— Yoga Nidra is often referred to as psychic sleep meditation. It is a state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, where the conscious mind and the unconscious can meet.
I refer to this practice as meditation-like, because it is not like Hatha yoga where the body moves, it is done with your eyes closed and sitting still or lying down.

— Is this practice similar to active imagination — it is essentially the exact same process, the steps that guide you in are different, but those steps are not the state of consciousness that is being achieved, they are a method to settle into it. The state itself is exactly the same thing. Modern language usage for “active imagination” may give someone the impression that a person is being described as fanciful or overly imaginative in how they make sense of the world. But Active Imagination in psychology is a Jungian method whereby the practitioner enters into a state of holding both the conscious and the unconscious.

— Exactly like Yoga Nidra and Internal Family Systems, Active Imagination requires that we restrain the conscious mind from what I call “script writing” and allowing space for the unconscious mind to communicate. This takes some getting used to and requires patience. But you know you are allowing the unconscious to come through when you are surprised by what is being expressed.