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Keep it simple: Keep your language approachable and simple.The younger the participants the shorter the practice. Keep it short: while adult practices can range from 15-60 minutes, yoga nidra for tweens and teens is best kept abbreviated.Tips for Practicing Yoga Nidra with Teens

This provides important insight, sensitivity and receptiveness for teens as they navigate the often difficult years of junior and senior high school. Connect with Yourself: Probably one of the greatest benefits is a greater understanding of yourself, your goals, your inner being.Builds patience and self control: The invitation to remain still and observe during yoga nidra fosters tolerance and equanimity.Balances the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems: The quiet, calm produced by stillness in the body and attention to various states of awareness is deeply soothing and healing to body and mind.Practice it once and you’ll notice its profoundly relaxing impact. Simple way to Reduce Stress: Yoga nidra requires no special equipment.What matters is that you surrender to the practice and let it be whatever it is, trusting that it is what you need in the moment. Some people fall asleep, some are wide awake the entire time, some drift in and out of awareness. Can’t be Done Incorrectly: Anyway you do nidra it is a success.No special skills, attitudes or abilities are prerequisite. Available to Everyone: Everyone can practice yoga nidra.Different from the unconscious sleep of night time, yoga nidra cultivates relaxed awareness of body, breath, and mind encouraging all to surrender, to compassionately be here now without judgement. The practice of yogic sleeping is both meditative and therapeutic. Yoga nidra is fabulous for teens and tweens. The gift of taking time to soften, relax and listen is deeply healing. From that first experience, each time I practice it feels more and more as if I am coming home to myself. Years ago I was first introduced to this amazing restorative practice during a local yoga nidra afternoon workshop.