Let’s travel back to the day it all began…February 9th, 2008. I hate to be dramatic - but that really was ‘the day my life changed forever.’

I had been struggling through my adolescence and early 20s with insomnia and anxiety - and this was before smartphones. So I had been practicing meditation in a Buddhist tradition for a while by this point - but the techniques I’d practiced at my local Kadampa center in Philadelphia never landed. I never felt peaceful. I always just felt like I was sitting in a pool of my own mental filth for an excruciating 45 minutes at a time.

Yoga Nidra was different though.