I finished Thanksgiving weekend with a yoga nidra workshop. Here’s the conversation Alan and I had when I told him I was going:
“Yoga nidra? What kind of yoga is that?”
“Yogic sleep,” I told him.
“So you just go there and take a nap?”
“Kind of. Except you’re really not supposed to fall asleep. If you do it right, you get super-relaxed but don’t actually fall asleep. But some people do.”
“Hmmm.”
“They even snore sometimes.”
“Hmmm.”
“It allegedly provides the same benefits as eight hours of sleep.”
“Hmmm – wait. How is that even possible?”
“I don’t know.”
“I mean, isn’t the PRIMARY benefit of sleep, rest? So how would 90 minutes of yoga nidra provide you with eight hours of rest? It’s mathematically impossible.”
“It’s not a math class. And besides, I said ‘allegedly.'”
“I’m not buying it.”
“Who cares? It’s very relaxing.”
“Why do they offer it in the evening?”
“So you can relax more.”
“But then how do you go to sleep when you get home?”
“You’re just so relaxed, it’s easy to fall asleep.”
“But you’ve just allegedly gotten the equivalent of EIGHT HOURS OF SLEEP, right? Therefore it stands to reason that it should be hard to fall asleep.”
“Nope.”
“What do you mean, nope? This makes NO SENSE.”
“Namaste.”
“Gah!!!”
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