An Intensive for Dedicated Students and Teachers
Deepen your own practice, and gain the skills to guide others through empowering, embodied journeys of discovery, nourishment and clarity.
Join Sheila and guest instructors for an inspiring training into the beautiful, healing power of Yoga Nidra.
Deepen your own practice, and gain the skills to guide others through empowering, embodied journeys of discovery, nourishment and clarity. This course will provide you with a clear and comprehensive understanding of the practice. The Seven Seeds Yoga Nidra method for training incorporates the model of the Koshas (the 5 subtle bodies) along with the latest research in modern neuroscience nervous system regulation Upon completion of this course the student will have a unique understanding of the East meets West approach to this ancient yet succinctly modern practice for multi-level healing.
Immerse yourself in this opportunity to learn the foundations for teaching Yoga Nidra, skillfully and with compassion.
About Yoga Nidra: The ancient practice of Yoga Nidra is the ideal antidote for modern life; a quiet practice that heals and transforms. Yoga Nidra translates as the “Yogi’s sleep." It is not the sleep of night time but a state of relaxed consciousness, which is the result of a guided sequential journey inward to stillness.
Yoga Nidra gives the practitioner an opportunity to release long held perceptions, traumatic developmental patterns and beliefs that are relied upon to make sense of the world. We are all conditioned in the way we experience our reality by memories of the past. Within the deeply relaxed state of Yoga Nidra, one can release and heal subconscious issues related to health, work, stress and relationships resulting in a more conscious and powerful existence.
In this intensive you will learn:
- The History and Development of Yoga Nidra
- The Science of Yoga Nidra
- The Stages of Yoga Nidra Creating Sankalpa (heart felt intention)
- The Koshas (5 subtle bodies)
- Yoga Nidra as a Meditative Practice
- Growing Your Own Practice
- Developing scripts and finding your voice
Format:
- 24 hrs In Studio instruction
- 6 hrs online content with worksheet completion
- 2 live group online sessions with structured Q&A
At the end of this course you will have the skills needed to teach groups and individuals and the confidence to offer others the gift of Yoga Nidra.
This course is appropriate for yoga teachers, health professionals, dedicated yoga practitioners, parents & partners. CEU’s have been approved by the Yoga Alliance and Ontario Nurses Association. If you are a professional requiring CEU’s for your college please inquire and I will make contact to try to arrange this if possible.
Course requirements for Certification:
- Attendees must be present for all weekend sessions
- Attendees must watch and complete all on-line content. (if you are not able to be present for the live events they will be recorded but you are still required to watch them)
- Late sign-ups (i.e. the week of the start ) will be required to complete the pre-studio work to participate in the weekend training.
- Following the training weekend, Attendees will complete an (open book) exam and submit a voice recording of 3 of the 8 stages of the Yoga Nidra practice.
About the presenter:
Sheila has been practicing, studying and teaching Yoga Nidra classes, intensives, trainings and retreats for well over a decade, and has been living and practicing yoga for over 25 years. Sheila has a passion for the quiet contemplative practices and counts among her mentors Sarah Powers, Nischala Joy Devi, Rod Stryker and Jennifer Reis, who have enhanced her knowledge of Yin yoga, Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra.
Sheila is a certified Yoga of the Heart Teacher (Deep Relaxation for cardiac & cancer care). Her current passion is exploring developmental trauma and the nervous system and she completed the Smart Body/ Smart Mind (nervous system dysregulation) course with Irene Lyon in 2017. She also delves into her toolbox as an artist and Registered Respiratory Therapist when she is inspired to do so.
Sheila is passionate about sharing the practice of Yoga Nidra with others. From the depth of her own personal practice and study, she creates a compassionate atmosphere that nourishes the body, mind, heart and spirit of her students and as a result a deep and desired connection and community with her fellow earth school travellers.
Please note that this training is limited to 24 participants to maintain an intimate atmosphere for learning and has filled quickly in the past. Please register early to avoid disappointment.