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Yoga Nidra is an experiential process akin to Deep Sleep wherein you as a doer is absent and you as being is present. It is a means to access and be your true nature knowingly.
Nidra Yoga is also experiential as it is the practice of Yoga Nidra. The distinction is that Nidra Yoga is a way of being that is global in nature, like the ocean, and Yoga Nidra is a specific meditation technique within this way of being, like a wave.
The closest translation of the word Nidra is sleep, and, the word Yoga means union or connection. In this approach the union of yoga is realized experientially as the continuity of being that unfolds when the mind is silent and there is no doer. The truth of this is glimpsed in the practice of Yoga Nidra and it is lived knowingly in daily life as the practice of Nidra Yoga.
This yoga approach is paradoxical as it uses the process of deep sleep to wake up to your true nature and cultivates a way of being that flowers in and as everyday life. It is beyond the measure of the thinking mind as it is knowing as being that embraces functioning according to the laws of natural order – for example: thoughts and memories associated with name and form are used functionally yet knowing as being means that the suffering, limitation and separation of identification via the thinking mind is absent.
In this light Yoga Nidra and Nidra Yoga are the direct, experiential approach to your true nature.
Sound Body ~ Silent Mind
