Sunday, July 30, 2017

What is Yoga Nidra?

Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that has the power to transform, heal and rejuvenate you at your core.  Through the use of body sensing, breath awareness and guided imagery, you are systematically guided on a journey through your whole being. Give yourself permission to rest, balance and restore, tapping into new sources of energy. Experience deeper levels of relaxation than you ever imagined. This meditation practice will awaken your whole being. There is nothing required of you but to lie down and listen. Yoga Nidra switches you out of flight or fight and into the relaxation response — your body’s natural healing state — where revitalization and regeneration naturally occur. Your body knows exactly what to do to attain, and maintain, perfect health and equilibrium, all you need to do is turn on the healing switch. Yoga Nidra is the button that can bring you effortlessly, compassionately, and rapidly into relaxation and healing. Yoga Nidra allows you access to your deeper levels so that you feel connection with your whole self. The world slows down and you take a break from everyday concerns. Limiting beliefs that hold you back from fully living begin to dissolve, leading to freedom within your mind and body. This practice can bring your mind into its healing, restful state suspended between being awake and asleep where you can receive the ultimate power-nap that goes well beyond normal sleep. Yoga Nidra is good for EVERYONE! If you have a desire for greater inner peace, improved health, and better sleep — then this practice is for you. Yoga Nidra has been used successfully to aid insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, pain, cardiovascular and numerous other health issues.  Research conducted at well-recognized universities and medical centers including Stanford University, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Ohio State University, Medical College of Ohio, Banaras University and others, shows that regular practice of yoga nidra offers a viable means of prevention and reversal of numerous ailments and diseases, including cardiovascular, stress-related illness, chronic pain, and psychosomatic conditions. Yoga Nidra can strengthen the immune system, help regulate high blood pressure, balance flight or fight, assist endocrine system and improve sleep and aid insomnia. Yoga Nidra supports all stress related illness which is 99% of illness today. Following are a few studies: YOGA NIDRA POSITIVE EFFECTS: Calming Nervous System & HR Study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866996 WELLNESS PROGRAM for Veterans, including Yoga Nidra Study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26567446 IMPACT of YOGA NIDRA on PSCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING Study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21654971 By: Nicole Raitano