Australian Rolling Dunes

Welcome to the Southern Coast of Western Australia and its stunning coastal dunes. The sky above slowly fades from blue into the very beginning of a pink sunset. There is a gentle, cool breeze which pushes a few dancing clouds along the horizon. Despite the warmth from the last beams of sunlight, there is enough shade to keep you perfectly comfortable here. The sound of the ocean gently echoes in the distance, with each wave cresting and breaking. At your back, stretching into the distant horizon is arid country, pink-hued salmon gums and golden grasslands. In front of you the low rolling dunes are covered with short scrub, but through the leaves and branches, you can just see that the sand beneath is clean and pure white. So white it sparkles as if someone had dropped millions of perfectly round diamonds along the beach. The sparkling sand calls to you to explore the dunes further. But before we do, let's take a moment for a relaxing wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So when you're ready, let's begin. So no matter what's being going on today, whether it's been a busy day or a calm one, this is an opportunity to put everything down, to let go of any inner chatter, and find a place of rest in both the body and the mind. So first, get yourself comfortable in bed, just taking a moment to pause and be still. And when you're ready, taking a big, deep breath, breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. And as you breathe out, allowing the body to sink down into your bed, feeling the weight of the body, allowing thoughts to come and go. Now imagining a steady flow of warm sunlight, flowing down through the body, dissolving any tension, any discomfort as it begins to fill the body, starting with the toes, moving up through the feet and the legs being filled with sunlight. The qualities of warmth, space and ease as it continues to travel up through the body, up past the waist through the back and the stomach. It's as though it washes away any discomfort. It continues up through the chest and the upper back into the shoulders and down the arms all the way to the hands and fingers. A sense of relief in the body and stillness in the mind, as it continues to travel up through the neck and the throat, into the head and face all the way to the very top of the body until there's nothing other than that sense of stillness remaining. And now just gently bringing the attention back to the body. On a nearby path, a little lizard looks right at you with its bright, tiny eyes. The sunlight is sparkling off its scales like flashes of lightning, and its little tongue is flicking out to taste the air. Suddenly, after a good long stare, the little lizard turns and runs along the...