Moonlit Swim

Renowned for its restorative atmosphere the night's swimming pool is a tranquil mountainside haven, a magnificent building of stone and glass housing a luxurious swimming pool with a view of the night sky. It's perfect for night swimmers and stargazers and anyone looking for somewhere truly dreamy to drift off and float away. Before we begin to enjoy this unique location, it's nice to start with a wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So when you're ready, let's begin. Just take a moment to get comfortable, letting go of the day, enjoying that feeling of having stopped, of having nothing left to do. We're going to focus the attention of the mind on the different parts of the body. Watching as the muscles in the body switch off for the night, leaving the body feeling rested and leaving the mind more at ease. So starting down at the toes and just a sense of the muscles switching off, the feet, the arches, all those muscles switching off. Same in the lower half of the legs. So any tension being let go of as the muscles switch off, shut down. In the upper half of the legs, any tension melting away, being let go of. Into the area of the hips, the pelvis. Again, any muscles shutting down for the night completely at rest. Everything from the waist down is heavy, at ease. The muscles in the lower back and the stomach now switching off. Middle of the back around the diaphragm, the upper back and the chest. So any muscles not needed, shutting down, switching off for the night. The shoulders switching off, the upper half of the arms and the lower half of the arms, switching off. The hands, fingers, just switching off. Any muscles around the throat and the neck, switching off. The head, the face, the jaw, the eyes, any last areas of tension, melting away as the muscles shut down, switch off, at rest for the night And allowing thoughts to come and go. Allowing the mind and body the space they need to rest. There are never more than a handful of visitors to the night swimming pool at any one time or at least it always feels as though there aren't many people here. There's something about this place. People just start to seem at one with it. Perhaps lulled by this sense of harmony. The swimmers in the pool have fallen into a kind of rhythm with one another so that their swimming back and forth merges into a reassuring pattern of repetitions, and to a sleepy eye, their bobbing heads and arms arcing through the air are just a set of abstract shapes refracting off the water. You settle back, letting your gaze soften still more so that these shapes dissolve and resolve like the ebb and flow of the water. Meanwhile, the moon looks on through the window, her face resting on the pillow of the night. The...