5. Locust Pose (Salabhasana)
This pose has huge benefits for your bones. It strengthens and lengthens your spine while reducing pains and releasing tension. It also helps with blood circulation and oxygenating the blood. This has lots of impact on your physical and mental well-being.
The first mention of Yoga Nidra was in the Upanishads between 800 and 500 BCE, and thanks to modern science and research, we now know what’s actually happening to your brain waves during practice. Your brain experiences different types of brain waves depending on the state that it’s in. When you are awake, your brain is experiencing beta waves which are active. As you start to relax and fall asleep, your brain experiences alpha waves, and then when you go into a deep sleep you are experiencing delta waves. What Yoga Nidra does is simply allows you to go into the hypnagogic state which is between alpha and theta waves.
