Rest as Rongoā is our kaupapa for this lunar cycle. Rongoā means medicine or therapy. Moemoeā means dream or vision. Yoga means union, Nidra means sleep.

Yoga Nidra has been a big part of my yoga teaching and personal yoga journey. For me it is healing. I admit that I don't do it often enough! But I do use all the things that I've learned from it almost daily.

Breath awareness, relaxing the jaw, face, and other parts at night to help get to sleep, and so on. Even the visualisation, and the sankalpa- or resolve , I use often, It is wonderful to visualise, looking at the best self or future self or happy self! I have experienced mush of my visualisations coming true in life. 

I hope you give it a go and do let me know how it works for you. We end our classes with a unique yoga Nidra practice each time. It is often the favourite part of the class for many.  

Rongoā moemoeā, Yoga Nidra, is a deep rest without sleep. It relaxes you on every level. It increases dopamine level...