20-Minute Nap

I got super into Yoga Nidra when the kids were little. I remember it because I convinced the ChickieNob’s girl scout troop that it would be an excellent idea to Yoga Nidra session together as part of some health and wellness badge, and the girls shrieked with laughter through the whole thing because the person’s voice on my app did sort of sound like an animated corpse.

I stopped doing it soon after, and then saw it mentioned in an article recently, rebranded as a 20-minute no sleep deep rest or NSDR. If you go on YouTube, you can find hundreds of videos for this.

I don’t know where I would fit it in — I don’t really have the sort of day that lends itself to a 20-minute naplike session — but I’m curious about the idea of resting and recharging without sleeping.

ChickieNob and I found someone promising, and we lay down on the living room floor to take our 20-minute sleepless nap. Except YouTube kept interrupting the video with ads, and we’d startled and shriek every time it happened. So not successful so far, but we’ll keep trying.