Literally, Yoga Nidra means ‘yoga sleep’ and it is an astonishing, accessible and totally effortless yoga practice that anyone can do, by ourselves, in a class, in a one-to-one yoga or therapy session, or by using audio recordings. Yoga Nidra is usually done lying down and does not involve any physical movement. It promotes deep healing and very profound rest at every level of being: physical, energetic, mental, emotional and intuitive. It does this because it works systematically through each aspect of our human being: first, establishing deep physical rest that allows for recuperation and the restoration of our body to a state of homeostasis, or balance at a biochemical level.
Since Yoga Nidra promotes our body’s natural tendency towards homeostasis, it enables those systems of the body which are often out of sync or disturbed to move towards optimum balance and cyclical functioning.