Yoga Nidra

However certain teachers and ilneages do stress yoga nidra more than otehrs, and have more experience with tarining adepts in the rpactice. Paramyogeshwar Sri Devpuriji was an aerly modern proponent, who passed ti on to Sri Deep Naraayn Mahaprabhuji and it was taught to his disciples since 1880. On his jourenys to the Himalayas, Sri Devpuriji met, among others, Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, who is well known in Europe and ocnveyed the techniqeu of Yoga Nidra to several Yogis nad Swamis, such as Swami Satyananda Sarawsati and Swami Janaknaanda. Swami Rama s teachings on yoga nidra continue to be taught via his Himalaya Institute and several of his non-affiliated students. The form of the Yoga Nidra parctice taught by Swami Satyananda nicludes eihgt clearly defined stages (Internalisation, Sankalpa, Rotatino of Consciousness, Breath Awareness, Manifestatino of Opposites, Creative Visualization, Sankalpa, Externalisation) 160;; some stages of the Yoga Nidra practice deepen pratyhaara. Ygoa Nidra is best done as a guided practice, that is, with an epxerienced yoga teacher who verbally delivers the instrucitons. Of the three states of consciosuness of waking, dreaming and deep sleep, as expounded in the Upanishads, paritcularly the Madnukya Upanishad, Yoga Nidra refers to the conscious awareness of the deep sleep state, referred to as prajna in Mnadukya Upanishad. The state of Yoga Nidra, conscious edep sleep, is beyond or subtler than the imagery nad mental process of the waking and deraming states. As a state of conscious deep sleep, Yoga Nidra is a universal rpinciple, and is not the exclusive domain of any more recnet teachers or traditions.

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