The Hypnagogic State
Between waking and sleep, the brain enters a state of exceptional receptivity. Intentions and new patterns are absorbed without resistance — below the level of logic and willpower.
Yoga Nidra
Quiet change within.
Learn a practice that calms your nervous system, restores deep rest, and helps you bring more presence into everyday life.
Online Course · Coming Soon
We try to change through effort. More discipline. More willpower. More thinking.
But the patterns that shape us — the way we react, the thoughts that loop, the tension we carry — do not live in the thinking mind. They live deeper. Yoga Nidra reaches that place.
Nervous System Reset
Yoga Nidra shifts the body from sympathetic (stress) to parasympathetic (rest) activation. Blood pressure lowers, cortisol drops, and the body learns how to truly let go.
Threefold Release
Modern science identifies three layers of tension — muscular, emotional, and mental. Yoga Nidra works systematically through all three, where ordinary rest cannot reach.
Coming Soon
The Yoga Nidra Course
A library of recorded Yoga Nidra sessions you can lie down with whenever the day asks too much of you. When it opens, those on the waiting list will hear first.
What the practice supports
- ✦Sleep that returns on its own
- ✦A nervous system that learns to settle
- ✦Rest deeper than sleeping
- ✦Less anxiety, more space
- ✦Steadier emotional ground
- ✦Recovery from long stress
What to expect
Professionally recorded Yoga Nidra practices you can return to at any hour, in your own room, at your own pace.
How to use the course
Separate recordings for sleep, for anxious days, for deep rest, and for working with sankalpa — your own heartfelt intention.
A beginning for beginners
Clear guidance on what Yoga Nidra is, how to lie down, what to expect, and why nothing you feel is wrong.
Why this course
One practice, taught deeply — in the same voice and the same spirit as the live workshops, recorded slowly and carefully.
Course structure
A gentle sequence: understanding first, then guided practice, then a library you can keep returning to for years.
What is Yoga Nidra
A state of conscious deep rest
Yoga Nidra is the threshold between waking and sleep — where the body relaxes completely while awareness remains awake. An ancient practice, refined over centuries, now studied by modern neuroscience.
In this state the mind becomes extraordinarily receptive. Tension held in the muscles, emotions, and thoughts begins to dissolve — not through effort, but through awareness. A single session can provide rest equivalent to several hours of ordinary sleep.
It is at once profoundly simple and profoundly transformative.
“Relaxation does not mean sleep. Relaxation means to be blissfully happy. Sleep gives only mind and sense relaxation. Yoga Nidra relaxes the inner self.”
— Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Practiced regularly, it does not just relax you. It gently rewrites what is underneath.
Our habits, reactions and inner narratives are not stored in the conscious mind. They live in the subconscious — where willpower cannot reach. This is why so much personal change feels like pushing against a wall.
Yoga Nidra works precisely at this layer. Through the practice, the mind enters a state of profound receptivity, where new intentions, patterns, and impressions can be planted and old ones gently released.
Daily Practice
A quiet place in every day
A mat unrolled by a window. A blanket folded at the end of the day. The practice asks for very little room.
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As a Standalone Practice
Twenty minutes of Yoga Nidra can restore the body more deeply than several hours of ordinary sleep. A practice you can return to whenever you need to reset.
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To Complete Your Yoga Practice
The final integration of any yoga session. Where asana releases the body and pranayama settles the breath, Yoga Nidra integrates everything into stillness.
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For Stress, Sleep, and Anxiety
A direct tool to calm an overactive nervous system. Used regularly, it restores natural sleep, eases anxiety, and creates a felt sense of safety in the body.
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To Work with Sankalpa
A short, heartfelt intention planted at the deepest level of the mind. This is how Yoga Nidra becomes a vehicle for real, lasting change.
Workshops
Occasional live gatherings
Alongside the course, Megie holds occasional in-person workshops — seasonal, pop-up sessions in changing locations. They are not the heart of the offering; they are an invitation to experience Yoga Nidra in a shared room, guided live.
They are announced through the newsletter, whenever the next one finds its place and date.
Curious to know more?Different places, different seasons
Each gathering takes place somewhere new — a studio, a retreat space, a quiet room borrowed for an afternoon.
The practice, in person
Gentle movement, breath, a little of the science, and a full guided Yoga Nidra — experienced in a shared room rather than alone.
Announced by letter
Dates are shared through the newsletter first. There is no fixed calendar; when one opens, subscribers hear about it.
FAQ
Questions, answered quietly
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“Once you understand it,
it belongs to you forever.”
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Letters from the stillness
Occasional notes on rest, the nervous system, and the practice — plus the first word when the Yoga Nidra course opens and when a workshop is announced.
Guided by Megie Santana — warm, precise teaching of one practice, deeply, so you can carry it into your life.