A night of complete rest, where everything in you is finally, fully, left in peace. Nothing is stirred, nothing confronted — you simply lie still, stay warm, and listen.

Yoga Nidra is the science of conscious deep rest — the body sleeps, awareness stays lit, and you do nothing but lie still and listen. This practice moves through the classic sequence: settling and a resolve (sankalpa), a rotation of awareness through the whole body part by part, the soft tide of the breath at the heart, and the gentle pairs of opposites — heaviness and lightness, coolness and warmth, restlessness and peace. It closes in a still, golden room that is wholly your own: the door and window open to a kind night, a steady lamp that no draught reaches, an instrument resting whole on the wall with its strings quiet and no hand upon them, a compass needle at rest at  ...