My Yoga Nidra
Sleepless? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Total peace of mind is just a few decibels away.
8 No-Cost Yoga Nidra Recordings
My Yoga Nidra recorded eight free meditations for you. Each has video or audio options and its own theme to help you find the shift you're looking to make in your life.
Fill your headspace with positive intentions and mindful mantras using our audio yoga nidras that are designed to go with you everywhere.
Whether on break at the office or winding down after a long day, cue up My Yoga Nidra to promote slow, steady breathing and ground you in the present moment. For those who are experiencing difficulty sleeping, place your device near your bed and let the sounds of these guided meditations ease you into an easy dream state.
How To Practice Yoga Nidra
Find a Space
Find a space that will allow you to focus on your meditation without interruption. If you are able, lie on your back on your mat in corpse pose (savasana), with shoulderblades broad and flat against the ground with chest open and raised, chin tilted toward chest and neck relaxed, arms at your sides with palms turned toward the ceiling, and legs fully extended. You may want to roll a towel or blanket and place it under your knees or behind your neck and/or head. You may also recline in a chair with a headrest.
Focus on relaxing your muscles and the tension points in the body: face muscles, jaw, shoulders, armpits, back, groin. Spend 3-5 minutes calming your mind, connecting with your body, and adjusting your senses to the space.
Set That Intention
Set your intention for this meditation, it may be to relax and restore balance and calm to your mind or to examine a particular sensation, emotion, or belief. Welcome this intention and affirm it with your whole being, experiencing the moment as if it were already true.
Begin your chosen yoga nidra recording.
Transition Back
When you are ready, transition back to waking life. Open your eyes, bend your knees, and roll to your side before slowly sitting up. Allow yourself time to reorient to your surroundings and be filled with gratefulness for this time of self-care.
Benefits of Yoga Nidra
Yoga nidra begins with your personal intention for each meditation session. This means the benefits are highly personalized, with possibilities including healing emotional hurts, reducing stress, rewiring your brain, and improving mind-body connection. By cultivating multiple levels of well-being through yoga nidra, you will access the following benefits:
Relaxation, Restoration, Stress Reduction
Recorded yoga nidra meditations guide you through breathing awareness and stages of mindful body scan to calm the nervous system, leading to stress reduction and access to peaceful relaxation and restoration. With yoga nidra’s promotion of deep relaxation, it can be used as an aid to overcome trouble falling asleep and to manage anxious thoughts, which often prevent the necessary renewal of mind and body
Self-Exploration
With your personal intention kept in the forefront of your conscious, yoga nidra offers an opportunity to explore what you need in the moment and to release long-held, hurtful emotions. During yoga nidra you are able to access and examine four layers of existence and self-- physical, energetic, higher wisdom, and bliss body--in pursuit of a more wholesome self relationship.
Talk To A Yoga Nidra Teacher
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