Recovery Miles Yoga

Darren Couch
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Recovery Miles Yoga is recovery for the body, mind, and life between the miles. Created for runners, active women, and anyone who spends much of life pushing forward, these guided Yoga Nidra practices offer something we often forget to give ourselves: permission to stop. Here you'll find Yoga Nidra for physical recovery and better sleep, but also for the parts of life that can't be measured in miles—stress, confidence, emotional exhaustion, love, connection, loneliness, self-worth, sensuality, and simply learning to feel at home in your body again.

  1. 5h ago

    Already Enough | 24-Minute Sensual Yoga Nidra for Self-Love, Inner Validation & Emotional Freedom

    You are allowed to enjoy being loved, praised, chosen, and appreciated—but none of those things create your worth. This 24-minute sensual Yoga Nidra guides you away from the exhausting search for outside validation and back toward the steady love, approval, and belonging available within you. Through warm sensory awareness, breath, a full-body rotation of consciousness, and an immersive candlelit visualization, you will practice noticing your own experience, honoring your needs, and trusting the quiet inner voice that already knows: I am enough in my own presence. This is not a practice of shutting other people out. Love and connection are welcome here. The invitation is to let them enrich your life without asking them to prove that you matter. This practice may be especially supportive when you are waiting for reassurance, comparing yourself with others, questioning whether you are lovable, or allowing someone else’s attention—or silence—to determine how you feel about yourself. Guided by Darren Couch, Yoga Nidra and breathwork teacher. Choose a safe, comfortable place where you can fully rest. Please do not listen while driving or doing anything that requires your attention.

  2. 6d ago

    The Art of Receiving | 27-Minute Sensual Yoga Nidra for Worthiness, Pleasure & Deep Connection

    You spend so much of life giving, doing, anticipating, and holding everything together. This 27-minute sensual Yoga Nidra invites you to experience your body from within—not as something to evaluate, improve, or compare, but as a beautiful living home worthy of tenderness, pleasure, care, and love. Here, sensuality means returning to your senses: warmth beneath the skin, the weight of a blanket, the touch of air, the rhythm of breath, and the subtle pleasure of feeling fully present in your own body. Beauty is not presented as a standard to meet or something granted by an outside gaze. It is discovered through your aliveness, softness, strength, history, and capacity to feel. Through gentle breath awareness, a full-body rotation of consciousness, and an immersive candlelit visualization, you will be guided toward the intentions: My body is worthy of love.I am safe to receive tenderness, pleasure, and care. This practice may be especially supportive when you feel disconnected from your body, critical of your appearance, uncomfortable receiving care, or ready to recognize the beauty that is already yours. Guided by Darren Couch, Yoga Nidra and breathwork teacher. Choose a safe, comfortable place where you can fully rest. Please do not listen while driving or doing anything that requires your attention.

  3. Oct 29

    Sleep After the Miles | 20-Minute Yoga Nidra for Runners & Deep Recovery

    After a long run, your body may be tired while your mind is still running. This 20-minute guided Yoga Nidra helps runners and active people downshift toward deep rest, sleep, and recovery. Settle in with gentle breathwork, a full-body rotation of awareness, and a soothing evening visualization designed to help you release pace, distance, splits, and performance. Tonight, there is nothing left to prove and nowhere else you need to go. This practice may be especially supportive: After a long run, race, or demanding training day When your body feels tired but your nervous system still feels alert When recovery-day guilt makes it difficult to rest When you want to reconnect with your body without measuring or judging it Guided by Darren Couch, runner and Yoga Nidra teacher. Choose a safe, comfortable place where you can fully rest. Please do not listen while driving, running, or doing anything that requires your attention.

  4. Oct 13

    The Person Who Carried You Here: A Sensual Yoga Nidra for Reflection, Resilience & Deep Rest

    Take a tender journey through the chapters of your life and honor the person who carried you here. This deeply relaxing yoga nidra invites you to reconnect with the past versions of yourself who endured uncertainty, protected what mattered, changed direction, began again, and quietly kept moving forward. Through gentle body awareness, soothing imagery, spacious silence, and compassionate reflection, you’ll recognize your resilience without having to relive your most difficult experiences. Let this practice remind you that strength is not only found in what you survived. It also lives in the moments you chose yourself, welcomed joy, accepted support, and allowed life to become softer. The intention for this practice is: I honor the person who carried me here. Find a comfortable place where your body can be fully supported, and give yourself approximately 30 minutes to reflect, soften, and rest. This practice is intended for relaxation and should not be used while driving. You are always welcome to change an invitation, open your eyes, or end the practice. Follow Recovery Miles Yoga for more guided practices supporting rest, recovery, resilience, and connection.

  5. Oct 6

    Rest in Your Worth: A Sensual Yoga Nidra for Confidence, Connection & Deep Rest

    You do not have to earn rest, connection, or the right to feel alive in your own body. This 24-minute guided yoga nidra invites you to soften out of performance and reconnect with a quieter kind of confidence—the confidence of belonging fully to yourself. Through body awareness, gentle breathwork, warm sensory imagery, and spacious silence, you’ll explore what it feels like to be supported, seen, desired, and completely your own. In this practice, sensuality simply means awakening to sensation and inhabiting your body with kindness. Nothing is forced, and you remain in control of your experience throughout. The intention woven through the practice is: “I am worthy of rest, connection, and desire.” Featuring an original ambient soundscape with singing bowls and delicate chimes, this episode is especially supportive when you feel depleted, disconnected from your body, or tired of measuring your worth through achievement. Find a comfortable place to lie down, use headphones if available, and give yourself permission to receive. Please do not listen while driving or doing anything that requires your full attention.

  6. Sep 24

    Running and Mental Health: When the Miles Help—and When We Need More

    Running can be a powerful source of relief, structure, confidence, and community—but it cannot be expected to carry everything. Created while preparing for Run Wichita’s Mental Health 101 for Runners panel, this episode explores what we really mean when we say, “Running is my therapy.” I discuss healthy discipline versus compulsive exercise, injury and identity, race pressure, social comparison, the importance of belonging, and how to check in when another runner may be struggling. The episode concludes with a brief longer-exhale breathing practice to help you slow down and reconnect with your body. Running can be therapeutic without replacing therapy. Healthy discipline includes the ability to rest. And a runner’s belonging shouldn’t disappear when their mileage does. This episode is educational and is not a substitute for professional mental-health care. In the United States, call or text 988 for crisis support. Call 911 for immediate life-threatening danger.

  7. Sep 22

    Breathwork Session 3: Upshift — Brahmana for Energy & Focus

    What if your breath could help you gently shift from low energy to greater clarity and presence? In Session 3 of the Recovery Miles Yoga Breathwork Lab, we explore Brahmana—the expanding, nourishing, and gently energizing quality of breath. We begin by noticing your natural state, then explore: spacious three-dimensional breathingequal 1:1 breathinga gentle 5:4 inhale-to-exhale ratiohow emphasizing the inhale can influence energy, focus, and alertnesswhen an energizing breath practice may—or may not—be appropriateThis session complements Session 2: Downshift, where we explored Langhana and the settling effect of a longer exhale. The goal isn't to take the biggest breath or reach the perfect count. It's to learn how your body responds—and to choose the breath that fits the state you're in. Listener Reflection: Use the Session 3 worksheet after the practice to compare your energy, attention, and response to Brahmana with the Langhana practice from Session 2. Breathwork should always remain comfortable. If you feel dizzy, lightheaded, short of breath, anxious, or uncomfortable, return to your natural breathing. Recovery Miles Yoga Awareness before regulation.

  8. Sep 15

    Breathwork for Stress Relief | Session 2: Downshift — Longer Exhale & Langhana

    Ready to downshift? In Session 2 of the Recovery Miles Yoga Breathwork Lab, we move from simply observing the breath to intentionally regulating it. This guided pranayama practice explores longer-exhale breathing and the yogic concept of Langhana — practices with a releasing, reducing, and settling quality. We begin with balanced 1:1 breathing, progress to a gentle 4-count inhale / 6-count exhale, and, if comfortable, explore a 1:2 breathing ratio. In this session, you’ll practice: Natural breath awarenessDiaphragmatic breathing1:1 balanced breathing4:6 extended-exhale breathingAn optional 1:2 ratioUsing Langhana principles to move from activation toward greater easeNoticing how your body and mind respond before and after breathworkThe goal is not to make your exhale as long as possible. The goal is to find the most appropriate breath for the state you are in. Session 2: Downshift Listener Reflection

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Recovery Miles Yoga is recovery for the body, mind, and life between the miles. Created for runners, active women, and anyone who spends much of life pushing forward, these guided Yoga Nidra practices offer something we often forget to give ourselves: permission to stop. Here you'll find Yoga Nidra for physical recovery and better sleep, but also for the parts of life that can't be measured in miles—stress, confidence, emotional exhaustion, love, connection, loneliness, self-worth, sensuality, and simply learning to feel at home in your body again.

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  • Creator
    Darren Couch
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Darren Couch
  • Show Website
    Recovery Miles Yoga