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Discover Your innermost through deep relaxation Yoga nidra is an ancestral practice that comes form grand Indian raditions and philosophies stemmed in Hinduism, Buddhism and Tantrism. This unique form of yoga seeks to combine deep relaxation with attentive awareness, in order to consciously explore wakefulness, dreams and deep sleep and awaken to the unborn reality beyond these three states. Moreover, it offers ways of putting the mind and the body to sleep, while keeping the awareness alert.

Through its positive, stabilizing and appeasing effect on the body emotions and thoughts, yoga nidra is also a therapeutic technique that has considerably influenced modern techniques like Sophrology, a Ertern relaxation method, widely practised in France today. It allows one to experience moments of great inner tranquillity, joy and well-being. This practice combines very simple gestures and postures with light and subtle breathing exercises, as well as concentration and meditation, thereby allowing the alert observation of sensation, an abandonment to the phenomena that appears and a return to the present moment, in order to taste the luminous and blissful presence to oneself and to the world, by day or by night.

This book about 'the sleep of the sages' takes us on a journey to the unknown and the mysterious, to the luminous presence to the unconscious mind, full of discoveries encounters and tastes; the art of taking a nap, a creative approach for lazing around and another way of looking at life...