Sleep Yoga

Posted on April 20, 2008 in Latest News

Sleep Yoga or Yoga Nidra has been of a great help for insomniacs around the world. Insomniacs are flocking in large numbers towards Yoga as it provides the ultimate relaxation of the human body mind and soul. Once you are relaxed the quality of your sleep will improve because of the stimulatory effect yoga has on the nervous system, and in particular the brain. The practice of certain yoga postures will increase the blood circulation to the sleep center in the brain, which has the effect of normalizing the sleep cycle.
You can try this Yoga Nidra (sleep) Relaxation for ten minutes.
Breathe deeply and evenly through both nostrils for several seconds. Feel the breath flow right down into your abdomen. As you exhale, let any remaining tension in your body flow out with it.
Visualize a relaxing scene. Focus on your feet. Tense and release your toes, then flex your feet hard. As you relax them, feel all the tension drain from your feet, ankles, calves, knees, thighs, buttocks, and abdomen and breathe it out.

Focus on your hands. Tense the muscles in your arms and hands by clenching your hands into a tight fist, release and let the tension flow from your fingertips up your arms to your shoulders. Breathe it out.

Focus on your shoulders. Tense your shoulder blades and relax them three times.
Turn your head to right and left to free any tension in the neck muscles and let your neck relax. Finally tense your facial muscles and as you release them be aware of all the tension draining out of the areas of tension, around your jaw and mouth, the eyes, and away from the forehead.

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