I just released a new 22 minute Guided Meditation/Yoga Nidra on the Dragon Breath Yoga Youtube channel! If you haven't already make sure you subscribe to the channel on Youtube so you receive notifications when future videos are released.

This particular Meditation/Yoga Nidra is intended to help anyone looking for an opportunity to calm their mind and begin to develop a stronger relationship with their intuition. Yoga Nidra, or the art of "Yogic Sleep", is a practice to bring your consciousness to a state existing between that of waking and that of sleep.

Yoga Nidra in general is a great tool for anyone struggling to manage stress or anxiety. You guys know I love science (and if you didn't, now you know! haha) so of course I want to share some scientific sources that support this claim. For example, one study published in the International Journal of Yoga demonstrated that Yoga Nidra was an effective tool for reducing stress levels and both cognitive and physiological symptoms of anxiety (Ferreira-Vorkapic et al., 2018). BAI, BSQ, and HAM-A were used as measures of anxiety for this study and participants who engaged in Yoga Nidra practices were found to have statistically significantly lower measures of stress compared to the control group.

In case you're interested, here is a link to the article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6134749/

And in case you wanted to know what BAI, BSQ, and HAM-A are ...

BAI, or Beck Anxiety Inventory, is a widely used self-reported 21-question multiple-choice evaluation that is used for measuring the severity of anxiety of an individual.

BSQ, or Body Sensations Questionnaire, is a self-reported questionnaire that asks the individual to go through a list of specific body sensations that may occur when they are in a nervous or fearful situation and rate how fearful they are of experiencing these sensations.

HAM-A, or Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, sometimes referred to as HARS, is widely used today in both clinical and research settings. The scale consists of 14 items, each defined by a series of symptoms, and measures both psychic anxiety (mental agitation and psychological distress) and somatic anxiety (physical complaints related to anxiety).

Reference: Hamilton M. The assessment of anxiety states by rating. Br J Med Psychol 1959; 32:50–55.