Teacher Training Healthcare Lifestyle Essentials Contact Us Login Login

How does Yoga Nidra work?

Uncategorized Sep 05, 2020

Image for post

What is Yoga Nidra?

There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you already know a little bit about yoga nidra. Before we dig into how yoga nidra works from scientific and ontological angles, let’s take a moment to clarify what yoga nidra actually is.

Yoga nidra is a meditative, breath-based deep relaxation practice. It could be described as a way to quiet the mind and unload its burdens through states of aware rest. Mere minutes of yoga nidra has restorative and replenishing effects similar to those of sleep. In this practice, we are able to relieve stress by targeting its primary source: our minds. Yoga nidra allows us to reach subtler states of being where we can access and exercise freedom of choice more readily. When we engage with this technique, the choice to respond or ignore our thoughts rather than being controlled or wrapped up in them is available to us.

Let’s be frank: modern life is complicated. Technology, global health crises, and...

Continue Reading...

The Other Seven Limbs

Uncategorized Sep 05, 2020

How the Western World Dismembered the Ancient Practice of Yoga and What You Can Do About It…

Image for post

Contrary to Popular Belief Yoga is Not a Sequence of Postures

Have you ever said to someone, “I’d like you to come to a yoga class with me this week,” and they responded by saying, “Oh no, I can’t move my body like that!” In the United States, when the average person pictures the practice of Yoga, they typically picture a system of exercises performed with the body. In fact, more often than not, they imagine a fit and attractive person, usually a woman, in their 20’s in form-fitting stretch clothes performing these postures. Yoga is now most readily associated with a set of physical positions that flow to and from one another, but that’s not what the word Yoga actually means, nor is it what the practice is actually directed toward.

The word yoga means, literally, union or to yoke. (And saying so has become a kind of a cliche in our yoga...

Continue Reading...
Close

50% Complete

Two Step

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.