Mindful Rest Yoga Nidra is a sleep-based practice of meditative self-inquiry. To practice the following introductory recordings, find a comfortable position whether seated or lying down (lying down is preferable). For longer practices you may wish to cover yourself with a blanket.

The Deeply Restorative Practice of Mindful Rest Yoga Nidra

 Mindful Rest Yoga Nidra can be used as a technique to induce deep relaxation, overcome insomnia, reduce the effects of stress, resolve trauma, overcome addictions, anxiety, depression, fear, anger and self-limiting beliefs and patterns.

During Yoga Nidra we become submerged in receptive and eventually deeply meditative states of consciousness and brain wave states. Yoga Nidra is specifically designed to allow you to enter a sleep-like state while remaining consciously alert and awake. In this state we become witness to the nature of our body, thoughts, emotions and beliefs.

In Yoga Nidra, deep relaxation is systematic, there is a conscious release of physical and mental tension. Allowing the body to rest in this receptive state, allows the body's innate ability to induce healing to spontaneously and effortlessly occur. Imagine what your body could do if it could replenish and revitalize itself.

"Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel."

Leonard Bernstein, 1976