Yoga Nidra Mind Awake Body Asleep. Today’s 40 minute Yoga Nidra invites you to remain awake and aware whilst your body deeply rests. You aren’t practising Yoga Nidra in the wrong way if you fall asleep, sometimes your body needs that rest but there is fountain of experience and insight to gleaned when you try to remain awake and aware throughout the entire duration of the Yoga Nidra. Often during a Yoga Nidra you move between various states of consciousness hence that feeling of waking up that can happen. Yoga Nidra actually leads you to the hypnagogic state, the state between waking and sleeping and extends the time there to beyond the 2 to 5 minutes that we experience when we fall asleep at night. And so, today’s Yoga Nidra invites you to try to remain awake and aware and see what you feel and experience and if you fall asleep, that is absolutely okay too, wherever you land is absolutely perfect.