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):
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- Your yoga training and/or experience, with particular reference to any prior yoga nidra experience.
- Why you want to do the course, what you hope to get out of it, and what you hope to contribute.
- The yoga nidra you have attended / observed, and any thoughts on its usefulness.
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. 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