The Fall Equinox, when the light and the dark make up equal parts of the day, marks the beginning of the harvesting and composting phases of the year. References Yoga International, Light on Yoga BKS Iyengar, Yoga as Medicine Timothy Mcall.Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!įor the Fall Equinox, Yin Yoga teacher Danielle March offers a practice to help you gain some perspective and insight on your own summer growth. Would the sun on rising be more radiant and Or would these be the more passionate of this world Would these be the more troubled of humanity They came, each one to tell their stories What if there were old women fearful if they slept they would dieĪnd fathers, mothers worried about paying bills Who could not sleep at two or three or four in the morning There is a great one by Jennifer Percy, Yoga Nidra for Sleep Insight Timer Light: This app has lots of mediations on it. His voice is very soporific.Ħ1 Point mediation: Similar to Nidra in that it is a progressive relaxation technique following the points of the body. Rod does a combination of 31/61 points of light meditation with Nidra. Gaia TV is another you could look at also. My favourite Nidra mediations are Rod Stryker: Yoga Nidra on Yoga Glo. 20 minutes of yoga nidra is said to be work 2 hours of deep restful sleep. It takes the person into a state between consciousness and sleep. Nidra pronounced NID- Ra, is a 2000 year old practice known to calm the nervous system. It is also thought that lying on your right side in bed will naturally activate left nostril breathing. The left side is our yin, or calming side. eg inhale for the count of 3 exhale for the count of 6īreath only through your left nostril for ten rounds. What you are trying to do is increase the length of the exhale to double that of the inhale without strain.Įstablish a steady 1:2 ratio of inhale and exhale. Slow breathing with an emphasis on increasing the exhale Breath in for four, out for four ( x2) Breath in for 4 out for 6, breath in for four out for 8. When you do it choose a time where it relaxes you, after work is good.Yoga Nidra is good for the pm slump. Hold each pose from 5-20 minutes or just do one pose plus the pranayama or mediation. If something has not been digested properly then it will rise to the surface when we least expect us, keeping us awake at night.įocus on Forward folds, inversions and supported poses. Physical (undigested food), mental ( undigested thoughts) or emotional (undigested emotions). Slow deep breathing increases the CO2 in the body which is a natural sedative.Meditation has also been shown to increase the relaxation response in a number of studies.Īyurveda, the sister science of yoga, says that all problems are due to some form of indigestion. Yoga asana helps by relaxing the muscles in the body. So, to go to sleep we need to relax first as opposed to sleeping to relax. This perception puts their nervous system into a state of sympathetic arousal. they go to sleep and then wake up) do not have more stressful lives than others but they perceive their life as more stressful. Roger Cole in the book ‘Yoga as Medicine’ says, research indicates that people who have difficulty with sleep maintenance ( i.e. The practice of yoga is also the practice of mastery of the mind in that if thoughts are keeping us awake at night with mental gymnastics we need to develop a practice to address these issues. Interestingly it was found that if you got less than 5 hours sleep a night on a regular basis you were more likely to be heavier than those who ate more and slept more. The ancient yogi seers classified sleep as one of the four fountains for survival (sleep, sex, food and self preservation) and if sleep is out of balance we tend to over compensate with one of the other fountains E.G. Not for him who eats too much or for him who eats too little not for him who sleeps too little or for him who sleeps too much. The Bhagavad Gita offers, Yoga is harmony. Balance in how we interact with ourselves and others, balance in what we eat, think and do and ultimately balance in how much we sleep as opposed to how much we wake.
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