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Yoga Nidra: Sleep Naturally
With Shireen ChadaTossing, turning, clock glowing—can't sleep, can't stay asleep, can't get back to sleep? Learn the missing skill: wakeful rest—teaching your body to deeply relax while your mind stays gently aware, so sleep can arrive on its own. No forcing, no pills, no struggle. Through the time-honored practice of Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep), I guide you lying down—clear cues, no effort. This isn't seated meditation or breathwork; it's a nervous-system training that helps at bedtime and during those dreaded 3 a.m. wake-ups. You'll come away with tools you can use in silence, without your phone: a calming breath pattern, a traditional body scan to melt tension, a one-line sankalpa (intention) to recondition your relationship with sleep, and a short self-guided sleep template you can run anywhere. I built this from what finally worked for me after years of restless nights. Your body remembers how to rest—this course shows it the way home. Learn to rest, and let sleep find you.
Learn wakeful rest. Stop fighting sleep and let it find you.
About this course
Tossing, turning, clock glowing—can't sleep, can't stay asleep, can't get back to sleep? Learn the missing skill: wakeful rest—teaching your body to deeply relax while your mind stays gently aware, so sleep can arrive on its own. No forcing, no pills, no struggle. Through the time-honored practice of Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep), I guide you lying down—clear cues, no effort. This isn't seated meditation or breathwork; it's a nervous-system training that helps at bedtime and during those dreaded 3 a.m. wake-ups. You'll come away with tools you can use in silence, without your phone: a calming breath pattern, a traditional body scan to melt tension, a one-line sankalpa (intention) to recondition your relationship with sleep, and a short self-guided sleep template you can run anywhere. I built this from what finally worked for me after years of restless nights. Your body remembers how to rest—this course shows it the way home. Learn to rest, and let sleep find you.
Meet your Teacher
Shireen Chada has devoted more than three decades and over 20,000 hours to deep meditative practice, walking the path from seeking to knowing. Trained with the Brahma Kumaris, she discovered that meditation isn’t merely something one does—it’s something one becomes. Through Yoga Nidra and sleep-based meditation, Shireen guides others into the art of conscious rest, where the mind unwinds, the body restores itself, and the soul remembers its natural peace. Whether someone has struggled to fall asleep, wakes in the night with a busy mind, or simply longs to rest more deeply, her practices offer an invitation to let go. In her teachings, Yoga Nidra reveals the sacred art of surrender—where sleep becomes a portal to healing, and rest becomes a return to one’s original state of peace.