Yoga Nidra
The Graceful Art of Deep Rest
Night and Sleep~ Evelyn de Morgan(1878)
Enjoy this Yoga Nidra with Michele
61 Points of Light and Inbetween Spaces
Lie down. Make yourself comfortable. Please enjoy a live-recorded 40mins extended practice from our Phase 2 Yoga Nidra Immersion weekend.
Yoga Nidra 3 Phase Immersion Training with Michele Sierra
Self-Learning Video Course - Study at your own pace. Live Online Immersion offered once a year.
How profoundly beautiful it has been to study Yoga Nidra deeper, and connect, even at a distance, to your study preparation and dedicated work and research. -Liz.
Michele Sierra’s uniquely designed Yoga Nidra Immersion Training guides you in learning the graceful art and practice of deep rest for mind and body.
Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) is a unique form of effortless psychophysical relaxation and a profound meditation technique. It is equally a body-mind relaxation, effective sleep practice, and experience of your innate, tangible peaceful presence.
Did you know there are many styles of Yoga Nidra for different aims and outcomes? We come to Yoga Nidra for various reasons; to sleep better, to settle our wake-centric mind and aroused nervous system, to release mental and muscular tension, and to heal and reconnect with our kind and peaceful heart.
Approaches to teaching and practising Yoga Nidra vary according to different traditions and more modern evolutions of this vital healing practice. Michele’s training respects and honours the South Asian roots of Yoga Nidra, where her original training and passion for meditation and Yoga Nidra originated more than 30 years ago. In this immersion, we will explore several key traditional and contemporary variations. We will practise a series of sensory relaxation and awareness techniques that effortlessly guide mind, body and heart into a state of complete ease and non-doing.
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Your expanded Yoga Nidra meditations have a way of giving an entrance to the meditative state that I have found difficult to come across with other guided sessions. -Nerida
How to Practice Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra always begins with grounding and relaxing the sensory body and is practised lying down. Yoga Nidra is for every-body - especially those who may find it challenging to sit for meditation or have physical limitations when sitting. First, we arrange the body in a comfortable, relaxed lying position. Through this somatic doorway, your attention is then guided step by step through the physical senses and sensations, relaxing all efforts to meet and rest in your innate awareness.
The duration of each Yoga Nidra varies from 20 minutes to 45 minutes. You are guided by an instructor's voice through specially sequenced instructions that enable you to bring body and mind into a state of receptivity, openness, and ease. It is easeful because there is nothing to do, no effort required. The method is deceptively simple – the only effort required is to make time to lie down and practice. It's easy to get a taste in the occasional practice, but with continuity, the benefits will permeate every part of your life.
Testimonials
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I'm finding I can tap into the energy of awareness more smoothly in my formal seated meditation practice. There’s a greater familiar quality of presence that I notice has rippled over from the yoga nidra. .
Saya
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Ive honestly never been this relaxed in mind and body since I was a child. I love how gentle and profound these practices are. I'm intrigued as to what continued practice will bring into my life because so far, it's been nothing short of an incredible transformation. I feel softer, more grounded and no ‘background noise’ so concentration is easy and effortless.
Josh
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I love the variations of yoga nidra offered in this course. It is different each time but one experience is beginning to flow through all of them. I am noticing that my mind and its thoughts have an ‘emptiness’ but there is simultaneously an awareness and deep grounded connection to my body.
Anj