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Earn 20 Non-Contact Hours toward your Yoga Alliance requirements, while digging deeper into the practice of Yoga Nidra
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Yoga Nidra or yogic sleep is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, like the "going-to-sleep" stage, typically induced by a guided meditation. Yoga Nidra, with its deep breathing and mental focusing techniques, quickly stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, or "relaxation response" and evidence shows that, in addition to the immediate benefits of deep breathing, yoga nidra can support the relief of chronic stress over time.
Today, a lot of people practice Yoga Nidra in order to fall asleep. And, while there is nothing wrong with falling asleep during a Yoga Nidra practice or utilizing the practice to support you with that, it's important to remember that the intention of the practice is actually to not fall asleep. While we practice, we remain conscious and alert and reap the benefits of doing so when it comes time to rest at the end of our day.
There has never been a better time to develop a regular meditation and deep relaxation practice than this moment in history. The long-term impact of the coronavirus on people financially, socially, and psychologically has yet to be seen. We are committed to making practices that enhance well-being and the experience of relaxation for people at a highly affordable rate. We hope you'll consider joining us...
I am so excited to share this practice with you free of charge... You can stream this practice from anywhere; on your phone, during your commute, or after you've settled down to get ready for bed.
As with many experiential practices, you could get any number of things out of practicing Yoga Nidra. But it's difficult to explain a state of being where the body is at rest, while the mind is alert but empty. It's much jucier to just experience it for yourself...
This recording was originally delivered as a part of Flow and Restore Monthly Meditation Membership Series on April 24, 2020. Learn More About that Series (Which continues on still today) Here.
Ashley (Ash) M. Straw, is the founder of The Flow and Restore Collective, a team of twenty+ holistic wellness practitioners, who are widely sought-after in the downstate New York area. She's a student of Asana practice for fourteen years in the Iyengar and Integral Yoga traditions, and an E-RYT. She utilizes a lifelong background in Music to inform her work in Yoga, especially as it relates to guiding and developing students in Pranayama and facilitating Yoga Nidra. Presently, Straw spends much of her time delivering F &R's semi-remote 200-Hour Accredited Yoga Teacher Training Program that runs annually, and completing her Yoga Therapist Certification with the Integral Yoga Institute.
"It is a true privilege to expose teachers and practitioners, alike, to this practice and it's language."
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"I'm sorry but I haven't been able to breathe like this in... just from the breathing exercise! Every morning I get up and I'm so congested. And I'm wheezing. And this the breath exercise was just so phenomenal.
And then being able to be in touch with my body. I haven't done that in years. I just thank you so much."
- R.G.
"I have a lot of tension on the right side of my body. And when we went to the right side... the thing that I was saying to myself is "I am always being held in unconditional love." And when I kept directing that to my right side and I just started crying because the right side is very controlling. I have a pattern of controlling things in my life. And I really, I know it comes from just being feeling unloved and unheld. So when I directed that void, compassionate, loving energy there, I just broke into tears."
- S.G.
"I was moving to my breath when you were having us move to the different parts of the body. I could feel into my breath. I was breathing as you were telling us to do that. And then you introduced the affirmation or the mantra for us to do. And I was like, kind of searching for things. And as soon as you said about, "I have more money than I could ever dream of, or the financial freedom" it was like, wow, I immediately visualized what that looks like. And as I started visualizing, I could feel in my body a lightness, like even more of a lightness. When we got to that part of it, I mean, I just feel so good. I know I'm probably a little all over with my emotions, because there's so much coming out that I can't even control it like it is. And I don't want to, I don't even want to control it. It's just like, wow! Because I'm always in that position of controlling and being like, you know, put together. I feel amazing, like, great. I want to shout like, I felt that great. You know, like, Yes, thank you. Amazing!"
- O.E.
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