Yoga Nidra Traditional Practice Beyond Merely Relaxation

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


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