I’m not going to say I speak Dutch.

I will say, however, that I practiced Yoga Nidra today without benefit of the cd I bought when I was in India, and I find it nearly impossible to do my own vocal Yoga Nidra.  So, I found one online.  I downloaded it, thinking ‘sweet!  I’ve got a backup meditation mp3!’

It’s in Dutch.  The entire 44 minutes is all crazy sentence structure and interesting syllables.  I figured from the first few minutes, I wouldn’t be able to understand a thing.  But when I laid in savasana and just opened my mind to being WITH the yoga nidra practice, without expecting understanding of it, I feel like I still experienced a refreshing meditation.  Which is curious, to say the least.  Is this what learning another language while sleeping is like?  Because I like it.

I learned how to pronounce quite of lot of the body parts, and learned the names for a few of them.  I can count to five.  I know top from bottom, left from right and back from front.

It wasn’t intended to be an experiment, but it turned out to be one.  Since I know literally zero Dutch to start with (except for ‘I’m sorry, I don’t speak Dutch), it was like starting from a blank slate.  I know quite a bit more French, Spanish and Russian.  I should look for some meditation cds in those languages and see how much easier they are to follow!

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