Lala Menen

YOGA NIDRA. A 30 minutes session.
Enter into your divine silent but powerful inner well of deep relaxation and positive potential. I take you on a powerful journey with this guided meditation which is experienced in complete stillness laying on your back. It is a meditation to completely de- stress, to create and manifest. It can help to break negative habits and behaviours as it initiates self awareness. Great for those who find it difficult to meditate and be still as the facilitator is fully supporting and guiding the meditation.

You will need a yoga mat and warm clothes, a blanket, an eye pillow, socks, anything to ensure you are warm for the duration of the session as remaining still is vital to the success of this meditation.

Although translated from Sanskrit as Yogic Sleep, we must actively avoid falling asleep during Yoga Nidra. This very potent form of meditation takes us to the conduit between the conscious waking mind and the subconscious mind. The sub conscious mind is a deep well where all our latent memories lay dormant. Childhood, teenage and adult memories of fear, neglect, criticism, denial,

betrayal. You name it the entire spectrum of human emotional upheavals are quietly waiting to surface to the top of the well. These manifest into our everyday lives through our experiences which awaken these latent memories and dictate our behaviour. Obviously, there are happy memories also residing within the subconscious mind.

Therefore we are the product of our sub conscious mind and so all our self-identity, behaviours, reactions, beliefs etc are all dictated by it, and whether we know it or not, that is where all our information to navigate life resides.

What if we are in a perpetual state of negative behaviours, relationships, and lifestyle? How can we change to better our lives? Enter Yoga Nidra.

Swami Satyananda Saraswati developed Yoga Nidra from an Ancient Tantric practice to make it easy and more accessible to modern man.

Yoga Nidra is not hypnosis and it is not suggestive like hypnosis. It is a guided meditation in which the facilitator takes the practitioner through a rotation of conscious awareness and visual awareness. We enter the edge of sleep, the psychological dimension known as the superconscious mind. The brain enters the Alpha state where deep relaxation, conscious dreaming and visionary states are experienced. Yoga Nidra takes us into our inner realm of creativity, learning, awareness,,. and manifestation.

It is not concentration. We are building awareness. Awareness developed in the sub conscious mind translates as awareness in our waking lives and we begin to drop negative behaviours simply because we become more aware. We also implant positive messages into the brain which activate during our conscious waking state.

Regular practice of Yoga Nidra has been proven to create positive behavioural changes in practitioners. We can learn languages, pass tests, develop confidence and improve sleep, mental disorders etc. All positive and creative potential is unlocked with Yoga Nidra.

To have deeper knowledge of this powerful self-mastery tool I recommend further research, as I have just touched the surface here.

If you have so much going on in your head and you cannot see your inner peace for all the mental chaos then YOGA will help to shift your consciousness.

Negative thoughts actually release stress chemicals in the body and these weaken the immune system. Stress causes insomnia and high blood pressure and myriads of ailments both mental and physical and It even changes our posture and facial expression. Thats why we we say things like “ you look really stressed out”.

Negative and fear based thoughts even towards another always cause our own minds and bodies to suffer.

YOGA is a scientific and creative art form which takes us away from our thoughts and helps to cultivate within us a gradual cleansing and new perspectives.

It brings about a dominant mental equilibrium which soothes and directs the mind to drop negativity as soon as we notice it arising.

Yoga develops the awareness we need to be finely tuned in to who we are because if we do not heal our own sorrows how can we ever offer assistance to others?

When we practice Yoga we have less thoughts about others, our lives, the media etc. This gives the immune system a chance to heal. It is not achieved from one yoga session but through regular pratice.

We are a collective expression of creation and we are all affected through morphic resonance by all thoughts both near and far.

It is crucial then that we open up our own mental woodland to enter the lush forest of peaceful abundance with Yoga. At least its free and everyone can do it!