What is Yoga Nidra?
The Art of Conscious Rest
In a world that celebrates doing, striving, and constantly reaching for the next moment, Yoga Nidra is the radical invitation to be.
Yoga Nidra is a guided descent into the deepest layers of your inner landscape — a place where the body softens, the mind loosens its grip, and the subconscious finally exhales.
It is the realm between wakefulness and dreaming, where your whole being remembers how to rest.
It is often called yogic sleep, but it is not sleep at all.
Just 20 minutes of Yoga Nidra, is equivilent to 2 hours of deep, restorative sleep. This practice saved me post partum, and was an incredible channel to my healing after giving birth.
Yoga Nidra is the State Between Worlds
In Yoga Nidra, you are awake, yet drifting.
Still, yet travelling.
Heavy with gravity, yet open as the night sky.
As the body lies completely relaxed, the brain enters the same slow, restorative waves we move through during deep sleep — while awareness remains present.
This is where healing takes root:
The nervous system shifts out of survival mode
hormones rebalance
muscles release patterns of holding
The deeper psyche reorganises and integrates
It is a doorway into the part of yourself that never feels rushed.
A Guided Journey Inward
A Yoga Nidra practice moves through gentle layers of settling the body, feeling the weight of the bones and allowing yourself to be held.
Your experience is perceived by sensing and scanning.
Awareness moves through the body dissolving tension and unconscious gripping, latching and holding of tissues, emotions and ideas.
You aren’t just breathing; you ride your breath with awareness.
Softening into a slower rhythm that signals safety to every cell, unravelling with presence.
Visualisation & guided imagery invoke a floating essence of the mind, opening into the spacious, symbolic language of sensation, colour and metaphor.
Put simply, you experience yourself, in receptivity.
Why Yoga Nidra Is Medicine
Yoga Nidra becomes a sanctuary. It is a surrender to the bodies natural capacity for healing itself through its own innate intelligence.
It is a return.
A nourishment.
It offers:
nervous system repair
deep replenishment for the adrenals
space for emotions to settle
restoration of creative energy
reclamation of enery real estate
rest that feels like being held from the inside
It is the reset that doesn’t require productivity or performance — the rest that doesn’t need to be earned.
Yoga Nidra returns you to the body’s rhythm.
You don’t heal by pushing.
You heal by softening.
The body knows how to repair itself when given even a sliver of stillness.
Yoga Nidra is that sliver.
A portal. An avenue. A process.
A gentle falling back into the self you left behind when life became loud.
When You Lie Down, You Rise Differently
Emerging from Yoga Nidra feels like returning from a place beyond thought — clearer, softer, more present in your skin.
You may feel more responsive and gently interactive to your relationship in the world.
Gentler.
It is not escape.
It is reclamation.
A way home to your inner, Sanative Sanctuary.
