Yoga Nidra
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WHAT IS YOGA NIDRA?
Yoga Nidra is a sleep-based guided meditation practice that gently leads you into the quiet space between waking and sleeping. In this deeply relaxed state, the thinking mind can soften, the body can rest, and the nervous system may begin to settle.
Unlike traditional meditation, Yoga Nidra does not require you to clear your mind or sit in silence. You simply rest comfortably and follow the guidance as you are led through breath awareness, body awareness, and deep relaxation.
Many people experience Yoga Nidra as a peaceful way to reconnect with themselves beyond the busy mind. It may support relaxation, self-awareness, emotional balance, and a deeper sense of inner calm.
HOW YOGA NIDRA GUIDED MEDITATION WORKS
As your Yoga Nidra facilitator, I will guide you through a series of body, breath and awareness techniques designed to disconnect you from your thinking mind and reconnect you with your feeling body which enables you to enter the "being" state. From that state, which we call the bliss body, we can influence shifts.
BENEFITS of Yoga Nidra Guided Meditation
Yoga Nidra allows the body to deeply restore itself, balancing excess stress. We combine the benefits of Meditation, Relaxation, and Intention. This process effortlessly takes you to a deep relaxation where you can change your relationship to pain, stressful situations, and habits.
YOGA NIDRA CAN BE DONE BY ANYONE!
You literally cannot do it wrong. The hardest thing you have to do is not fall asleep, but even if you do, you will still receive many benefits from this guided meditation called Yoga Nidra.
If you can breath and lie down, you can do Yoga Nidra!
YOU CAN SET AN INTENTION FOR THIS GUIDED MEDITATION/YOGA NIDRA
I will help you formulate a powerful intention that we will use during your Nidra session that addresses exactly what YOU are wanting to create in your life.
CREATING AN INTENTION FOR GUIDED MEDITATION
Unique to Yoga Nidra vs Meditation is that we can use intention which allows us to specifically target issues and shift from the subtlest states.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GOAL AND AN INTENTION
When we set a goal, we often feel bad when we don't reach it. An intention is a direction. It has no specific end point. It is reality friendly. Even if we get off track, we still know where we are ultimately going. Even when we "fail", we still keep moving in the direction of our intention.
Examine where you are now and determine where you want to be. Intentions can be based on any areas of health, stress, worry, or tension for example. What do you want to feel for yourself whether a situation changes or not? How would you like to be? How would it make you feel if you had what you wanted?
WHY YOGA NIDRA MAKES INTENTION MORE EFFECTIVE
Usually we work with intentions through the mind, but our subtler beliefs outdo them. Yoga Nidra works from beyond rather than through the mind. It works at the core root patterns where they are held and changes them there. In this place, there are not conflicting voices and the intention is received at every level of your being!
Source: Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep by Kamini Desai, PHD. You can order it from Amazon today - CLICK HERE.
HOW YOGA NIDRA HELPS
Some Issues Yoga Nidra Can Help Resolve
Yoga Nidra may support relaxation, stress reduction, sleep quality, emotional balance, self-awareness, mental clarity, intention-setting, and nervous system regulation. Individual experiences vary, and Yoga Nidra is not a substitute for medical or mental health care.
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What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra is new to the West in many ways but an ancient technique used by yogis. It is thousands of years old and yoga nidra means "yogic sleep". The Amrit Method® of Yoga Nidra a unique marriage of science and spirit, combining alert awareness and deepest relaxation. Yoga Nidra takes your brain to the alpha state and eventually the even deeper theta wave state. Here, without effort or strain, you are able to tap into your own source of intuition, creativity, health and abundance. Yoga Nidra is practiced in a comfortable lying down position.
The Biological Basis of Yoga Nidra
Stress is the biggest problem of modern life. We carry tensions both within the physical body and on even deeper levels in the subtle bodies which we are not even aware of. While physical tension can be eased by stretching, exercise or massage, subtle tensions are difficult to recognize and even harder to release. Amrit Method Yoga Nidra is a unique method that goes below surface tensions to release and transform stress at its deepest level. Normal waking brain activity produces the faster, fragmented beta waves. The waking state also engages the sympathetic nervous system which reacts to stimulus and the secretion of adrenaline. Chronic engagement of this state forcing the right brain and parasympathetic nervous system to progressively become more dormant. Yoga Nidra allows you to drop into a sleep-like state with relaxed brainwave activity. Slow alpha waves, and even slower theta waves, produce deep relaxation and are the entry points to the subconscious. In this state, you can make a conscious crossover from the logical left brain to the intuitive right brain, connected to the field of conscious pranic intelligence, where intention is carried out spontaneously and effortlessly.
One purpose of yoga and Yoga Nidra is to initiate the integrative process that balances the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, and the left and right brain. Establishing awareness in the Third Eye sets off the powerful, integrative forces of homeostasis; the natural balance of polarity. With the removal of all surface and subtle tensions and entry into deeply integrated space, you simultaneously enter the state of communion with the divine, luminous, radiant, omnipresent presence.
Check out this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/qHIVoiwgJVQ
Why Intentions Don't Work Without This Technique
In this video Kamini Desai discusses the power of this ancient yogic technique in helping one achieve intentions. The waking state is not enough- we must utilize different brain waves and plant the seed in a deeper part of ourselves. Yoga Nidra gives that opportunity for deep transformation. Many yogic traditions describe Yoga Nidra as deeply restorative, and some compare a longer practice to several hours of rest. Individual experiences vary. The difference between Yoga Nidra and Hypnosis. Check out this video for more information: https://youtu.be/SFGq_3mvkeM
Small Group Yoga Nidra
The New Way to Party!
Gather your friends, have them bring their blankies and pillows, and I will come do a Yoga Nidra for your gathering!
Travel radius applies. Minimum 6 people $35 each. Great for birthdays, showers, and get togethers! Note: LIMITED TRAVEL AREA!
