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My guest on the podcast this week is the fabulous James Reeves.

James is an author and coach, as well as a world-leading teacher, and the first in Europe to deliver iRest Yoga Nidra teacher training courses, based on the ancient teachings of yoga nidra. He’s also the co-author of The Book of Rest, published by Harper Collins — a book that invites us to ‘find calm in a chaotic world’, and describes rest as the doorway to our internal anchor — one that can always be found and is always accessible, regardless of external events. 

In our conversation, James and I talk about the benefits of deep rest, whether in the form of yoga nidra, meditation, or simply sitting and staring out of the window; we also talk about how to find deep rest, learning to stop, why we are so restless and what we can do about it. 

Topics that we cover are:

• the wake-up call that made James question what he was doing with his life;
• the trip to India that led him to the work he now does around deep rest;
• his thoughts on the endless distraction that is the world today;
• how “I’m so busy” has become our stock response;
• why we find it so hard to ‘do nothing’;
• what happens when we truly stop and have no information coming in;
• the difference between informal rest, and structured rest;
• what deep rest means to James;
• consciousness, and the quiet observer inside us all;
• accessing the part of ourselves that is always ok;
• how all of our emotions are instructive, and trying to tell us something;
• what Yoga Nidra is, and how it allows us to resolve tensions within ourselves;
• how simply stopping for a minute at a time can be incredibly effective;
• the benefits of deep rest, including lowering cortisol levels;
• the incredible structural changes that happen to the brain when we experience deep rest regularly;
• how getting enough deep rest makes us nicer humans;
• how James helps his clients, and his book, The Book of Rest.

Check out James' website: https://www.deeprest.com/

Follow James on Instagram: @jamesreevesresting

Buy The Book of Rest: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Rest-James-Reeves/dp/0008321639

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