Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
Certified CPD Short Course
Supporting you to Support your Students
1st March & 29th March 2025
Opening new teaching opportunities for you and
bringing the deep benefits of restorative yoga to your students
I have a history of burnout. I dive in and keep going until there is nothing left and I have no choice but to stop, crash and burn …. It was this insight that first brought me to teaching yoga. I wanted something to support me to do it differently. However, habits are hard to break. After a number of years teaching lots of classes, in lots of locations, I decided to open a yoga studio, and run my first international retreat - the same summer - I could see the writing on the wall … If I did not do something to take care of my self I would not last to Christmas.
This is when I discovered iRest. I just used it for myself for a number if years. I was amazed at how it supported me. Eventually, I could no longer keep it to myself, and I went and got training from the best. As I dove deeper into it I fell in love with it more and more. I love the combination of science, philosophy and practice. For me it just makes sense.
I have been teaching it as stand-alone classes, courses and retreats now for a number of years, as well as integrating it into my regular classes. In fact, it has become so integrated into my life it is difficult to identify when ‘I am practising and when I just am.
Now after spending over 5 years studying a number of approaches I now want to share my understanding with you.
Yoga Nidra is so very powerful, and once you understand the principles, you can have years of fun exploring and sharing them with your lucky students.
What makes Yoga Nidra so Powerful
Yoga Nidra is a highly flexible form of meditation and self-inquiry. It works at all levels of being, our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts, our feelings, and our true nature. By dancing at the levels of consciousness which become available to us as we move between the alert, deep rest and sleep we can access aspects of ourselves which we may not allow come forward during our busiest daily lives.
In Yoga Nidra we explore some or all of the following steps:
Connect to Your Heartfelt Desire
Set an Intention
Find Your Inner Resource
Feel Your Body
Become Aware of Your Breath
Welcome Your Emotions
Witness Your Thoughts
Experience Joy
Find Lasting Peace
Reflect on Your Practice
Yoga Nidra Teacher
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
“The more I work with people the more I see our need to have a space and time to allow our bodies and minds to unwind.
The space the COVID pause created has now been filled with more activity than ever. Meanwhile, the stress we held as individuals and as a global society is now finding expression.
Now more than ever we can benefit from an opportunity to rest and restore.”
Aruna Academy’s Yoga Nidra Certified
CPD Short Course for Yoga Teachers
Topics we will cover
What it is and why it is so powerful
What is yoga nidra
What are the different schools or protocols
Why it is beneficial
The power of deep rest
The Nuts & Bolts
Explore the steps of the Protocol.
Explore how they can be used and adapted depending on what the intention is, the situation, the time available, and the experience of the practicisionalrs
Develop your own personal practice
Develop a number of scripts for different situations / intentions
Opportunities to offer Yoga Nidra
Integrating Yoga Nidra into a class
How to plan a full Yoga Nidra class or a 7-week course
Planning a longer offering - Workshops or Retreat
This is an Embodied Yoga Training Course, and as such parts 1 and 2 will be the main focus and will be experiential. The aim is to truly and deeply understand the goal of yoga nidra and its effects.
About Laura
Laura is certified in iRest and been teaching it as part of her classes, in specialised courses and retreats. She has also thought a weekly Restorative yoga class, monthly workshops and retreats for about 10 years. Initially weighed down with bags of props she eventually built her own studio so as to have a home for all the ‘stuff’. Ironically that is when she started using fewer props. now as a yoga Nidra Specialist she needs no props.
Having honed and developed her craft she is now delighted to share them with you.
Certification
This course is Certified by Yoga Alliance Professional - CPD Short Course - 20hr
Attendance on both days and completion of the project is necessary for certification.
Prerequisites
Completion of 200hr Yoga Teacher Training
Time & Dates
Saturday 1st March & 29th March
9 am to 5 pm (with a 90 min lunch)
Assignment - approximately 4 to 6 hours are required between the two training days
Cost
Investment €260
Early bird €240