Event info

Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training

Starts: Friday, 1st October 2021 - 11:00am

Ends: Sunday, 14th November 2021 - 7:30am

With:

Dr. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD CIAYT, Nirlipta Tuli MA CIAYT, and Suze Retera

The Total Yoga Nidra Teacher Training is back in The Netherlands again! This year the training will be offered in two 3-day modules by Nilripta Tuli, Uma Dinsmore Tuli and Suze Retera. Due to COVID-19 the training will be offered in a unique format: we will gather in person at the event location. Suze will be present and share her teachings with you in person, while Uma and Nirlipta will be live-streamed and projected on a large screen so they can offer their teachings to you live, but from the safety of their own home. You will also have the option to join the training online from home. This is due to the risks that come with them traveling from the UK at this point as travel between the UK and the rest of Europe is not recommended.

This is a training course for all those who wish to learn to share Yoga Nidra in group and individual settings. Intensive, supportive online or in-person gatherings for practice and learning (VIA Zoom groups and breakout-groups if you are joining online). This includes sharing your own practice, with community feedback and appreciation in the second gathering.

Join us for this unique intensive training hybrid experience online or at the beautiful church in Amsterdam (Weesp).
Part one, 1st - 3rd October
Part two, 12th - 14th November 2021
11am - 730pm (Amsterdam time) each day.

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

Certified by the IAYT for APD. Recognized by the Independent Yoga Network

Why should you join this training?

Because you get 5 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 twelve months of 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 - our support for you lasts for one year and one day from the start of the course.
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 two 3-day modules offered live in-person and online, 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 facilitation, in the context of social justice and empowerment for all.

This course brings together an international team of highly skilled tutors with decades of experience in sharing Yoga Nidra and training Yoga Nidra facilitators. Join Uma Dinsmore-Tuli Ph.D., Nirlipta Tuli MA, and Suze Retera MSc, who work with a vibrant team of experienced and skillful facilitators to hold a nurturing and educative space to learn everything you need to know about Total Yoga Nidra.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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.

Venue and Travel info

Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training

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This is a blend of in person training in Amsterdam and online with Uma and Nirlipta offering their teachings via zoom.

Cost and Booking

The cost for this training is €1649.00
This includes all tuition, 5 one to one tutorials totalling 2.5hours (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 the each course group.

Before you begin

There are some prerequisites required before you begin this course.

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).

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.

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.

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.
Interview with Jennifer Dumpert about Liminal spaces and yoga nidra https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QG3xmhgATIc
Book on Liminal Dreaming https://www.liminaldreaming.com/
Interview with Lucid Dream teacher Charlie Morley about indigenous roots of Yoga. Nidra https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_u6MiNCwsq0
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 six 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).

Booking info

Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training

This training is hosted by Global Flow in Amsterdam.
Please click 'book now' to be taken to their website for further details.

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Coursework

Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator 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 – 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.

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.
The yoga nidra you have attended / observed, and any thoughts on its usefulness.
Why you want to do the course, what you hope to get out of it, and what you hope to contribute.

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 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

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 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.

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. 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. Tutorials.
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.