Event info

Live Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Retreat and Training

Starts: Saturday, August 1, 2020 - 18:00

Ends: Monday, August 31, 2020 - 21:00

With:

Dr. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD CIAYT, Nirlipta Tuli MA CIAYT, and Theo Wildcroft PhD, and visiting tutors.

Course Description

STARTS:
Part ONE: August 1st - 6th, from 6pm - 9pm each day
Part TWO : August 28th-31st, from 6pm til 9pm each day

ENDS
August 31st 9pm - with follow up tutorials and group seminars until August 6th 2021

Welcome Home to Yourself!
Welcome to the openness of awareness that is Total Yoga Nidra. We have been teaching and practising Yoga Nidra since the 1990s, and training Total Yoga Nidra teachers since 2010. We have a sound basis in practical ethics and we know that the best teachers are those who are rooted in their own practice, and have confidence in their own deep connection to the wellspring that is Yoga Nidra. We are proud of the teachers we have trained and we have a deep commitment to sharing this transformative and nurturing practice widely.

This Live Online Retreat training is the most comprehensive and supportive training we can offer because it combines the power of intense experience of practice online, the opportunity to learn and share together, and the ongoing support of a global community of excellent teachers and fellow trainees. This is the most profound and secure way to learn to share Yoga Nidra because you dive in deep right at the start, in the knowledge that you have a community of experienced tutors and teachers to support your growth over the coming year and beyond.

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.

This course trains yoga teachers and others to teach and facilitate yoga nidra with confidence in class settings, one-to-ones, and for a range of therapeutic applications. Uniquely amongst yoga nidra trainings, it offers Total Yoga Nidra, a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges a variety of different levels of experience during yoga nidra.

At the end of the first month of the training you will have learnt all you need to practice and share yoga nidra fully independently, fully responsively and fully creatively. Over the year that follows, the monthly webinars with our community of teachers and trainees, and your own personal tutorials with our faculty will continue to nurture and nourish your own practice and teaching.

Why this course?

Because it is independent, post-lineage and free from affiliation to any yoga school or lineage. Because it is rooted in the practical ethics of The Yoga Nidra Network
Because it has grown from the long experience of our training courses since 2010.
Because it empowers you practice and share this powerful technique in your own voice.
Because it is absolutely authentic in its commitment to training the kindest, safest, genuinely heart-centred practitioners and teachers of yoga nidra.

If you have a desire to share Total Yoga Nidra – please JOIN US!

Encounter yoga nidra in its totality
Explore the multiple forms and levels of this remarkable yoga practice
Become empowered to deepen your own intuitive practice of meditative yoga nidra beyond the limits of standard trademarked and traditional forms
Understand the full living range of different methods, lineages and levels of total yoga nidra
Experience total yoga nidra as a living intelligence of the heart, an adaptogenic practice of deep healing and self-discovery
Grow in confidence to share responsive and appropriate total yoga nidra practice with students and clients
Practical and technical guidance on teaching and sharing yoga nidra online (through Zoom, Facebook and other platforms)

This training is designed by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli, who together have over forty years experience of practice, teaching and working therapeutically with all forms and levels of yoga nidra, is a uniquely comparative and creative, experiential course. It offers both practical training and personal and professional development.

Intensive

Please be very aware that this is what it says: an Intensive Course. It requires a willingness and energy to maintain an intense focus on learning and practice and sharing, and to work some long hours with early starts and some evening sessions. The intensive nature of the training and the number of multiple nidra experiences during the appraisal process mean that this Intensive Course is unsuitable for anyone who has experienced psychosis.

What is Total Yoga Nidra?

Total Yoga Nidra is a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges and supports a variety of different levels of experience during yoga nidra. Total yoga nidra empowers you to encounter yoga nidra in its totality: as an adaptogenic meditative practice without limits in terms of its capacity to heal, nourish and liberate.

Most people who are familiar with yoga nidra have listened to some kind of pre-recorded audio track(s), but might not have had the opportunity to encounter the practice live from a teacher in a group setting; and although many people may have experienced a live group yoga nidra, where a teacher delivers a standard script to a group of students, this relaxing experience is very different from practising yoga nidra that has been specifically tailored for a particular individual, for example in a one-to-one setting. This experience in turn is different from the encounter with yoga nidra that comes during a practice that is co-created by teacher and student together, with the specific intention to meet the student precisely where s/he is right now, both in language and method of practice, and in terms of the level at which that practice can be most appropriately met.

And whilst all of these experiences of yoga nidra certainly bring huge benefits, an entirely different set of possibilities open up when yoga nidra is set free from the need to have any external auditory guide of any kind. At this level of self practice, the protocols for practice are so deeply familiar to the practitioner that when we simply lie (or sit) quietly, then the practice can be invited to unfold silently, in the voice of our own intuitive inner guide.

In this course 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 – 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

Schedule

Intensive, supportive online gatherings for practice and learning from 1-6 August, and 28-31 August daily (VIA Zoom groups and breakout-groups). This includes sharing your own practice, with community feedback and appreciation in the second gathering
6pm til 9pm BST [30 hours] for each of these dates in August (1st - 6th and 28th - 31st)
Four personal tutorials [2 hours - one required between the two August Gatherings, and the other three spaced throughout the following twelve months]
Twelve monthly Open Circle Webinars (attendance at 6 is required [12 hours], and the others are optional)
Plus structured system of study and practice [16 hours].

All of which form a flexible and nurturing programme of continuing study and community support for your teaching and facilitation for a year and day (until August 6 2021). After that - you are invited to continue in connection and nurture with the Yoga Nidra Network as a Graduate attender at Open Circles and other events)

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.

You are now warmily invited to enjoy this Birdsong NIdra from the wonderful Theo.

Further information

Course hours: 60

Accreditation: Independent Yoga Network

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

Maximum number of participants: 36

Venue and Travel info

Live Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Retreat and Training

Address

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 6-9pm each day and we will meed 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, Nirlipta and Theo. This means set 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.

Links for the Zoom meetings will be sent to you one week before the course begins.

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

Pre-requisite

The pre-requisite for this Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training is the Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience: comparative and creative forms of Yoga Nidra (previously known as the Foundation course). If you have not already done this it can be done as an Online course. Please be sure to complete this course BEFORE the beginning of the teacher training course. You are also required to attend one of our Open Circles on the Ethics of Sharing Total Yoga Nidra BEFORE the start of the teacher training courses. The link to attend the next Open Circle is here Open Circles. Attendance at this course is free for our TYNTFT students - it is included in the cost of your training. These circles happen every month and you are warmly invited to attend these open circles each month during your training. Graduates are also invited to continue to attend as part of on-going community connection and support.

Cost and Booking

The cost for this training is £1108 + VAT = £1329.60
this includes all tuition, 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 the each course group.

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

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Coursework

Live Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Retreat and Training

TYNTFT ONLINE : FIVE PHASE STRUCTURE OF LEARNING:
EMBODYING NIDRA SHAKTI (the power of rest) in the Total Yoga Nidra teacher and Facilitator Online Training Community

At the Yoga Nidra Network we have been running trainings for Total Yoga Nidra facilitators and teachers since 2010. This Online Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training (OTYNTFT) is uniquely designed to empower you to practice and share responsive, co-creative and trauma-informed Total Yoga Nidra to groups and individuals, live and online. Within a unique context of clearly defined ethical precepts, this course provides a well-held, structured and supportive training programme of webinars, tutorials, small group and dyad work for practical training, creative empowerments and sharing. There are dozens of unique live and recorded Total Yoga Nidra practices, home assignments to deepen your understanding of Total Yoga Nidra, and a series of open circles for discussion with other trainees, graduates, tutors and experienced teachers of Yoga Nidra. All of this is held within a nourishing and nurturing community of fellow practitioners and facilitators.

Please know that this is not simply a course to download content fast and leave you alone to make sense of it – this is a carefully constructed, nourishing learning environment and community of on-going 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.

STRUCTURE The course divides into FIVE PHASES

We embody the practice of Total Yoga Nidra through the process of the course. Here is a short list of the five phases –

1 PHASE ONE: Preparing
Giving you confidence in the foundational understandings upon which the course is built.
1. Pre-course Application Process
2. Completing Total Yoga Nidra Immersion experience
3. Familiarity with Ethical precepts of the Total Yoga Nidra Network (see more links beneath)

2 PHASE TWO: Welcoming
Welcoming you into the course, the field of yoga nidra, and ethical intentions of the 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 Open Circles

3 PHASE THREE: Gathering
Engages you in a series of scheduled live meetings and exercises covering all components of yoga nidra theory, history and structures your practice and sharing of each component
1. Course gatherings including lectures, webinars and practices
2. Practicum
3. Homework and practice diaries

4 PHASE FOUR: Grounding
Grounds your learning in a 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 participants’ Total Yoga Nidras

5 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

PHASE ONE: Preparing
Crucial Assignments for Pre-Course Preparation
This is an intensive teacher and facilitator training. It is crucial for everyone to feel confident with the material that we ask you to study BEFORE you arrive on the course. To help you build this confidence we have created a two-phase process which we feel will support your learning.

There is recommended pre-course reading and listening available for purchase by clicking on the links below.

Pre-Requisite

Total Yoga Nidra Immersion please complete this immersion before the TYNT begins
Familiarity with our ethics - please be sure to view our video statement on ethics and yoga nidra.
Please read our operating ethics statement here.
Please download and read the short version of the statement on ethics that you will find at the bottom of the operating ethics statement.

APPLICATION PROCESS
As soon as you are able, after booking your place on the course please email studentsupport@yoganidranetwork.org with the following information. Please present this information in a 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):

• a brief account of your yoga training and/or experience, with particular reference to any prior yoga nidra experience;
• a brief account of why you want to do the course, what you hope to get out of it, and what you hope to contribute;
• a brief account of the yoga nidra which you have attended / observed, and any thoughts on its usefulness.

PHASE TWO: Welcoming
Attendance at Open Circle before the course starts – please attend this evening meeting before the TYNTFT course begins.
Please be sure to have studied our Ethics materials (listed above in PHASE ONE ) before attending the open circle)

Reading
You are required to read the following articles and three set texts (preferably before the start of the training)

Decolonising sleep and the Place of Yoga Nidra (Uma Dinsmore -Tuli, Dark Mountain, 12 February 2020)
Yoga Nidra and Sleep (Uma Dinsmore -Tuli, Balance Media, 24 May 2020)
Swami Satyananda Saraswati's Yoga Nidra
Richard Miller's Yoga Nidra: A Meditative Practice for Deep Healing and Relaxation
Rod Stryker's The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity and Freedom

Listening
You are required to listen to the Richard Miller Yoga Nidra CD that is included in the Richard Miller required text book.

Once booked on to the training you will be given access to the following pre-course required listening material via our website:

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

Having listened to the above 6 Yoga Nidras 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 (access given on booking). After the first part of the course you will be asked to review these yoga nidra recordings and write more detailed review notes on each using the form “Detailed Nidra Review” document (also given on booking).

Please know that the notes you take on your pre-course listening are not to be handed to the course tutors. The notes you make are intended to facilitate your understanding of what you have heard to help support small group discussions on the course. These notes are to be retained by you to support your capacity to analyse and discuss different approaches to yoga nidra with your co-students on the course. This is an important aspect of the course, so please bring your notes with you.

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

PHASE FOUR: Grounding
Coursework (to be completed between the first and second online gatherings of the training)

Yoga Nidra script development project
Prior to the second part of the course (second gathering if doing the course in two parts, or the dedicated day before the second half if doing the course as an intensive), 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. Case study can utilize 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
On-going support through tutorials and open circles – our commitment to your support and growth as a teacher continues for one year and one day from the date of the first gathering.