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The Heart of Yoga Nidra: Teaching Yoga Nidra Through Language, Sequencing, and Guided Meditation for Deep Relaxation and Sacred Rest

Front cover of the book The Heart of Yoga Nidra by Sagel Urlacher – a complete guide for teaching and practicing Yoga Nidra
The essential guide to leading transformative Yoga Nidra: Practical tools, yogic wisdom, and heart-centered guidance for teachers and practitioners.

The Heart of Yoga Nidra
is a complete resource for leading meaningful and profound Yoga Nidra sessions, whether you are guiding others or deepening your own practice. Rooted in yogic wisdom and centered in the heart, it provides the foundation to lead with skill, confidence, and an authentic, embodied presence.

This book moves you beyond simply delivering a script and into a deeper, more holistic relationship with the practice. By bridging yogic philosophy with neuroscience, it offers clear insight into how and why the stages work, providing the practical framework to lead and develop transformative experiences through intentional sequencing, refined language, and living tradition.

Reflective practices throughout help you internalize the teachings so your guidance emerges from lived experience, empowering you to express your own unique voice. Grounded in trauma-informed and inclusive approaches, this resource cultivates your ability to meet your students exactly where they are.

Inside you’ll find:

  • Yogic Philosophy & The Koshas: Understanding the layers of being and the intentional arc of the practice as a path of wholeness and peace
  • Neuroscience & Healing: The science of regulating the nervous system and fostering a safe environment for restoration, resilience, and the joy of being
  • The Art of Sequencing: Principles for structuring cohesive, impactful sessions attuned to your students’ needs and the journey inward
  • Refined Language & Cues: Purposeful, clear language to help you lead with presence and heart
  • Authentic Script Development: Practical methods for writing your own scripts stage-by-stage or adapting and personalizing existing ones with confidence
  • Responsive Guidance:  Skillful ways to tailor your guidance for varied settings, experience levels, and evolving student needs - from group energy to the use of sound and silence
  • Theme Weaving & Intuition: Experiential ways to weave universal themes, symbolic imagery, and energetic tones to enrich your guidance
  • Holding Sacred Space: Support for the full spectrum of student experiences, from restlessness and release to deep stillness
  • The Teacher’s Path: Reflective invitations and personal practice explorations to nurture your own growth and help you guide from authentic lived experience
  • An Extensive Teaching Toolkit: A curated collection of 6 Yoga Nidra scripts, including time-sensitive versions, plus planners and resources to support your voice and training
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The essential guide to leading transformative Yoga Nidra: Practical tools, yogic wisdom, and heart-centered guidance for teachers and practitioners.

Comprehensive and accessible, this essential resource supports you as your relationship with Yoga Nidra evolves. It bridges the teachings with the heart of the practice, helping you cultivate the steadiness and wisdom to guide with intention, authenticity, and skill.

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“In The Heart of Yoga Nidra, Sagel Urlacher has written a comprehensive - even definitive - guide on how teachers can guide themselves and their students to deeper connection and balance through intentional rest. Here, readers will find everything they need to develop yoga nidra sessions that stay true to the spirit of the practice while also expressing the unique voice of each teacher who guides it and adapting to the unique needs of the students who follow it. This book is both wonderfully practical and deeply profound. It's joining Urlacher's Yin Yoga and Meditation as a textbook in my advanced studies yoga teacher training!”
Sage Rountree, PhD, E-RYT 500
Author of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses and The Art of Yoga Sequencing
“This is the book every Yoga Nidra teacher has been waiting for! With clear teachings, embodied practices, and guiding questions to help uncover your own unique voice, Sagel’s gentle presence will support and empower teachers in creating their own Yoga Nidra practices. This is the resource Yoga Nidra teachers will be coming back to time after time.”
Linda Snay, E-RYT
Yoga Teacher and Teaching Artist
The Heart of Yoga Nidra is a luminous companion for teachers drawn to the art of sacred rest. This beautifully organized, teacher-centered guide makes the art of Yoga Nidra both accessible and immediately teachable. With clarity, care, and deep respect for lineage, Sagel weaves philosophy, language, and practice into a resource teachers can confidently use immediately.”
Alexandra DeSiato
Co-author of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses, Vol 1 & 2, and the forthcoming Yoga Off the Mat
The Heart of Yoga Nidra is a wonderful resource for teachers and dedicated practitioners of Yoga Nidra. In this comprehensive guide Sagel Urlacher skillfully describes the many facets of this deep practice, ranging from an exploration of energetics to scientifically looking at brain-wave states, understanding how healing of long-held emotional and psychological wounds can occur to how to eloquently craft Yoga Nidra scripts."
Aiyana Athenian
Founder/Director of ShivaShakti School of Yoga
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