Q : Do you recommend sleep in Yog Nidra only instead of ordinary sleep daily?
Ashwani
Answer Well, did I ever say that Yog Nidra is a new way of sleeping. I don't think so. Yog Nidra is not meant to be used as substitute for natural sleep, meaning people who can't sleep do Yog Nidra and then they have their sleep.
The purpose of Yog Nidra is not to put you into a sleep, it is to give you a shift of consciousness where you can be in that zone where the body is asleep but you are awake. As such there is no harm to use Yog Nidra as a substitute for your natural sleep if you have lost your sleep, may be for some time, for some months.
May be it is good that you put the Yog Nidra CD to lay on your bed and with in minutes you will be dozed off and you will have wonderful sleep and hopefully a dreamless sleep. But the objective is not just to have a sleep. That's the reason, Nidra word comes later on and the initial word is Yog Nidra. Yog means being in union, union of infinite consciousness with the micro cosmic consciousness. So, Yog Nidra is definitely not meant to sleep well.
Gurumaa
