YOGA NIDRA
A state of Dynamic Sleep
(For Total Conscious Relaxation)
Yoga Nidra is a meditation from the Tantars. It was rediscovered by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, founder of the Bihar School of Yoga (BSY) in Munger, India. Swamiji, translates Yoga Nidra as psychic sleep and describes it as a systematic method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation, while maintaining awareness at the deeper levels.

This practice of Yoga Nidra can be done by all levels of practitioners. 
The practice is done lying prone, in Shavasana and mentally following the spoken instructions of the shikshaka............(Sn. Shivakripa).

In Yoga Nidra the body sleeps, but the mind remains relaxed and awake. As deep rest is consciously induced, rejuvenation begins. Penetrating every layer of body-mind, we dissolve tensions and release blocked energy.

It is said that the subconscious mind is like an obedient child, who will listen to whatever you say to it. Thus when you make your Sankalpa during Yoganidra  it is bound to come true. 

Benefits and byproducts of the practice 

1. The body has the potential to heal itself, but requires the correct conditions to allow healing to proceed. The primary condition required for healing is deep rest, which one attains in the state of Yoganidra. 
2. Yoga Nidra helps relieve pain by helping the pituitary gland to release pain suppressing compounds, there by requiring less analgesic medications.
3. The practice alters the brain’s electrical rhythms towards the Alpha mode, thus reduces the heart beat, blood pressure and adrenal secretions into the blood stream.
4. Used to alleviating insomnia, and ones dependency on Analgesics, Hypotonic and Sedative drugs, relieves feeling of despair, and depression, insomnia and sleep disturbances.
5. Yoga Nidra helps in child birth, menstrual problems and disorders.
6. Yoga Nidra is used as a Suicide preventive, and coping with drug addiction and alcoholism.


Yoga Nidra for Biginners by Sn. Shivakripa

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