What is Yoga Nidra?

Yoga Nidra is a super easy guided meditation. This practice is a super relaxing, easy, lying down guided meditation for every body and experience. You follow the process of sleep but remain awake as you experience this calming, restorative and healing ancient yoga practice.

Relax the body to relax the mind.

Yoga Nidra brings the restorative power of deep rest into our bodies and mind while we are awake. The beauty of getting to this state while we are awake is that it trains our brains to be calmer and more present during our waking life. This easy, guided awareness practice is usually done lying down but can also be done sitting, in a chair, against a wall - whatever is your version of most comfortable.

The mind is given something to focus on - without the chit-chat - so you can enter a gorgeous state of deep relaxation. This state balances the nervous system and allows the body to heal and restore itself.

Life just feels a little easier when you practice Yoga Nidra regularly: You tend to respond to things rather than react. This practice can also provide relief for conditions like stress, chronic fatigue, long-Covid, adrenal fatigue and overwhelm. For many of us, bodies and minds need a break from life so we can cope with life better. Yoga Nidra can provide that opportunity. It’s truly a special practice.

Much of yoga isn’t about strenuous poses, or even any action. The ‘action’ takes place in rest and stillness.

There are eight limbs of yoga and strenuous poses (asanas) are just one of those limbs, and the limb super popular in the “West”. But this is changing as many of us look to be calmer in this world we’ve created. Also, asanas were designed as preparation for the stiller types of yoga practice: Like Yoga Nidra.

Yoga Nidra is an easy awareness practice that works on the subtle layers of the body and mind, resulting in profound relaxation. Yoga Nidra reduces stress, initiates the healing process, and can bring personal transformation. Or, it can just give you a few minutes of beautiful calm!

You are taken through a settling-in period, then a body rotation to give the mind something to do, and then a focus on your breath, an experience of opposite sensations to train the mind to let go, and you end in a lovely visualisation.

Yoga Nidra can be done by anyone. It is scientifically proven to bring about a deep release of physical and mental tensions.

If this is your first experience you will be warmly welcomed into a gorgeous forest-setting place. You are also invited to attend a specific online class.

If you suffer from severe anxiety or depression, or any other mental or physical condition that prohibits you from lying down alone for a time, please consult your doctor before you try any practices like Yoga Nidra so you can get the support you may need. Aroha nui ki a koe.