What is Yoga Nidra?

Yoga Nidra is an ancient meditation practice that harnesses the biological process of sleep to create an effortless disengagement from the thinking mind. Using a series of breath, body, and awareness techniques, you enter a space between waking and sleeping, a unique combination of alert awareness and deepest relaxation. Here, you easily enter the gap between you and our thoughts and re-establish the experiential knowing that you are more than what the mind thinks.

Studies have shown this practice puts the brain and body in a more resilient state in which you can change your relationship to pain, stressful situations, and habits, becoming more resistant to stress.
This type of meditation is accessible to absolutely everyone!

Benefits of Yoga Nidra:

Restores the parasympathetic nervous system, our “rest and digest” mode by decreasing cortisol in the body and increasing:
 

• GABA - body’s version of Valium; decreases anxiety, depression, muscle tension, and cardiac stress

• MELATONIN- promotes restful sleep and the biorhythms of the body


• SERATONIN- involved with memory, mood, and satiation


• OXYTOCIN- pleasure hormone, creates feelings of calm, contentment, and security, while reducing fear, anxiety, and pain


• ENDORPHINS - internal pain killer, all encompassing sense of happiness, reduces blood pressure, linked to anti-cancer


• DOPAMINE - reward and focus, decrease impulsivity, helpful in Parkinson’s


• DHEA - associated with anti-aging, lower risk of heart attack, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, and chronic fatigue. Enhances memory and alleviates depression


• HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE - increases body metabolism at the cellular level, restoring skin, hair, joints, mental clarity, and energy