33 Simply Calm Yoga Nidra

This is one of the yoga nidrā practices included in the Treasury of Transcripts in ‘Nidrā Shakti: The Power of Rest – An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidrā’.

This 18-minute practice is a short but sweet yoga nidrā, intended to be suitable for all comers, including those new to yoga nidrā, and based around the classic Satyananda format. Additionally, and quite unusually for a yoga nidrā practice in this tradition (which is usually characterised by clear and direct commands), this script incorporates many more permissive instructions, that are framed as questions or invitations (e.g. ‘…you can bring your attention to the top of the head’). This more gentle and permissive guidance is in contrast to some of the more typically prescriptive or imperative tones expected when practising Satyananda yoga nidrā™ method, and is a reflection of the instructor’s training as a clinical hypnotherapist. 

This recorded practice comes at the end of a series of other relaxing techniques such as prāṇāyāma and simple stretched, so it forms the closure of an hour long session. For many years, this particular recording was distributed in Sitārām yoga birth rehearsals to expectant fathers to practise so that they could relax and able to support their partners during labour.

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