What does Yoga Nidra have to do with money?

Because I offer a program called Get Right with Money — one where Yoga Nidra is a central part of the experience — I’m often asked a very reasonable, very human question: what does that have to do with money?

It’s usually asked by a woman who has already done a lot of work. She’s taken the mindset courses, learned the skills, made the spreadsheets, read the books, and followed the budgeting methods. She’s invested real time, energy, and money into understanding this part of her life, and yet something still doesn’t feel settled. Even with all that effort, she continues to avoid what she knows she “should” be doing, has outsized reactions to money situations that don’t quite make sense, and finds herself stuck in patterns she thought she’d be past by now.

When money work doesn’t stick…it’s not a failing.

I recognize that when Yoga Nidra enters the conversation, it can feel confusing, or even frustrating. It can sound like I’m changing the subject, as if I’m offering rest instead of a solution. That reaction is understandable — and it’s also where the deeper truth begins.

What I’ve seen, again and again, is that this isn’t a problem of information or motivation. It’s not that women don’t know enough about money, or haven’t made enough effort. The deeper patterns that shape our relationship with money don’t live in the thinking mind. They live in the body. They live in the nervous system. They live in places that don’t respond to another strategy, worksheet, or plan.

Regulation is the foundation.

This is why we begin here. Not because rest is the goal, but because regulation is the foundation.

Yoga Nidra supports the one thing most money work leaves out: your physiology — your whole self. While it’s often described as a practice of conscious rest, it’s not passive. It’s a guided, intentional practice that works with the layers where identity, memory, reactivity, and self-trust live. That’s why its effects aren’t limited to feeling calmer or clearer in the moment; they reach much deeper.

Knowing what to do isn’t the same as doing it.

In my work with women — many of whom are coaches, therapists, creatives, and healing professionals — I see the same pattern emerge. They know what they’re “supposed” to do with money. They understand the advice. They’ve internalized the frameworks. And still, there’s a wall.

More often than not, that wall is made of old scarcity or trauma wounding that creates a hard stop, no matter how sound the strategy might be.

And here’s the part that really matters: you cannot force a sense of safety. You cannot shame your way into peace. An intelligent nervous system will not agree to a plan — no matter how logical — if it doesn’t feel safe enough to sustain it.

Yoga Nidra makes space for real change to take root.

Yoga Nidra creates the conditions for something different. You lie down. You listen. You stay present. You enter stillness — not as an escape, but as a way of remembering what it feels like to be truly at home in yourself.

And from that grounded place, taking right action with money begins to happen with surprising clarity, because you stop being at odds with yourself.

This isn’t spiritual bypassing, sister. It’s preparation.

This is often where someone asks, “But I need real help with my finances. Isn’t this just spiritual bypassing?” It’s an important question. And my answer is no.

Get Right with Money isn’t only Yoga Nidra. There are teachings, practical tools, and real engagement with money behaviors and unraveling old traumas and scarcity wounding. We explore how you relate to money and create new ways of being with it that are aligned with your values and your truth.

But we integrate Yoga Nidra each week because I’ve seen what happens when we don’t. I’ve seen how quickly women slide back into old habits when the body isn’t on board with the change, and how often they blame themselves for not “sticking to” plans their nervous system never felt safe enough to hold.

When regulation comes first, clarity and choice follow.

When regulation comes first, integration follows. The body softens. New information can be digested. Discernment becomes available. Decisions about money, work, and needs begin to arise from clarity rather than reactivity. You stop performing and you start choosing. You locate your agency - it is a beautiful thing.

You will learn how to be with money differently.

This work isn’t about fixing yourself, because you are not broken. And it’s not about avoiding responsibility. Quite the opposite. It’s about learning how to be with money — and with yourself — in a way that’s rooted in safety, sovereignty, and enoughness.

And that is what Yoga Nidra has to do with money.

You are invited

If this resonates, and you’ve been feeling drawn toward a different kind of money work, Get Right with Money is open. It’s a space where rest is sacred, healing is practical, and you don’t have to do it the way the world told you to.

You can read more and join us here: https://www.nonajordan.com/get-right-with-money

I would love to see you there.