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 ...

‘Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets, trying to find you.” So say magnets on display at the Breathing Room yoga studio in Harvard Square. It needn’t look far.

Insomnia, smoking and sugar consumption were struggles that caused 50-year-old Allan Cox to feel restless and unhealthy. Then he started a yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, practice. Within several months, ...

I tried yoga nidra, a sort of guided meditation that invites you into the state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. It feels more accessible than many meditation practices, since it's ...

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 ...

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.