YOGA NIDRA & TANTRA
Yoga Nidra, as it is currently known, is derived from certain practices in the ancient Tantras.
One ancient reference to this state is Shushupti, which refers to residing within a deep sleep state with full consciousness. This is one of the ultimate goals of Yoga Nidra as practiced with the self as an individual practice - to reach a state of being where dream, meditation and so-called ‘real life’ unite, and one begins to realize the essence of the fabric of manifest and yet to be manifested existence.