A specific NSDR script, distinct from yoga nidra, focuses purely on breathing protocols and includes a body scan to induce deep relaxation.

“Yoga nidra is a practice of lying down for about 10 to 30 sometimes even as long as 60 minutes, you listen to a script, it's an audio script, that takes you through a progressive deep relaxation, it involves a body scan, some long exhale breathing.”

“So it it's not easy, you know, it could be anywhere from 20 to 35 minutes, right?”

“non-sleep deep rest aka yoga nidra involves doing some long exhale breathing for reasons that you now know. Slows your heart rate down. It involves deliberately relaxing your body. It also involves you learning how to deliberately engage your parasympathetic nervous system.”

“You deliberately lie down, do long exhale breathing to slow your heart rate down, bring down your levels of autonomic activation, more parasympathetic, et cetera. And the idea is you stay awake while deeply relaxing your body, a very atypical waking state that is more similar to rapid eye movement sleep, when brain is very active, body is paralyzed, as you know.”

“it really just involves lying down for anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes or an hour I suppose and people are doing long exhale breathing to slow their heart rate and calm down doing a sort of body scan of paying attention to different parts of their body trying to stay awake but if they fall asleep it's okay”