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

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The Heart of Yoga Nidra: Teaching Yoga Nidra Through Sequencing, Language, and Guided Meditation for Deep Relaxation and Sacred Rest
Practical Tools, Yogic Wisdom, and Support for Every Yoga Nidra Teachers

This invaluable resource offers everything you need to confidently develop and teach Yoga Nidra, whether you are new to guiding or refining your approach. ‍More than a manual, it provides a heart-centered, practical blueprint for teaching Yoga Nidra through intentional sequencing, skillful language, and embodied presence - elements you can bring directly into your sessions. Rooted in traditional yogic philosophy, it weaves accessible instruction with timeless frameworks to help you cultivate an authentic voice and meet your students’ needs with clarity and care.

Throughout, you’ll find contemplations on personal practice, guidance on script development, and experiential prompts to help you internalize the teachings and guide from lived experience. Designed to sit beside you as you prepare and teach, this book invites pause, reflection, and integration. Organized for immersive reading and hands-on reference, it is a resource you’ll return to as your teaching evolves.

The Heart of Yoga Nidra is a trusted companionfor yoga teachers, dedicated practitioners, and wellness professionals who feelcalled to share this practice in service of rest, healing, and innerconnection. It includes:
  • A classical foundation in Yoga Nidra meditation, rooted in traditional and thoughtfully connected to modern practice
  • Sequencing principles, refined language guidance, and presence-based approaches to support cohesive sessions
  • Reflective practices to help you integrate the teachings and guide from embodied experience
  • Tools for holding space for a range of student experiences, including fatigue, restlessness, emotional release, and stillness
  • Approaches to script development for guided meditation - adapting scripts, writing by stage, weaving themes, and balancing intuition with structure
  • A curated selection of sample scripts to inspire your planning and help you discover your voice
  • Considerations for diverse teaching settings, including group classes, one-to-one sessions, and online offerings
  • A neuroscience-informed perspective on deep rest and how shifts in awareness and brainwave states support healing and nervous system regulation
  • An appendix of teaching resources, planners, and references to support training and ongoing study
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Practical Tools, Yogic Wisdom, and Support for Every Yoga Nidra Teachers

Comprehensive and welcoming, this book offers a place to slow down, reconnect with the heart of the practice, and allow your guidance to arise in ways you can trust - a steady companion as your relationship with Yoga Nidra deepens.

Available Feb 18, 2026 on Amazon in Paperback!

“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
Available Feb 18, 2026
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