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10-Minute Yoga Nidra Practice to Stress Less

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Yahoo!  Yoga Journal has featured an excerpt from my latest book!   Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief (NHP 2015).

Click here for the 10-minute Yoga Nidra Practice to Stress Less 

Easy Does It is a 10-minute relaxation practice to rest well and beat anxiety.  During it, an inner sanctuary of peace and calm is quickly and easily achieved using relaxation techniques and guided imagery. Your personal sanctuary can also be recalled during stressful times to give you real relief.

You’ll also be able to enroll in Yoga Journal’s Yoga for Stress and Anxiety online course.  It’s a six-week course that’ll make a lasting change in the way you work, love, and live.

Get the whole book here.

Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation & Stress Relief - Printed Book & Audio download
Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation & Stress Relief - Printed Book & Audio download
If you feel stressed out, you’re not alone. Stress is a modern-day epidemic that can take a toll on your mind, body, and spirit. That’s why it’s so important to develop relaxation skills to restore your health, happiness, and inner strength. Yoga Nidra—a powerful and unique state of deep relaxation, mental clarity, and insightful awareness—is the answer. In this book, mind-body health professional Julie Lusk presents a powerful Yoga Nidra program to stop stress in its tracks. Yoga Nidra, based on classical yoga and backed by contemporary science, focuses specifically on alleviating both mental and physical manifestations of stress so you can find your calm spot and live a more balanced, confident, and meaningful life. Packed with empowering relaxation exercises, meditations that soothe, and visualizations that renew, the practical exercises in this book will help you unwind, replenish, and feel revitalized with durable peace and unconditional joy. CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more...
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Yoga Nidra Stories

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Please helpShavasana.  The clock is ticking.  My next book, “Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief” is due at the publishers Oct. 1, 2014.

You can help by sharing your stories about your Yoga Nidra experiences down below.  Your stories add a special depth like nobody else can and might be included in the book.

I’m interested in knowing things like what you like about yoga nidra?  How has it helped you?  What is your experience with using a resolve – a sankalpa.

Feel free to add anything else you would like to share, including what you would like to see in this book.

Thanks in advance!

Guided Relaxation & its Benefits

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Relaxing regularly and deeply is the perfect remedy to conquer stress.

The World Health Organization predicts that stress-related disorders and psychological disorders will be the second leading cause of disabilities in the world by 2020.

The good news is that we can each take action to prevent and/or cope with stress. It’s time to take stress seriously and learn to do things that really release stress and result in reducing muscular tension, regulating blood pressure and even relieving pain.

 

Is rest and relaxation a waste of time? Hardly!

  • Isaac Newton made his breakthrough discovery on gravity while he was relaxing and watching apples fall from trees.
  • Archimedes had his “eureka” moment in the bath tub.
  • Albert Einstein was asked how he discovered the theory of relativity. He said, “I didn’t discover it.  I meditated and it revealed itself.”
    • Einstein also said, “Play is the best research.”
    • “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Let’s define Guided Relaxation. It is a valuable tool for your stress relief toolbox.

The secret to gaining relaxed energy is to clear away the mental ruckus and emotional debris to make room for clear thinking. One of the easiest ways of doing this is through relaxing the muscular tension held in the body by tensing and releasing muscle groups throughout your body using a reliable technique known as progressive muscular relaxation. Doing so not only releases physical tension, it also teaches you the felt difference between tension and relaxation. By knowing this, you can catch physical tension early on and before it causes painful headaches, back problems and digestive trouble. A calming effect for the body, mind, emotions and spirit is awakened as well.

Progressive muscle relaxation, conscious breathing, creative visualization and guided imagery techniques are powerful techniques that are often incorporated into guided relaxation exercises.

Summary of Benefits

Guided relaxation will:

  • Improve immunity
  • Lower Stress
  • Feel more refreshed; especially when you need it most
  • Cellular rejuvenation and repair
  • Better sleep
  • More energy
  • Greater mental clarity while reducing worry
  • Increase creativity
  • Enhance problem-solving and intuition
  • Extra stamina and endurance
  • More productivity
  • Relieve pain
  • Improve your outlook
  • Better overall health
  • And more!

Enjoy recorded guided relaxation & imagery on CD here.

Come to a guided relaxation & imagery workshop.  See your choices here.

Take a 2-hour Power Nap in 10 Minutes

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Trouble sleeping? Insomnia is at epidemic proportions and has dreadful consequences.  A few problems associated with inadequate sleep include feeling irritable, exhausted, lowered immunity, poor mental / emotional health, and heart disease.

Relaxing regularly and deeply is the perfect remedy to conquer stress.  The World Health Organization predicts that stress-related disorders and psychological disorders will be the second leading cause of disabilities in the world by 2020.

Guided Relaxation is another tool for your stress relief toolbox. The secret to gaining relaxed energy is to clear away the mental ruckus and emotional debris to make room for clear thinking. One of the easiest ways of doing this is through relaxing the muscular tension held in the body by tensing and releasing muscle groups throughout your body using a reliable technique known as progressive muscular relaxation.  Doing so not only releases physical tension, it also teaches you the felt difference between tension and relaxation. By knowing this, you can catch physical tension early on and before it causes painful headaches, back problems and digestive trouble.  A calming effect for the body, mind, emotions and spirit is awakened as well.

→ Listen to Take 10 free of charge. It’s an excerpt from the Power Napper eBook by Julie Lusk that includes relaxing and refreshing exercises.

Take a FREE 2-Hour Nap in 10 Minutes Now!

Click on the Picture.

  • Shop here for mind-body exercises such as deep relaxation and yoga nidra, guided imagery, and meditation in Julie Lusk’s books and CDs.  

Yoga Nidra for Stress Relief book ~~ On the Way!

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Here’s how it all happened ~~ thanks to my lucky stars!

Last February, while I was teaching at Sivananda/Bahamas, I had my Vedic astrology chart read by Krishna Das. This was a fiThumbs Up!rst for me.

After describing me better than my own Mother could, he went on to say that the stars and planets and moon were lining up in May exactly as it was when I was born as well as at the age of 30. He said it was going to be a very productive time for me and would bring with it writing, teaching, learning, traveling and such.

I questioned him about the areas that I might concentrate on and gave him a list of things I’m interested in.

Right away, he said that yoga nidra would fit in perfectly with my chart. Next, I asked if I should pursue opportunities and he replied that would not be needed since opportunities would find me.

Can you only imagine the look on my face when I got an email “out of the blue” in May from New Harbinger Publications asking me if I would like to write a book for them on … Yoga Nidra for Stress Relief!  Yoga Nidra is the totally relaxing and deeply healing aspect of yoga.

After checking them out and doing some discernment and soul-searching, I agreed. Next, they wanted a book summary, outline, authors bio, and a couple sample chapters. That took me a few months.  The contract has now been finalized!

Could you please help me?  Something that will really help the book come alive are stories.   Would you be willing to share what Yoga Nidra feels like for you?  Do you have a Yoga Nidra story about how it has helped you in some way?  If so, please send them to me. 

Why wait until the book and the new audios are released (it takes a long time).  To celebrate, my Real Relaxation: Yoga Nidra CD is on sale for $5 off.  This special offer is valid during December 2013.

Here is a (pdf) FAQ sheet on Yoga Nidra on

1) What is Yoga Nidra?

2) Is it different than meditation and hypnosis?

3)  How it is done.  How often.

4) Benefits

5) Resources.

ENJOY!

 

 

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