YOGA NIDRA

To Listen to the Yoga Nidra for Relaxation, press the play button below
This experience takes about 15 minutes. If you would like a copy , please email me at dwh150@psu.edu and I will send one by return mail.
It is about 6.7Mb in size. You could then download it to your MP3 or Ipod

Here is an explanation of Yoga Nidra.
It is very beneficial as an aid to the new resolutions you may be making at this time. Yoga Nidra, may be rendered in English as "yogic sleep" or "sleep of the yogis". There are numerous traditions of Yoga Nidra . These aspects may include disciplines and traditions of dream, sleep and yoga. Fundamentally, Yoga Nidra is engaged to prepare and refine a sadhaka spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically prior to seeking sublime levels and aspects of consciousness and awareness through meditation, trance and other sadhana not constituted by sleeping and dreamwork. Some information was gleaned from Wikipedia

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The Organic Sutras,

Recorded in English by Taylor Rees.
Four Centre County Locations were chosen for the recordings.
The Four chapters (Padas) of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Patañjali fills each sutra with his experiential intelligence, stretching it like a thread (sutra), and weaving it into a garland of pearls of wisdom to flavour and savour by those who love and live in yoga...

To Listen to Chapter 1 press the play button above about 9 minutes Samadhi Pada - Samadhi refers to a blissful state where the yogi is absorbed into the One. The author describes yoga and then the nature and the means to attaining samadhi.

To Listen to Chapter 2 press the play button above about 9 minutes Sadhana Pada - Sadhana is the Sanskrit word for "practice" or "discipline". Here the author outlines two forms of Yoga: Kriya Yoga (Action Yoga) and Ashtanga Yoga (Eightfold or Eightlimbed Yoga).

To Listen to Chapter 3 press the play button above about 11 minutes Vibhuti Pada - Vibhuti is the Sanskrit word for "power" or "manifestation". 'Supra-normal powers' (Sanskrit: siddhi) are acquired by the practice of yoga

To Listen to Chapter 4 press the play button above about 7 minutes Kaivalya Pada - Kaivalya literally means "isolation", but as used in the Sutras stands for emancipation, liberation and used interchangeably with moksha (liberation), which is the goal of Yoga.