What is Yoga Nidra

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How would you like to try a meditation where you seem to float between sleeping and waking? Or rather a sleep-based meditation technique.


So, you do not actually sleep in this meditation, it is more a state of awareness of the guide's words and the state of your body and mind. I like to think of it as a combination of savasana (a favorite part of yoga class) and guided meditation. By going to the deepest level of relaxation, Yoga Nidra allows the body to deeply restore itself and bring an overall sense of peace. This may sound simplistic, but it can have a profound effect on our physical and mental health.

Sometimes, we feel fearful, helpless or perhaps, overwhelmed by stress. Other times, the mundane, day-to-day stress can wear on us on, dragging us down. By learning to stop and place our minds into a more peaceful, and less reactive state, we can learn to disengage from negative thoughts and behaviors, and over time reduce stress.

How? Yoga Nidra.

In this guided meditation, you are taken to a state between sleep and waking where our mind and body naturally disengage from stress-producing thoughts and allow the body to naturally restore itself. In this deeply relaxed state, your brain moves from alert beta brainwaves to slower, non-arousal state of alpha waves and finally to the slower, positive theta state. Here we can establish new patterns of thought, and release negative habits and thoughts.

 We can learn to reach our own unique potential and embrace life.  if you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

Yoga Nidra can be adjusted to any fitness level and is accessible regardless of age.

🌟Stay tuned! Next week, I will share a sample audio of my Yoga Nidra.

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