• Yoga Nidra Reduces Stress

Yoga Nidra promotes deep rest and relaxation that isn’t found in your average meditation, the stages of body scan and breath awareness alone calms the nervous system leading to less stress.

• Yoga Nidra Allows The Body to Restore.

Yoga Nidra induces a sleep-like state of relaxation, although remining conscious the brain is guided into a sleep state producing delta waves and theta waves. 

When our brain waves have slowed down to the delta level of 1-4 cyles per second, this is when the body has an opportunity to rest, restore and heal.

• Yoga Nidra Can Be Used to Heal From Trauma. 

Yoga Nidra has proved to help people heal and move on from trauma. It has been proven that soldiers in the USA with post-traumatic stress disorder were given yoga nidra into a weekly treatment program which improved reduced rage and anxiety and increased feelings of [peace, relaxation and self-efficacy. 

• Yoga Nidra Reduces PMS Symptoms

Yoga Nidra is known to help women with menstrual irregularities, a survey on women with severe PMS found they improved significantly in the areas of their wellbeing, anxiety and depression by learning and applying a yoga nidra program, becoming less agitated, experience more energy and overall more balanced emotionally.

• Yoga Nidra Reduces Chronic Pain 

Yoga Nidra when used as an intervention in treating chronic pain, gives the body time to rest, recover and restore, which brings down inflammation, improves the function of the immune system, therefore speeding up the healing process. 

• Yoga Nidra Improves Sleep and Reduces Insomnia

Yoga Nidra is known to improves insomnia and enhance sleep quality. Insomnia and sleep deprivation contribute to mental disorders, stress management and immune suppression. Yoga nidra trains the mind and body to relax and move more easily into the deeper states of sleep. Forty-five minutes of yoga nidra is equal to up to 3 hours of sleep! Sleep is vital to our health and wellbeing. 

• Yoga Nidra Reduces Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes 

Yoga Nidra and other deep relaxation practices may even extend to those with type 2 diabetes. Many studies have found yoga nidra positively affected blood glucose levels may reduce the symptoms of diabetes.

• Yoga Nidra Controls Heart Rate Variability

Yoga Nidra is known for improving Heart Rate Variability. The practice of yoga nidra shifts the balance of the autonomic nervous system toward the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is what governs our relaxation response, commonly referred to the “rest and digest” response.

• Yoga Nidra Can Alter Thought Pattern’s

Yoga Nidra offers a sankalpa (an intention or positive affirmation) which can facilitate life altering changes in one’s thought patterns, relationships and achievements. It is a tool that the yogis have been using for many years to achieve new and positive changes in one’s life. 

• Yoga Nidra Heps Us To Be In The Moment

Yoga Nidra helps switch us out of doing and into being in the now so we can rest, offering a space to explore what you need in the moment as well as an opportunity to work on long-held emotions. 

Our bodies naturally want to heal and yoga nidra gives our body the time to do just that.