Hello folks, welcome back to the WOOP podcast.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop.

We're on a mission to unlock human performance.

We got a great episode for you today ahead of World Sleep Day.

That's March 15th.

So if you're listening to this episode in the morning

or during the day, hit pause and come back to it before you go to bed tonight. Well, I'm just

kidding. You can listen to it whenever you want, but this is a good one for sleep. All right,

on this week's episode, Woop Global Head of Human Performance, our principal scientist, the brilliant

Kristen Holmes is here to guide you

through a non-sleep, deep rest session, NSDR session. This session will help you prepare for sleep

and enter a state of relaxation to promote a higher quality night's sleep. If you're a WOOP member,

you can track this activity in the WOOP app, so be sure to have

an activity started as you listen to this episode.

Christian discusses what is non-sleep deep rest, NSDR, the benefits of NSDR, and does

a guided NSDR session. This is pretty terrific. All right.

If you have a question, you know what's answered on the podcast. Email us, podcast

whoop.com. Call us 508, 443-4952. You can try whoop for free. That's whoop. Without

further ado, here is Kristen Holmes and our NSDR session.

Hello, everyone. Kristen Holmes here. I am excited for today's session. I'm going to take you

through a guided non-sleep deep rest practice. Non-sleep deep rest, our NSDR, is also known as Yoga Nidra, and it is a powerful

way to replace sleep you have lost or simply to enter a state of deep relaxation. You can imagine

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