Yoga Nidra

If you are feeling wired but tired, Yoga Nidra fosters the rest necessary to sustain high-level performance and emotional clarity. It is a powerful practice that helps you learn to reclaim your attention and redirect it toward what matters most to you. 

Yoga Nidra is a systematic process for reaching deep rest while the mind remains alert. This practice allows the system to reach a calm state without active effort. 

Note: Virtual Yoga Nidra coaching is a wellness and educational service, not psychotherapy, and is offered separately from clinical care. 

Yoga Nidra is practiced in a completely supported position: lying down, reclined, or seated. You can use blankets, bolsters, cushions, and pillows to foster a sense of ease and deep comfort. Your eyes can be closed, or remain open, which is a trauma-informed option. 

Yoga Nidra is a wellness practice that can be highly effective for trauma and stress. Trauma-informed Yoga Nidra uses modifications and language that keep you within your comfort zone. Practiced over time, Yoga Nidra can help you learn to relax into yourself, without feeling overwhelmed or losing focus. 

When used in an integrative therapy approach to treating trauma, dissociation, and compulsive and addictive behaviors, Yoga Nidra restores your connection to yourself. It interrupts the cycle of stress and distraction through a deep internal reset. This process helps you move away from repetitive habits and return to a clear, steady sense of self. 

Synergy with Trauma Therapy

Using Yoga Nidra with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps you maintain awareness and equilibrium. This integrative approach supports a steady internal environment, allowing you to more easily process difficult material without feeling overwhelmed or shut down. Adding Yoga Nidra to trauma and addiction recovery supports the therapeutic work. 

Yoga Nidra can act as a strong support for EMDR and IFS, providing the physiological rest and grounding that help deep psychological work integrate without overwhelm. 

Synergy with Talk Therapy

Talk therapy works with thoughts and behaviors; Yoga Nidra works with the tension those patterns leave in the body. Deep rest makes it easier to feel safe and to act on what therapy has made clear. It bridges cognitive understanding with a tangible shift in how you feel. 

Yoga Nidra and Technology Overuse

Many adults come to Yoga Nidra for the exhaustion that follows a day spent on screens; the practice offers the settled, device-free rest that pattern rarely allows. For those whose main concern is technology itself, The Technology Treatment Practice provides dedicated care, including Mindful Screen Use for Adults: A 10-Week Online Therapy Group. Current cohort dates and enrollment details are on the group page.