Tools to Keep Your Center: Guided Relaxation

Yoga Nidra—or yogic sleep—is a guided relaxation practice under the umbrella of guided meditation.

This is almost the opposite of shaking in that, physically, you don’t do a dang thing. This practice is typically practiced lying down (sold!), listening to the spoken guidance, and following along (and trying not to fall asleep, unless of course that’s your goal).

How Nidra Works: The Kosha Model

From a philosophical perspective, Yoga Nidra works by traveling through and clearing the koshas, or sheathes/layers of being. From this lens, every human is made up of five layers (koshas) which occlude the truest self.

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