NSDR (non-sleep deep rest) is a practice similar to yoga nidra but focuses more on physiology and body scans, removing mystical language and intentions.

“10 min, 20 min (and soon 30 min) NSDR versions available at https://t.co/HSghgKJ8qF.”

“The reason I called it Non-Sleep Deep Rest is because while I love the classic traditions of, and things like Yoga Nidra, my fear was that if I called things Yoga Nidra, that people would get spooked. But I also have to say that I rather loathe the fact that scientists use so many fancy terms, that it also vaults information from the very people that fund the work. So I have a kind of an ax to grind with the scientific community too. So Non-Sleep Deep Rest was my attempt to kind of put my arms around a number of different things like Yoga Nidra, which I have great reverence for, and other tools like that.”

“NSDR is a lot like yoga nidra but removes a lot of the kind of, let's just call it the sort of mystical language and the intentions. It focuses more on the physiology and the body scans.”

“so that's why I coin this um uh phrase non-sleep deep rest which is essentially maintains the critical components of Yoga Nidra um but doesn't include intentions and um has these shorter um 10 or 20 minute um protocols”

“you know for instance just lying down and I'm doing a progressive bodily relaxation things like Yoga Nidra Yoga Nidra non-sleep deep rest which is an acronym ioin simply to to make it clear what I was talking about but it's very similar to Yoga Nidra things of that sort in other words but simply should everyone think about having an early to mid-afternoon protocol to reset their cognition and their body we call it a nap but does it have to be a nap and if we're not good Nappers should we try and if so how should we go about it”