Yoga Nidra may help compensate for sleep deprivation in individuals with addiction during early inpatient recovery.

“Yoga Nidra, Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NDSR)”

“he said well you know so much of addiction is about an inability to regulate impulses um to deal with agitation especially in the early days of trying to get sober or being sober and it just helps people learn to regul self-direct the their nervous system in terms of relax self-directed relaxation it also seems to help with their sleep”

“and so it was a a kind of a self-directed relaxation training of sorts first thing in the morning that in addition perhaps could compensate partially for some of the sleep deprivation that they no doubt were experiencing when they arrived”

“Um can we talk about yoga nidra? Um I talked about non-sleep deep rest a lot on this podcast. Yes. I decided to take yoga nidra which is a thousands of years old practice and rename it non-sleep deep rest. Um because I wanted more people to you for doing that. I mean, I I've taken some heat, but I wanted more people to do it. And I, you know, it's a zerocost tool that I think is very valuable.”