Yoga Nidra Teacher Training Certificate Course

Yoga Nidra originates in tantra and Nyasa, with mental placement of mantras guiding consciousness through the body. Swami Satyananda popularized the eight-stage framework that defines modern Yoga Nidra practice.

Explore different styles of yoga nidra, including Satyananda yoga nidra and Swami Rama's Himalayan Institute approach, with 31 and 61 point practices focusing on marma points and prana.

Practice yoga nidra in shavasana, using cushions, blankets, or bolsters to support the back and knees. Modify posture as needed, including side lying or seated options.

Learn sankalpa, the heart's truest desire, as a short, present-tense, positive intention in Yoga Nidra. Discover inner wisdom and plant it like a seed that grows into reality.

Engage in a guided sankalpa meditation to connect with your heart center and identify your sankalpa. Use sankalpa mudra, repeat your sankalpa three times, then note it in your workbook.

Explore Chidakasha, the inner space behind the closed eyes near the third eye (ajna chakra) that links conscious, subconscious, and superconscious, guiding you to connect during guided yoga nidra.

Explore pratyahara as the withdrawal of the senses and its role in yoga nidra, the method to focus awareness inward within Patanjali's Raja yoga.

Identify samskaras, a Sanskrit term for subtle mental impressions from thoughts, actions, and experiences, shaping behaviour patterns. Explore how yoga nidra enables you to encounter these impressions beneath conscious awareness.

Explore Hari om tat sat mantra after yoga nidra to awaken higher consciousness and connect with the true self; learn its Sanskrit meaning of absolute truth and supreme reality.

Yoga nidra uses a lying-down practice with a guided system of rotating consciousness and stages to witness the self, while meditation encompasses many seated styles and intentions.

Explore how Yoga Nidra offers deep body and mind relaxation in teacher training, using traditional scripts or your own adapted scripts to suit students' needs.

Yoga Nidra fosters deep, restful sleep and eases insomnia by calming nervous system and lowering cortisol and adrenaline. It offers options: stay awake through full practice or finish before sleep.

practice simple pre-yoga nidra breathwork to calm the nervous system and ground present-moment awareness. use coherent breathing and boxed breathing with seated posture and short rounds to deepen nidra.

Practice yoga asana before Yoga Nidra to energize prana, calm nervous system, and bring awareness to the body with postures such as headstand, tree pose, bridge, plow, and sun salutations.

Learn to design your own yoga nidra scripts by defining intention, choosing stages, and guiding preparation, sankalpa, rotation of consciousness, breath awareness, visualization, and externalisation.

Practice Satyananda style yoga nidra with a sankalpa, physical stillness, and rotation of consciousness through the body. Engage breath awareness, counting, and visualization to deepen relaxation before awakening.

Guide beginners through a ten-minute yoga nidra practice, featuring breath awareness, progressive relaxation, a full body scan, and sound-focused mindfulness for deep rest.

Guide a 15-minute yoga nidra practice that builds body and breath awareness, sets a sankalpa, and cycles through rotation of consciousness with focused visualization.

Practice a 15-minute yoga nidra session that guides breath awareness, a full body scan, sankalpa setting, and rotation of consciousness for deep relaxation and inner calm.

Practice yoga nidra for sleep to drift into deep, restful sleep. Focus on breath, the body, and a sankalpa with a guiding mantra as soothing music supports relaxation.

Guides practitioners through the Himalayan 31 point Yoga Nidra practice, guiding breath, progressive relaxation, and a sequential body scan from the head to the toes.