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Trauma Informed Yoga Nidra - Step 1: Cultivating The Inner Resource
With Jacqueline ToomeyThe foundation of trauma-informed Yoga Nidra begins with cultivating your Inner Resource: a deeply personal experience of safety, comfort, strength, or ease that supports nervous system regulation and serves as an anchor throughout your practice. In this course, you'll first learn what the Inner Resource is, why it plays such an important role in trauma-informed meditation, and how it helps create a greater sense of stability, resilience, and embodied safety. Next, you'll be guided through a reflective journaling exercise using gentle self-inquiry to identify memories, places, people, experiences, or qualities that naturally evoke feelings of security, connection, and ease. Finally, you'll experience a guided somatic mini Yoga Nidra meditation that invites you into a state of deep rest while helping you access, strengthen, and embody your unique Inner Resource. What you'll gain: - Understand the purpose of the Inner Resource in trauma-informed Yoga Nidra. - Discover personal sources of safety, comfort, and support through guided self-reflection. - Develop greater awareness of your body's signals of regulation and ease. - Experience a deeply restorative somatic meditation that helps cultivate an embodied sense of safety. - Build a foundation for future Yoga Nidra practices by establishing a reliable internal anchor you can return to whenever needed. This course is designed to meet you where you are, offering invitations rather than expectations, so you can explore the practice at your own pace with curiosity and self-compassion.
Cultivating the Inner Resource teaches you to regulate your nervous system through self inquiry, somatic practices, helping you develop an embodied sense of safety and security that creates a new baseline of ease in both body and mind.
About this course
The foundation of trauma-informed Yoga Nidra begins with cultivating your Inner Resource: a deeply personal experience of safety, comfort, strength, or ease that supports nervous system regulation and serves as an anchor throughout your practice. In this course, you'll first learn what the Inner Resource is, why it plays such an important role in trauma-informed meditation, and how it helps create a greater sense of stability, resilience, and embodied safety. Next, you'll be guided through a reflective journaling exercise using gentle self-inquiry to identify memories, places, people, experiences, or qualities that naturally evoke feelings of security, connection, and ease. Finally, you'll experience a guided somatic mini Yoga Nidra meditation that invites you into a state of deep rest while helping you access, strengthen, and embody your unique Inner Resource. What you'll gain: - Understand the purpose of the Inner Resource in trauma-informed Yoga Nidra. - Discover personal sources of safety, comfort, and support through guided self-reflection. - Develop greater awareness of your body's signals of regulation and ease. - Experience a deeply restorative somatic meditation that helps cultivate an embodied sense of safety. - Build a foundation for future Yoga Nidra practices by establishing a reliable internal anchor you can return to whenever needed. This course is designed to meet you where you are, offering invitations rather than expectations, so you can explore the practice at your own pace with curiosity and self-compassion.
Meet your Teacher
Jacqueline Toomey is a yoga teacher with over 20 years of experience and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP), she has trained in over 1000 hours of continuing education. She specializes in trauma-informed, nervous system-based practices and has dedicated her career to helping individuals navigate the effects of chronic stress and trauma through accessible somatic meditation and Yoga Nidra. Over the past decade, Jacqueline has had the privilege of guiding more than 5,400 first responders through her evidence-informed approach to meditation and nervous system regulation. Prior to her work with first responders, she supported adaptive yoga programs at Craig Hospital supporting survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury, including survivors of mass shootings and unthinkable tragedy. She is the creator of a Yoga Alliance-approved Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra Teacher Training, integrating contemporary neuroscience, somatic practices, and traditional Yoga Nidra principles. Trauma-Informed Yoga Nidra: Cultivating the Inner Resource offers an introduction to foundational concepts and practices drawn from her comprehensive teacher training program.