Yoga nidra meditation is a 20-35 minute potent sleep-based guided meditation practice, sort of like a cosmic power nap. Unlike being born or giving birth for the first time, both of which can only happen once in a lifetime, yoga nidra is something that can be experienced every day if desired. While listening to Pollan’s book and thinking about this third wave of psychedelics that we are currently in, I became curious about yoga nidra as a sort of psychedelic microdosing practice. 

I recently listened to Michael Pollan’s latest book, “How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence”(1) while driving my cats from Florida up to New Hampshire. I needed a book that would be engaging enough to distract me from Bridgette’s incessant yeowling but not so exciting as to raise my heartrate or distract me from the road.