Yoga Nidra - journey into true relaxation

Find out the details on upcoming Yoga Nidra Journeys.

Karlin Frew

Oct 03, 2024

Sunday 27th July

Join this next 9-Stage Yoga Nidra Journey in Poneke/Wellington at the beautiful Wellington Meditation Centre.

WHEN: Sunday 27th July
TIME: 10.30 am - 12 pm
WHERE: Wellington Meditation Centre
COST: $40.00

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During a Yoga Nidra Journey, you can expect to be led through the following:

Easeful yoga asana flow to warm up the body and activate the subtle energetic fields
Simple Breath practice/Pranayama to get connected to how you are feeling
9-stage Yoga Nidra Journey - guided extended 9-stage practice including ‘Story’.
Soundscape to enable connection back into the day - this could be shamanic sound journey or more resonant biurnal sounds.

Yoga Nidra is the most powerful tool to shift yourself into a natural state of peace and calmness, release tensions and cultivate contentment and creativity. Suitable for all levels.

Hawkes Bay Yoga Festival - Napier

Napier War Memorial, Marine Parade

What else could be better than an entire weekend of yoga options to pick and choose from? Come and indulge. Saturday 30th + Sunday 31st August 2025.
I personally will be holding a Warrior Grace flow class and Yoga Nidra Journey.

Yoga Nidra Journey: Deep Rest for Real Change

What if rest wasn’t a luxury, but a portal to clarity, healing, and nervous system recalibration? Yoga Nidra is where deep rest meets inner awareness and potential transformation.
Saturday 30th August.

Warrior Grace

A soulful, breath-led yoga flow, especially nourishing for women navigating menopause, yet equally supportive for anyone seeking to move with more grace, strength and presence. You’re invited to slow down, feel your inner strength and notice how movement and breath unfold within you; connecting to the quiet intelligence of your body.
Sunday 31st August.

Find out all the details and buy tickets here

A Yoga Nidra Journey: Coming Home to Yourself

If you long to feel more at ease, more connected, and more you, a Yoga Nidra Journey offers a space to recalibrate. You’ll leave feeling deeply restored, with a renewed sense of inner peace and clarity.

Each session is a unique experience, yet every journey guides you through a blend of ancient practices—gentle movement, breathwork, and deep sensory withdrawal—leading seamlessly into a soundscape designed to ease your return to daily life.

Yoga Nidra is more than relaxation; it’s a powerful gateway to self-discovery.
You access a state where transformation happens effortlessly through guided visualisations and story-based meditation.

Stress patterns held in the body and mind begin to dissolve, allowing you to return
to your natural state of balance. If you’ve been carrying mental tension, emotional overwhelm, or physical discomfort, this practice helps awaken your body's innate healing intelligence.

If sleep challenges disrupt your life, Yoga Nidra can offer the equivalent of 2–4 hours of deep sleep in just one session. And if you already feel at peace in your world, this practice amplifies inspiration, creativity, and emotional resilience.

With regular practice, you’ll uncover deeper insights, expand your creative potential, and experience a profound sense of wholeness. By weaving the power of Story into deep relaxation, this approach nurtures your imagination, enhances problem-solving, and supports emotional processing in a safe and nourishing way.

Yoga Nidra is an invitation to rest, to listen, and to reconnect with the essence of you.

Some unique benefits of a Yoga Nidra Journey include:

1. Deep Rewiring of Subconscious Patterns

Unlike regular meditation, Yoga Nidra taps into the subconscious and unconscious mind, helping to release deep-seated emotional patterns, limiting beliefs, and stress responses stored in the nervous system.

2. Supports Brainwave Shifts for Healing

Yoga Nidra guides you from beta (thinking state) to alpha, theta, and even delta brainwaves, where deep healing and cellular repair occur. This state is often associated with enhanced creativity, intuition, and neuroplasticity.

3. Enhances Emotional Resilience & Facilitates Trauma Relief

Regular practice of Yoga Nidra has been shown to reduce PTSD symptoms and
stored trauma by gently allowing suppressed emotions to surface and integrate without overwhelm.

4. Mimics from 2 to 4 Hours of Sleep in 30 Minutes

Because Yoga Nidra slows brainwave activity and deeply relaxes the body, it can provide the restorative benefits of up to 4 hours of sleep in just one session, making it powerful for sleep-deprived professionals.

5. Strengthens the Endocrine & Immune System

Yoga Nidra supports hormonal balance, immune function and menopause well-being by nourishing the nervous system to reduce cortisol (stress hormone) and activate the parasympathetic nervous system response for rest-digest and heal.

6. Enhances Learning & Memory Retention

Since the mind is in a highly receptive state (theta brainwaves), Yoga Nidra can improve memory, focus, and information retention, making it great for lifelong learners and professionals.

7. Activates the Body’s Natural Anti-Ageing Process

Deep relaxation boosts the production of human growth hormone (HGH), which supports cellular regeneration, skin repair, and longevity.

8. Balances Left & Right Brain Hemispheres

By activating both hemispheres of the brain, Yoga Nidra promotes cognitive clarity, emotional balance, and a sense of wholeness, making it a powerful tool for decision-making and intuition.

9. Enhances Spiritual Awareness Without Effort

Because Yoga Nidra takes you into a borderline sleep state, it naturally creates a gateway to expanded awareness, deep insight, and even mystical experiences.
without requiring extensive meditation training.

10. Deepens Your Connection to Sankalpa (Intention Setting)

The relaxed yet aware state of Yoga Nidra supercharges affirmations and intentions, making it one of the most powerful practices for reprogramming habits, behaviours, and life direction.

RECENT RESEARCH ON THE EFFECTS OF YOGA NIDRA

Clinical studies have shown that yoga nidra meditation is associated with positive physiological changes, including improvements in several haematological variables, red blood cell counts, blood glucose levels, and hormonal status. Two neuroimaging studies have shown that yoga nidra produces changes in endogenous dopamine release and cerebral blood flow, a further confirmation that its effects on the CNS are objectively measurable.

Why should I try Yoga Nidra?

Simply put, Yoga Nidra is "a systematic method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation". Modernised by Swami Satyananda from the Bihar School of Yoga, Yoga Nidra is designed to help us to thrive in our current hectic city/materialistic lifestyles.

Living our best, fast-paced lives, we are all constantly in an activated state of 'fight or flight' even at lower levels - and we have become somewhat numb to this phenomenon, as our super busy lifestyles require us to be 'on' a lot more than we are naturally adept at being.

This overstimulated state, of being in the sympathetic nervous system response, is indicated as a contributing cause to a variety of health challenges, including but not limited to:

chronic stress disorders
fatigue
immune issues
emotional and socio-behavioural issues, which we have normalised to cope with life.

Yoga Nidra is accessing 'the state of deep relaxation with inner awareness'. It is simple to undertake and offers profound changes to the physical, mental and emotional body.

The yogi lies or sits comfortably and keeps a light awareness on the instructions of the yoga guide. It can be practiced by anyone, it has many benefits and is well supported by science and research.