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Yoga Nidra
Recharge your batteries and experience bliss states by doing nothing
Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra helps you to relax. Not through entertainment, substances, mobile phone use, etc., but rather in a natural way. This tantric relaxation technique can reach deep levels of consciousness and make them accessible for you even outside of the sessions.
By allowing yourself to fall into a sleep-like inner calm, you learn to deal with your own feelings and emotions differently: If you imagine that difficult emotions are just undirected energy, you can use Yoga Nidra to become a guiding star for them.
You don’t even need to move during yoga nidra, as the entire practice takes place in savasana (lying on your back). If you fall asleep during the practice, it’s no big deal, because similar to autogenic training, yoga nidra can even support you while you sleep.
The deep relaxation of yoga nidra can relieve chronic pain, reduce inflammation, restore balance in the body and help you to look at things differently, from the perspective of a loving, neutral observer. It stabilizes the nervous system, alleviates stress and promotes inner peace, clarity and resilience. You may even find that you are less judgmental and attached in your everyday life and are generally more joyful and confident.
Arthritis and fibromyalgia, back pain, high blood pressure, headaches, anxiety, depression, PTSD, heart disease, atherosclerosis, arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, insomnia, diabetes, thyroid disease can also be alleviated through regular use of Yoga Nidra.
Yoga Nidra works on 4 different levels: Body, emotions, mind and subconscious. Tension and stress dissolve as if by magic.
In Yoga Nidra, we primarily work with body awareness and the breath. The mind has a break for the time being. Your subconscious does all the work for you.
The following 8 steps are part of classic Yoga Nidra:
- Preparation: Relaxation phase with focus on breath
- Sankalpa: a kind of affirmation of how you would like to be or something you would like to live in life.
- Body Scan: consciously focusing on all parts of the body one after the other-
- Breath Awareness: let yourself be called even deeper into the now.
- Playing with pairs of opposites: free yourself from old reaction patterns.
- Visualization: use strong inner images and by doing so release deep-seated fears.
- Inner silence and deep calm: doing nothing and letting everything happen.
- Repeating the Sankalpa and ending the practice: you are closer to your new self.
And don’t worry: you don’t have to remember any of this and you don’t have to actively think anything anyway, just listen. Listen, lie still and – for the best effect – stay as awake as possible, that’s all you need to do. 🙂
Similar to Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra also has the effect of making many people feel reborn.
Why Yoga Nidra?
Joy S.
Yoga Nidra has been calling me from the very beginning: I don't need to do anything at all and this is precisely how I can create the deepest and most intense states of happiness within myself so that they can be carried out into the world.
I love the individual steps of yoga nidra because I notice more and more how my mind slowly relaxes and switches off in a very special way: It is simply kept busy all the time until it says on its own: "Okay, enough. You don't need me right now. You're safe."
So far, my mind has always come back after the session 😉 But with a feeling of deeper calm, relaxation, confidence and contentment.
I would like to not only feel these blissful states in combination with inner peace myself, but also let you experience them. That's why I teach Yoga Nidra.
Level 1: Beginners and Advanced
Yoga Nidra is all about you and your experience with yourself. And at the same time, we also make ourselves comfortable as a group: we each tune into our common field – through a short sharing round and through movement beforehand. This makes it much easier for us to go into the stillness and immobility of yoga nidra afterwards. We start this practice in the early evening to make it easier for us to stay awake and alert during the session.
We will take up a different topic each time: For example, Yoga Nidra for falling asleep faster, for more freedom and less jealousy, for more confidence in life, for inviting greater financial abundance. I will announce the topics in advance on the YouMeUnity Telegram channel or choose them spontaneously during the sessions depending on the energy in the room. If there is a particular topic that is close to your heart, I look forward to receiving your impulse by email.
We won’t talk much after the sessions so that you can stay in this wonderful state of bliss for as long as possible.
Yoga Nidra takes place 6 times a year on Wednesdays, 3 times exclusively for women and 3 times in a mixed group (see dates below).
Our seminars are usually held in German. As soon as someone from another country is present who does not understand German, we switch to bilingual (German and English).
Location: YouMeUnity Heidelberg, Hauptstraße 119, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Your contribution: regular € 43 per session, reduced € 25, sponsorship ticket € 55.
Annual ticket for women (6 sessions): € 200 (instead of € 258), reduced € 100 (instead of € 150), sponsorship ticket € 400 (instead of € 330 🙂 ).
3-ticket (open to all) – for 3 sessions per year:
€ 100 (instead of € 129), reduced € 50 (instead of € 75), sponsorship ticket € 150 (instead of € 165).
We find solutions for real financial emergencies, because nobody should be excluded just because of money! And by the way: If it is your birthday, you can join for free.
Facilitator: Joy S. Hochgesang
Registration: info@youmeunity.com
Bring along: Water bottle (you can refill it at any time with our Heidelberg spring water), (optional) yoga mat
Time: 18:15-20:15 (arrival from 18:00), optional time for tracing and connecting until 21:00.
I am really looking forward to BEING together. 🙂
All dates for Yoga Nidra for 2025
Wed, 22.1.25 (women only)
Wed, 5.3.25 (mixed group)
Wed, 16.4.25 (women only)
Wed, 30.7.25 (mixed group)
Wed, 15.10.25 (women only)
Wed, 17.12.25 (mixed group)