Yoga Nidra for Better Sleep

Here’s an article on using yoga for better sleeping: Need better sleep? Try yoga techniques

It has some explanations for the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, backed by a UT Southwestern Medical Center professor. It also has some descriptions of poses and breathing techniques.

. . . I tried with no luck to find the animal study that was mentioned in the article. But here’s some supplementary and relevant info:

Yoga Nidra – Yogic Sleep. It is a deep level of meditation. You go beyond Waking and Dreaming, into Deep Sleep with conscious awareness intact. In that sense, it’s more of a process of learning how to awaken in stages one normally misses.