Journey Through Consciousness With Yoga Nidra - by Patty Hlava, Ph.D.

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Journey Through Consciousness With Yoga Nidra

With Patty Hlava, Ph.D.

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.

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Meet your Teacher

Patty Hlava, Ph.D.
Maple Grove, MN, USA

Dr. Patty Hlava is a personal transformation guide and founder of AwakenPeace Healing. With over 15 years of clinical experience in the health and wellness field, Patty is an expert at guiding others toward sustainable habit changes for mind, body, and spirit. In addition to her history as a mental health professional, she also holds certifications as a yoga health coach, intrinsic coach, yoga teacher, meditation instructor, and Ayurveda wellness counselor.

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10 Days

6.1k students

4.8 stars

16 min / day

Sleep

English

Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 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.

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Lesson 10

The Practice Of Yoga Nidra

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

Ask your teacher

This course includes 52 community questions and 15 audio replies from Patty Hlava, Ph.D.. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Nautchay

November 9, 2024

Thank you for a very informative course. I've been doing yoga nidra for years to relax but never knew how deep this practice is or why we do certain things!

Vicki

June 14, 2024

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.

jane

May 3, 2024

The very best course that I have listened to about yoga nidra. I really enjoyed learning more about what I have been practicing for a couple of months. Particularly the section about brain waves , I often use binaural music to help with my pain. I cannot say that I understand everything but I will repeat the course in a couple of weeks. Thank you to you and to insight timer for this course, I recommend it. Jane 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

Rhonda

February 20, 2024

Very good introduction to the practice. I learned a lot and the meditations were very supportive in the learning. Thank you! I am looking forward to diving deeper into my practice.

Anne

January 14, 2024

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Susan

October 11, 2023

Very helpful

Tara

October 9, 2023

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!

L

September 5, 2023

Excellent. Very step-by-step with clear explanations and directions.

Micah

July 28, 2023

Excellent

Marie

July 22, 2023

Wonderfully relaxing.

Marilyn

June 20, 2023

I loved this course. I shall be searching for more Yoga Nidra

Dave

May 27, 2023

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.

Kate

May 9, 2023

Thank you, Patty, for this great course. I’ve been a fan of Yoga Nidra for many years but really enjoyed learning more about each component. I can thoroughly recommend this course to those wishing to deepen their knowledge and understanding. Also, your track: Yoga Nidra To Invite Ease To The Body, is excellent. 🙏

Sharon

April 10, 2023

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.

Frédéric

April 6, 2023

That was perfect, thank you 🙏🏻

Anne

March 26, 2023

Ggh

Joy

March 19, 2023

Helen

March 19, 2023

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

Mike

February 26, 2023

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

Fabi

February 3, 2023

Great course!!!

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