Welcome to the Yoga Nidra Portal
Your Sacred Space for Rest, Embodiment, Healing & Remembrance
This growing Yoga Nidra library is available by donation. If these practices support you, you’re welcome to contribute each time you return, in an amount that feels sustainable. Your contribution helps support future recordings and the evolution of this work. If cost is a barrier, you are welcome to access the recordings freely. Thank you for being here.
Yoga Nidra Library
Cosmic Ocean Yoga Nidra ~ 44 min.
Take a deep dive into your inner world and return to the ocean within.
Integration
Taking a few moments to draw or journal after practice can help anchor your experience, supporting memory and strengthening new neural pathways so the effects of the practice can be carried off the mat and deepen over time.
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What do you remember from the practice? Write down any keywords, visual imagery or cues that stood out to you.
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Did you remain awake throughout, drift in and out, or rest somewhere in between? If you fell asleep, at which point did you come back?
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What part of you stayed in the room, and what part of you left?
Where did you go on your journey?
What was it like? Was it beautiful, wild, wonderful and spacious? Was it quiet and still? Did you come up against any resistance?
Journal Prompts
What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra (also known as 'Conscious’ or ‘Dynamic Sleep’) is a healing practice of deep rest, self-inquiry, and presence. In Nidra, we transcend time and space and dance between wakefulness, dream, and sleep states (the hypnagogic state). As the body rests, the mind journeys through expanded states of consciousness and illuminates what has been hidden in the shadows. Through this process, we travel along the frontiers of our soul’s questions (Who Am I?) and work to heal old wounds that may be blocking us from our highest potential. As we access other dimensions of physical, psychological, spiritual, and emotional consciousness, we bring unconscious thoughts, patterns, memories, and beliefs to the surface, and rewire our brains in the neuroplastic window. In doing so, we can reconnect with our True Nature, that is, our innate, bliss state.
In addition to the many benefits of yoga, studies continue to show Yoga Nidra’s effectiveness for helping to reduce symptoms of trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, PTSD, and sleep issues; one hour of Yoga Nidra is equivalent to 4 hours of REM sleep.
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We are quintessentially integral with the Universe. In ourselves, the Universe is revealed to itself as we are revealed in the Universe. And when we learn to inscend, we can have a felt experience of our small part in the larger cosmic orchestra, and do what we were meant for.
—Thomas Berry