It’s time for another Yoga Nidra experience. Who knows what will happen this time? Surely, not I. Nevertheless, it’s important to continue the research. Scientific documentation seems to be important to a lot of people, as if that were the absolute truth of any matter. Those on a yoga journey are learning (or rather unlearning) different perspectives.
I’ve been teaching yoga and yoga therapy for a long time now and it’s interesting to note that insomnia is an increasingly common complaint. Sleep disorders abound.
Many people self-medicate in order to get a good nights sleep. Some people die from the medicating substance, whether it be pharmaceutical, organic, or cooked up in your kitchen by the resident witch/healer.
What needs to be looked at more closely is that all of these cures/methods for inducing sleep are relying on an external something (pill/tea/etc.) to put us to sleep. Nothing is inherently wrong (or right) with that approach. Sometimes we need help. But, here’s an article from Dr. Mercola’s newsletter that certainly deserves some thinking time. If you do not want to read the whole thing at least scroll thru it and read the headlines, please.
On August 29 I’ll be facilitating another Yoga Nidra experience in SoCa. I’ve been de-stressing the American population for a long time, or trying to. I’m learning that SoCa has it’s own unique list of stressor’s, quite different from those on the East Coast…. This past weekend a 6’ bookcase filled with china & glassward toppled over right next to me! Other people were there too and it was ‘decided’ that it must have been an earthquake. Yikes!
Stress is everywhere.
If you’ve experienced a yoga nidra before, this one is guaranteed to be different. It’s built into the ‘system’. After all, every moment in time/space is utterly unique and changing at the same time. Trust that you always get what you need but not necessarily what you want.
Nevertheless, healing happens with yoga nidra practices.
I’ve put together a teacher-training for those who would like to learn more about this pratyahara experience. Find me if you’re interested.
I’ll be happy to bring this training to your group/studio.
Contact me and we’ll talk about how to do that.
