The Boat That Rows Itself
Big Zzz: Sleep Stories for Grown Ups
Audio Cowboy
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In tonight’s calming bedtime story from Big Zzz: Sleep Stories for Grown Ups, you’ll embark on a quiet journey across still waters… in a magical boat that rows itself.
This surreal and meditative sleep story is designed to guide you gently into deep rest. Blending mindfulness, body relaxation, and vivid storytelling, it’s ideal for relieving nighttime anxiety, easing racing thoughts, and helping you fall asleep fast.
Host: Zoe
Soundscape: Dream mediation
✨ What You’ll Experience:
- A peaceful, slow-moving narrative set on a tranquil lake
- A gentle breathing technique to help you unwind
- Soothing affirmations to calm your mind
- Dreamlike visuals and a soft, rhythmic pace
- A hypnotic story perfect for insomnia, stress relief, or bedtime meditation
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and drift into stillness with The Boat That Rows Itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Seas. |
| 0:07.0 | Sleep Stories for grown-ups. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Zoe, and tonight I'll take you on a drifting journey through peaceful canals |
| 0:18.0 | in a boat that moves on its own, leading you somewhere gentle and quiet, somewhere |
| 0:26.6 | that lives inside you. |
| 0:34.6 | But first, let's soothe your mind with the box breathing technique. |
| 0:42.9 | This calming breath work helps steady our nervous system and quiet the mind. |
| 0:52.3 | Let's begin together. Breathe in for four seconds. |
| 0:58.0 | Hold for four seconds. |
| 1:03.0 | And breathe out for four seconds. |
| 1:08.0 | And hold for four seconds and hold for four seconds. |
| 1:17.6 | Let's do one more round. |
| 1:20.6 | In. |
| 1:24.6 | Hold. |
| 1:29.3 | Out. |
| 1:33.3 | Hold. |
| 1:37.3 | Now let the breath return to its natural rhythm. |
| 1:42.3 | Let go of the day. |
| 1:46.1 | You are safe now. |
| 1:49.3 | Before we get into the story, |
| 1:52.0 | this is just a little sleepy interruption. |
| 1:56.7 | We all want the best of both. |
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