Note: This is a YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider®) series.  It is therefore a universally recognized (through Yoga Alliance) continuing education program for certified yoga teachers who may count these hours for their required RYT Continuing Education Hours. This training is open to curious non-teachers, but will not count for YACEP Credit.

Education content in this series will be offered in studio and several classes will be delivered online for reviewing content in the Yoga Nidra book. Because of the duration of this series, we recommend signing up only if you know you'll be avaialble for all of the sessions in order to get full Continuing Education hours offered. 

This Training will introduce you to the Practice of Yoga Nidra or “Yogic Sleep.”   The Goal of Yoga Nidra is to induce a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, like when you are about to fall asleep.  It is a state in which the body is completely relaxed, and you are guided through the basic states of consciousness as represented by the 5 koshas.   It is a type of lying down “meditation”.   (Note that this is a more beginner description as Yoga Nidra is not technically meditation)

The teacher leads the student through a “meditation” designed to take one from a relaxed body gross state (alpha brainwaves), to the middle subtle states (theta brainwaves), to causal & turiya states (delta and gamma brainwaves).  Many find Yoga Nidra to be an extremely restorative practice, but perhaps more importantly Yoga Nidra is a very accessible journey through the central spiritual states.  

What You Will Get in this Training: 

• Experience with Yoga Nidra in 90 Min classes heald once a month.

• Review of the Yoga Nidra book and discussion in online group.

• Yoga Nidra Script Examples and Theory so that you may create your own scripts to teach or (record and) self practice to.

• Important (and sometimes seldom used) preparations for Yoga Nidra.  

• How to deliver the Sankalpa via the Six Stages of Leading a Yoga Nidra.   

• Why some may benefit from not doing all six stages.  

►  For those wishing YACEP* digital certification, those will be supplied for an extra $10

►  A hard-copy certificate suitable for framing is also available for an additional $25 (includes digital cert.)