By Lindsay Kellner — 2017
The ancient practice of yoga nidra has tons of benefits for our bodies and minds—and people are finally catching on.
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If you’re feeling stressed and short on time, making it to your favorite yoga class may be out of the question (even though it’s exactly what you need). This guided Yoga Nidra sequence is the next best thing.
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Unwind your mind and soothe your body with this deep Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) for stress relief. This guided meditation for deep relaxation and sleep is perfect for winding down at night after a long day full of stressful events.
Yoga Nidra is new to the West in many ways, but is an ancient technique used by yogis. It is thousands of years old and yoga nidra means “yogic sleep.”
Yoga Nidra is called many things from iRest to Yogic Sleep or a sleep-based meditation. It does not matter what it is called, once you experience it you may never want to come out of this beautiful state of bliss and well-being.
For thousands of years, yoga has offered what Western therapists seek to provide today: a way to achieve the total health of body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
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Imagine being deeply and truly rested. Falling asleep easily and staying asleep soundly. Imagine knowing how to take the ultimate power nap whenever you need to increase creativity, reduce stress, or access greater emotional balance.
Known as the “yoga of conscious sleep,” Yoga Nidra is an ancient Indian practice that allows you to consciously explore the states of wakefulness, dream, and deep sleep as well as your own psyche by combining deep relaxation with attentive awareness.
Yoga Nidra is the master key to to initiating shifts in conscious sleep states where change happens outside of doing. In Yoga Nidra you enter a state of non-doing in which transformation happens from beyond the mind rather than through the mind.
The meditation strategies and practices inside this book will help you find calm, get better sleep, and beat stress. Reset your thoughts and settle your emotions with a quick meditation or use belly breaths to achieve deep and restful sleep.