ABOUT NIDRISTA

Founded in 2025 by Stockholm-based yoga nidrā teacher and energy healer Johanna Andersson, NIDRISTA is devoted to supporting all human beings in reclaiming their right to deep, restorative rest. Whether you’re seeking stress relief, nervous system regulation, or a deeper connection to yourself, NIDRISTA is here to gently guide you home.


NIDRISTA is a play on the Sanskrit word nidrā, meaning ‘sleep’ or ‘rest’, and can be understood as ‘one who rests’ or ‘one who practises yoga nidrā’.

  • NIDRISTA is a wake-up call — and a calling. A call to break free from the vicious cycles of stress, anxiety, exhaustion, and dis-ease. To return to a life of restful abundance.

    NIDRISTA nurtures and restores through the power of rest — weaving yoga nidrā and energy healing to bring human beings back home to themselves.

    NIDRISTA offers parasympathetic pleasure that unveils purpose, potential, and truth. Paving a new path — one of comfort, ease, and peace.

    OM Shanti Shanti Shanti.

    OM Shanti Shanti Shanti is a Vedic mantra invoking peace for the physical world, mind, and spirit.

Portrait of NIDRISTA founder Johanna Andersson in her home wearing dress from By Melene Birger

THE FOUNDER

Johanna Andersson is a yoga nidrā teacher and energy healer on a mission to restore rest in a world addicted to doing. Blending traditional yogic practices with her own intuitive gifts, she aims to facilitate deep, profound rest through nourishing sessions, writings, and recordings — saving the world one well-rested human being at a time.

A Cancer sun and mother of two, her greatest purpose and joy is to nurture and guide individuals and groups back home to themselves. She’s a devoted advocate of nidrā shakti (the power of sleep and rest), fiercely committed to normalising rest as a radical act of self-care and sustainability, and firmly believes that the well-rested human can truly achieve anything.

After spending well over a decade in the fast-paced fashion industry as a stylist, editor, and copywriter — while battling stress and anxiety — she’s experienced firsthand the toll of exhaustion. Now, in her resting era, she’s determined to unveil the illusions of modern life, wielding rest as a gateway to truth and transformation.

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Vase with flower on table in the home of NIDRISTA founder Johanna Andersson.

CREDENTIALS

Johanna is trained in Vinyasa Krama Yoga (250h, Yoga Folks, Stockholm), Total Yoga Nidrā (60h, Yoga Nidrā Network, London), Prāṇāyāma/Breathwork (50h, Yoga Folks), and Restorative Yoga/Rituals & Prayers/Vedantic & Tantric Philosophy, (60h, Yoga Folks). She is also a certified Reiki Healer (First and Second Degree, Usui Shiki Ryoho).