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Read moreYoga Nidra and Small Kindnesses
Today, I am excited to tell you about my next live Yoga Nidra teacher training, Restore Yoga workshop, as well as offer you this incredible poem …
I heard Helena Bonham Carter read this poem and it stopped me in my tracks. Granted, she could read the IRS filing instructions and it would sound inspiring and poetic.
Small Kindnesses
By Danusha Lameris
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”
I love the notion of “these fleeting temples we make together” the container of love made by a simple gesture, a kind word, a smile.
To me, this poem epitomizes that fascinating intersection I like to play at and study, that crossroads between our humanness and our beingness. Here, we can celebrate the messiness of being human, knowing that behind the hot mess that is being human, there is a foundation of goodness, and compassion.
We are Source and Source is love.
I love practicing our ability to compassionately respond to life’s ups and downs instead of reacting to them. Practicing this essential skill through Yoga Nidra is like learning to become a ninja of life, except of course that instead of mastering nunchucks and throwing stars, you get to lie down and practice napping your way to enlightenment while drifting on clouds of bliss. When you get done, you get to go back out into the world and show up as your best, most responsive self.
To help us all practice this essential life skill, I invite you to join me for my Restore Yoga and Yoga Nidra workshop and my live, in-person and online Yoga Nidra training.
Live Yoga Nidra Teacher Training:
May 11–12; 18–19, Salt Lake City and via Zoom
Yoga Nidra is far more than guided visualization—it's a profound pathway to personal transformation and even spiritual awakening. In this comprehensive 30-hour training, you'll become an expert in harnessing the life-changing potential of Yoga Nidra. I’ll guide you to gain a mastery of this ancient practice. You’ll emerge with the skills to guide your students into deep states of conscious relaxation, facilitating lasting shifts in their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Whether you're a yoga teacher, coach, or therapist, adding Yoga Nidra to your repertoire will allow you to profoundly impact the lives of those you serve.
Stand Apart as a Truly Transformative Teacher: Facilitating Transformation with the Yoga of Sleep
In today's crowded wellness landscape, becoming a Yoga Nidra expert is your key to standing out. This training goes far beyond teaching you rote scripts—you'll learn the overarching principles and roadmaps that allow you to teach from the wisdom of your authentic voice. Gain the ability to dynamically craft experiences tailored to your students' unique needs. People are yearning for the powerful transformation only you can provide through the ancient art of Yoga Nidra. Seize this opportunity to become a master guide on the journey of self-discovery and radical growth.
Restore Yoga and Yoga Nidra Workshop:
Sunday, May 5th 12–2 pm at Be-ing Community
Normally this is held at Mosaic Yoga but there is an event at Mosaic on the 1st Sunday of May. So, on May 5th I’ll be hosting this workshop at a different venue:
Be-ing Community 355 N 300 W. Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
$39.
In this class we will dip into the timeless with resting poses, poetry, and a decadent Yoga Nidra practice. This 2-hour class will incorporate supported and resting postures using yoga props (provided if you don’t have them). I try to use minimal words to allow for a generous and open spaciousness. You can also expect poetry and music to help connect your soul with timeless presence.
Also available via Zoom. Please email me in advance to tell me you’ll be Zooming in.
May we all bend over to pick up the lemons that spill out of a stranger’s grocery bag.
May we all learn to access our highest good by exploring the depth that exists in the dance between our humanness and our beingness.
And may it begin with a simple gesture of kindness, a word like … YES!
Change Rooms In Your Mind For A Day
Yoga is the practice of joining all the different parts of ourselves as we explore what it means to be one. Sure, we are physical beings. We are also spiritual beings. We are mental, emotional, social beings. What fascinates me is the provocative idea of learning to live in a Both/And relationship with things that seem otherwise at odds, different, or opposite. Such a mindset and awareness for life opens us up to the truth of who we are as part of Source.
After all, in the wild road trip of life, aren't we are all balancing paradox while sitting at the corner of Human and Being.
Little Ideas with Big Payoffs
Some of the simplest ideas can have a massive payoff. One day, I decided to make some Yoga Nidra scripts. With very minimal time and effort I had a digital product, an e-book of Yoga Nidra scripts that I could sell on my website. I hoped to sell a few copies and put some good Yoga Nidra scripts out into the world while also making a few bucks.
Well, that simple product …
Read moreWhat's Your Zone of Genius?
How has your week been going? I know, I know. Covid is crazy. It seems like the world over is just going nuts. Fortunately the numbers where we are are starting to drop, so that’s great for us here.
You know, one of the benefits in all of this is that Covid has made learning online more mainstream. While teaching in person is so fantastic, making online learning more normal has been a fantastic opportunity to reach so many more people online.
Yes, I am thrilled to be able to teach yoga and Yoga Nidra to people all over the world thanks to this nifty thing called “The Internet,” but what I want to talk about today is actually about YOU sharing your Zone of Genius (phrase coined by Gay Hendricks) with the world. Let me explain …
So, practices like yoga and meditation are really tools that help you explore what it means to BE, to understand what your True Nature is, and get real with what you are destined to become in this life. The Universe put you here to be unfailingly YOU and to shine and contribute to the world in the ways that you do best. The way you shine and make the world a better place is your Zone of Genius. Consider that the Universe is coming to know itself and evolve to it’s highest Self through and as YOU. It’s true.
If you’re curious what your particular Zone of Genius is, there’s a simple way to find it, just ask yourself what you love. So, what do you love? I proffer that your greatest gift to the world is all the ways you love the world. And when you’re doing that thing you love and you’re in a creative flow with it, that’s you in your Zone of Genius.
Now if you’ll allow me, I’ve got to give you a little tough love here … if you’re not sharing your Zone of Genius with the world, you’re not doing what you placed on this big spinning blue marble to do, so c’um on! Get over yourself and share your awesomeness with the world, already.
And you can’t let Covid be an excuse, cuz if anything, Covid has made it more normal for you to also use this snappy new thing called, “The Internet” to share your Zone of Genius with the world. What are you waiting for?
For me, I love many things, including and especially Yoga and Yoga Nidra and I find it absolutely thrilling to share what I love with the world. Truly. Over almost 2 decades of teaching yoga and meditation, I’ve explored learning to share what I love through many different mediums including making and sharing digital products: audio recordings, video classes, trainings, and workshops, online courses, PDFs, etc.
A few months ago, I was having a lovely evening with some friends. We were catching up, enjoying ourselves, and talking. I got an alert on my phone and started to hoot and holler, pumping my fist in the air. “What happened?! You ok?!” My friends worried. “As I was sitting here having a lovely conversation with y’all, I just made $600.” I’d just sold one of my digital products, an online Yoga Nidra teacher training that was one of my projects during Covid 2020. I sat back into my chair and relished a moment of profound gratitude to be sharing what I love with people all over the world, to feel like I’m making the world a better place, and to even be doing it while enjoying a beautiful evening with friends.
So that’s a story of me sharing what I love but how can you share YOUR Zone of Genius? Whatever it is, I want to help you share it with the world by teaching you some of the things I’ve learned about creating digital products and offering them to the world. I’ll be doing just that with my live, Digital Products 101 online workshop Sat. Jan 22 from 9–1 pm MST. I’ll be recording it so you can also watch the replay.
My intention for this workshop is to empower you to understand how to make several kinds of digital products to share your Zone of Genius with the world by using simple tools and easy tech to build attractive and effective digital products.
You’ll get:
The Confidence of understanding the many ways you can share your genius with the world using digital products, including PDFs, audio/video recordings, online courses, photos, music, art, etc.
An understanding of how to use the simple tools you are already familiar with, such as your phone, and laptop that empower you to quickly make
A manual complete with: the discussion outline, helpful links, essential concepts, ideas for digital products you can make today
A list of simple tech items that could help you make what your products
A detailed explanation of the simple marketing tactics I’ve used to organically attract people to buy my products using next to no paid advertising.
I’ll also be sharing a little bit about building what I call your Mechanism of Influence, the method I’ve used and have taught to dozens of mentor students which helps people share their Zone of Genius in a way that is natural, organic, and effective.
Please consider joining me. This will be a small investment with a huge return. More than even the money you’ll start earning right away by sharing your gifts with the world, you’ll be grateful and satisfied knowing that you’re sharing your Zone of Genius with the world.
Will you learn how to make the world a better place by sharing more of your Genius with it? Please join me for this workshop.
Heart In The Dark
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Live Yoga Nidra Training
Before we get into the story and speaking of getting to the heart of things, in about a week, I’ll be hosting my live, online Yoga Nidra immersion and teacher training by Zoom.
I’m really, really looking forward to it. I’ve got a few spots left, and would love to have you join. I’ve split it up into two weekends. The first is an immersion, designed for those interested in the transformative power of Yoga Nidra, a deep dive into this fascinating realm which quite simply is a practice that helps you wake up to realize your greatest potential and become the person you were destined to be.
Ultimately, this is an inquiry into your very nature of being to discover how beautiful and wondrous your life can be, and how much this yoga of sleep can benefit your stress, sleep, and perspective on the world and its problems. The next weekend is designed for those who might be interested in teaching Yoga Nidra and/or just really geek out on this fascinating subject. I want to show you how to facilitate lasting transformative for yourself and others through relaxing Yoga Nidra practices. I’m really proud of the robust curriculum I’ve developed and would love to have you join me.
Onto the story …
Running Into Darkness
Several years ago, some friends and I were spending an afternoon along the shores of the paradoxical desert of Great Salt Lake, the large and salinated lake that gives Salt Lake City its namesake.
If you’ve never been there, it’s a fascinating place, definitely worth the trip. Great Salt Lake exists now as the dregs of a 30,000-year-old ancient lake called Lake Bonneville which once spanned what is now half of northern Utah and eastern Nevada, a once-great lake held in a massive geological bowl known as the Great Basin. Everything’s “Great” in Utah! Even as a puddle of its former self, Great Salt Lake currently stands as the largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere.
The salinity of the water is a whopping 27%, compared to 3.5% of typical ocean water, depending on the ocean. Day-travelers of the 1920s would flock by the train-load to the briny resorts of Great Salt Lake to float in, and almost walk on (faith depending), the uncommonly salinated waters. After a long day of floating, they’d rinse off to dance the night away doing the Lindy Hop and the Jitterbug in the desert days of prohibition and under the censoring eyes of Mormon church authorities.
The previous 30,000 years notwithstanding, in only the last century, the lake has receded considerably short-sighted legislation which amounts to nothing short of greed, stealing from the water inlets today so that there’s not lake tomorrow. Today, the landscape of Great Salt Lake would be utterly unrecognizable to our liquorless, Lindy Hopping great grandparents but more on that another time …
The receding lake has revealed its phenomenally flat and briny lake bottom which today attracts a new generation of tourists, not to its buoyant waters but to the lack thereof. Now, flocks of tourists come to what’s called the “Bonneville Salt Flats” to get high off a different natural resource: speed. The “Salt Flats,” (what happened to the ubiquitous “Great”?) is a several-mile-long, flat but grippy, salt-crusted terrain which acts as the perfect runway for thrill-seeking speed merchants striving to set new land speed records, the fastest being over 760 mph.
Even without the presence of an occasional rocket-propelled car, the shores of the Great Salt Lake offers a surreal landscape, even for the more pedestrian visitors: a flat, vast playa of endless white sand, crusted with salt which scintillates in the afternoon sun. To walk on this alien terrain is a sensational feast for bare feet.
On this day that my friends and I visited the wide, flat shores of Great Salt Lake, we were walking barefoot along barren brine and decided to conduct our own kind of race. We felt drunk with space and our feet yearned to explore every inch of this sand, flat and unspoiled in every direction. Each person agreed to close their eyes and run, completely blind and at full speed, in any direction for exactly 100 paces before opening their eyes. Eager for simple adventure, we closed our eyes and held our breath as someone shouted, "GO!"
Eyes closed, my legs began to sprint, bolting into the darkness of the afternoon sun. I noticed that with my primary sense muted, my other senses bloomed. A pungent potpourri filled my nostrils, one of sulfurous mud, dry salt, and miles of decaying brine shrimp. The salty air lit on my tongue, drying my mouth, and burning my lungs as they groped for breath between staccatos of unfettered laughter. My arms and legs scissored in orchestrated opposition as every muscle contracted to blast my body forward through raw space. With each step, the salty crust of the sand briefly pricked my naked soles before crumbling into a carpet of soft velvet. For several paces, my ears traced a steady decrescendo of my fellow racers’ feet, breath, and laughter dwindling into the quiet distance. Soon, I was running alone in the darkness.
Once alone, I was surprised to feel a primal and powerful fear kick in, the one that said in not so many words, “You’ll get hurt if you stray from the tribe into the unknown.” A sliver of worry lodged itself into my brain. “Didn’t you see some ominous-looking spikes sticking out of the sand somewhere in the direction that you’re running?” Horrific and gruesome images of running teeth-first into a post or impaling my bare feet on a sharp stick did wonders to dampen my sensory smorgasbord and all my attention now clutched the worry of what might happen to me as I ran blindly.
Steeling my nerves, I did my best to push these images from my mind, locking my eyes shut and quickening my pace. Suddenly, a spontaneous laugh burst from my chest, some automatic expression of wonder and worry.
. . . 53, 54, 55 . . .
My paces were whizzing by but with each step I couldn’t shake the fear of stepping blindly onto something dangerous. Worry had now evolved into genuine fear. “This is stupid,” I told myself, “I shouldn’t be doing this.”
. . . 71, 72, 73 . . .
New and more graphic images of dangers began infecting my mind, reaching for some emergency brake in my nervous system.
. . . 83, 84, 85 . . .
By now, panic had spiked. I felt the same as if I were running blind and headlong at full speed toward a cliff.
Only fifteen paces to go. Raw animal instinct clawed at my eyes to open, yet an iron resolve welded them shut. In one last burst of flying into the unknown, I let out all the stops. I pushed the throttle of my legs as fast they would go and sprinted madly forward into the darkness. Laughing was now replaced with a raw, full-throated scream, equal parts exhilaration and naked terror.
… 98, 99, 100!
On exactly my 100th step, my legs froze in space, refusing to take another step as my body wobbled to maintain equilibrium on the now unfamiliar feeling of solid ground. As I stood there panting, I slowly opened up my eyes and looked down to examine my feet to see them completely unmarred except for a generous coating of salt and mud. I stood there for a moment, feeling immense gratitude for these selfless feet, willingly thrusting me through unknown space as I ran through the darkness toward fear. After a moment, my gaze lifted to search for those ominous spikes that haunted my run. Nothing. Only flat, salty sand for miles. Of course. The misperception of my mind only invented the images.
What a rush! Who needs a rocket-propelled car?
This story reminds me of an important yogic concept called the Kleshas as explained in the Yoga Sutras, an ancient book of great wisdom. The Kleshas explore the relationship between perceptions and actions. Our misperceptions are called Avidya, a Sanskrit term literally meaning misperception. Unsurprisingly, one of the most common ways of misperceiving is Dvesa, misperception due to fear. Our misperceptions often cause us to react from fear, and in my case to completely invent beliefs, invariably causing suffering for ourselves and others. If we can avoid misperceptions and learn to see with true sight, we can respond to the vicissitudes of life with compassionate responsiveness instead of fearful reactivity.
On my blind run, I knew that there were no obstacles in my path yet my brain invented them based on past experiences causing me to run with fear. And while it was all fun and games that day on the shores of The Great Salt Lake, we tend to run through life with considerably less abandon, our misperception causing fears to push on the brakes of our higher selves and limit our strides toward what our destiny calls us to do and be.
But how does one learn to see correctly? Ironically, perhaps we can only see correctly when we attune our perception with something infinitely more refined than our eyes, a fine-tuned instrument designed to perceive truth. In The Little Prince, a modern book of great wisdom, this one masquerading as a children’s novella, one of the characters, the wise fox, shares his secret with the Little Prince when he says, “One only sees rightly with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.” Until we wake up from the misperception of fear and learn to truly see with the heart, we are destined to suffer as well as cause suffering toward others.
When we do learn to see with the heart, it will likely reinvent our entire concept of the world, or at least our relationship to it. At that moment you’ll be born into the The Great Truth (another “Great”), that everything in the Universe is boiled down to one single element: love. It’s what poetry and pop songs have been telling us forever. Funny how perhaps THE most important eternal truth can sound like a platitude plastered on a meaningless Hallmark card. Nonetheless, it’s Truth with a capital T, but one that must be experienced and practiced over a lifetime and not merely repeated mindlessly as you mouth the words to your favorite Beatles song, elbow cocked out the window, cruising down the 405.
The English title of one of my all-time favorite movies is a beautiful, life-affirming film called Wings of Desire, a German film by Wim Wenders. If you haven't seen it, find it and watch it immediately, but bring a glass of milk to wash it down cuz it's richer than an entire Black Forest Cake.
In the film, an angel named Damiel, played by Bruno Ganz, lives a black-and-white existence, one of only knowing and observing but categorically void of the spectrum of the human experience, notably of doing, feeling, and loving. As an angel, Damiel feels a bitter longing, for though he can read people’s minds (he likes to hang out with his angel friends in the library to hear the thoughts of readers), his attempt to do anything other than observe others, to help or comfort, falls pitifully short, a tragic truth illustrated in a heart-breaking scene where Damiel is sitting next to a suicidal man on the high ledge of a building, hearing his desperate thoughts, but can do nothing to stop the man from jumping to his death.
Besides helping people, Damiel also yearns for the human experience of love. Damiel falls for a woman, a trapeze artist, ironically wearing false angel wings as part of her act, and resolves to cash in his actual angle wings in order to live one life—fully-human, sentient, and loving—rather than suffer an eternity of the drab, albeit safe, existence of an angel.
The price to enter a human life is his angelic armor, his protection from the inevitable pain and heartache endemic to the human experience. The cinematic effect is perfect because as he becomes human, he leaves the black and white angel world and is born into an entire cosmos of colors, the full rainbow of a human existence.
Damiel is welcomed into his new human life by one of this world’s most well-known faces—pain. Gaining consciousness after his fall from angelic grace, he inspects a small gash on his head and pulling his finger from his wound, meets both blood and color for the first time. With a child-like inquisitiveness, he stops a passerby on the street and asks, “Is this red?” to which the man simply makes a wider birth so as to avoid this obviously crazy and bleeding person on the street. Indeed, someone who sees with such purity, unjaded by previous experience, would seem crazy to the vast majority of us who are locked in our tired and unconscious ways of seeing the world.
Next, Damiel has been watching mortals enjoy coffee for hundreds of years and can’t wait to drink some himself. He finds a street vendor who gives him a cup. It’s much too hot but he doesn’t know it yet and in his lust to taste this dark, aromatic elixir, he burns his tongue quite badly.
Yet, despite being greeted into his new life with the harsh hand of pain, the gash on his head and burning his tongue, instead of being disillusioned with human life, Damiel marvels at its richness and celebrates these sensations as the immutable truth of truly living.
At one point in the movie, the newly-mortal Damiel happens upon another angel-turned-mortal who, interestingly, is Peter Falk playing Peter Falk. Falk is on set in Berlin filming an episode of Columbo. Who better than a classic, salty sleuth to play out the mystery of what it means to be human? Peter Falk can recognize those who used to be angels who are now walking the earth and reminisces what it was like to be an angel but muses over the joys of life. After a brief conversation with Damiel, Peter Falk hears the call to return to the film set and as he is walking away, Damiel desperately calls after the angel-turned-TV-celeb to tell him everything there is to know about being human. Peter Falk doesn’t break stride and turning his head slightly, calls out over his shoulder, "You have to figure it out for yourself, kid. That's the fun of it!"
Sometimes, you have to shut your eyes and run full-out into the darkness of life to understand what it means to be alive.
As I’m writing this, the ominous cloud of COVID-19 has been darkening life for more than a year. It’s caused us all a lot of pain and covered the entire world with a heavy blanket of legit fear. It’s made the future ambiguous, it’s ruined plans, and worse, it has put a wedge between this world’s most valuable resource: each other. For me, it feels like we’ve been running in the darkness for a long time and I know I’m not alone when I say … I’m tired.
Global pandemic aside, doesn’t it feel so often that life is really one long journey into the darkness? Who knows what lurks over the next horizon or hell, even into next week? Yet, can we learn to see this ambiguity as something to celebrate if only to serve us to remember that we are alive? Even in our fears and failings and dying there can simultaneously exist wonder and beauty. Poet David Ignatow points to this paradox when he says, in his an excerpt from his poem, THREE IN TRANSITION (FOR WCW),
I wish I understood the beauty
in leaves falling. To whom
are we beautiful
as we go?
His poem points to the fact that even in our failing, in our most difficult times, there is a part of the Universe that finds us astonishing in that going. Having lost my mother to cancer days after Thanksgiving in 2020, during an already crushing year blighted with COVID-19, I saw first-hand how something so tragic as my mother passing bestowed a beauty to life. My mom’s death illuminated something Universal within the entire family, even and especially in my mom. Somehow she lives and spends her nights visiting me in my dreams. My mom’s death points to life. To whom are we beautiful as we go? Or to what?
Yoga and meditation are simple practices that point us inward to discover and remember that portion of the Universal that exists inside of us. Being familiar with the Universal part within us is in part what it means to see with your heart. Having heart-vision grants us the capacity to see a magnificence to the most difficult of circumstances, the beauty of a textured and well-lived life.
The late, great Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
Also, with this sure knowledge of the heart, we are less persuaded by Dvesa's power of misperception due fear. Another tired but nonetheless true statement is that love conquers fear. Perhaps this, too, is only something we can learn by closing our eyes as we lean into the darkness and learn to trust our most reliable sense. And from this courageous place, we will face what fears remain with presence and boldness. The Latin word for heart is Cor. To be courageous doesn’t mean an absence of fear, but to be full of heart.
As we run through the dark path of life’s journey, we will undoubtedly encounter fears.
May we learn to be courageous, seeing the world and the people in it rightly, as Universal elements of love. May our practices of yoga, meditation, and love wake us up to the Universal within all of us. And while we may not know exactly when this darkness will end, may we run through this uncertainty screaming, laughing, and loving, knowing that at very the least we are alive.
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry.
Yoga Nidra Script
Yoga Nidra Scripts
Over 100 pages! Only $39
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We all know that practicing Yoga Nidra is easy but facilitating a great class that doesn’t put your students to sleep (in the wrong way) is very difficult. This is why I’ve made this booklet of specialized, powerful, and unique Yoga Nidra scripts for you to use right away.
Teach Expert Yoga Nidra Classes, Today!
The Yoga Nidra Scripts in This Book:
Practices runs between 15–35 minutes long.
Yoga Nidra for Grief
Yoga Nidra for Goals
Yoga Nidra for Healing
Yoga Nidra for Sleep
Yoga Nidra for Grounding
Yoga Nidra for Sankalpa (Intentions)
Basic Yoga Nidra Practice: Body
Yoga Nidra for Energy and Chakras
Yoga Nidra for Anxiety Management
Full Yoga Nidra Practice (all Koshas)
Yoga Nidra for Heart Energy
Yoga Nidra for Stress
Yoga Nidra for Relaxed Alertness
Yoga Nidra for your Trinity Nature
Yoga Nidra for Compassion
Yoga Nidra for Abundance
Yoga Nidra to Start Your Day
Yoga Nidra for Bliss (Anandamaya Kosha)
Yoga Nidra for Happiness
Yoga Nidra for Inner Wisdom
Supplement your Yoga Nidra teaching with these effective and engaging Yoga Nidra scripts.
Hi! I’m thrilled that found me. I am absolutely passionate about Yoga Nidra. Making these scripts was a labor of love and I can’t wait to share them with you. Whether you’re a Yoga Nidra expert, novice, or just curious, I am grateful to be on this journey with you.
I’ve been teaching Yoga Nidra for almost 15 years and I’ve taken some of my best scripts and put them together in this booklet for you. It’s taken me years and years to learn the subtle art of teaching Yoga Nidra and I’d love to share some of what I’ve learned with these scripts.
A few things to remember …
When you’re reading the script, remember to slow down and allow for pauses between sentences. Give your students enough time to become aware of what you’re inviting them to be aware of. With that in mind, each script runs an average of 30–35 minutes long. There are a few shorter ones included as well.
As you know, practicing Yoga Nidra is soooooo relaxing and easy but facilitating effective Yoga Nidra classes can be really challenging. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes to teach an effective Yoga Nidra experience. Having a good Yoga Nidra script and taking a Yoga Nidra training could be very helpful.
First, to offer an effective Yoga Nidra experience you gotta know the essential principles of Yoga Nidra—what the entire practice is pointing to. A Yoga Nidra facilitator also needs to understand the Yoga Nidra Roadmap to understand how to put the pieces together in a cohesive way to help with transformation. Plus, a facilitator needs to understand the principles of Yoga Nidra well enough to be able to tailor the practice of Awareness to help someone with specific needs.
This is why I made a TON of Yoga Nidra scripts for you, including a booklet of over 100 pages of scripts as well as a free script and audio recording (below) so you can use effective scripts to help teach yourself and other, today.
Online YOGA NIDRA TRAININGS!
Learn to write your own scripts AND teach Yoga Nidra from the power of your own voice and experience to meet the unique needs of your students. Receive over 100 pages of Yoga Nidra scripts and the in-depth knowledge of how this incredible practice can be used to transform lives.
Make Your Own Yoga Nidra Scripts
I would love to teach you how to make your OWN scripts that help you make an impact for the world as well as making a living doing what you love, teaching Yoga Nidra. Are you interested in teaching Yoga Nidra?
I regularly hear from teachers who want to learn to teach Yoga Nidra but don’t want to be a rote version of their teachers. Also, teachers complain that that in order to learn how to write their own Yoga Nidra scripts that they have to wait for and PAY for the level 2 version of a Yoga Nidra training after they’ve already spent thousands on their initial training. That’s why I’ve created both a fantastic book of scripts as well as an online Yoga Nidra training to help you learn to write your own.
I believe that you will be most impactful to your students if you can teach from your own experience and voice, not as a rote version of your teacher. Having said that, reading someone else’s scripts can be very helpful, especially as you’re learning to find your own voice as a teacher.
Teaching Yoga Nidra
Learning to teach Yoga Nidra effectively from your own voice and learning to create your own scripts to meet the needs of your students does require understanding the basics principles of Yoga Nidra. When you understand the what and why of Yoga Nidra you’ll know how to use your practice, teaching, and life experience to be not only an effective teacher but and EXTRAORDINARY teacher, able to connect with students in ways that ONLY you can. Once you’ve been to the top of the mountain, you’ll know how to lead others there as well. Plus, I’ll teach you the industry secrets to actually make a living doing what you love.
Yoga Nidra Scripts Included in the Training!
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Yoga Nidra Script: Basic Practice
Anamaya Kosha
by Scott Moore
10-15 minutes
Welcome to Yoga Nidra. Please lie down, close your eyes and prepare to relax. Give yourself a few breaths out your mouth and tell your body, mind, and heart to let go. If there is any way that you can prepare to relax deeper or more effectively, please do that now.
As we go through the process of Yoga Nidra, I invite you to welcome anything and everything that comes into your Awareness. From this point on, and through the duration of our Yoga Nidra practice, abandon all assessment of things and become the observer only.
Consider your intention or purpose for practicing Yoga Nidra. In your own mind, repeat, “My intention for practicing Yoga Nidra is . . .” and fill in the blank in your own head. Again, what is your intention for practicing Yoga Nidra? Repeat that to yourself in your own mind one more time
Now I invite you to relax 10% more than you’re currently relaxed. Relax your face. Relax your entire head. Relax your arms, your chest, belly, and back. Relax your pelvis and your legs. As we go through this process, don’t try to control your experience. Simply pay attention to my words and welcome, recognize, and witness everything that comes into your awareness without the need to change or fix anything.
Today we are going to explore sensations and feelings in our body to practice experiencing ourselves as Awareness.
Begin by noticing everything you are aware of in this moment. Notice sounds, smells, the temperature, etc. Notice also emotions, thoughts, and internal sensations. Simply welcome, recognize, and witness everything in your awareness, without any judgement, just awareness. Begin to identify as Awareness itself, Awareness manifesting itself in the form of body, thoughts, emotions, sounds, or anything you are aware of in this moment. Simply allow yourself to welcome, recognize, and witness all things as a way of experiencing yourself as Awareness.
Remember that sensations will come and go and will reveal your underlying Awareness. Be Awareness itself.
As Awareness, experience yourself as sensation. Follow my words as you become more aware of your body and as Awareness, allow yourself to become increasingly more relaxed. Bring your Awareness to the sensation of your mouth. Simply notice its presence. Welcome, recognize, and witness, the sensation of your mouth. Eyes. Ears. Entire face. Entire head.
Now feel the sensation of your neck and throat. Your shoulders. Arms. Feel your left arm as sensation, top to bottom. Feel your right arm, top to bottom. Left arm. Right arm. Feel both arms as sensation. Feel both arms at the same time.
Bring Awareness to the sensation of your trunk, your chest . . . feel your breathing . . . your belly, your back. Simply welcome, recognize and witness the sensation of your trunk. Simply notice its presence as Awareness.
Now bring Awareness to the sensations of your pelvis, the front, back and sides of your pelvis. Simply notice it as sensation. Simply welcome, recognize, and witness anything that arises spontaneously such as thought, emotion, or sensation.
Bring Awareness to the sensation of your legs. Feel your left leg, hip to toes. Feel your right leg, hip to toes. Left leg. Right leg. Left. Right. Now feel both legs, both legs as sensation.
Now feel the entire left side of your body, head to toe. Feel the entire right side of your body, head to toe. Left side. Right side. Now feel both sides. Feel your entire body.
Begin to feel as if your entire body is very large. Now adopt the feeling of being very small. Very large, again. Now small. Now adopt the feeling of being both large and small simultaneously. This does not need to make sense. Simply feel both large and small simultaneously.
What are you aware of in this moment? Sensations will come and go. In one moment, you may feel small and another large. What is the part of you that can be both small and large? Sensations reveal your unchanging, underlying, awareness.
Be Awareness itself. Become extremely aware of all things in this moment as Awareness itself. Simply welcome, recognize and witness all things in this moment as Awareness itself.
(optional additional Kosha exploration)
As Awareness, I invite you to begin to feel your body lying on the floor. Feel the sensations of your legs, feet, pelvis, trunk, arms, and head. As Awareness become acutely aware of the sensations in your hands and feet.
Now I invite you to remember your stated intention for practicing Yoga Nidra.
In a moment, we will be ending our Yoga Nidra practice. Because we have practiced experiencing ourselves as deep Awareness, you will find yourself moving back into your every-day life with clarity, purpose, and focus. You will find answers to your questions, and presence in your relationships. You’ll be more compassionate. You will feel less stress in your life and less reactive to stress. Through our practice of experiencing ourselves as Awareness, your life will feel richer and more vibrant.
In a moment, I will ring a bell (or count down from 5) and that will signal the end of our Yoga Nidra Practice. (Ring, or count). Yoga Nidra is over.
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In this course, I lead you through an exciting journey of 5 major sections, each with several teaching modules, complete with specialized and relaxing Yoga Nidra recordings, breathing and mindfulness exercises, as well as hours of engaging video lectures. This content explores:
The every-day application of how Yoga Nidra helps you to wake up to the person you are destined to be.
In-depth Yoga Nidra eduction including myths, history, science, psychology, poetry, and philosophy as well as dozens of my own personal stories and humor, all supporting your journey of waking up with the yoga of sleep.
Specialized Yoga Nidra practices to help you wake up to the hidden jewels that are inside of you.
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Yoga Nidra Teacher Training Curriculum:
Section 1: Waking Up with the Yoga of Sleep
Discover how Yoga Nidra helps you wake up to be the person you are destined to be.
Module 1: Begin The Journey
Start along your path as I show you the map and trails you’ll follow on the course of your Yoga Nidra adventure.
Module 2: What Is Yoga Nidra? Waking Up with the Yoga of Sleep
What is this ancient practice and how does it help you wake up?
Module 3: Yoga Nidra: An Inquiry to “Know Thyself”
Socrates will be your guide on this inner odyssey to hear the Oracle’s special message just for you.
Module 4: The Greatest Love Story of All Time: Shiva, Shakti, and YOU
You are the lovechild of consciousness and form. See how the world exists as a love note to you.
Module 5: The Koshas: Mapping the Beautiful Illusions
See the world dancing before your eyes, evoking your consciousness to wake up.
Module 6: Non-Dualism and Your Both / And Nature
Ancient myth illuminates the higher dimension of your True Being.
Module 7: The Secret to the Universe is HERE: Presence
The secret to the Universe is literally at your fingertips as you learn to practice presence.
Module 8: Stages and States of Consciousness
Upleveling your state of consciousness uplevels your stage of consciousness.
Module 9: Why Yoga Nidra Works: Science and Psychology
Take a look under the hood and learn how spirit and philosophy is supported by science and psychology.
Module 10: The Big Message & FAQ
The simple and profound truth, how does Yoga Nidra apply to every-day life, and listen to me answer some common questions.
Section 2: Facilitating Transformation with the Yoga of Sleep.
Learn to become an expert at the subtle art of facilitating Yoga Nidra
Module 1: Introduction and Overview
Familiarize yourself with the tools to find your voice in this practice
Module 2: The Yoga Nidra Roadmap
Learn to read the map of an effective Yoga Nidra experience to facilitate transformation for yourself and your students
Module 3: Creating the Container & The Role of the Teacher
Learn the subtle and essential art of set and setting for a transformational Yoga Nidra experience and understand your primary roles as a teacher.
Module 4: Facilitating Observation & the Three Heavies
Facilitate Transformation by effectively pointing to presence with 3 key objectives.
Module 5: Essential Tools Part 1
Master the tools that will help you facilitate transformation in a Yoga Nidra practice.
Module 6: Essential Tools Part 2
Master the tools that will help you facilitate transformation in a Yoga Nidra practice.
Module 7: Essential Tools Part 3
Master the tools that will help you facilitate transformation in a Yoga Nidra practice.
Module 8 2 Yoga Ninja Tactics
Uncover the 2 GAME-CHANGER tactics that completely revolutionize the practice of teaching Yoga Nidra and will help you to teach like an expert almost immediately.
Module 9: Connecting The Dots—Building an Effective Yoga Nidra Class
Together we’ll work through the step-by-step process of building specialized Yoga Nidra classes for yourself and your clients.
Module 10: Yoga Nidra Dyads and Self Practice
Turn facilitating Yoga Nidra on its head and the transformational power of allowing the practitioner to direct the Yoga Nidra experience as you learn the road map and art of Facilitated Awareness.
Module 11: Accessibility and Healing with Yoga Nidra
Reveal how to make this beautiful practice available for all by eliminating discriminating language, marketing, and practices from your teaching. Discover the role of Yoga Nidra toward healing.
Module 12: Integration
Provide the essential integration tools for your student to learn to apply Yoga Nidra in their every-day life and discover the miracle of their own life.
Module 13 FAQ
Clarify any questions you may have about teaching Yoga Nidra.
Section 3: Sharing Yoga Nidra with the World
Module 1: Introduction
The world needs you to share this practice in only the way that YOU can.
Module 2: Developing Interest
Make your skills available to those who need it.
Module 3: Formatting Classes, Workshops, and Courses
Presentation is everything. Create an offering that will give your students what they need and keep them coming back for more.
Module 4: Virtual Offerings & Supportive Tech.
Broadcast Yoga Nidra to the world with simple and effective tools. Use the “minimum viable product” and learn to scale your offerings.
Module 5: Private Sessions
Tailor a Yoga Nidra experience to the specific needs of an individual. Intake, format, and support for private individuals and groups.
Module 6: Retreats
Learn the insider’s tips to leading retreats and provide life-time memories and transformation for your students while giving yourself a “paid vacation.”
Module 7: Supporting Your Students
Establish the learning trajectory for your students to support them along their journey.
Module 8: FAQ
Questions and insights about the course.
Section 4: Finishing Up and What’s Next
Module 1: Recognize and Recap Progress
This broad recap will cement the knowledge and experience into your soul to ensure your confidence in teaching right away.
Module 2: Resources Reminder
Re-familiarize yourself with the vast array of supportive resources that come with the course.
Module 3 Finish Line
The big fat message. What it all means. What’s possible.
Module 4: Graduation Requirements
Prepare for your graduation: assignments, requirements, and certification.
Section 5: Building Your Mechanism of Influence
Module 1: Make and Impact and Make a Living
5 simple, actionable tools to help you make an Impact and also make a living doing what you love to do.
During the training you can contact me anytime with questions!
Plus, during and after the course join our regular live support sessions and our wonderful, global Facebook group to connect with others in the training for support, ideas, and teaching practice.
Your Teacher: Scott Moore
Hi! I’m an E-RYT 500, RYS, YACEP and the author of Practical Yoga Nidra: A 10-Step Method to Reduce Stress, Improve Sleep, and Restore Spirit. I’ve been a professor at colleges in Yoga and Mindfulness Studies for 9 years. I’ve owned 2 yoga studios and have worked at dozens of others, developing curriculum for teacher trainings and studio operations.
I’ve had the pleasure of teaching everyone from rock stars to recovering addicts, from young to old, ultra-athletes to the ultra-stressed out, and I've learned one essential fact: EVERYONE has an extraordinary life to live and EVERYONE'S path to wellness is unique.
I believe that my greatest qualifications are that I love Yoga Nidra! I’ve been practicing and teaching since 2008 and I’m passionate about helping you share YOUR unique gifts and personality to help others share this incredible practice of Yoga Nidra to the world.
Yoga Nidra has changed my life! I’ve learned from some of the best teachers in the world but have honestly learned more about Yoga Nidra by the thousands of hours of practicing and teaching this incredible practice.
What I want to share with you is what’s taken me many years and thousands of hours of practice to learn. I want to teach you, much faster than it took me to learn, the ways of teaching this transformation practice that feel 100% authentic to your personality and that are powerful for yourself and your students.
I’ve been a yoga professional since 2000. I’ve owned studios, worked at dozens of others, graduated hundreds of yoga teachers, and I love to travel across the globe to offer trainings and retreats. I’d love to help you find your own deep relationship to this transformative practice to make an impact on the world and make it a better place. I want to help to empower you to teach Yoga Nidra and make an impact while also making a living.
You’ll Love This Course!
I believe the world needs more Yoga Nidra. I believe you’re the one to offer it, in your voice, speaking to your students in only the way you can.
This 50-hour Yoga Nidra intensive is perfect both for teachers as well as students who simply want to deepen their practice of Yoga Nidra.
This could be the most important work you do in a great long time.
My teaching style uses tools like knowledge of the koshas, a skillful counterpoint of opposites, and evoking deep relaxation to illuminate one’s True Self. This knowledge and experience you gain from practicing and teaching Yoga Nidra will help you live your life more fully, with greater compassion, and with deep purpose.
Listen to what others are saying about this course!
Recent graduates have said that this training is not only such high quality, but that is also affordable, accessible, and can be done on your own timeline. Here are some testimonials of other graduates:
“I have finished the online training and it was a wonderful experience! I love your teaching style and found I resonated with what you were sharing! I am excited to practice more and start sharing my knowledge with my students! Thanks again! I really feel like this was one of the best decisions I’ve made.”
“Scott’s Yoga Nidra Teacher Training was an excellent blend of information, inspiration, and application. I love his way of organizing and presenting of the abundance of material. Scott is very authentic and has a way of connecting and empowering his student to feel confident to utilize the tools he provides. I am so thankful to have the Yoga Nidra as part of my toolbox of offerings!”
“I recommend this Yoga Nidra Teacher Training to absolutely everyone- and I have! Whether or not you plan on actually teaching- this practice is something that everyone needs. We all need to tune in deeper and into our true selves. I have found peace and an uncluttered mind in this practice- it is the most beautiful thing. Scott’s passion for Yoga Nidra is evident in the careful construction of the information as well as the organic flow of the conversation that he facilitates. The information and training was so easy to follow, which isn’t always the case in an online training scenario. He brought up engaging and provocative points and always applied the information back into everyday life. I left the training feeling very confident in my ability to lead classes and to help individuals get to a point where they can truly discover themselves. This training is 100% life changing and totally worth it. Thanks!”
“I have studied with Scott for years and his compassion, engagement, and base of knowledge makes him one of my favorite teachers. He was one of the first teachers to teach me Yoga Nidra. So when he offered a Nidra immersion and training I jumped on it. Only ... I wasn’t in the area. I did the immersion, training. It worked flawlessly, and the experience was wonderful. If you are interested in any classes he offers, but can’t physically attend, do not hesitate to attend remotely. You will still be a full participant and receive the full impact of Scott’s clarity and teaching skills.”
“Scott’s online training was an absolute joy. Not only does Scott possess a wealth of knowledge about the practice, he brings the teachings to life through his energetic presence, compelling storytelling, and heart-centered teaching. This offering is truly unique, and I’d highly recommend Scott’s guidance to anyone interested in going deeper with the incredible practice of Yoga Nidra.”
Yoga Nidra Scripts Included with Your Training
Plus, included in the tuition you’ll receive my latest book (100-page PDF) of over 20 Yoga Nidra scripts:
Yoga Nidra for Grief
Yoga Nidra for Goals
Yoga Nidra for Healing
Yoga Nidra for Sleep
Yoga Nidra for Grounding
Yoga Nidra for Sankalpa (Intentions)
Basic Yoga Nidra Practice: Body
Yoga Nidra for Energy and Chakras
Yoga Nidra for Anxiety Management
Full Yoga Nidra Practice (all Koshas)
Yoga Nidra for Heart Energy
Yoga Nidra for Stress
Yoga Nidra for Relaxed Alertness
Yoga Nidra for your Trinity Nature
Yoga Nidra for Compassion
Yoga Nidra for Abundance
Yoga Nidra to Start Your Day
Yoga Nidra for Bliss (Anandamaya Kosha)
Yoga Nidra for Happiness
Yoga Nidra for Inner Wisdom
Upon completion of this Yoga Nidra training you’ll have:
A certificate of completion
A deeper understanding of your deepest Self through Yoga Nidra
A course full of profound relaxation, deeper knowledge, and teaching skills
A full audio/video recording of the training to accomplish whenever you wish
100 pages of Yoga Nidra scripts to use immediately
An in-depth Yoga Nidra Training PDF workbook
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credit (if needed). You’ll get 50 continuing education hours.
30-Day Money-back guarantee. If you can show you’ve listened to all the materials and still feel it wasn’t for you, I’m happy to refund your money.
By the end of this training you’ll be ready to teach Yoga Nidra.
Thank you for your interest in this training. I loved putting it together and I hope you love it as much as I do.
