Yoga Nidra — Hatha Lineage Deep-Rest Protocolhatha yoga classicalLying still, a systematic rotation of attention is guided through body parts, breath, and sensation in a fixed sequence, keeping the practitioner on the threshold between waking and sleep rather than pushing toward either. Traditionally described as producing rest that is deeper than an equivalent length of sleep, precisely because it works with, rather than fights, a wired-but-tired state.What it's for

Nighttime Anxiety — Lying there depleted and still unable to drop off is understood here as being caught between two states rather than failing at one — too spent for waking activity, too switched on for sleep. In this reading, trying harder to relax from that place is what keeps you in it.

Waking in the Night — Waking in the night and staying awake is understood here as the crossing between sleep and waking having to be made a second time, from a state that is neither one thing nor the other. The classical view is that this crossing is built rather than willed — which is why trying to get back to sleep tends to wake you further. The protocol works through the body in a set order in the dark, asks for no sleep at all, and treats rest as what the ordering produces.