choices and relationships.

How to connect with the guest  

• YouTube: Heal with Danielle

• Website: brainbodyself.com

• 1:1 guidance available via her site.

 

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