Hey, Tim!

Thanks for checking out my page. Below is the Yoga Nidra practice I promised you. You’re welcome to stream it or download it.

Yoga Nidra Podcast Ideas

Yoga Nidra: The Yoga of Sleep

Purpose:

To help other “failed meditators” find a method of mindfulness which does not rely on effort but still provides profound benefits ranging from physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Topic Ideas Outline:

  • Welcome

    • What and why of Yoga Nidra

    • Brief history

    • Current usage and context

  • Documented benefits of the practice

    • Concentrated rest

      • 4x the rest of a nap

      • We are a society who value productivity over everything else

        • Has led to massive distortions on our human concept: human doing vs human being

    • Sleep

      • Greases the cogs to slip into deeper brain wave states

      • The problem with the brain not recognizing thought from reality: cortisol response disrupts sleep

      • Stress about NOT sleeping causes less sleep

    • Manage stress and other emotions

      • Learn to welcome, recognize, and witness emotions as an object rather than identify as the emotion

        • Helps gain perspective

        • Allows a person the freedom to flow with an emotion rather than trying to control it

  • The brilliance of effortless practices

    • Cultural reliance on effort-based practices

      • Problem of the guru

        • Relies on other people as an intermediary for your own progression

      • Quid pro quo vs “the gift”

    • Makes the practice available for everyone

      • All experience levels can have equally beneficial or profound experiences

      • Can strip away all the dogma

    • Learning to be in the flow with things rather than trying to “push the river.”