New Year’s Day Pranayama & Yoga Nidra

New Year’s Day Pranayama & Yoga Nidra
6pm – RSVP Required – By Donation
Nataraja School of Traditional Yoga
Contact Kara @ 707.235.1413, sunyogadance@gmail.com

Join me in opening our heart space through yogic practices while setting our intentions for the new year and giving thanks for all the blessings in our life.

Yoga Nidra is an experience of expanded awareness in a state of deep relaxation, promoting parasympathetic dominance. Practiced lying down in savasana with guided verbal instructions that occupy the mind as the body relaxes, we shift into pratyahara (sense withdrawal) – remaining a witness, awake and aware, we move into a subtle state of deep conscious sleep (the state between wakefulness and sleep). We work through levels of the unconscious and subconscious, removing energetic blockages.

This experience is a powerful way to set our intention for the new year and plant it’s seeds with our Sankalpa (Resolve, Resolution, Force of Will) which is established during yoga nidra. When our mind is calm and quiet during yoga nidra it is more receptive and sensitive to our intentions as they are impressed on the subconscious mind.

We will begin with a peace chant, calming & subtle evening yogic breathing practices including mantra pranayama – breathing practices with chanting or rumination on the Om & internal sound current – nada) before the yoga nidra practice.