I've started yoga nidra in January 2024, just to try and heal my long covid enough to get back to work. I used to never really believe in meditation and chakras and crystals, so there is no need to explain how desperate I was. I did not expect to still be practicing yoga nidra a month later. I've had insomnia for years. Even had fatigue and brain fog and the whole 9 yards before catching covid in November 2023. All symptoms are improving! My breathing and mental health still need some work, but omg, this is amazing. Also, for whatever reason, I can only use your voice to enter the yoga nidra state 😊
Thanks for this video. I found your channel searching around for techniques on deep rest. I did a work book on healing from adverse childhood experiences and it talked about the need for deep rest to recover from trauma. I had hit a little bit of a wall with the book and my therapy sessions on healing so I started to just google 'deep rest'. I've started a daily Yoga Nidra practice for a short period and it has been revealing, particularly how much physical and mental tension I was holding all the time. I hope to keep up the practice to see where it takes me, thanks!
I'm so glad you've decided to take up a Yoga Nidra practice. It really can have such incredibly beneficial cumulative effects. Thanks for take the time to share your story with me!
Thank you for your explanation of the practice. I've been using your videos for a few months now and my chronic exhaustion has all but disappeared, and I've found these practices to be a wonderful compliment to the conscious meditations I do as well. I have also reached a new level of presence and peace that compliments my daily mindfulness practices. Thank you and keep up the great work♥️ namaste 🙏
This is absolutely amazing. I use to think I was sleeping so I would always set an alarm incase I didn’t wake up lol. Here recently I stopped setting one and found at the end when you were doing your credits ect… I would just come back to. Thanks to Andrew Huberman for letting his audience know about Yoga Nidra because I had no clue this even existed. This has changed so much for me in the middle of the day especially working from home. ❤
I transcendend my self into the boat floating on the river, while i was doing yoga nidra. It was like a vision of my self, lying down at the boatbed. It was so relaxing... I could bassicly see the smal boat and me wakeing up in side the boat. I don't know if this is helpfull for someone but it was amazing. I did Yoga Nidra just as i woke up in my appartament in a big city ❤ NAMASTE
Yes, I’ve been listening to reiki and meditation every night for sleep for almost 4 years. Definitely had many mystical experiences during sleep since then. Since incorporating your Yoga Nidra for sleep, the experiences have increased in frequency. And I also end up having some of the deepest, most restful sleep. After waking up from these intense and vivid and detailed dreams, I always know when I’ve hit the Yoga Nidra part of my playlist, because nothing else all night is that deep or restful and the dreams not as all-encompassing. I love it. It really makes me feel like I’m peering into other lifetimes. And the rest I get is phenomenal and so healing after years of insomnia. So thank you, Ally. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Ally for this explanation. I am so glad I found your channel. I experience Yoga Nidra as doing nothing yet it feels like I've done something deep and important. Often I resist taking time for the practice; we're so programmed to be doing something all the time. But it really is so restful and satisfying. Sometimes I fall asleep. Other times I feel very aware that my body is essentially asleep but my mind is kind of floating in a relaxed central space of some kind, and it's different than "thinking." ❤
Thanks so much for this video! I had not tied in my practice of yoga nidra for PTSD, panic attacks, sleep disorders, chronic illnesses with the quest for awakening before!❤ or my Buddhist meditation practice. Due to my so called doing striving and craving for peace I have not progressed along the journey. This was very helpful to hear much love and namaste 🙏
Great informative video! Have been practicing yoga nidra on your channel daily for the past 6 months, as part of my recovery from burnout/chronic stress. I can really notice the effect over time: am feeling much calmer, also when tired or facing difficulty. I have also become much more familiar with my parasympathetic nervous system and fostering a state of relaxation, whereas before I always used to be restless and have an overly active sympathetic nervous system. For me personally, I would describe the state of consciousness as a feeling of unity of my body and mind, feeling at home and ease in my body without all the clutter and unceasing thoughts that my mind so often throws at me (less and less luckily😅). Am very grateful for all your work Ally, every day after lunch I enjoy your yoga nidra videos tremendously! 🙏☀️
This is so interesting! I’m still in the sleep deficit after years of pretty “severe” insomnia and digestive issues. This has helped so much! I love falling asleep to it. Perhaps as I go along I’ll tap into those other states. ❤ thanks for what you do.
Thank you Ally. You exude kindness. I heard Andrew huberman say a session of yoga nidra can substantially raise one’s dopamine levels-simply by non doing and being. Feel like a yoga nidra ninja.take care🙂
Thank you Ally. I love the 'trust that your body knows what it needs i the practice' I am here as a new student to the yoga nidra training and I start to experience thet I can truly to that in my own way, trusting the process, doing what feels right, instead of efforting so much. It is a process of letting go and surrendering. Marvelous.
Hi. I have "used" your videos many times now and what I am most reminded of is my experience of deep relaxation hypnosis and biofeedback used concurrently when I was a grad student many years ago working on dealing with stress. During one of the sessions: which was always self-managed with a biofeedback fingertip temperature setup along with a very good recorded guided meditation tape through headphones in a darkened room: I became so fully relaxed, while still fully conscious, that I lost connection with the limits of my body and "expanded" to the walls of the room. I remember my forehead being "at" the ceiling and the rest of my body conforming to the walls. It was very physical and real but also unlike anything I had ever experienced before. I got scared when I realized that the walls might not contain me and I didn't know how far I might expand, or if I could come back. That fear brought me back to regular body consciousness. At the time, no one could, or would , explain what I had experienced but I've always wanted to go there again. I'm thinking you will help me get back there. What you describe here, and what I experience with your videos, sounds so familiar. It's exciting. Thank you.
@@sealife13 Thank you for asking. I haven't yet. I believe I have a lot of work to do on getting in better physical condition. I retired about a month ago and am beginning to relax mentally which should help as well. I have been having some interesting dreams lately though with varying degrees of lucidity. These states interest me quite a bit. How about you?
@@sbeckwit I want my nervous system to calm down and sleep better. I discovered her channel today and love it. I hope to get my lucid dreams back, I had them for a while and it was as if the other person ( deceased) was standing in front of me. It was very surreal. I want to built a healthy routine with more excercise and meditation. I wish you a very happy retirement with a lot of healthy years and lucid dreams.
I adore this. I have been challenged with restless leg since October 2023 and struggling with getting enough sleep as you might imagine and then was diagnosed with Lyme on top of mold. When I do you these sessions with you, it’s incredibly helpful even though part of it is very challenging with getting my legs to try to relax sometimes. Thank you so much for all of what you do.
The description of the state (and how you say others described their experience to you) is really interesting- it reminds me a lot of a new term I learned just the other day: interbeing (sort of a sense of oneness with everything)
Hi Ally, your explanation made perfect sense. Thank you. The sense of calm when you speak makes a huge difference. Since finding you, a huge part of my anxiety has lifted and I feel it necessary to practice every morning. ❤
Thank you for the clarity you have when explaining all things Yoga Nidra.. I've listen to this module over and over again and even this video a few times but decided to comment on UA-cam you know how much does impacted my life in such a positive way that has truly lead me to my north star. My Sankupla I have taken so many massive notes in my journal and every time I listen to some thing over again I discover another aha moment.
I loved this explanation. I mimic the state of deep sleep so well that......I always seem to fall asleep. One of these days I will make it all the way the way through a session without conking out. Although I do "wake" up before a session is over so I suppose the inner me is still paying attention to your sweet voice! I have been practicing pretty much every night for over a year now and it has really calmed me down and given me some peace. Amazing.
I would recommend not doing this practice in your bed being 1000% comfortable if that’s the case. You’re still supposed to reap benefits if you fall asleep but even a switch to doing this practice sitting w proper posture or laying on a couch helps
Dear Ally I am so grateful to have discovered yoga Nidra. I had no idea there where other forms of yoga apart from the yoga poses and breathing exercises so it took a while before I looked at yoga Nidra and discovered this treasure. It makes me want to learn more but for now it is helping me cope with long-covid, ME/CFS and fibromyalgy. I am practicing for over a month now and I am finally starting to let go of my resistance against my situation. This time the long-covid has taken almost all of the little energy I had left due to the ME/CFS and I am struggling with feelings of anger, disappointment, frustration and sadness. I am sure the daily yoga Nidra practices helps me to let go of tension and letting go of the struggle. It is a magical feeling and, for me at this stage, a connection with my body. I am very curious to see where it leads me to. Thank you so much for sharing a little about your own journey, I would love to hear more 😊 I am so grateful for your's and Kristin's practices, thank you 🙏💖
Thank you for clarifying a deeper understanding of yoga nidre. I am so glad that I came across you online. Your yoga nidra sessions have been extremely helpful for me in healing a recent 'health' issue. The focused body scans and deep rest have been extremely ( and "magically") restorative. Thank you! ❤
Thank you so much. I felt really frustrated because i always fall asleep but it's because I reach a state of total relaxation. Thank you for this video and explanation
Hi Ally I use your UA-cam platform to access your practices most days after my Hatha yoga practice with Adriene Mischler. My happy place of calm. I always feel rested and calm and feel like my body and mind have straightened themselves out. Thank you for your guidance 🙏
Wow, thank you for this deep explanation Ally! All I knew is that "something happened to me"! I'm relieved to know that reaction is common, and I am so excited to continue learning more! Working on Module 1 in the Teacher Training and loving it!
I have been practicing Kriya yoga meditation for about 10 years and am very glad I heard about yoga nidra from the Huberman Lab podcast. I enjoy hearing about the philosophy of the practice.
Such an incredible explanation of the distinction between the two. I am just so thrilled with my journey in the training and even though life has gotten in the way at times I am so excited about what's to come !! Thank you!❤
I think I’m a candidate for online training. I have had an amazing healing experience . From injury.I used in combination with Yoga, Cranial Sacral Therapy, and Qi Gong. On myself and animals 🙏thank you, thank you, thank you.
I was sleep deprived the first time I tried Yoga Nidra and I felt like my body was dead whilst I was still aware, I had to reconnect to my body to be able to move it again. It felt like such s deep rest that helped me to sleep deeply until next day .namaste 😊
Love you ally ❤your yoga nidra is so amazing, I use it in conjunction with floatation therapy and it has a profound effect on my being. It feels like the most important part of my life and I’m super grateful because your videos are my guided practice. I do 2+ hours a day as well as float for 90 min and I am healing some very deep injury and trauma :) I had a bad head injury a couple years ago and the road back has been difficult, and yoga nidra are floating are restoring me to ways of being I didn’t know were possible before my head injury. I feel like it was a gift in a way because now I am aware that it is possible to experience life vastly different than humans do by deeply healing the nervous system and the brain and connecting to that state of oneness everyday ❤
I love the way you describe different people’s experiences after Yoga Nidra. I love listening to the different experiences as well after I teach. It’s a true blessing.
Namasté & Thank you Ally! I got off to a very rocky start in my Transformational Sleep training back in May. I am trying to trust in my process and want to re-engage/re-start.
Nameste, Grateful to be a new Student of Teacher Training and it's very informative. I seem to only achieve the state of yoga nidra on the longer videos. Looking forward to learning more about the different techniques.
Namaste Ally, I love this video it is a great addition to the course material. I actually listened to this before the training and now re-listening to it I feel I found more depth in it. Thank you for sharing and the in depth explanation on yoga nidra.
Hi Ally, taking time to review some of the modules. Missed this when I did this module. So enjoyed reviewing this, reinforcing and learning. Thanks 🙏🏻 Sue
Thank you, Ally. This video definitely provides clarity. I have just started module one and probably just beginning to realise how vast this topic is. Before listening to this, I think I was understanding YN more as a technique. Thank you for sharing this.
This was super helpful! Thank you! I have definitely had a few experiences "states" that have been difficult to describe to others. I find comfort knowing that this does occur.
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Similar how mainstream view misses the point about meditation. Most of what people do are meditation techniques. But none guarantee you to actually meditate, and many of those techniques that are seen as meditation, have nothing to do with it - if you are repeating mantras, you are repeating mantras. If you are in a trance, you are in a trance. If you get calm, cool. None of those is meditation though. People like to mix words until they don't know what anything means.
Yes, it's so true that meditation & meditation techniques are often thought of as one and the same! There are similar views on "Yoga" which is often reduced to doing Asanas. This is such a small piece of the greater meaning of the word Yoga. Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you so much for all of your beautiful insight. I am so very grateful for all that I am learning from you and revisiting some of the Module 1 content before moving onto Module 2. Namaste
Thank you Ally for this additional information. So much to learn and I appreciate how well you explain the techniques and different states of consciousness .
Thank you very much dear Ally for this video. Your explanation is useful and stimulating. I can share it with friends who can find yoganidra helpful. Namasté 🙏🏼🤗 Luisa
Thank you Ally for this brilliant breakdown of yoga nidra. I'm hooked on this practice which I do before bed. I am now checking out your senkalpa video to learn all about it.❤
You have the voice of an Angel, you have helped me so much. I’ve been in a slump of depression and anxiety 🙃 After two days of listening to you I no longer find my self in a negative state! Thank you so much 💜♥️
Even listening to your voice during this non-meditation video is relaxing! Have you thought about doing ASMR videos with Yoga Nidra? Thank you for the great content
Ally, thank you so much, I have done a few of your videos, and found them wonderful. I am also hoping they will start to help with my 24/7 tinnitus... Do you know if there are any books about Yoga Nidra? Thank you again, Jo
I watched this video hoping to learn more concretely how the actual choice of sequence with limbs/spots/centers/channels/nadis etc during the “rotation of consciousness” actually affect the outcome or direction one session has as compared to another. For example I’ve mostly listened to sessions for waking up in the morning, but ofc there are other purposes or types of yoga nidra, and I have tried some others and remarked that they are very similar in detail. Is it that the differences are very subtle or is it more that either type puts you in such a feel good state that it equally helps with waking up as falling asleep or recharging your energy and mood levels? That’s what I was curious about! 😁
I was wondering what are your thoughts on struggling with OCD and the practice of yoga nidra? Thanks in advance for your response! Sometimes i can reach bliss, sometimes i feel my mind is racing and looping even with pre practices. i feel pretty rested in my physical body and NS but not the mental state…
I love your Yoga Nidras! I searched for this because of listing to Andrew Huberman, and you love the science just like he does- you even do physiological sighs! I do the kids one with my boys and they want it every night because they say how much it helps them sleep. I have been doing one on your NSDR playlist in the middle of the day when my toddler naps for a couple months now desperate for something to help me with my severe RLS without meds. I'm not absolutely symptom-free, but some nights I am and the other nights are soooo much better. In fact, there was about a weeklong span that I didn't do it and I really noticed a difference. This is helping me with depression and anxiety and trauma healing. I feel like it's meditation for tired people. Question though: you have so many videos, where should someone start? What does each type of video offer- like where does it fit/what situations are they best for? 🙏🏻thanks!
I came here by way of Huberman too. Note on that, in his most recent podcast about breathing and their research comparing breath work and mindfulness meditation, he describes how to do the physiological sigh quite differently than Ally does.
Thank you Ally for this video. This is the first time I see you up close behind the amazing and soothing voice. ❤❤❤ I’m following you in Insight Meditation app now. 🤩🤩🤩 Keep up with the great work 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you ✨ Ally! I am in module two in training and I love the deep dive into different states of consciousness, brain waves, lucid dreaming, etc. it had always intended me so now I am learning so much more about it. 🤍
I've started yoga nidra in January 2024, just to try and heal my long covid enough to get back to work. I used to never really believe in meditation and chakras and crystals, so there is no need to explain how desperate I was. I did not expect to still be practicing yoga nidra a month later. I've had insomnia for years. Even had fatigue and brain fog and the whole 9 yards before catching covid in November 2023. All symptoms are improving! My breathing and mental health still need some work, but omg, this is amazing. Also, for whatever reason, I can only use your voice to enter the yoga nidra state 😊
The last part is so real I love her voice it’s sooooo soothing
Sounds like maybe some people are entering a state of meditation & having MYSTICAL experiences which CAN be really WILD & MAGICAL.💖
Thanks for this video. I found your channel searching around for techniques on deep rest. I did a work book on healing from adverse childhood experiences and it talked about the need for deep rest to recover from trauma. I had hit a little bit of a wall with the book and my therapy sessions on healing so I started to just google 'deep rest'. I've started a daily Yoga Nidra practice for a short period and it has been revealing, particularly how much physical and mental tension I was holding all the time. I hope to keep up the practice to see where it takes me, thanks!
I'm so glad you've decided to take up a Yoga Nidra practice. It really can have such incredibly beneficial cumulative effects. Thanks for take the time to share your story with me!
Thank you, Ally. Your beautiful, soothing voice matches your divine spirit. I listen eagerly to your Yoga Nidra sessions every day.
Thank you for your explanation of the practice. I've been using your videos for a few months now and my chronic exhaustion has all but disappeared, and I've found these practices to be a wonderful compliment to the conscious meditations I do as well. I have also reached a new level of presence and peace that compliments my daily mindfulness practices. Thank you and keep up the great work♥️ namaste 🙏
This is absolutely amazing. I use to think I was sleeping so I would always set an alarm incase I didn’t wake up lol. Here recently I stopped setting one and found at the end when you were doing your credits ect… I would just come back to. Thanks to Andrew Huberman for letting his audience know about Yoga Nidra because I had no clue this even existed. This has changed so much for me in the middle of the day especially working from home. ❤
Do you practice it in the middle of the day ?
I transcendend my self into the boat floating on the river, while i was doing yoga nidra. It was like a vision of my self, lying down at the boatbed. It was so relaxing... I could bassicly see the smal boat and me wakeing up in side the boat. I don't know if this is helpfull for someone but it was amazing. I did Yoga Nidra just as i woke up in my appartament in a big city ❤ NAMASTE
Your spirit is a healing balm for our world, Ally 🙏
Yes, I’ve been listening to reiki and meditation every night for sleep for almost 4 years. Definitely had many mystical experiences during sleep since then. Since incorporating your Yoga Nidra for sleep, the experiences have increased in frequency. And I also end up having some of the deepest, most restful sleep. After waking up from these intense and vivid and detailed dreams, I always know when I’ve hit the Yoga Nidra part of my playlist, because nothing else all night is that deep or restful and the dreams not as all-encompassing. I love it. It really makes me feel like I’m peering into other lifetimes. And the rest I get is phenomenal and so healing after years of insomnia. So thank you, Ally. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Ally for this explanation. I am so glad I found your channel. I experience Yoga Nidra as doing nothing yet it feels like I've done something deep and important. Often I resist taking time for the practice; we're so programmed to be doing something all the time. But it really is so restful and satisfying. Sometimes I fall asleep. Other times I feel very aware that my body is essentially asleep but my mind is kind of floating in a relaxed central space of some kind, and it's different than "thinking." ❤
I love this reflection of your different experiences Paula, thank you for sharing. I'm so glad you found my channel too :)
Thanks so much for this video! I had not tied in my practice of yoga nidra for PTSD, panic attacks, sleep disorders, chronic illnesses with the quest for awakening before!❤ or my Buddhist meditation practice. Due to my so called doing striving and craving for peace I have not progressed along the journey. This was very helpful to hear much love and namaste 🙏
Hey Ally, your way of explaining is very relaxing and calming which can lead to a Yoga Nidra state💚🙏
Lol... thank you Vita.
Great informative video!
Have been practicing yoga nidra on your channel daily for the past 6 months, as part of my recovery from burnout/chronic stress. I can really notice the effect over time: am feeling much calmer, also when tired or facing difficulty. I have also become much more familiar with my parasympathetic nervous system and fostering a state of relaxation, whereas before I always used to be restless and have an overly active sympathetic nervous system.
For me personally, I would describe the state of consciousness as a feeling of unity of my body and mind, feeling at home and ease in my body without all the clutter and unceasing thoughts that my mind so often throws at me (less and less luckily😅).
Am very grateful for all your work Ally, every day after lunch I enjoy your yoga nidra videos tremendously! 🙏☀️
Thanks for the explanation! I heard of Yoga Nidra before but I never cared for it, until I found your channel. It has been so helpful to me.
This is so interesting! I’m still in the sleep deficit after years of pretty “severe” insomnia and digestive issues. This has helped so much! I love falling asleep to it. Perhaps as I go along I’ll tap into those other states. ❤ thanks for what you do.
Thank you Ally. You exude kindness. I heard Andrew huberman say a session of yoga nidra can substantially raise one’s dopamine levels-simply by non doing and being. Feel like a yoga nidra ninja.take care🙂
Iis TRUE RESPITE - absol vital for our superbusy times 👏👏👏🥰🙏
Thank you for this beautiful explanation and description!
Thank you! I’m starting week one of transformational sleep training program. Loving it ❤Tani
Thank you Ally.
I love the 'trust that your body knows what it needs i the practice' I am here as a new student to the yoga nidra training and I start to experience thet I can truly to that in my own way, trusting the process, doing what feels right, instead of efforting so much. It is a process of letting go and surrendering. Marvelous.
You have a LOVELY NURTURING voice & Energy that I have found incredibly SOOTHING in the past few weeks. Thank you for sharing your gift here.🙏🏾💖🥰
Hi. I have "used" your videos many times now and what I am most reminded of is my experience of deep relaxation hypnosis and biofeedback used concurrently when I was a grad student many years ago working on dealing with stress. During one of the sessions: which was always self-managed with a biofeedback fingertip temperature setup along with a very good recorded guided meditation tape through headphones in a darkened room: I became so fully relaxed, while still fully conscious, that I lost connection with the limits of my body and "expanded" to the walls of the room. I remember my forehead being "at" the ceiling and the rest of my body conforming to the walls. It was very physical and real but also unlike anything I had ever experienced before. I got scared when I realized that the walls might not contain me and I didn't know how far I might expand, or if I could come back. That fear brought me back to regular body consciousness. At the time, no one could, or would , explain what I had experienced but I've always wanted to go there again. I'm thinking you will help me get back there. What you describe here, and what I experience with your videos, sounds so familiar. It's exciting.
Thank you.
And, did you manage to get back into thate state again? Just curious
@@sealife13 Thank you for asking. I haven't yet. I believe I have a lot of work to do on getting in better physical condition. I retired about a month ago and am beginning to relax mentally which should help as well. I have been having some interesting dreams lately though with varying degrees of lucidity. These states interest me quite a bit. How about you?
@@sbeckwit I want my nervous system to calm down and sleep better. I discovered her channel today and love it. I hope to get my lucid dreams back, I had them for a while and it was as if the other person ( deceased) was standing in front of me. It was very surreal. I want to built a healthy routine with more excercise and meditation. I wish you a very happy retirement with a lot of healthy years and lucid dreams.
@@sealife13 Thank you, sealife13. May you find success as well.
I loved this video, thank you. Slowly working my way through module one. Namaste 🙏
I adore this. I have been challenged with restless leg since October 2023 and struggling with getting enough sleep as you might imagine and then was diagnosed with Lyme on top of mold. When I do you these sessions with you, it’s incredibly helpful even though part of it is very challenging with getting my legs to try to relax sometimes. Thank you so much for all of what you do.
The description of the state (and how you say others described their experience to you) is really interesting- it reminds me a lot of a new term I learned just the other day: interbeing (sort of a sense of oneness with everything)
Hi Ally, your explanation made perfect sense. Thank you. The sense of calm when you speak makes a huge difference. Since finding you, a huge part of my anxiety has lifted and I feel it necessary to practice every morning. ❤
Thank you for the clarity you have when explaining all things Yoga Nidra.. I've listen to this module over and over again and even this video a few times but decided to comment on UA-cam you know how much does impacted my life in such a positive way that has truly lead me to my north star. My Sankupla I have taken so many massive notes in my journal and every time I listen to some thing over again I discover another aha moment.
I loved this explanation. I mimic the state of deep sleep so well that......I always seem to fall asleep. One of these days I will make it all the way the way through a session without conking out. Although I do "wake" up before a session is over so I suppose the inner me is still paying attention to your sweet voice! I have been practicing pretty much every night for over a year now and it has really calmed me down and given me some peace. Amazing.
I would recommend not doing this practice in your bed being 1000% comfortable if that’s the case. You’re still supposed to reap benefits if you fall asleep but even a switch to doing this practice sitting w proper posture or laying on a couch helps
Dear Ally I am so grateful to have discovered yoga Nidra. I had no idea there where other forms of yoga apart from the yoga poses and breathing exercises so it took a while before I looked at yoga Nidra and discovered this treasure. It makes me want to learn more but for now it is helping me cope with long-covid, ME/CFS and fibromyalgy. I am practicing for over a month now and I am finally starting to let go of my resistance against my situation. This time the long-covid has taken almost all of the little energy I had left due to the ME/CFS and I am struggling with feelings of anger, disappointment, frustration and sadness. I am sure the daily yoga Nidra practices helps me to let go of tension and letting go of the struggle. It is a magical feeling and, for me at this stage, a connection with my body. I am very curious to see where it leads me to. Thank you so much for sharing a little about your own journey, I would love to hear more 😊 I am so grateful for your's and Kristin's practices, thank you 🙏💖
Thank you for clarifying a deeper understanding of yoga nidre. I am so glad that I came across you online. Your yoga nidra sessions have been extremely helpful for me in healing a recent 'health' issue. The focused body scans and deep rest have been extremely ( and "magically") restorative. Thank you! ❤
Thank you so much. I felt really frustrated because i always fall asleep but it's because I reach a state of total relaxation. Thank you for this video and explanation
Hey Ally. I came here from module 1. I know this isn’t part of the homework, I just wanted to thank you for this! It really helped me understand more.
Thanks Ally, that is a very helpful explanation.
Hi Ally
I use your UA-cam platform to access your practices most days after my Hatha yoga practice with Adriene Mischler.
My happy place of calm. I always feel rested and calm and feel like my body and mind have straightened themselves out.
Thank you for your guidance 🙏
Wow, thank you for this deep explanation Ally! All I knew is that "something happened to me"! I'm relieved to know that reaction is common, and I am so excited to continue learning more! Working on Module 1 in the Teacher Training and loving it!
I have been practicing Kriya yoga meditation for about 10 years and am very glad I heard about yoga nidra from the Huberman Lab podcast. I enjoy hearing about the philosophy of the practice.
Such an incredible explanation of the distinction between the two. I am just so thrilled with my journey in the training and even though life has gotten in the way at times I am so excited about what's to come !! Thank you!❤
I think I’m a candidate for online training. I have had an amazing healing experience . From injury.I used in combination with Yoga, Cranial Sacral Therapy, and Qi Gong. On myself and animals 🙏thank you, thank you, thank you.
For what it’s worth, you’ve definitely helped to spread peace to my world. Thank you! 🙏🏻
I was sleep deprived the first time I tried Yoga Nidra and I felt like my body was dead whilst I was still aware, I had to reconnect to my body to be able to move it again. It felt like such s deep rest that helped me to sleep deeply until next day .namaste 😊
Love you ally ❤your yoga nidra is so amazing, I use it in conjunction with floatation therapy and it has a profound effect on my being. It feels like the most important part of my life and I’m super grateful because your videos are my guided practice. I do 2+ hours a day as well as float for 90 min and I am healing some very deep injury and trauma :) I had a bad head injury a couple years ago and the road back has been difficult, and yoga nidra are floating are restoring me to ways of being I didn’t know were possible before my head injury. I feel like it was a gift in a way because now I am aware that it is possible to experience life vastly different than humans do by deeply healing the nervous system and the brain and connecting to that state of oneness everyday ❤
I’m loving my yoga nidra journey. So happy to be part of your Transformational Sleep YTT
I love the way you describe different people’s experiences after Yoga Nidra. I love listening to the different experiences as well after I teach. It’s a true blessing.
Namasté & Thank you Ally! I got off to a very rocky start in my Transformational Sleep training back in May. I am trying to trust in my process and want to re-engage/re-start.
Nameste,
Grateful to be a new Student of Teacher Training and it's very informative. I seem to only achieve the state of yoga nidra on the longer videos.
Looking forward to learning more about the different techniques.
Ally, thank you so much for freely sharing your knowledge and wisdom here.
Namaste Ally, I love this video it is a great addition to the course material. I actually listened to this before the training and now re-listening to it I feel I found more depth in it. Thank you for sharing and the in depth explanation on yoga nidra.
Hi Ally, taking time to review some of the modules. Missed this when I did this module. So enjoyed reviewing this, reinforcing and learning.
Thanks 🙏🏻 Sue
Thank you for sharing your Sankalpa and this beautiful practice
Makes sense🙌 does give more clarity⚡️Thank you🙏
Ty ally on mod #2 but doing a review and this was extremely helpful
Thank you, Ally. This video definitely provides clarity. I have just started module one and probably just beginning to realise how vast this topic is. Before listening to this, I think I was understanding YN more as a technique. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you so much! This is Victoria! Module 1! ❤
Hi Ally thank you for the lesson
This was super helpful! Thank you! I have definitely had a few experiences "states" that have been difficult to describe to others. I find comfort knowing that this does occur.
Just working my way gently through module one and this training is already so rich! Thank you, Ally. 🙏🏼
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Similar how mainstream view misses the point about meditation. Most of what people do are meditation techniques. But none guarantee you to actually meditate, and many of those techniques that are seen as meditation, have nothing to do with it - if you are repeating mantras, you are repeating mantras. If you are in a trance, you are in a trance. If you get calm, cool. None of those is meditation though. People like to mix words until they don't know what anything means.
Yes, it's so true that meditation & meditation techniques are often thought of as one and the same! There are similar views on "Yoga" which is often reduced to doing Asanas. This is such a small piece of the greater meaning of the word Yoga. Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you so much for all of your beautiful insight. I am so very grateful for all that I am learning from you and revisiting some of the Module 1 content before moving onto Module 2. Namaste
So interesting, Ally! When I listen to you I know there is no way to get around the Yoga Nidra Training, too.😅
Yes! We would absolutely love to have you in the training one day Lisa
Very interesting. I’m psyched to try yoga nidra practices now
Thank you Ally for this additional information. So much to learn and I appreciate how well you explain the techniques and different states of consciousness
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Thank you very much dear Ally for this video. Your explanation is useful and stimulating. I can share it with friends who can find yoganidra helpful.
Namasté 🙏🏼🤗
Luisa
Really nice video, thank you.
Thank you Ally for this brilliant breakdown of yoga nidra. I'm hooked on this practice which I do before bed. I am now checking out your senkalpa video to learn all about it.❤
Thank you Ally
You have the voice of an Angel, you have helped me so much. I’ve been in a slump of depression and anxiety 🙃
After two days of listening to you I no longer find my self in a negative state!
Thank you so much 💜♥️
Very illuminating video. Thanks Ally! Does that mean though that it's encouraged and more efficient to stay aware/mindfull through the process?
I love your videos and I shared your channel with my friends.
Thank You very much! 🙏
Beautiful vibes Ally. 🙏🏽
Thank you Ally! Namaste.
Thank you for the explanation!
Even listening to your voice during this non-meditation video is relaxing! Have you thought about doing ASMR videos with Yoga Nidra? Thank you for the great content
Love and blessings 🌹
Thank you so much, right back at you. :)
This was very helpful. Thank you x
I have Tracee Stanley’s books, which are great. She indicated Yoga Nidra referred to a practice, a state of consciousness, and a goddess.
yes great info, training is going slow but fantastic
I do nidras as a way to restore and replenish my body and mind when I can't sleep. Calms my "I have to sleep" monkey mind.
Thank you. This is really great. I especially resonated with the idea of getting into a Delta brainwave state ❤❤❤
Ally, thank you so much, I have done a few of your videos, and found them wonderful. I am also hoping they will start to help with my 24/7 tinnitus... Do you know if there are any books about Yoga Nidra? Thank you again, Jo
Very interesting! Thank you 🙏 ❤
Your voice ❤
I watched this video hoping to learn more concretely how the actual choice of sequence with limbs/spots/centers/channels/nadis etc during the “rotation of consciousness” actually affect the outcome or direction one session has as compared to another. For example I’ve mostly listened to sessions for waking up in the morning, but ofc there are other purposes or types of yoga nidra, and I have tried some others and remarked that they are very similar in detail. Is it that the differences are very subtle or is it more that either type puts you in such a feel good state that it equally helps with waking up as falling asleep or recharging your energy and mood levels? That’s what I was curious about! 😁
I was wondering what are your thoughts on struggling with OCD and the practice of yoga nidra?
Thanks in advance for your response! Sometimes i can reach bliss, sometimes i feel my mind is racing and looping even with pre practices. i feel pretty rested in my physical body and NS but not the mental state…
Namaste
I love your Yoga Nidras! I searched for this because of listing to Andrew Huberman, and you love the science just like he does- you even do physiological sighs! I do the kids one with my boys and they want it every night because they say how much it helps them sleep. I have been doing one on your NSDR playlist in the middle of the day when my toddler naps for a couple months now desperate for something to help me with my severe RLS without meds. I'm not absolutely symptom-free, but some nights I am and the other nights are soooo much better. In fact, there was about a weeklong span that I didn't do it and I really noticed a difference. This is helping me with depression and anxiety and trauma healing. I feel like it's meditation for tired people.
Question though: you have so many videos, where should someone start? What does each type of video offer- like where does it fit/what situations are they best for? 🙏🏻thanks!
I came here by way of Huberman too. Note on that, in his most recent podcast about breathing and their research comparing breath work and mindfulness meditation, he describes how to do the physiological sigh quite differently than Ally does.
I’m now on the sixth time of trying to listen all the way through…..💤💤. Perfect. 😂
Ahhhh, sometimes people can't listen to me talk because it puts them to sleep lol
Thank you Ally for this video. This is the first time I see you up close behind the amazing and soothing voice. ❤❤❤
I’m following you in Insight Meditation app now. 🤩🤩🤩
Keep up with the great work 🙏🙏🙏
You're welcome Allen! Awe, that's great. I love that App. So good :)
can yoga Nidra be given in savasana after Hatha? or is it a different kind of practice?
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Thank you ✨ Ally! I am in module two in training and I love the deep dive into different states of consciousness, brain waves, lucid dreaming, etc. it had always intended me so now I am learning so much more about it. 🤍