Yoga Nidra: Traditional Practice Beyond Merely Relaxation
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What you’ll learn
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Learn several guided meditations leading to Yoga Nidra
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Understand the subtler, deeper meaning of Yoga Nidra
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.
Who this course is for:
- The course is ideal for those with some exposure to Yoga
- The course is ideal for those with some exposure to Meditation
12 reviews for Yoga Nidra: Traditional Practice Beyond Merely Relaxation
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Vang Le –
There were a couple of moments I thougt “why so many explanations and metaphors ?” . But the whole course gives excellent introduction to pratyahara, four states of consciousness, and of course yoga nidra itself. I was practicing yoga nidra before and i did not know it is called yoga nidra.
Thank you SmamiJ and the team for making this course available.
Raj Banavara –
Swami J, thank you for the clear description of what Yoga Nidra is really about… conscious deep sleep! There is so much misunderstanding and misleading information about Yoga Nidra on the internet that I hope more and more people will read your article (on swamij.com) and go through this Udemy course and of course practice so as to gain an accurate understanding and direct experience of this profound state. Your guided audio is the best. I know how much time you spent (a LOT) in preparing the audio. Thank you! _()_
Ma Tri, very nice editing and putting the videos together.
OM.
Gurvinder Singh –
This is most clear and concise explanation of Yoga Nidra. Everyone tells you that Yoga Nidra is a technique for extreme relaxation. No one tells you that it’s a state of consciousness. Thanks to Swami J and Ma Tri for creating this wonderful course!
Jonna Sointula –
The course is clear and easy to follow, it is divided in short modules.
One of the audio resources included is not compatible with iOS.
Jayde River –
I really enjoyed this class. The instructor was very clear and precise, and I loved his metaphors! Thank you for helping me on my journey to Self.
Joe Conte –
This man is connected to a lineage and uses the authentic source texts. Unlike so many, he is NOT selling himself as a “guru”, but is teaching us to find the guru within us and in our environment. If you want to access mystical truth directly transmitted through universally accepted source material, then get these courses and go to the Facebook pages for Abyas Ashram and the website shown in the bonus material section.
Suzanne M Green –
Enjoyed the course, loved the teacher’s approach to course.
Benjamin Østergreen-Johansen –
The course is almost exclusively about the theory behind Yoga Nidra. Now, I actually had no clue what Yoga Nidra was, as I simply heard it was a great thing to do for your mind and body and decided to try it out. However, the times I’ve set aside 30~ minutes to practice it, it doesn’t seem to have yielded any results beyond mere relaxation, and as we know, Yoga Nidra is beyond relaxation.
I haven’t found the practical value in this and am now spending more of the time on different forms of meditation and fitness.
Because of this, I had a hard time rating the course, as it just didn’t seem to work for me, but still definitely could hold a lot of value for others.
Louise Hebblewhite –
The teacher and the simplicity made it for me. I have done a fair bit of yoga nidra, so for me it was like listening to a very wise uncle who gave you a couple more spiritual tools for your toolbox.
Malin Pearce –
Because it is giving me a deeper understanding of my existence
Corinne Broeder –
Five stars on completion.
Twilah H –
The content was decent, once the presenter got beyond his exhaustive (and exhausting) repetition and to the point.
The instructor does an excellent job in dispelling misconceptions about what Yoga Nidra is and is not. He is well versed in the history and background of Yoga Nidra.
Another detracting feature of the course was that there were too many analogies that took much too long to convey.
In that spirit, here’s an analogy for the presenter: Getting to the point is like hammering a nail. Once the nail is set, you should put down your hammer.
Don’t keep hammering beyond the point at which your nail has brought the parts of your project together. To do so causes things to fall apart, rather than mesh.
Repetition is great in terms of practice of yogas, but in teaching, it should be used skillfully and in moderation.
It also seemed like the course jumped from
A: This is what Yoga Nidra is and is not
to
B: This is the history and primary purpose of Yoga Nidra and here’s how it fits into my tradition’s view of the levels consciousness
to
D: Here are a few guided meditations.
It felt like a step C was missing: The specific techniques of the yoga are xyz. I’ll say here that maybe this criticism is due to the fact that I practice primarily in another tradition and that’s how teachers in my tradition teach and this may therefore partially be a conditioned expectation.
In summary, the content of this course is mostly solid, but the delivery could use improvement.