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Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience

Sitaram Studio, Tanglewood, Gunhouse Lane, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2DB, United Kingdom

Starts: Saturday, November 23, 2019 - 10:00

Ends: Sunday, November 24, 2019 - 15:00

With:

Nirlipta Tuli, Theodora Wildcroft and Cecilia Allon

Comparative and creative forms of Yoga Nidra. Awaken your consciousness of sleep and dream through the tantric practice of expanded awareness for lucid living. Become alive to the source of well-being, happiness and purpose in every dimension of life.

We understand yoga nidra to be the most transformative, potent and remarkably adaptive of all yoga practices. Yoga nidra is in fact not really a single practice, but rather an experience of altered states of consciousness, essentially meditative experiences which can be used therapeutically for healing, as well as to enhance creativity and productivity and to improve sleep and general health.

The Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience is a self-contained and complete retreat style immersion (non-residential) open to anyone with an interest in experiencing Total Yoga Nidra. It is both a standalone weekend course that covers all the fundamentals of Total Yoga Nidra, as well as being a pre-requisite for moving on to the full Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training. The intention of this part of the course is to offer an accessible and profound immersion in the experience of Total Yoga Nidra, providing a perfect opportunity for those who have encountered other partial or limited forms of the practice to meet the full spectrum of approaches to yoga nidra.

We invite feedback from all our students - if you'd like to know what they're saying about this course then we're delighted to share it with you.

Topics Covered Include

A combination of theory and practice to give you a sound foundation (or to deepen your existing foundation) of understanding about what yoga nidra is in the broadest sense, and how it works, together with plenty of live, responsive and practical experiences of a full range of yoga nidra. We will cover:

Welcome to Yoga Nidra
History and Development
Intentions, and How They Shape the Practice
Comparative Structures
Comparative Rotations of Consciousness
The Science of Yoga Nidra
The Philosophy of Yoga Nidra
Liminality & Creativity
Sleep, Memory & Dreams
Trance: Hypnosis & Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra as a Meditative Practice
Sankalpa
Sound, Yoga Nidra & Bhakti Yoga
Growing your Own Practice

The course/retreat comprises ten contact teaching hours, of which at least five hours are practical yoga nidra experiences, plus there is optional personal listening homework of 20 minutes daily.

Schedule

Day One: 10:00 – 18:00
Day Two: 09:00 – 15:00

Further information

Course hours: 10

Accreditation: Independent Yoga Network

Maximum number of participants: 14

Venue and Travel info

Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience

Address

Sitaram Studio

Tanglewood

Gunhouse Lane

Stroud

Gloucestershire

United Kingdom

GL5 2DB

This venue in Stroud is Uma and Nirlipta's home.

Please note that you are welcome to arrive up to 30min before the course start time, but not before then.

Please also note that one miniature Schnauzer called Rosa is resident in our home! If you enjoy canine company you will be very happy indeed, but if you don’t like dogs, then you might be better off attending a course at another location.

What to Bring

The studio is warm and very well equipped with mats, bolsters, blankets, cushions, sheepskins and eye pillows and blocks, so you do not need to bring any yoga kit at all with you, unless you are especially attached to your own blanket/sheepskin, in which case, please do bring them along too to be extra super comfy. Please also bring walking boots or wellies (if you do not have any we have lots of spares you can borrow in most sizes), also waterproof coats and maybe hats and trousers too – even in the summer the weather can be unpredictable.

Local Accommodation

There are a number of options here:

Local B&B’s recommended by previous students
• Anna Thornhill offers a peaceful single room with great views in Bowbridge Lane, 10 minutes on foot from Gunhouse Lane. £30 per night bed and breakfast. Evening meals can also be provided on request at £10 each. Contact: Anna 01453 298917 or email: anna.thornhill@yahoo.com
• Anne Mackintosh at 6 Castle Villas, can be contacted on ahmack@btinternet.com or call 01453 766273
• The Imperial Hotel by Stroud Station, on Station Road is a five minute drive away (or 22min walk), they charge from £59 per night – contact 01453 764077 or info@imperialhotelstroud.co.uk – www.imperialhotelstroud.co.uk
• The Yew Tree in Brimscombe is a six minute drive away (or 35min walk) and they charge from £50 a night – contact 01453 887980 or info@theyewtreestroud.co.uk – www.theyewtreestroud.co.uk
• Mandy of Vale House in Chalford Vale is a ten minute drive away (07766 525664) she charges £69 a night for a single www.valehousebedandbreakfast.net
• Pammy Michell and her partner have a small double bedroom and an attic room available in their vegetarian home in Horns Road (approx. 15min walk away) – quiet house, no pets. Contact her directly on 01453 299248 or 0795 861 3093 or pammichell@googlemail.com
• There are also many other AirBnB options if you look on the site: www.airbnb.co.uk

Brownshill Monastery
Simple rooms are sometimes available in the guest house at Brownshill Monastery, about a fourteen minute drive away www.bernardine.org/brownshill-hospitality. The Cistercian nuns here have been very welcoming to our students in the past, and have hosted a number of Womb Yoga and Total Yoga Nidra courses, so if you tell them you are doing a retreat with Uma then they will know what you are doing – you can contact them through their website, phone 01453 883084 or email brownshillbookings@bernardine.org

Local Campsite
Uma highly recommends the beautiful and local Thistledown campsite in Nymphsfield as an option for those who wish to camp or bring a campervan. From £12 a night – prebooking essential. www.thistledown.org.uk

Camping in the Garden
It is possible that Uma and Nirlipta can accommodate up to 4 tents in their garden during the summer months, if you would like to camp during your course please contact Sivani on sivani@thesource.co
Please note, if you are camping:
• You need to bring your own tent, bedding and any other camping equipment you might need
• Camping is only an option on the nights within your course hours (for instance, if your course
starts on 10am on Friday and finishes on Sunday afternoon, you can stay Friday and Saturday
night but not the nights before or after the course finishes)
• You are welcome to use the lovely shower/bathroom on the ground floor during your stay
• You are welcome to offer a contribution if you are camping, suggested £15 per night in cash

If you are not driving to Stroud and will need transport back and forth from your accommodation to the studio, it often happens that another student with a car may be able to drop you, this of course can not be guaranteed. Uma recommends the local cab company Wonky Wheels 01453 767678 (landline) or 07986 562691 (mobile) – www.wonkyswheels.co.uk

Directions to Sitaram Studio

Airplane
You can either fly to Bristol Airport, from there you would need to get a bus into Bristol to Bristol Temple Meads station, then a train from there to Swindon and from Swindon to Stroud. The journey takes approximately 2hours to 2hours40min depending on connections.
The other possibility is to fly to London Heathrow. From there you get the train in to London Paddington and then you can get a direct train to Stroud (or with one change at Swindon). The journey takes approximately 2hours 30min.
See below for information of what to do once you get to Stroud.
It is cheaper to book trains in advance, you can get train times and ticket information on:
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/planjourney/search

Train / Bus
The studio is one mile east from Stroud station.

Car
From London M4 and then off at Junction 15 to take the A419 to Swindon, Cirencester and Stroud.
From Bristol, and Wales, M4 East and then A46 to Stroud, then A419 to Cirencester.
From the Midlands and the North, M5 South then A419 to Stroud (follow signs through Stroud to Cirencester).
From the Southwest, M5 North then A419 to Stroud,

Gunhouse lane is a turn off the A419 London Road that runs from Stroud to Cirencester.(on your right coming in from Cirencester and on your left heading out from Stroud). At the bottom of the lane is Topps Tiles. Drive right up to the very top of the lane, over three sneaky speed bumps. Tanglewood is at the top.
Tanglewood is right at the very top of GUNHOUSE LANE, where it carries straight on and turns into a track and behind a five bar gate.Please do not follow the top of Gunhouse lane around to the left - this leads to Thrupp House - this is NOT Uma and Nirlipta's house.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT PARK IN FRONT OF THE BIG HOUSE AT THE TOP ON THE LEFT OF THE LANE, this annoys the neighbours.
PLEASE DRIVE RIGHT ON UP THE BUMPY TRACK INTO OUR DRIVE and park up
You can see the house from the top of the lane when you drive along the bumpy track has a circular window in the eaves.
THOSE OF YOU DRIVING – please note, there is only space for a few cars at Uma and Nirlipta's home. Some of you will be able to park at the house, but if all you drive, most of you will need then park in BOWBRIDGE LANE - you can drop off your stuff, go and park and then walk back up hill.

Booking info

Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience

Cost and Bookings

The cost of the course is £275 (inc. VAT) which includes all tuition, manual, two meals (lunch on each day) plus refreshments.

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