Yoga Nidra - The Practice & Its Benefits

Joy is your blueprint and your birthright. Tensions can accumulate in the body, mind, and heart, affecting all aspects of who we are. Inner tensions can diminish the strength of our immune response, cloud our thinking, and overpower our ability to connect, feel, and live a meaningful and joyful life.

Yoga Nidra, “the sleep of the Yogi,” is a state of complete relaxation experienced as an effortless state of bliss. Based on the Tantric technique of “nyasa,” this practice brings together the Indian Yogic methods of compassionate observation and guided meditation to help withdraw the senses from the external world and move the awareness into the deeper layers of the mind.

Tensions often remain hidden from our everyday awareness. Through the systematic inward journey of relaxation, we shine the light of our awareness on the deepest parts of ourselves, gradually releasing self-sabotaging tendencies, old fears, anxieties, and self-limiting beliefs, which often stem from a lack of self-awareness and self-love. In Yoga Nidra, the root cause is illuminated, and we naturally experience release and long-lasting relief.

As we rest in peaceful awareness, that still inner space of the spirit, our brain waves slow down and become more synchronous. Our stress response quiets as the parasympathetic system is stimulated. In this serene and highly receptive state, we can sow the seeds of our heartfelt intentions in the fertile soil of the subconscious mind where they are certain to take root and manifest.

No experience is necessary to begin to receive the deep benefits of Yoga Nidra. You can start right now, just where you are.

I invite you to join me for my self-paced or live Online 40HR Yoga Nidra Teacher Training to explore this life-changing practice. I welcome both practitioners and teachers! You might also enjoy my book- The Book of Yoga Nidra Meditation Scripts, available on Amazon.