Thanks to by Yoga Nidra instructor Anna for sharing this book with me and also offering Yoga Nidra every Thursday evening at Blue Anjou.
What is Yoga Nidra?
It's a tantric form of conscious relaxation. Tantra although now is considered as a system by itself in historic times it was part and a way of life. Tantra literally meant awareness of the conscious leads to liberation. So making it a way of life helped man to live every moment in awareness and the process itself was liberation and not a distinction to reach.
Coming back to Yoga Nidra, Nidra means sleep and yoga Nidra is conscious sleep when the mind, body and ego are sleep but the conscious Self is ever aware. The differ nice with regular sleep and yoga Nidra is the level of awareness. When we have a sound sleep and wake up we are able to say that we enjoyed a sound sleep earlier how is that possible? This is because the Conscious Self is aware all the time and once we wake up the ego or the impostor says "I" had a good sleep because the Self that is ever aware can feel that. In Yoga Nidra one can consciously rest the body, mind and ego and feel the relaxation that sleep can provide during sleep rather than recollect the feeling from memory.
An hour of yoga Nidra relaxes one far greater than hours of sleep.
How does one go to Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra is begun by systematically rotating the consciousness in the body followed by breath followed by sensations and visualizations.
It's best to practice with an instructor in the beginning and later with a recording and when we'll familiar one can practice on his own.
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