Yoga Nidra - Yoga Workshop for deep relaxation and self healing

The 8 stages of the Yoga Nidra Practice:

1) Internalization / Relaxation – preliminary preparation of the body.
2) Affirmation (Sankalpa) – A personal goal previously decided upon is declared silently. 3) Rotation of Consciousness – the consciousness is taken on a tour of the whole body in a structured fashion.
4) Respiration awareness – a period of awareness of the breath at special positions in the body.
5) Manifestations of Opposites – pairs of feelings and emotions are experienced.
6) Creative Visualization – Various Archetypal images are visualized mentally.
7) Affirmation (Sankalpa) is repeated and, now in a highly suggestible state of consciousness, is programmed into the subconscious mind.
8.) Externalization / Return to Full Awareness – a careful and gradual return to a normal state.
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10 Amazing Benefits of Yoga Nidra!

1. Improves your concentration abilities which allows for a better memory
2. You will suddenly find your memory becoming clearer and crisper
3. Start retaining what you read and hear better than you have before
4. Greater ability to focus
5. Helps you become distracted less
6. Improve your performance at work
7. Allows you to make decisions much more rapidly and accurately
8. Helps refresh the mind, leaving it clearer, more settled and better able to process information
9. Much more powerful and effective than a nap or coffee break
10. Can allow you to experience a much deeper state of rest than when you normally sleep  http://www.healyoufirst.com/10AmazingBenefitsofYogaNidra.html

Yoga Nidra Meditation is simple, easy and convenient.
You don’t have to meditate for 20 years to experience the benefits immediately.
You don’t have to sit still and quiet the mind.
You do Yoga Nidra meditation lying down and just follow the guided meditation on the recording.

Yoga Nidra meditation is a deeply profound experience of physical, mental and emotional relaxation.

Regular practice of meditation like Yoga Nidra can help restore and maintain your vital life energy, prevent disease and even improve your mood. You will find that you will respond to stressful situations in your life with more calm and ease.

If you currently suffer from a condition such as:

• insomnia
• chronic pain
• depression
• anxiety
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD or PTS)

You may find that with regular practice your symptoms will decrease and you will have a greater sense of ease in your life.

Whether you are an experienced meditator or a novice, Yoga Nidra meditation is very easy and you can enjoy the benefits after one session. http://yoganidranow.com/why-practice-yoga-nidra-meditation/

Tips and tricks

Yoga nidra practice is best done with voice guidance (in a class or listening to a CD), otherwise you may simply fall asleep or become distracted. Many people find it easier to surrender to the relaxation process if they don't have to think about what they are doing.

You may find that you become so relaxed that you fall asleep during the practice. This is fine, the aim of yoga nidra is to 'surf the interface between sleeping and waking consciousness'. Usually your guide's voice will bring you back to a semi-conscious state.

Ideally, you should try and practice yoga nidra regularly, on a daily basis if you can manage it, preferably at the same time and in the same place. Most recordings run for about 30 minutes.

If you don't think you have the time to fit it in, remember that practitioners claim that a 30 minute yoga nidra session has the rejuvenating effects of several hours sleep!

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The Yoga Nidra practice helps harmonize the two hemispheres of the brain and the two aspects of the autonomous nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic). The impressions in the subconscious are brought to surface, observed, experienced and removed. Thus, the fixation of awareness on the body is replaced with the awareness linked to subtler aspects of prana (the life force) and spiritual dimensions allowing for maximizing of the pure yet unmanifested potential within.Above all Nidra is a fantastic tool for manifesting change in one’s life.

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