To reconnect with the qualities of our true nature: love, compassion, equanimity and joy.Įverybody can do it. Usually around 30 minutes. This hypnagogic state is a good state to find ourselves in, as it can help awake us to who we really are. In Yoga Nidra we try to lengthen that state for the period of our meditation. When we are between wakefulness and sleep. It is the moment just before we fall asleep. A guided meditation in which we bring ourselves in a hypnagogic state. iRest yoga Nidra as we teach it at Yoga Moves is an evidence based transformative practice developed by Richard Miller. Yoga Nidra is a profound practice of deep relaxation and meditation, based on ancient teachings. It helps to soothe issues such as insomnia, anxiety, fear and depression. Perhaps for me ‘coming home to who I really am’ is the best way to try to describe what Yoga Nidra is about. It can help release stress, increase resiliency and improve relationships. It is a great tool if you want to take a next step on the path of psychological, physical and spiritual healing,Īs our mind is simply too small to understand the ‘Absolute’, it is hard to describe in words. On a deeper level.” To me that is so valuable that I am happy to share this with others. “After decades of practising and studying yoga I learned in this process what it really means to listen to the body. So hope you come on.Ĭoming Home to Your True Self - Marjolein van der VeldenĪlready for a long time triggered by the deep calming effect of Yoga Nidra, I came to study iRest Yoga Nidra with James Reeves and became a certified iRest teacher in 2020. ![]() So if you're interested in yoga Nidra, you can come and learn that with us at yoga moves we have beautiful opportunities to offer that here at yoga moves and it's really cool. Have those conversations, and let it be free again, let those judgements flow. So there's a couple things in the IRest where there is the actual relaxation, when you relax, but then this other part of this learning the dyads learning this dialogue, how to guide that in others and of course, in yourself. It's part of the yoga Nidra, of course, you end up learning to do this for yourself. And you have to get down there and practice, to listen and to experience and to meet those parts of ourselves in a respectful but you know, quite intense way, like you would if you were in a good therapy office, your own therapy office. That was very helpful, I find it very helpful, because it means we have tools in yoga, really direct tools into practice. And in a way you felt for the somatic experience and through your own internal dreamscape and the techniques of letting that happen. ![]() All meditation points to that anyway, but this was so specific and that you kind of lifted them up and out. And this is the place, this is sort of like the embedded work in yoga where psychology, with depth psychology, where you meet your shadow where you meet your uglier side, your judgments, the thoughts that we're all trying to pretend aren't there. I don't know why but the light bulb went off. And that was so interesting to see how this yoga has been offering. Instead of running from the monster, you go: "Hello, monster" and you have a conversation almost with it, you have this, you have a relationship with it. Instead of trying to push them down, you just let them come up, like in a dream like a monster. And in iRest they really make you meet your mind and your negative thoughts and your judgments and you meet. We all have, we talked about the shadow and psychology. When we talked about there's all these things and theory and all these ways of meeting, kind of meeting your mind meeting your shadow. But more than that, my background in psychology and my interest in the mind and the emotions and how we get stuck and how we get out of being stuck.įor me, like a light bulb went off. But actually just in the idea of not putting the barrier at the Sanskrit. ![]() So when I met James and I did his intro weekend, I was so pleasantly surprised to have somebody having translated that work into a more kind of Western language, to my language, English, specifically. These words they would use was too distant for me, then it would kind of put a barrier for me to really go deeper. I didn't know the words, the language didn't translate for me, at the time, even though I knew the language, because I've been around a long time, like Sankalpa: "Look at your Sankalpa". To me unaccessible, to my mind when I was relaxing, there was somebody using. Because the yoga Nidras I have gone to were. When I was getting ready to invite the iRest folks before I really knew James, I was familiar with yoga Nidra, just like most of us have had a few yoga Nidras. Relaxing, being your own therapist and saying “hello” to the monster in your mind - Hilary Brown
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