“Yoga Nidra" as an expression, it is ancient, as it describes the Blissful Sleep of Visna, on the primitive waters of Life. Within this state of Yoga Nidra, Vishnu manifested the first Divine Trinity. The Creator (God), the Conservator (Holy Spirit) and the Destroyer, He who brings the Regeneration (Son). Through this reasoning of the Dreaming God, we are leading to the Theory of the Dreamly State of Reality.
All this coincides with Gurdjieff's view that all humanity is in a state of sleep, mechanicity. Similar approaches of Truth, we find in Sufi, in China and in the Shamanist tradition.
According to Yoga, we have four states of consciousness: Jagrat (alertness), Swapna (sleep with dreams), Sushupti (sleep without dreams) and Turiya (the fourth state). The fourth state, Turiya, is the state of Conscious Awareness and we see that in classification, it is after sleep without dreams. Still in Ramana Maharchi's speeches we read that the dream-space situation, Sushupti, parallels it with "Samadhi without awareness".
This route exactly follows the practice of true Yoga Nidra. It is not a practice of relaxation (although it can be used), but a practice that from mechanicity leads you to Attention.
It is a sadhana, a spiritual practice that is initially taught by a guide, but in the next stages it becomes an individual, personal sadhana, for the purpose of Realization, as it becomes a tool for carrying out advanced yogic practices, directly into the subconscious and unconscious mind.
Yoga Nidra is not actually the yogic sleep but the Awakening in the Dream that we call Reality.
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