Have You Tried Yoga Nidra?

Yoga Nidra is one of my favorite practices to participate in and to teach. Have you tried it? What are you thoughts?

The actual practice consists of laying on your mat in savasana, covering yourself with a blanket and generally getting yourself confortable enough to you don't have to move. Stay as still as possible while the Yoga Nidra guide reads text for you to visualize. One of the most relaxing and rejuvenating experiences I've had!

"Yoga-Nidra ("Yoga sleep"), is an expression widely used to denote the highest state of consciousness. Although yoga nidra means yogic sleep, it is actually a wakeful state of deep introversion. Some contemporary Yoga authorities employ the phrase yoga-nidra to designate a state of deep relaxation. In the initial stages, the process involves relaxing the body, part by part, and harmonizing the mind. In this aspect, it has some similarity with the progressive relaxation of Jacobson. Yoga nidra, however, is an inner awareness, a movement of consciousness, rather than a deliberate auto-suggestion. You cannot relax by trying to relax. You need to feel relaxed. Yogis also believe that you cannot relax your body unless your mind is relaxed. So, yoga yoga relaxation is a complete package that involves relaxing the mind, body and spirit."

http://www.holistic-online.com/yoga/yoga_nidra_home.htm