“I want to share some ideas about yoga nidra with you because I feel that it is important that we try to understand yoga nidra in a greater perspective. Although I have been calling yoga nidra psychic sleep, I have come to believe that it is more than that.The consciousness assumes different forms during waking, dreaming and sleeping. In the raja yoga of Patanjali we call these forms vrittis or patterns of consciousness. The formation of consciousness is called awareness. Sleep is one type of awareness; memory is another. Similarly, yoga nidra is a very important form of awareness.In the raja
