This 30 minute Yoga Nidra Meditation to Promote Healing the Physical Body is intended to help those who are recovering from injuries and athletes who hope to improve their recovery time or sports performance. It could also benefit anyone who is in need of deep rest or who would like to experience more freedom in their body.
 
The way that Yoga nidra promotes healing in the physical body is by walking the brain down into deeper and slower brain wave states, in the same way that your brain naturally does this as you fall sleep. With practice, practitioners are able to enter the deepest phase of sleep where the while maintaining trace levels of awareness.
 
Deep sleep, or Stage 3 Non-REM (NREM) sleep, is the primary, most restorative phase where the body undergoes maximum physical repair, immune system strengthening, and tissue regeneration. During this stage, the body releases growth hormones that repair muscles, build bone, and heal injuries. By practicing yoga nidra, you can reach this stage of sleep in shorter time frame, and with a greater frequency if you choose to practice daily, or even multiple times a day.