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Live Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Retreat and Training

Starts: Thursday, 5th May 2022 - 6:00pm

Ends: Thursday, 21st July 2022 - 9:00pm

With:

Dr. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD CIAYT, Nirlipta Tuli MA CIAYT, Yoli Maya Yeh and visiting tutors.

Live Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Retreat and Training

Welcome to the openness of awareness that is Total Yoga Nidra. This course is once a week for 12 weeks. Welcome to the most comprehensive and supportive training our team of internationally recognised experts can offer. Experience a combination of the power of the intense experience of yoga Nidra practice with the opportunity to learn and share and the ongoing support of a global community of excellent teachers and fellow trainees.

Total Yoga Nidra is a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga Nidra – ‘yogic sleep’, a powerful practice of rest and inner resourcing – that respects and explores a range of practice methods, and also acknowledges a variety of levels of experience.

With: Dr Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD CIAYT, Nirlipta Tuli MA CIAYT, Yoli Maya Yeh and visiting tutors.

Our Total Yoga Nidra teacher training is an industry-leading intensive course and retreat, still – for now – available online. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, author of the seminal Yoni Shakti, and Nirlipta Tuli, co-founder with Uma of the Yoga Nidra Network, are among the leading researchers, teachers, and innovators in yoga Nidra alive today. Join us for a truly unique in-depth course and retreat, led by internationally recognised experts, and supported by some of the most experienced and acclaimed teachers in the UK and the States.

This is a 12-week course, with weekly live online input from 6-9 pm GMT on these dates:

05, 12, 19, 26 May, 02, 09, 16, 23, 30 June, 07, 14, 21 July 2022

You will also be required to attend 3 open circles:

21 February 2022 7.00 - 8.30 pm GMT

19 March 2.00 - 3.00 pm GMT

11 April 2022 7.00 - 8.30 pm GMT

14 May 2.00 - 3.00 pm GMT

15 June 2022 7.00 - 8.30 pm GMT

09 July 2.00 - 3.00 pm GMT

Attendance at these open circles is a mandatory part of the course.

TUTORIALS

Three tutorials included in the course costs and we suggest you take one per month. You will be given the link to book the tutorials yourself.

(All times are for the UK. If you need to check what time this is for you locally then you can do this here: timeanddate.com)

If you want to facilitate Total Yoga Nidra with confidence, then this live, online training is a wise choice. Why? Because you get unparalleled student support, practical guidance and structured learning:

Because you get three individual 30-minute tutorials with Nirlipta Tuli, co-founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, and a structured plan of listening and assignments to complete to help you learn more about Total Yoga Nidra.
Because you learn to create your own special Total Yoga Nidra for your personal practice.
Because you are given support and nurtured to enable you to create Total Yoga Nidra practices for your students and clients (and/or family and friends), and receive nourishing specific feedback from tutors and fellow students to refine and improve your work.
Because you receive three months ongoing student support through attendance at our monthly online community open circle webinars to answer your questions about the ethical facilitation of Total Yoga Nidra live and online.
Because you receive tutorial support to complete a case study about the application of Total Yoga Nidra practice to your own clients/ students/self, so you can share your own practices with creative confidence.

All this is in addition to the 12 live, online 3 hour sessions for delivery of course content, practice and practical exercises to empower you to grow in confidence to share yoga nidra. We share the history and development of yoga nidra and†explore the art and science behind it. This course explores the ethics of faciliatation, in the context of social justice and empowerment for all.

Course overview
Welcome Home to Yourself!
In this intensive course you can expect to:

Dive deeply into yoga nidra right from the start
Learn to teach and facilitate yoga nidra with confidence in class settings, one-to-ones, and for a range of therapeutic applications.
Develop the confidence to practice and share yoga nidra independently, responsively and creatively.
Get practical and technical guidance on teaching and sharing yoga nidra online (through Zoom, Facebook and other platforms).
Encounter yoga nidra in its totality with an exploration of the multiple forms and levels of this remarkable yoga practice.
Understand the full living range of different methods, lineages and levels of yoga nidra.
Experience Total Yoga Nidra as a living intelligence of the heart, an adaptogenic practice of deep healing and self-discovery.
Deepen your own intuitive practice of meditative yoga.
Independent, post-lineage and free from affiliation to any yoga school or lineage.
Rooted in the practical ethics of The†Yoga Nidra Network.
This is an intensive course. It requires a willingness and energy to maintain an intense focus on learning and practice and sharing. The intensive nature of the training means this course is unsuitable for anyone who has experienced psychosis.

Course content
You will learn:

To devise and deliver Total Yoga Nidra practices appropriate to your needs and those of your students and clients.
A clear practical understanding of the structure and function of Total Yoga Nidra, including models of best practice, and techniques to be avoided.
A practical understanding of the key principles of yogic psychology and philosophy relevant to the practice of Total Yoga Nidra.
A contextual understanding of the development and history of Total Yoga Nidra across different lineages.
To share Total Yoga Nidra with an informed sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual experiences of those receiving the practice.
To teach a range of restorative yoga asanas suitable for use during yoga nidra practice.
To teach within the appropriate safety guidelines for this type of yoga practice.

Topics covered include:

Understanding the structure and variations in approaches to, and levels of, Total Yoga Nidra practice.
Clinical hypnosis, self-hypnosis and yoga nidra ñ a full exploration of the relationship between these practices.
Further explorations in history and development of yoga nidra: nyasa, tantra, Satyananda Yoga, Himalayan Institute, Richard Miller, Swami Veda Bharati, Swami Jneshvara Bharati.
Deeper explorations of yoga philosophy and cosmology in relation to Total Yoga Nidra.
Exploring research on yoga nidra exploring the value of understandings from neuroscience, clinical psychology, psycho-neuro-immunology and physiology in relation to the function of yoga nidra, including stress and the relaxation response.
Restorative asana: refinements on propping poses for yoga nidra.
Sankalpa: resolution and intention setting, listening to inner guidance, framing and using Sankalpa within and around yoga nidra.
Breath awareness / pranayama: specific use within the structure of yoga nidra session, and to support the practice of yoga nidra.
Visualisations: a range of different traditional and creative scripting options, contra- indications, appropriateness and therapeutic value.
Creativity and innovation: devising your own Total Yoga Nidra experiences; metaphor, poetry and grammar for enlightened communication.
Responsiveness: tailoring script to needs of target populations, bespoke scripts: utilising client images in yoga nidra.
Self-development: sample practices, support for self-reflection and growth.
Dharana: yoga nidra as an aid to improve concentration.
Dhyana: yoga nidra as the meditative heart of yoga.
Living yoga nidra: practical and effective integration of yoga nidra into daily life.
Total yoga nidra as a therapeutic tool.

Time commitment:
Intensive, supportive online gatherings for practice and learning via Zoom groups and breakout-groups. This includes sharing your own practice, with community feedback and appreciation in the second gathering

The weekly 3 hr sessions.
Three personal tutorials.
Three Open Circle Webinars, attendance is mandatory.
A structured system of self-study and practice -16 hours.
A total of 60 hours of study, practice, training and support to nourish your growth into a confident and committed teacher and facilitator of Total Yoga Nidra.

Statement In Defence of the Practice of Yoga Nidrā:
A joint declaration of independence for Yoga Nidrā Shakti, by Nirlipta Tuli CIAYT MA, Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, and†Uma Dinsmore-Tuli CIAYT PhD, Founder of the Yoni Shakti the Movement Campaign to eradicate the abuse of women in yoga, Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network

This purpose of this statement is to inform, educate and reassure. Our intention is to support and uplift practitioners and facilitators of all forms and methods of yoga nidrā worldwide, whilst calling to account all the organisations which promote this practice. We offer our perspective on the current context of yoga nidrā teaching, including a summary of recent and historic abuses in all major yoga nidrā organisations. We also reveal, in brief, some neglected and hidden histories of yoga nidrā, in order to provide a broader, more nuanced and complete context of understanding of this diverse and ancient practice.
Please read this statement HERE

Course hours: 60

Accreditation: Independent Yoga Network, International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

Certification: On successfully completing all course requirements, you will receive a Yoga Nidra Network certificate of completion.

Maximum number of participants: 54

Venue and Travel info

This course is scheduled so that friends all over the world can join us from different times zones - the meeting times for our sessions are 6-9 pm each day and we will meet via Zoom, in one circle, but also with many opportunities to connect in smaller circles in Break Out Groups.

Please organise a place where you can lie down to practice yoga Nidra and still be visible to Uma and Nirlipta. This means setting up your phone, tablet or computer so that the camera can see you even when you lie down to practice yoga Nidra, side-on, from the head to the pelvis.

Tutorials between the two main online gatherings will be organised via telephone, zoom or WhatsApp chats - whichever platform suits you better. Details of these will be circulated after the first gathering.

Booking info

Live Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Retreat and Training

Cost and Booking

Please read below for the pre-requisites for this training as well as booking information

Please read below for the pre-requisites for this training as well as booking information

The cost for this training is £1459.20 (Including VAT).

This includes all tuition, 3 one to one tutorials totalling, 1.5 hours (30 minutes each), manual, and required listening mp3s, as well as recordings of every yoga Nidra practice delivered on the course, for future listening and development of personal practice. These recordings form a unique repertoire of Nidra practices specially designed for each course group.

An Instalment payment plan is available.
50% of the course fee required at time of booking to secure place before the course starts.
50% of the course fee to be paid by the time the course starts
Please ask for details by emailing bookings@thesource.co

For returning students (who have completed this course in person or online before and who wish to refresh their knowledge) we offer a 50% discount. For a discount code to use on booking please contact bookings@thesource.co

In the case of ONLINE courses that use our 'Online Learning Sanctuary,' we will give access to online course material one month prior to the 'live' course start date. As soon as you receive access to this material the course fee is then non-refundable as the course has started.

If you require any assistance with booking please contact bookings@thesource.co

Bursary funded places are available for bonafide applicants facilitating Yoga Nidra in marginalised communities. Please email studentsupport@thesource.co for details.

Before you begin

There are some ESSENTIAL prerequisites required before you begin this course.

1. Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience: comparative and creative forms of Yoga Nidra (previously known as the Foundation course). If you have not already completed this it can be done as an online course but must be completed BEFORE the beginning of the teacher training course. (Please note that we offer two immersion courses, the one for this training is the NIDRA immersion and not the Yoni Shakti Immersion).

2. Open Circles: Attend one of our Open Circles on the Ethics of Sharing Total Yoga Nidra BEFORE the start of the teacher training course. Attendance is included in the cost of your training.

3. Familiarity with the ethical precepts of the Total Yoga Nidra Network

View our video statement on ethics and yoga nidra
Read our operating ethics statement
Download and read the short version of the statement on ethics

PRE-COURSE READING & LISTENING

In addition to completing the Evaluation of Learning for the Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience, we have made some suggestions for preparatory reading and listening:

SET TEXTS - please aim to read these three books and one article before the course starts (or asap)

Radiant Rest by Tracee Stanley

Yoga Nidra Meditations by Julie Lusk

Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Decolonising Sleep and the Place of Yoga Nidra (Uma Dinsmore -Tuli, Dark Mountain, 12 February 2020)

REQUIRED LISTENING - Yoga Nidra Practices

You will be also given access to the following pre-course required listening material via our website. Having listened to the five Yoga Nidras below at least once before the start of the course, please write very brief notes on each of the tracks using the ‘Brief Nidra Review’ document (available as a Word document in your account at yoganidranetwork.org or as a PDF in the Online Learning Sanctuary).

Simply Calm Yoga Nidra – Nirlipta Tuli
Space for Creativity Yoga Nidra – Uma Dinsmore- Tuli
Yoga Nidra – Swami Satyananda script recorded by Nirlipta Tuli
Yoga Nidra – Swami Muktidharma script recorded by Nirlipta Tuli
Yoga Nidra - Rod Stryker

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

You may also find the following of interest over the coming months.

READ - Books
Daring to Rest by Karen Brody
Dream Yoga (Chapters 3 & 4) by Andrew Holecek
Liminal Dreaming by Jennifer Dumpert

Yoga Nidra : A Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing by Richard Miller
(A note on iRest: In the light of recent revelations, we are currently in a period of re-evaluation of iRest practices and we recommend that you read our statement, ‘In Defence of Yoga Nidra’, which is currently being edited. For those who do not want to listen to the Yoga Nidras delivered by Richard Miller that accompany the book, please see the suggested iRest Nidras below delivered by womxn.)

READ - Articles

Yoga Nidra and Sleep (Uma Dinsmore -Tuli, Balance Media, 24 May 2020)

WATCH - Videos

Liminal Dreaming, Yoga Nidra and the Liberation of Nidra Shakti. An interview with Jennifer Dumpert and Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.

Yoga Nidra and the Indigenous Roots of Lucid Dreaming. An interview with Charlie Morley and Uma Dinsmore Tuli.

Yoga Nidra has Indigenous Roots. An interview with Yoli Maya Yeh and Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

LISTEN - Podcast Interviews

Liminal Dreaming with Jennifer Dumpert. Episode 279. The Jennifer Dumpert Podcast

Yoga Nidra as Oracle with Yoli Maya Yeh – Ancestors, Transitions and Sacred Dreaming. Episode 4. Tracee Stanley Podcast.

Restorative Yoga and Race Based Trauma with gail parker PhD. Episode 1. Tracee Stanley Podcast.

Social Justice, Inclusion and Yoga Nidra with Yoli Maya Yeh. Episode 40. Daring to Rest Podcast.

The Colonization of Yoga Nidra with Yoli Maya Yeh and Uma Dinsmore-Tuli. Episode 39. Daring to Rest Podcast.

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Coursework

Live Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Retreat and Training

Course structure

Embodying Nidra Shakti - the power of rest in the Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Online Training Community
This is not a course to download content fast and leave you alone to make sense of it ñ this is a carefully constructed, nourishing learning environment and community of ongoing practice and professional support.
Our express intention is to nurture your skills and confidence to deliver your own uniquely responsive Total Yoga Nidra practices within the safe and effective structure that we have tried and tested over our decades of teaching and training in Yoga Nidra.

We know from our long experience that it is not possible to develop the skills, confidence and understanding needed to share responsive Yoga Nidra practices safely and confidently without a great deal of practice, and support. This is why we have created our course within the context of a community of tutors, teachers and practitioners, with the intention of providing you with the optimal learning environment to grow your own unique capacity to share the power of Total Yoga Nidra with confidence, in your own voice, in your own words!

We are proud of our graduates and teachers, we celebrate the great work that they do in sharing Total Yoga Nidra, and we invite you to join us in the learning and growing community of the Yoga Nidra Network, established in 2010.

Five phase structure

PHASE ONE: Preparing
Giving you confidence in the foundational understandings upon which the course is built.

1. Pre-course Application. As soon possible after booking email studentsupport@yoganidranetwork.org with the following information in a brief SINGLE DOCUMENT with your FULL NAME and the start date of your TYNTFT in the title of the document and the subject line of the email (like this eg. August 2020 TYNTFT Janet Jones):
Your yoga training and/or experience, with particular reference to any prior yoga nidra experience.
Why you want to do the course, what you hope to get out of it, and what you hope to contribute.
The yoga Nidra you have attended/observed, and any thoughts on its usefulness.

2. Complete the Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience (see before you begin tab).

3. Familiarise yourself with the Ethical precepts of the Total Yoga Nidra Network.

PHASE TWO: Welcoming
Welcoming you into the course, the field of yoga Nidra, and the ethical intentions of YNN.

1. Crucial Assignments: Orientation and Support Circles.

2. Entry and departure from the state of yoga Nidra: deepening understanding shared in the Open Circles.

3. Companionable unpacking of the Ethical Precepts of the Total Yoga Nidra Network in our Open Circles.

PHASE THREE: Gathering
These are the online meetings details are sent to you one week before the start of the course.

1. Course gatherings including lectures, webinars and practices.

2. Practicum.

3. Homework and practice diaries.

PHASE FOUR: Grounding
Grounds your learning in the practical development of visioning, writing and delivering your own unique fifteen-minute Total Yoga Nidra practice, to tutors and course members:

1. Tutorials to envision and create your own Total Yoga Nidra practice to share.

2. Empowerment through sharing your Total Yoga Nidra practice.

3. Empowerment through response to other participantsí Total Yoga Nidras.

Yoga Nidra script development project
Prior to the second part of the course write a draft script for a fifteen-minute yoga Nidra which you are intending to use for yourself, or with your students or clients. A tutorial meeting with one of the course tutors will be arranged for you to discuss this script. Feedback and suggestions on the draft to be provided by course tutors.†Refine the script, incorporating feedback.

Please note: Full details of this requirement are provided in the first gathering. There is no need to make any preparation for this before you attend the course.

Case Study
To be completed by an agreed date after the second gathering

A case study, conducted over four sessions of yoga Nidra, based on the reactions†of either an individual client (or self, if taking the non-teacher route) or a class†receiving the yoga Nidra. The case study can utilise the scripts developed during the course, or be based on other scripts developed by the student.

Please note: Full details of this requirement are provided in the first gathering. There is no need to make any preparation for this before you attend the course.

PHASE FIVE: After the gatherings
Supports you as you bring Total Yoga Nidra to your community, to your circles (live and/or online), welcomes you into our community of graduates: finishing your student experience and awakening into your time as teacher/facilitator.

1. Tutorial.

2. Completion of case studies.

3. Returning as a teacher to the Open Circles to continue to explore the Ethical Precepts and other issues arising.