REST IS REGENERATIVE
Why yoga nidra?
Simply, because it works! Yoga nidra is a powerful practice that has incredible physiological, neurological, emotional, psychological, and spiritual benefits. It is a gift that continues to change my life, which is why I feel called to share this practice.
Yogic sleep supports healthy brains and bodies—creating mind states that range from asleep to awake, relaxing the sympathetic nervous system and engaging the powerful parasympathetic nervous system.
Yoga nidra is available to all bodies and is used to treat a range of conditions. It is currently being used to treat anxiety, depression, stress, substance use, sleep disorders, grief, and PTSD.
Release layers of tension and rest in your wholeness
Yoga nidra is effective because it releases us from our dominant state of being—sympathetic nervous system mode of fight, flight, freeze—into the parasympathetic state of rest and digest. Rest and digestion are two of the most important aspects of healing. We need our sympathetic nervous system! But too much of a good thing leads to chronic conditions like insomnia, allergies, asthma, and digestive issues. Consciously activating the regenerative parasympathetic nervous system supports health and healing. It supports wholeness.
Our brains operate a bit like Grand Central Station. Neurons use electric to communicate and create a “bustling hub of electrical activity.” Yoga nidra creates space for the brain to reset to its highest frequency. We begin yoga nidra in our normal waking state of consciousness, the brain in an active state of beta waves. Our brain then moves into an alpha state, the frequency that links conscious thought and the subconscious mind. In this space of wakeful rest our mind begins to calm. Alpha states may also help reduce anxiety and boost creativity. As we move deeper into yoga nidra, the brain begins emitting delta waves, the final brainwave state entered during deep sleep. In delta, brainwaves are of the greatest amplitude and slowest frequency.
Make a space for rest and watch what grows
Yogic sleep is a practice that allows us to consciously create restful spaces of regeneration and healing. A practice that allows us to experience easing the mind, BEING in the body, and tending to the heart.
Our bodies need restful states to digest all that life gives us. The Ancient Greek Goddess Hygeia advocated that rest was an essential part of staying healthy and whole.
Hygeia
Greek Goddess
of Hygiene
Hygeia is the he daughter and chief attendant to the god of medicine, Asklepios—she gave her name to the philosophy of Hygiene.
Hygeia was a very practical Goddess, advising rest, healthy diet, cleanliness and sometimes medicines for good health. She is also conceived as the giver or protectress of mental health.