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The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Presents: Yoga Nidra

2015

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Yoga and meditation may promote many health benefits, such as reducing fatigue and stress, for cancer survivors, patients actively in treatment or receiving palliative care, and caregivers. Yoga nidra is a guided meditation to induce full-body relaxation and deep rest. See more...

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The Science of Sleep: Having Trouble Sleeping? Enhance the Quality of Your Sleep

It is likely that you have neither heard of nor experienced yoga nidra, which might just be the answer to your sleepless nights.

The iRest Program for Healing PTSD: A Proven-Effective Approach to Using Yoga Nidra Meditation and Deep Relaxation Techniques to Overcome Trauma

If you suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), you know how debilitating the symptoms can be. Many times, people with PTSD will suffer flashbacks, have intense nightmares and difficulty sleeping, and may feel angry, anxious, and constantly “on alert.

Richard C. Miller

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You Don’t Have to Do Yoga or Meditate to Do Yoga Nidra—Here’s Why

A proven antidote to anxiety, yoga nidra has been adopted by veterans, recovering addicts, and average stressed-out people.

Katherine Griffin

What Is Yoga Nidra—and How Do You Practice It?

Could this special type of yoga help you feel happier and less stressed and even sleep better? We’re in.

Joseph Hernandez

Yoga Nidra and Sleep

Essentially, Yoga Nidra trains you to be less reactive and more observant of everything about yourself and your environment. That and get outrageously relaxed.

Yogi Times staff

Om in the Army: The US Military Gets Yoga

Meditation may help with PTSD, but some yogis are dismayed that their peace-loving practice is now turned to combat training.

Stewart J. Lawrence

Yoga Nidra: Here’s What You Need to Know

The ancient practice of yoga nidra has tons of benefits for our bodies and minds—and people are finally catching on.

Lindsay Kellner

Listen. Relax. Sleep Can Boost Your Immunity.

Using guided relaxation tapes soothed my insomnia, and may help you.

Your Brain on Yoga Nidra

Not only does yoga nidra meditation help you get a good night’s sleep, it also rids the body of harmful stress-inducing cortisol, boosts the production of “pleasure hormones,” and shifts brain waves into a beneficial state of regeneration and repair.

How Yoga Nidra Can Help You Get More Sleep

Need a nap? Yoga nidra may be the key to feeling well-rested. Here’s how “yogic sleep” can be even more effective than conventional sleep.

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