Yoga Nidra is a simple and accessible form of meditation that is suitable for everyone. It has been demonstrated to reduce stress, decrease insomnia, and increase well-being, confidence, and energy levels while bringing more joy into your life. You will be guided through the meditation while lying on a yoga mat or comfortably seated. This systematic practice uses intention setting, affirmations, awareness of the body and breath, and self-inquiry to cultivate inner peace, build resilience, and reconnect with your innate wholeness.

The Yoga Nidra that I offer is informed by my training and certification  in the iRest® method.

Below is the 10 step process of Yoga Nidra.

Intention: What brings you to this practice? Perhaps a need to feel at ease and to relax,  perhaps a question that you’d like to explore through meditation, perhaps an inquiry into an emotion or situation in your life right now.

Heart Felt Desire: What is the deepest longing that is in your heart, something that you want more than anything in life,  that if it were realized you would be experiencing abiding joy, deep inner peace, and your unshakeable inherent sense of wholeness? We plant the seeds of the Heart Felt Desire deep in our awareness, and nourish them into fruition with yoga nidra.

Inner resource: Each time we practice, we welcome in a felt sense of safety and well-being. As we nourish our inner resource in practice, we can more easily call upon that felt sense of safety and well being in our daily lives.

Body sensing: Systematically welcoming and experiencing sensations throughout the entire body.

Breath sensing: Mindfully following the breath through various practices of breath awareness.

Feelings and emotions: Welcoming and exploring feelings and emotions that are present, along with their opposites to provide us with information to appropriately respond to the world around us and within ourselves.

Thoughts and beliefs: Welcoming and exploring thoughts and beliefs, along with their opposites to help transcend limiting beliefs and restore wellbeing and equilibrium.

Joy: Welcoming and experiencing joy and well being as an aspect of our being that is always present, always available and that needs no external cause.

Pure being/Awareness: Though our practice, we cultivate the ability to hold our experience in a nonjudgmental awareness, and  to recognize ourselves as the timeless, unchanging presence that is at peace in every moment.

Integration: Integrating the principles and practices of the meditation into daily life, and continuing to nourish the seeds of our intentions and Heart Felt Desire.

Please bring your yoga mat, blankets, and a pillow or bolster. No yoga or meditation experience is necessary.