Nature
Ridgeline at Dawn
Stand on a high ridge as the sun crests. Mist below, eagles above, vast stillness.
Ridgeline at Dawn asks you to keep still on a high path as the sun comes up. The narration looks down at the mist and up at the birds while the landscape holds a quiet that goes on for miles.
You do not have to do anything except watch the light change.
You stand on a high ridge where the sun is just coming up over the edge. Mist sits in the valley below and eagles turn in the open air above you.
The landscape is vast and still, and nothing here asks for a reaction or an opinion from you.
What’s in it
Stand on a high ridge as the sun crests, see mist below and eagles above, and find vast stillness.
Why do it
The contrast between the vast, silent landscape and the smallness of our concerns can shift perspective subtly.
- 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
Ridgeline at Dawn
Stand on a high ridge as the sun crests. Mist below, eagles above, vast stillness.
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 sun crests slowly and the eagles move in wide arcs, giving the eyes a long distance to travel across.
When a view is this wide and this quiet, the details that usually crowd the mind have less room to make noise. You spend your time looking out at that vast stillness instead of looking in.
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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