• Muscular tension related to the physical body, nervous system and endocrinal imbalances.  These are easily removed by the deep physical relaxation achieve through yoga nidra.

• Emotional tensions stem from dualities such as love/hate, profit/loss, happiness/unhappiness and are more difficult to erase.  This is because we are often unable to express our emotions freely or we repress, rather than recognize, them.  Thus our emotions become more deeply rooted.  It is not possible to release these through ordinary sleep or relaxation.  But yoga nidra can tranquilize the entire emotional structure of the mind.

• Mental tensions that result from excess mental activity.  Every life experience is registered in our unconsciousness.  They accumulate in the mental body and periodically affect our mind, body, behavior and reactions.  When we are angry, sad or irritated, there is a superficial cause and an underlying cause for our disturbed mind.  The underlying cause is the accumulated tensions on the mental plane.  Satyananda Yoga Nidra™ is the science of relaxation that enables us to dive deep down into the realms of the unconscious mind, release mental tensions and re-establish inner harmony.