Journey Through Consciousness With Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra is a practice that invites us to experience deep rest—to soften and truly connect with our core essence, our True Nature. As we do so, we will recalibrate our nervous system—we invite ease into the body, and peace into the heart. We step away from the feelings of stuckness, anxiety, overwhelm and fear as we come to experience a deeper connection not only to True Self—but to the world, and to the divine. In this 10-session course, you will walk gently down the path of conscious sleep into the realm of deep rest.

Lección 1: Yoga Nidra: The What & The Why

Through the practice of Yoga Nidra, we are able to lift ourselves out of our automatic responses. We break free from patterns of stress and release chronic tension that has been held in the body and mind. In this first session, you’ll learn a bit about what yoga nidra is—and what current research reveals about this powerful ancient practice. We close this practice with a guided reflection connecting you to your deeper desires and hopes for nurturing the practice of yoga nidra in your life.

Lección 2: Riding The Waves Of Consciousness

Yoga Nidra takes us on a journey through the space of our conscious awareness and our energetic anatomy. In this session, we’ll spend some getting looking at the structure of a traditional yoga nidra practice and the experience it invites into our complete physiology. The session closes with a guided practice to help connect with the felt sense of your energetic anatomy.

Lección 3: Entering Relaxation

This first stage of yoga nidra is about settling in and gently inviting the stress response to deactivate. In this session, we take a closer look at the first stage of yoga nidra, and what is happening here in our nervous system and energetic anatomy, as well as in our brain states. The session closes with a guided practice to invite relaxation into your body/mind.

Lección 4: Sankalpa: The Power Of Intention

In this session, we journey deeper into our practice of deep rest with the practice of Sankalpa. We explore our deeper desires and how to plant the seeds of intention within our conscious and subconscious minds. Our session closes with a guided practice to support the creation of your Sankalpa—a deeper intention that you can carry with you into your yoga nidra practice.

Lección 5: Spacious Awareness

The next stage of our yoga nidra walks us through a rotation of consciousness. In this stage, we move deeper into our experience of deep rest as we cultivate spacious awareness and clear neural pathways in our mind for new ways of thinking and being in the world. We close this session with a guided practice to invite the experience of spacious awareness.

Lección 6: Breath Awareness

Our life force lies within our breath. Our ability to breathe, and the way in which we are breathing is essential to the quality of our health and wellbeing. In this session, we learn to become aware of our habitual patterns of breathing and become empowered to restore balance through the practice of breath awareness stage of yoga nidra. You’ll learn the effects of conscious breathing on the body, mind, and emotion bodies. We close this session with a guided practice to consciously connect with the experience of breath in the body.

Lección 7: Exploring Opposites

In this session, we move a bit deeper into our sensory and emotional world with the exploration of opposite sensations. In this stage of the yoga nidra practice, we are provided with a safe space to explore some of our most challenging emotions. We are given the gift of sensing and feeling them—AND moving through and releasing them. You will learn what happens in this stage, and have the opportunity to explore connecting to opposite sessions in your body and mind.

Lección 8: Visualization: It’s Not What You Think

In this session, we go deeper into our practice to expand our understanding of who we actually are at the core of our being in the visualization stage of yoga nidra. In this stage, we strengthen our capacity to let go of our habitual patterns while in the safe container of deep rest. This session explores the what, why, and how of this stage, and closes with a guided practice to offer you a sense of what occurs in the visualization stage of yoga nidra.

Lección 9: Coming Home

In this session, we’ll complete our walk through the final stages of yoga nidra. We return from the depths of our deepest rest and bring with us the gifts that we have received. We explore the nature of the complete practice of yoga nidra and how to transition back into our daily waking life.

Lección 10: The Practice Of Yoga Nidra

In this final session, we move through a complete short-form guided yoga nidra practice.

Reviews

I began this course to learn what’s behind yoga nidra. I accomplished that and so much more. The guided yoga nidra meditations every day have brought me to a state of awareness in my daily life that I have not ever experienced.

I am so very grateful for you putting this course together and sharing it with us.

Namaste.

Thank you Dr Patty!

Very enjoyable, encouraging and effective course. Greatly appreciated!

You provide a comprehensive explanation of the steps of Yoga Nidra practice, with details of the physiological and cognitive benefits of practice.
Many why, why, why's were answered.

Your explanation of Sensing Opposites and Visualisation answered qualms about practicing these. Opposites to recall Impermance and balancing towards equanimity. Visualisation to assist in mind training and watching the mind as if from afar.

In your separate Long-length Full practice, the 10 minute silence, to remain in silent, stillness, infinitely vast space of awareness, is excellent.

May everyone Awaken Peace and Healing, revealing, realising and coming home to our ultimate well-being, pristine awareness, for the benefit of every being and our world!

This course was a deep look at yoga nidra and I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for creating the course and for sharing it on Insight Timer.

Thank you for this terrific course! I have done yoga nidra, and it was fascinating to learn more about each stage and how it works in the body and mind.

Each practice was informative and deeply restful in itself. A wonderful journey 🙏

An excellent, thorough, well explained and inspiring course! 🙏 Thank you

Thank you for this wonderful course so skillfully lead. The sound of your voice was not overly soothing, but resonated with intelligence and compassion. The information was methodically laid out in a very accessible way. Very practical and heartfelt.

Very well done. Yoga nidra has been a very important part of my healing journey 🙏🏻❤️

Beautiful course, to understand how this healing practice is created. I ❤️love it.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom in n this course.
I am so grateful to be able to listen to your courses, lives and tracks on IT even living in another part of the world!

Very informative. A must for yoga teachers. Thank You Doc

A beautiful course. I’m glad I did it, I’ll return to it again. I never knew there were so many components to Yoga Nidra. I learned so much!

Thank you for this course! I listen over and over and want to study more about yoga nidra. You have explained it so well and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge! 🙏❤️

✨️This was wonderful for my healing journey, I love yoga nidra and the teachings✨️
✨️This course gave solid information, leaned how I'm healing through each phase/stage. This course helped to understand what's happening and how we can take our journey to a deeper leval and understanding.
✨It was lovely and peaceful thank you again💜🌹

Thank you!

I loved learning this practice. Thank you!

Clear, guided journey through the practice of yoga nidra. Thank you.

Loved this course! Patty has a soothing gentle voice and manner and the course has lots of information about a practice that was new to me. Very enjoyable.

This was such a beautiful course. Thank you so much Patty for this precious gift 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️