Thresholds
The Hot Spring
Sink into water hotter than blood while snow falls on your shoulders and the stars come out through the steam.
This session asks you to lower yourself into a pool of water hotter than blood while snow settles on your shoulders. You watch the steam rise and wait for the stars to appear through the mist.
The track repeats that feeling of warmth and stillness until you settle.
You step into water that feels warmer than blood while snow settles softly on your shoulders. Steam rises up as the stars begin to show through the white mist.
The heat works into you and the cold stays on the surface, leaving you with nowhere else to be.
What’s in it
Hot spring water warmer than blood, snow on your shoulders, and stars appearing through steam.
Why do it
Water and heat provide a gentle, immersive sensation that can help release tension and let the mind wander freely.
- Category
- Thresholds
- Depths
- ShortMediumLongUltra
- Lengths
- about 5m12m22m40m
- Ends
- Calm and present
- Stages
- 4
- Written
- For Intropi, originally
Timeline: Start to Finish
The standard-length build, block by block — the real sequence the app assembles, described rather than spoken.
3 of the 4 stages are named techniques with a published origin, credited under each.
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InductionStage 16 min
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
A classic head-to-toe relaxation. Tense and release, or simply soften, each muscle group in sequence.
After Edmund Jacobson PMR (1929); Dave Elman Hypnotherapy · what progressive muscle relaxation is
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DeepenerStage 23 min
Staircase Descent
Visualized stairs descending into a deeper level of trance. Each step takes you down.
After Ledochowski, Deep Trance Training Manual
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JourneyStage 3about 12 min
The Hot Spring
Sink into water hotter than blood while snow falls on your shoulders and the stars come out through the steam.
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AwakeningStage 42 min
Calm Alert Awakening
Awake and present, but calm rather than energized. Good for evening or pre-meeting use.
After Yapko, Trancework
Where it sits
Liminal places that carry their own rhythm: a night train, the deep ocean, one bell fading, the middle of a crossing.
Why going here does anything
Holding the difference between the hot water and the falling snow gives the senses a single, gentle task to occupy them.
The steam hides the horizon and the stars appear slowly, giving the eyes something easy to follow. This session spends its time letting that steady drift do the work.
Before you press play
- 18+. Age floor set in the catalogue, not by us on the day.
Hypnosis is not for everyone. If you have epilepsy, a psychotic illness, or you are under psychiatric care, talk to your clinician before using this — here or anywhere.
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