When I first started practicing yoga nidra, my friends thought I had joined a cult. It wasn't an absurd leap. Yoga nidra requires lying on your mat with your eyes closed while an instructor recites a ...

Yoga nidra is a form of guided relaxation that can be highly restorative, which can feel "as much as a full night's sleep in a fraction of the time," said certified yoga instructor Rachel Cowan. It's ...

WHEN I started practicing yoga, the idea of final rest at the end of practice was my main motivation. I loved lying on my mat when a long day and challenging practice were done. I dreaded the moment ...

Instructor: Sharon Harvey Alexander, of Boulder, a yoga therapist, yoga nidra facilitator, holistic stress management educator and wellness consultant. She has a background in nutrition work in ...

Laying on mats, piling on blankets and laying small pillows over their eyes to block out any light, a group assembled on the floor of the Easton Yoga Center looks more prepared for a good night sleep ...

Drew Barnett of Journey Through Flow, a virtual yoga studio, leads an online immersion designed to help participants reset ...

Yoga therapist and poet Kathleen Kraft will offer a yoga nidra class at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Berkshire Athenaeum. Sponsored by the Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum, the class is free.