Yoga nidra and NSDR practices involve long exhale breathing, body scans, and aiming to stay awake with the body relaxed, which teaches one how to fall asleep more easily.

“they have Yoga Nidra sessions which are a form of non-sleep deep rest that I personally find is extremely valuable for restoring mental and physical Vigor I tend to do a yoga Nedra lasting anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes at least once a day and if I ever wake up in the middle of the night and I need to fall back asleep I also find yoga NRA to be extremely useful”

“I also really like doing Yoga Nidra or what is sometimes called non-sleep deep rest for about 10 or 20 minutes because it is a great way to restore mental and physical figure without the tiredness that some people experience when they wake up from a conventional nap”

“I also really like doing Yoga Nidra or what is sometimes called non-sleep deep rest for about 10 or 20 minutes because it is a great way to restore mental and physical figger without the tiredness that some people experience when they wake up from a conventional nap”

“Yoga nidra actually means yoga sleep. And it's a sort of meditation that you listen to. Meditation and yoga nidra scripts have been immensely helpful for me in terms of accelerating the transition to sleep.”

“where you're slowing your heart rate down. You're doing a body scan. But the goal during yoga nidra is to stay awake with your body relaxed. And it teaches you how to fall asleep more easily.”

“I decided to participate once or twice and I found it to be incredibly restorative because I wasn't sleeping well on that trip and I would come out of it thinking like I just felt like I slept eight hours I only slept four or five broken hours I do this one hour of Yoga Nidra and whoa feel amazing like this is wild this is a big effect”

“I do this one hour of Yoga Nidra and whoa feel amazing like this is wild this is a big effect what is this go back to my laboratory we're studying stress stress mitigation techniques and for whatever reason you know I decided okay can talk about Yoga Nidra but it's a little bit like talking about meditation and then you have these name which is you know a little complicated for the scientific literature because it's not clear exactly what it is and I want to be very clear I'm not trying to take anything away from Yoga Nidra or those practices I have tremendous respect for them but I came up with this thing called non-sleep deep rest or nsdr for short which a gives people some sense of what they're doing and B strips away the intentions and any kind of mysticism whatsoever and 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”

“I first thought about and learned about something called Yoga Nidra Yoga Nidra means yoga sleep there's a thousand year old or more um protocol where you lie down and you try to stay awake while remaining completely still it involves some long exhale breathing which we know slows the heart rate through respiratory sinus arhythmia which is a good thing it slows the heart rate and it is it had long been used as a way to offset sleep loss as well as to just create states of replenished mental and physical Vigor even if you slept well”