Dr. Andrew Huberman

But I was concerned for a lot of people, unfortunately, when they hear yoga nidra,

It sounds esoteric and they're not going to approach that practice.

Also, yoga nidra includes intentions and some things that are a little bit on the mystical side.

And I knew I was going to take some heat for it.

And I feel badly about it.

But that bad feeling is offset by, I think when you call something non-sleep deep rest, it tells you what it is.

And then more people are likely to come to the practice.

And I felt like it was worth, you know, kind of putting myself, you know, jumping on the grenade for that one.

So...

Non-sleep deep rest is very effective at restoring cognitive and physical vigor and can indeed offset some degree of sleep loss.

It also gets you better at falling and staying asleep, and it's very simple and very easy to do, and it's zero cost.

And if you want to try it, you can go onto YouTube and put NSDR on my last name.

There's a woman named Kelly Boyes, B-O-Y-S, who has a much more pleasant voice than mine.

who does them as well.

These are all zero-cost protocols.

She's also in the Waking Up app.

And there are many of them.

Kamini Desai is another person who has wonderful yoga nidra scripts.

So you can find these things, and they're really about 10 minutes to 20 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes long.

You can do it for an hour, but most people won't do that consistently.