Relax Deeply: Reduce Stress To Promote Wellness, Vitality, and Creativity

Discover The Ancient Practice of Yoga Nidra One of the earliest CD recordings of its kind, Relax Deeply is still being used to train teachers in the Yoga Nidra method. Based on the teachings and research of the Bihar School in India, it remains one of the finest recorded examples of this powerful technique.

Relax Deeply is also used to relax patients in pre-op for cancer surgery at the Johns Hopkins, Weinberg Cancer Center in Baltimore, MD, and was included in the recovery program for wounded vets at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.

Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep. The technique is simple: Just lie back and listen while you are guided systematically to a place of profound physical and mental rest. As tension melts away, the body regains its natural state of wellness, and the mind enters that pre-dream state between sleep and consciousness.

Although Yoga Nidra literally means yogic sleep, or sleep of the yogis, it is most effective when a level of conscious awareness is maintained during the practice. It is here in the fertile ground of the subconscious mind that the transformative power of yoga nidra unfolds enabling you to plant the seeds of your life goals at the deepest levels.

Competitive athletes at the international level have long used visualization and auto suggestion techniques to improve focus and performance. Yoga nidra is perhaps the most advanced of these techniques, and it offers the additional benefit of opening the body at a deep muscular level allowing it to heal and grow stronger following training sessions or workouts. You don t have to be an athlete to realize these benefits. Anyone can use this method to reduce stress and improve the quality of his or her life.

Steve Wolf is a long time yoga practitioner and active yoga teacher (E-RYT 500). His popular yoga nidra workshops led to the making of this recording.