Anxious? Trouble sleeping? Lie on the floor and try yoga nidra.
? You feel like you're floating above yourself, and when you finally come back to attention, you feel this incredibly overwhelming sense of calm? If you love that feeling, or have never experienced it and yearn for it, you'll want to try yoga nidra.Yoga nidra is a form of guided relaxation that can be highly restorative, which can feel"as much as a full night's sleep in a fraction of the time," said certified yoga instructor Rachel Cowan.
Yoga nidra brings you into a state of deep meditation, and when researchers studied the brain activity of subjects in such a state, the EEG indicated that subjects were in a similar to that of sleep. They weren't in a drowsy or unconscious state during the relaxation but actually remained considerably aware of what was happening.The teacher or guide leads you systematically through the process of relaxing your body part by part, much like a computer shutting down and closing out one application at a time. Gradually, one may lose body awareness and notice the state between sleep and wakefulness.
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