Yoga Nidra Made Easy: Deep Relaxation Practices to Improve Sleep, Relieve Stress and Boost Energy and Creativity

by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Nirlipta Tuli

Overview

Discover the energizing and healing benefits of yoga nidra with this empowering beginner's guide.

Yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, is a deeply restorative and nourishing practice. With no need for physical movement, it helps improve sleep, relieve stress, boost energy, and enhance creativity. This ancient and sacred form of yoga is accessible and adaptable.

Experts Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli draw on decades of teaching experience to show you how to easily integrate yoga nidra into your life for sleep-filled nights and energized days. You’ll learn:

· how to enter the state of yogic sleep
· tips and hints to memorize the practice so you can take it with you wherever you go
· the tools to create a sequence that’s perfect for you
· about inspiring real-life case studies from yoga nidra practitioners

By following the practices in Yoga Nidra Made Easy, and listening to over 20 specially created audio resources to support your journey, you’ll soon experience a sense of peace, vitality, well-being, and reconnection to the cycles that nourish all of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401967116
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Uma Dinsmore-Tuli is a certified yoga therapist and Yoga Nidra teacher-trainer. She founded Sitaram Yoga with her husband, Nirlipta, in 1998 and leads retreats and courses worldwide, sharing approaches to yoga therapy. Uma has refined a range of therapeutic applications of Yoga Nidra, including its use for the promotion of fertility, positive birthing, postnatal recovery, and conscious menstrual health.

Nirlipta Tuli is a certified yoga therapist, Yoga Nidra teacher-trainer, and co-founder of Sitaram Yoga and Yoga Nidra Network. His particular interest lies in the therapeutic applications of Yoga Nidra, where he focuses on insomnia and sleep related issues, lucid dreaming, dealing with stress, enhancing productivity for individuals and groups, and pain related issues. He offers mentoring and pastoral care to other yoga teachers and to students on all Total Yoga Nidra courses and events.

Table of Contents

List of Yoga Nidra Audio Recipes 1

Introduction 3

Part I The Nine Ingredients of Yoga Nidra and Their Roots

Chapter 1 Understanding the Roots of Yoga Nidra Preparing to settle into the practice 35

Chapter 2 Settling into Your Natural Process of Yoga Nidra Resourcing the body of rest 51

Chapter 3 Inner Listening and an Invitation for Intuitive Attention Discovering the taste of your yoga nidra for now 73

Chapter 4 Welcoming Attention around the Body Journeying through places and spaces 83

Chapter 5 Playing with Paradox and Integration Inviting pairs of opposites 103

Chapter 6 Optional Connecting to Imaginative Capacity Feeling into sensory and extrasensory knowing, for inspiration, healing, and nurturing 113

Chapter 7 Returning to Inner Listening Savoring the flavor of your yoga nidra now 129

Chapter 8 Externalizing Awareness Preparing to complete your natural process of yoga nidra 139

Chapter 9 Finishing the Practice Completions, closures, and comparisons 147

Part II Making Yoga Nidra Your Own

Chapter 10 Techniques to Practice Natural Yoga Nidra Solo 157

Chapter 11 Yoga Nidra to Improve Sleep 173

Chapter 12 Yoga Nidra to Relieve Stress and Pain 191

Chapter 13 Yoga Nidra to Boost Vitality and Creativity 213

Chapter 14 What Next with Yoga Nidra? 221

Conclusion: Cycling Back to Where We Began 227

References 235

Recommended Reading 241

Resources 243

Index 247

About the Authors 255

Editorial Reviews

"Yoga Nidra Made Easy is a beautiful journey through the labyrinth of awakening to the power of repose. Accessible and deep, this book full of supportive and nurturing practices that allow you to reclaim the rest you deserve." - Tracee Stanley, author of Radiant Rest and Empowered Life Self Inquiry Oracle

"This book is a gift. Its message one of profound simplicity – that in yoga nidra, in deep rest, in standing against a culture of constant action, we can return to ourselves." - Jessica Huie, author of Purpose

"A marvellous beginners guide to the profound, elegant practice of yoga nidra." - John Vosler, multi-lineage yoga nidra educator and founder of Tri-Being

"Easy to understand and deeply practical, this book contains everything you need to become the nidrista that you already are!" - Charlie Morley, bestselling author of Wake Up to Sleep

"Rest and nourishment underpin your relationship with yourself. This book by two experienced yoga therapists has practical exercises and simple techniques for achieving deep rest with yogic sleep." - Women’s Fitness magazine

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