Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra Online:
Foundations for Teaching and Practice

Dive deeply into the beauty and power of Yoga Nidra! This 35hr online self-paced course contains comprehensive foundational lessons in multimedia formats to help you understand what Yoga Nidra is, where it comes from, why it’s important, and how it works from both a Yogic and Western perspective to remove tension and stress from all layers of your being.  Lessons include hands-on activities, guided inquiry and personal reflections, Yin Yoga & Meditation and Yoga Nidra practices, guided meditation sessions, and a 7-Day Home Practice Immersion to help you experience and integrate the powerful, transformative benefits of this practice.

You are Welcome. This program welcomes both practitioners and yoga teachers of all experience levels. No prior practice or teaching experience is required to register for this program. Upon completion, all participants will receive a certificate or completion for 35hrs of Yoga Nidra Teacher Training.

Program Cost: $229 USD total, which includes a 130-page supplemental manual (free shipping worldwide). Split payment option available, just reach out.

Course Materials & Support

A 130-page supplemental manual is mailed out to you upon registration (free shipping worldwide) for organizing and integrating everything you’re learning through your online lessons. Included are copies of all visual presentations, lesson activity sheets, all downloadable reflection and guided inquiry journal sheets, all practicum exercise worksheets, full Yoga Nidra scripts, your 7-Day Practice Immersion journal sheets, and a Yoga Nidra Resource Sheet. You can email me at anytime with comments, questions, or reflections at sagel(at)yinandmeditation(dot)com.

In This Practical & Accessible Training, You Will:

• Develop an understanding of what Yoga Nidra is, both as a practice and an effortless state of being of peace and pure bliss.
• Learn about Yoga Nidra’s origins in classical Indian philosophy and contemporary Yoga Nidra lineages.
• Explore the Yogic map of the Whole Self and through both lecture and guided activities, gain insight into your koshas and how their interplay affects and reflects your wellbeing as well as information and theming around the chakra system.
• Examine in detail the methodical techniques of progressive relaxation of the koshas on the inward journey through each stage of this practice to strengthen your connection with your true Self.
• Discuss the framework of visualizations, body and breath awareness exercises, and mindfulness meditation techniques used throughout the practice and as techniques to promote greater peace, wellbeing, and presence in daily living.
• Understand the core guiding principles of this powerful practice.
• Explore the tool of Sankalpa and how when integrated into the Yoga Nidra practice, it will help you create the life you want in alignment with your heart’s deepest intentions.
• Learn about how Yoga Nidra helps us awaken to unconscious barriers such as self-limiting thoughts, unhelpful habits, long-held fears, and negative emotions – and by freeing us from these Samskaras, empowers us to release the deep obstacles and energy blockages that can prevent us from living the life we desire and deserve.
• Be guided in exercises and personal reflection activities, including guided meditation and journaling, to discover or reaffirm your own personal Sankalpa.
• Experience a 7-Day Yoga Nidra Home Practice Immersion, during which you’ll experience first-hand how Yoga Nidra is a profound tool with limitless possibilities for holistic healing, transformation, and joy when engaged regularly.
• Discuss the related science behind techniques used in the practice and how the ancient roots intersect with the Western understanding of the mind.
• Explore the physiological realities of stress, how stress and tension affect every level of our being, and the application of this practice in daily life as an antidote to stress and help you live in optimal wellbeing, peace, and contentment.
• Understand Yoga Nidra as a powerful tool in our life toolbox that brings renewal, restoration, and rejuvenation to our whole being to enhance everyday living.
• Cultivate an understanding of how to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate Yoga Nidra sessions for yourself and others, in home-based, office, or studio environments.
• Consider options for session themes to enhance benefits for the practitioner.
• Uncover the joy that you are! Joy is your blueprint and your birthright, and living in joy supports the wellbeing of everyone around you, so we’ll discuss how the inward journey of Yoga Nidra compels us to deeply connect with one another in service to the world around us.
• Enjoy 3 streaming guided Yin Yoga classes integrated with Pranayama (breath-work exercises) specially designed to help prepare the body and mind for a journey into Yoga Nidra.
• Experience 3 streaming Yoga Nidra practices. These diverse practices were developed specifically for this Yoga Nidra Teacher Training so participants can enjoy a variety of approaches and techniques, and they’ll remain available to you to continue your practice.
• Participate in teaching practicum as a tool to develop and enhance your personal understanding of the practice, whether you’ll be leading sessions for yourself or others.
• Receive guidance on how to create and maintain your own home Yoga Nidra practice.
• Enjoy 3 streaming guided mindfulness meditation practices which will remain available to you in support of your home meditation practice.
• Receive 3 complete Yoga Nidra scripts (40-50min length sessions) for use in your own practice or to offer to others.
• Participate in guided personal reflection and discovery exercises throughout the program.
• Learn the foundational skills to work with the general public and a comprehensive and well-rooted practice from which to further develop specialized skills such as working with trauma and recovery populations.
• Prepare and deliver practice teaching sessions for a friend or family member as a way to develop and enhance your personal understanding of the practice.
• Participate in guided personal reflection and discovery exercises throughout the program.
• Maintain access to all streaming program lectures and practices following course completion, available for you to review and enjoy at any time.

The curriculum is 35hrs all-inclusive and a completion certificate is given to all students who fully complete the training.  If you’re a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, you may submit this certificate to Yoga Alliance and receive 35hrs continuing education credits.

Admission is rolling, there are no set dates or times, so once you register you can begin the course whenever you’d like from anywhere in the world and progress through it at the pace that works best for you.

Program Cost: $229 USD total, which includes a 130-page supplemental manual (free shipping worldwide). Split payment option available, just reach out.

About Yoga Nidra

The Practice of Yoga Nidra is the ancient Yogic science of deep relaxation and manifestation.

Yoga Nidra, “the sleep of the Yogi” is a profound state of relaxation, experienced as a completely effortless state of peace and bliss. Yoga Nidra is typically performed in the position of Savasana lying on your back with cushions and blankets for total comfort, support and relaxation. After a session of Yoga Nidra, you may feel as clear and refreshed as though you’ve enjoyed hours of deep restful sleep. No experience is necessary to participate and begin to receive its benefits.

Yoga Nidra practice is a powerful tool for stress reduction leaving your physical body and ultimately your whole self feeling rejuvenated and refreshed.

Research shows that the process of systematic conscious relaxation we experience in Yoga Nidra slows brain waves, reliably stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system response in the body, and reduces the release of stress hormones.

Tap into the brilliance of your intuition.

Based in the Tantric technique of “nyasa,” this practice brings together the Indian Yogic methods of alert and relaxed concentration, compassionate observation, and guided visualization to help withdraw the senses from the external world and move the awareness into the deeper layers of the mind to inhabit a bliss state. In this highly receptive and expanded awareness, we can connect with our highest wisdom and meet life’s challenges with greater ease, clarity and compassion.

In this highly receptive and expanded awareness, we can plant the seeds of our most heart-felt intentions in the fertile soil of the mind where they are sure to take root and manifest.