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Guided deep rest, built around your moment.
Tell Yonida how you feel and how long you have. It shapes a Yoga Nidra session around that: a reset that brings you back clear, or a wind-down that carries you towards sleep.
Yoga Nidra
Eyes closed, a calm voice guides your attention through the body. The mind follows it below thinking — awake, but deeply at rest.
Also called NSDR · non-sleep deep rest
During the day
Reset, without a nap.
Ten to twenty minutes, eyes closed, guided down and brought back up. You return before the next meeting — steadier than you left.
Before sleep
Wind down, then let go.
A slower voice, a longer settle and a soft ending that never asks you to look at the screen again.
Made around you
Your answers change the session.
Yoga Nidra has a shape: settling, a slow journey through the body, breath, deep rest and a return. Yonida builds that shape around what you tell it.
- What would help
- How it ends. A reset brings you back up, alert; a wind-down fades out and leaves you to sleep.
- How you arrive
- What the voice says. Wired, it gives your attention one exact place to land. Depleted, it asks nothing of you.
- How long you have
- The shape. Every part stretches or shortens to fit, and a longer wind-down makes room for imagery.
- Anything else
- The imagery. A place you’d like to be, or a word for how you want it to feel, is carried into what the voice describes.
Every session stays in your Library, so the one that worked is a tap away.
- Arriving1:15
- Settling1:57
- First breaths1:37
- Intention1:14
- Body scan5:51
- Breath2:16
- Deep rest3:54
- Coming back1:57
“Let the weight arrive on the surface, one part at a time.”
Ends by bringing you back up, alert.
The evidence
What the research says about deep rest.
These are claims about the practice, not promises about the app — including where the research came back empty. Each links to the study it came from.
Stress01
Across 73 studies and 5,201 people, Yoga Nidra practice tracked with less stress, anxiety and low mood.
The 2026 review reporting that rates most of its trials at high risk of bias, and expects the real effect to be smaller than the pooled figure.
Ghai et al., 2026 — review of 73 studiesAlertness02
After ten minutes of guided rest, people responded faster and more accurately than after sitting quietly.
A randomised trial of 65 adults measuring reaction time, task accuracy and grip strength. A later trial found no such advantage, so this is promising rather than settled.
Boukhris et al., 2024 — randomised trial, 65 adultsSleep03
For sleep, the pooled trials come back empty.
A 2026 meta-analysis found no reliable effect on sleep scores, at very low certainty. Winding down is a way to settle before bed, not a treatment for insomnia — and rest does not replace sleep.
Singh et al., 2026 — meta-analysisSession length04
The studies run from eleven minutes to seventy-two. None of them names a best length.
The most direct short-form evidence used ten. Twenty minutes is our own starting point, chosen to fit a real gap in a day, and something we intend to test rather than assert.
Moszeik et al., 2025 — trial of 426 adults
The rest you keep putting off.
Made around how you feel and the time you have. Coming to iPhone.
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