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| How many practice yoga nidra before meditation? Expereinces? Techniques? |
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| I practise Yoga Nidra, though as a separate practise to Meditation.
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| How is it done?and for what purpose? |
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| yoga nidra is more a relaxation technique, that helps you access the deeper layers of the mind, its done lying down, However it helps focus the mind very well. A fantastic book is - yoga nidra
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| Am I the only one who prefers non-led relaxation - for lack of a better term - to yoganidra? I always have to control myself not to laugh when a particularly creative teacher wants me to imagine I'm a dolphin or dancing in a field of sunflowers. |
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| Never used either of those visualisations in yoga nidra myself *mind boggling*. We usually do a staged relaxation, taking each body part in turn. Techniques include imagining the them to be heavy and relaxed, flowing with light and relaxed, etc. Definately no Dolphins! Green fields and the like are used in visualisation relaxation / healing techniques but not Yoga Nidra as I understand it (I've practised Sivananda, Iyengar, and Satyamvida yogas).
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| TM - I dislike guided relaxation because the leader generally has no idea of what is relaxing to everyone finds relaxing. I love water images but dislike air images such as hot air balloons or flying. I actually had biofeedback once that showed me going literally cold all over when given an air image. I don't know anything about yoga nidra but I suspect it is often taught by inexperienced people using guided visualization. Yes, my bias is showing...  Savasana is a whole other thing, and I would suspect it is useful prior to meditation as it is prior to pranayama. |
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| Yes, I have practiced it on and off to some limited degree for some 25 years (since an age of 14), but only very recently found out it was practiced and called Yoga Nidra by yogis.
I practice it primarily (but not only then) just before going into a situation that might pose a lot of stress, if possible (eg I am a performing musician, and the moments before going on stage can be quite stressy). It can bring a deep relaxation as well as a clear focus afterwards (a firm mind).
As far as I know, it is in itself one of many meditation methods. You should ask your guru whether it is beneficial to complement it with other methods in one session. My guess is that one should stick to the method that fits, but this might depend on your motives.
The technique I initially used to go into "yogic sleep" is mainly the one which is described by Orbilia.
It can be a bit more challenging than meditations which are performed in an upright position because one very easily falls into "real sleep".
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Edited by tweeva 2007-08-02 6:11 AM
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