Mother Mary Yoga Nidra Teacher Training

Yoga Nidra is for teachers and students; artists, athletes, and parents; health professionals, men, women, and children. Yoga Nidra is both a modern science and an ancient meditation with its roots in tantric nyasa. As practiced today, it is a fascinating and powerful blend of yogic arts and mind-body science, amply researched, and used widely in hospitals, schools, recovery programs, households, and more, and gaining popularity every day. This training is for anyone seeking to empower their meditation life, or to bring more freedom into their lives and others’ through this practice.

Yoga means not only Union in Sanskrit, it also means Awake. Thus Yoga Nidra paradoxically means Awakened Sleep. In this awakened mind consciousness, we receive refreshment, a calming of the nervous system, and an increased clarity and focus of mind, for whatever we desire to achieve

Yoga Nidra may be practiced for:

• Better sleep
• Better health, work, relationships, finances, creativity, or other life goals
• Behavior modification, as with phobias or habits
• Higher spiritual alignment

All these are attainable and appropriate goals for yoga Nidra, as we learn to guide ourselves and others through specific steps to receive this deeply restful form of meditation, all done in Savasana, the relaxation posture

Curriculum

In this 25 hour Yoga Nidra teacher training, students will:

• Experience Yoga Nidra practice in multiple sessions
• Examine its roots, science, applications, and essential elements
• Learn to craft the elements into short and long scripts
• Explore approaches to sankalpa (resolve/intention) for specific goals
• Practice script reading, timing, voice, tone, delivery
• Receive a 25-hour Yoga Nidra training certification, with completion of homework
• Receive 30 days Pure Yoga membership for Yoga Nidra classes, to meet homework requirements for Yoga Nidra attendance and observation.

Required Textbook: Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati (ISBN-13: 978-8185787121). It can be purchased through amazon or at Butala Emporium, 132 E. 28th Street.

Please purchase the required textbook and bring to the training, along with a notebook, pen/pencil, a refillable water bottle, and layers if you get cold when you nap.

Pre-training and Post-training Homework readings will be emailed to you for the weeks prior to and after the training, so the soonest you register, the earliest you get started. There are three Pre-training Homework readings, in order to maximize our face time contact hours’ effectiveness.

Wear yoga clothes, and bring a change of clothes. Bring a journal and any required books. A manual is included with registration and will be provided for you.