Yoga Nidra: Traditional Practice Beyond Merely Relaxation

Conscious Deep Sleep of the Ancient Sages for Attenuating Karma

What you'll learn

Learn several guided practices leading to the subtlety of Yoga Nidra.

Understand the subtler, deeper meaning of Yoga Nidra, not merely surface level relaxation.

Ordinary people do deep sleep inertly. Yogis experience deep sleep consciously.

Know your consciousness at all levels, waking, dreaming, AND deep sleep.

Yoga Nidra, conscious deep sleep, is the deepest level of awareness, just before samadhi, the highest level. Seek the highest.

Requirements

Anyone can start the practice of Yoga Nidra, and allow it to grow for you

There are no particular prerequisites for this course

Description

Yoga Nidra means Yogic Sleep. It is a state of conscious Deep Sleep. In Meditation, you remain in the Waking state of consciousness, and gently focus the mind, while allowing thought patterns, emotions, sensations, and images to arise and go on. However, in Yoga Nidra, you leave the Waking state, go past the Dreaming state, and go to Deep Sleep, yet remain awake. While Yoga Nidra is a state that is very relaxing, it is also used by Yogis to purify the Samskaras, the deep impressions that are the driving force behind Karma.In recent years it has become common to use the term "yoga nidra" to mean virtually any form of relaxation practice. However, Yoga Nidra is traditionally a profoundly deep practice that is refined over an extended period of time. In this course we will review this traditional perspective and teach you to patiently allow the amazing depth to be revealed over time.Your presenter is Swami Jnaneshvara, whose famous Yoga Nidra CD has been the most popular in the world for over 15 years.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Yoga Nidra is a state, not a method

Lecture 3 Beyond relaxation

Lecture 4 Beyond guided imagery

Lecture 5 Beyond music

Lecture 6 Beyond sankalpas or affirmations

Lecture 7 Not "for" this or that disease

Lecture 8 Beyond reverie

Lecture 9 Beyond lucid dreaming

Lecture 10 Yoga Nidra is not new

Lecture 11 Not a brand name or trademark

Lecture 12 Yoga Nidra is a profound state

Section 2: Levels of Consciousness and Yoga Nidra

Lecture 13 Yoga Nidra and Mandukya Upanishad

Lecture 14 The Yogi consciously explores all three states

Lecture 15 Tantra and the three cities

Section 3: Metaphors Related to Yoga Nidra

Lecture 16 Four aspects of the ocean of Consciousness

Lecture 17 Parachuting and Yoga Nidra

Lecture 18 Yoga Nidra and the backdrop of a stage

Lecture 19 Phones and computers

Section 4: Key Concepts of Yoga Nidra

Lecture 20 Pratyahara and Yoga Nidra

Lecture 21 Meditation and Yoga Nidra are companions

Lecture 22 Consciousness recedes in Yoga Nidra

Lecture 23 Thoughts are formless in Yoga Nidra

Lecture 24 The seeds of archetypes

Lecture 25 Purifying samskaras, the deep habit patterns

Lecture 26 Brain waves and Yoga Nidra

Lecture 27 Yoga Nidra is a process of emptying

Lecture 28 The destination, not merely the journey

Lecture 29 Yoga Nidra and the chakras

Section 5: Practicing Yoga Nidra

Lecture 30 Methods are many, and simple

Lecture 31 When Yoga Nidra comes naturally

Lecture 32 Yoga Nidra and naps

Section 6: Guided Practices of Yoga Nidra

Lecture 33 Introduction to the guided Yoga Nidra practices

Lecture 34 Four guided practices (MP3 Download Files)

Lecture 35 Only one state of Yoga Nidra

Section 7: BONUS

Lecture 36 BONUS: Resources

The course is ideal for those with some exposure to Yoga,The course is ideal for those with some exposure to Meditation