As wellness becomes more of a lifestyle than a trend, practitioners want to experience the subtler practices of yoga and yoga nidra offers exactly that.Ĭhloe Kernaghan, co-owner of trendsetting and community-based yoga studio Sky Ting agrees. "As a collective consciousness, we're waking up," she said. Yoga nidra is an effective and efficient way to access the "rest and digest" parasympathetic state, which is where healing happens.īut it's not all about undoing the side effects of modern life-there's a lot more to it than that. As a culture, we're always connected, often stressed, and our nervous systems are constantly in a fight-or-flight, sympathetic state. Fishman agrees that yoga nidra is gaining popularity because it's an antidote to our modern lifestyles. and author of the authoritative, often-referenced text Yoga Nidra: A Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing, has postulated that there's no separation between our dream state and reality because they inform each other, and yoga nidra is a practice that helps bring you into alignment with your truth.Ĭanada-based yoga teacher Tanis Fishman studied yoga nidra at the ashram of Swami Satyananda, who played a powerful role in developing the yoga nidra technique. Yoga nidra is often referred to as "yogic sleep," a paradoxical state of being between sleep and consciousness that's conducive to deep emotional and physical healing, rewiring your brain, and self-exploration. Plus, with the rise of podcasts and audio content, accessing yoga nidra through YouTube videos and various other sources of audio has never been easier. New release books like Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep, out in March, and Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation (due out this November) praise the modern benefits of yoga nidra and share practical applications of the age-old practice.
It's become a semi-regular offering in yoga studios in New York City and Los Angeles, as yogis of all levels who get a taste keep coming back for more. This deep state of conscious rest, an ancient style of meditation that's starting to go mainstream, is no longer reserved for ashram life or advanced yoga teacher trainings. That's because the ancient practice of yoga nidra has tons of benefits for our bodies and minds-and people are finally catching on. If not in the next month, it will be there soon.
In between the inversions workshops and regularly-scheduled yoga classes, you may find a yoga nidra class or workshop.
Look on the schedule at your local yoga studio.
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