Yoga Nidra as a Gateway to Transformation
Through regular practice, Yoga Nidra offers more than just relaxation—it facilitates profound personal transformation and spiritual growth. As you sink into deep states of consciousness, you tap into the power of stillness, allowing your mind and spirit to release old patterns and limiting beliefs. This practice nurtures inner peace, strengthens your connection to your authentic self, and creates space for new insights, healing, and creativity to flourish. By cultivating a state of deep rest and presence, Yoga Nidra helps you reconnect with your highest potential, awakening a sense of alignment, purpose, and spiritual clarity that extends far beyond the mat.
Event Details:
Date: fridays and saturdays
Time: Friday: 10am-11am, saturday:
Location: Studio360, Abergavenny
To Secure Your Spot: Please pay £12 for one class or £30 for a monthly pass to: TSB Bank: SC: 77-79-13 Acc: 00001365, Agnieszka Zebrowska.
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Benefits of Yoga Nidra
Profound Relaxation: Yoga Nidra induces a state of relaxation deeper than traditional sleep, activating the body’s parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress, support mental clarity, and encourage emotional resilience.
Enhanced Sleep Quality: Studies show Yoga Nidra can improve sleep patterns and address insomnia, as the practice trains the mind to enter restful states naturally.
Mental and Physical Healing: Yoga Nidra supports healing by lowering blood pressure, reducing chronic pain, and boosting the immune system. It’s often used as a complementary therapy in trauma recovery and pain management.
Increased Creativity and Focus: By accessing subconscious layers of the mind, Yoga Nidra can unlock creativity and improve mental focus, allowing for fresh insights and a sharpened memory.
Emotional Balance: The practice helps in processing and releasing deep-seated emotions, bringing a sense of balance, peace, and a positive outlook.
Lesser known facts:
Beyond Sleep: Though often called “yogic sleep,” Yoga Nidra guides you into a conscious state between wakefulness and sleep, allowing deep rest without the need for full unconscious sleep.
Science-Backed Transformation: Studies have shown that Yoga Nidra can positively impact brain wave patterns, shifting from beta (awake) to alpha and theta waves, which are associated with creativity, healing, and relaxation.
Guidance into Your Subconscious: Yoga Nidra enables you to work with the subconscious mind, offering a unique way to address negative thought patterns, rewrite limiting beliefs, and set powerful personal intentions (known as sankalpa).
A Tool for Trauma Recovery: Yoga Nidra is increasingly used in therapeutic settings to help people recover from trauma by creating a safe space for the body and mind to heal.
Effortless Meditation: Unlike other meditation techniques that require focus, Yoga Nidra is accessible to everyone, as it only involves listening to
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In ancient Indian scriptures, Yoga Nidra was understood as a gateway to the “creative void” — the transcendental space where everything is born, rests, and eventually transforms. In the Mahabharata, Yoga Nidra is depicted as the divine rest of Vishnu, the god who dreams the universe into existence. Between cycles of creation, he lies in a cosmic slumber, floating in boundless space, as a lotus blooms from his navel. This lotus unfolds into Brahma, the creative force, symbolising life emerging from stillness, potential flowing from silence. Here, Yoga Nidra is not merely rest; it is the heartbeat of creation itself.
In Tantric traditions, Yoga Nidra is revered as a goddess. Known as “Goddess Nidra” in Shaiva and Buddhist Tantras, she is the embodiment of “peace beyond words” and the keeper of secret knowledge, granting those who enter her embrace a glimpse into sacred wisdom. This reverence in the scriptures reflects the profound respect for Yoga Nidra as a transcendent state — not a “tool” or “practice,” but a space of simply “being.”
Modern Yoga Nidra, blending ancient wisdom and psychological insights, offers an experience that engages the body, breath, and awareness. It guides practitioners to this timeless state of consciousness where they can “be without doing.” This state, both free and creative, opens us to a peace that mirrors the universe’s rhythm — a deep, restorative union of stillness and potential, where mind and soul are free to unfurl and renew.
