10/20/2026
Yoga Nidra? What is that?
Yoga Nidra, or "yogic sleep," is a guided, lying-down relaxation practice that takes you into a deep state of conscious awareness between wakefulness and sleep.
Key Benefits
• Nervous System Regulation: Shifts the body from the sympathetic ("fight-or-flight") state to the parasympathetic ("rest-and-digest") state, lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and cortisol levels.
• Improved Sleep: Helps you fall asleep faster, deepens sleep cycles, and aids with chronic insomnia.
• Stress & Anxiety Relief: Reduces both cognitive and physical symptoms of anxiety, stress, and mental rumination.
• Trauma & PTSD Support: Helps calm emotional reactivity, rage, and hypervigilance, making it a useful tool for trauma recovery.
• Pain & Blood Sugar Management: Linked to reduced chronic physical pain and improved blood sugar/glucose control (such as in type 2 diabetes).
• Brain Wave Modulation: Increases theta and delta brain waves associated with deep physical and mental restoration.
• Accessible & Effortless: Requires no physical flexibility or prior meditation experience, and is nearly impossible to practice "incorrectly".
Ally Boothroyd is amazing. Try this video and let me know what you think!
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