Nature
Moonlit Japanese Garden
A small, perfect garden under a clear moon. Stones, lanterns, koi, raked sand.
This session visits a small, perfect garden lit by a clear moon, where stones and lanterns stand still beside dark water. You watch koi move slowly in the pond and follow lines raked into the sand.
It is a quiet place to let the attention settle on simple details.
A small garden sits still under a clear moon with raked sand stretching out in lines. Stones and lanterns keep their places while koi move through the water without making any sound.
You walk a path that requires no decisions and offers no surprises, just a view that is the same every time you look at it.
What’s in it
Stones, lanterns and koi in a small garden under a clear moon.
Why do it
Following raked sand and still water gives the mind a simple, repeating path to follow, which helps it settle.
- Category
- Nature
- Depths
- ShortMediumLongUltra
- Lengths
- about 5m12m22m40m
- Ends
- Calm and present
- Stages
- 4
- Written after
- Original
Timeline: Start to Finish
The standard-length build, block by block — the real sequence the app assembles, described rather than spoken.
4 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
Moonlit Japanese Garden
A small, perfect garden under a clear moon. Stones, lanterns, koi, raked sand.
After Original
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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
Beaches, forests, mountains, gardens, rivers, meadows.
Why going here does anything
The mind settles when it has a simple route to follow and nothing to steer. Raked sand and still water give attention a shape to fit into without any effort, which is exactly what this session spends its time doing.
A lantern in the corner and a fish in the pond are easy things to hold when you want to be here.
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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