Musings & Rants
The Benefits of Yoga Nidra for Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit
When I introduce people to Yoga Nidra for the first time, sometimes I feel like a bit of a snake oil salesman, claiming all of these incredible benefits and then saying ‘AND IT’S SO EASY TOO!’
But…the fact of the matter is…everything I claim in terms of its benefits is accurate. It really IS that good. And it really IS that easy.
Here’s a little summary of how Yoga Nidra can help you…
10 Pro Tips to Deepen Your Yoga Nidra Practice
Learn how you might be setting yourself up to fail in your meditation practice - that is, if failure were a thing in meditation! 😉 Sorry - that was a total clickbait trick - now that I’ve got your attention… if you’re not going deep in your Yoga Nidra practice, chances are there’s a pretty simple fix.
Learn my 10 Pro Tips to deepen your practice.
What Yoga Nidra Means to Me- The Whole Truth
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.
Yoga Nidra is going to be a biohacker thing.
I’ve been practicing Yoga Nidra and rambling about it to anyone who will listen since 2008. Over the last several years, I’ve been watching it steadily grow in popularity, as sleep and rest have (blessedly!) become trendy in the wellness community.
Remember when Mindfulness started to become a thing? That’s where we are now….riiiight on the edge of that moment. Yoga Nidra is going to become a ‘mainstream’ meditation practice, y’all.