I'll be honest with you: sleep is still a work in progress for me.

I know all the research. I practice yoga nidra regularly. I teach nervous system regulation for a living. And still — some nights my mind has other plans. I share this not because I have it all figured out but because I think it's important to say out loud: struggling with sleep doesn't mean you're failing at wellness. It means you're human. And it means the stressors, hormonal shifts, and relentless pace of modern life are doing exactly what we know they do to the nervous system — keeping it switched on long past the point where it should be winding down.

What I also know — from both the research and my own experience — is that yoga nidra has been one of the most genuinely useful tools in my sleep toolkit. Not a miracle cure. Not a guarantee. But a practice that, used consistently, creates real and measurable changes in the nervous system that make better sleep more possible.

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