Yoga Nidra: Practice and Scripts
The honest history of yogic sleep, its eight stages, and eight original guided scripts from 10 to 40 minutes, to read aloud or record
Understand where yoga nidra really comes from, from the sleep of Viṣṇu to Swami Satyananda's method at Munger, and practise it with eight complete scripts written for this book: 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 minutes, one for falling asleep, one seated, one for a heavy day. You also learn to write your saṅkalpa, know who should be careful, and read what the research really shows, with every study checked on PubMed.
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PDF of 35 pages, readable on any phone, tablet or computer, printable in A4 or Letter.
With 2 h 43 min of guided audio, 8 tracks · synthetic voice (ElevenLabs)
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Inside the book
- Origins: what the texts say, and what is modern
- The stages of yoga nidra
- Settling in: posture, place and voice
- Who should be careful
- Scripts 1 to 3: ten, fifteen and twenty minutes
- Scripts 4 and 5: thirty and forty minutes
- Script 6: for falling asleep
- Script 7: a short seated practice
- Script 8: for a heavy day
- Writing your saṅkalpa
- What the research says
- Recap, Sanskrit glossary and sources
Who it is for
- Anyone who wants a deep, simple practice of rest, lying down or seated
- People who sleep badly and want a gentle evening routine alongside medical advice
- Yoga practitioners who want the real history behind yoga nidra, without myths
- Teachers who need complete, original scripts to read in class
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Chapters
Guided audio narrated with a synthetic voice (ElevenLabs). Sanskrit recitation checked line by line.
Read the transcript
Yoga nidra. A short extract.
Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Arrange the body so that you will not need to move… Let the arms rest a little away from the body, palms turned up… Let the feet fall outwards… Close your eyes.
Tell yourself silently: I am going to practise yoga nidra. I will stay awake and listen.
Become aware of the sounds around you. The farthest sounds… then sounds a little closer… then sounds in this room. Let them come and go.
Feel the body lying on the floor. The places where it touches the ground: the back of the head… the shoulders… the elbows and hands… the hips… the backs of the legs… the heels.
Now bring to mind your saṅkalpa, your resolve. One short sentence, in the present. Repeat it silently three times, with feeling.
We begin the rotation of consciousness. Let your attention go to each part as it is named. Do not move it. Just feel it.
Right hand… right thumb… index finger… middle finger… ring finger… little finger… palm… back of the hand… wrist… forearm… elbow… upper arm… shoulder… right side of the chest… right side of the waist… right hip… right thigh… knee… shin… ankle… heel… sole of the foot… top of the foot… right big toe… all the toes.
This was the beginning of Script 1, from Yoga Nidra: Practice and Scripts, on yogide.com. The full practice continues with the whole body, the breath, the images and the return.
Before you buy
What exactly do I get?
A PDF you download right after payment; the link is also emailed to you. PDF of 35 pages, readable on any phone, tablet or computer, printable in A4 or Letter.
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Which language is it in?
This edition is in English. Yogide also publishes it in French.
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Is the Sanskrit translation yours?
Quotations of the ancient texts are either our own translations or public-domain editions, always named. We never copy a modern copyrighted translation.
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