Teaching Trauma Informed Yoga Nidra - Jan 2024
January 9 - February 13, 2024
Tuesdays 7-8:30pm EST
Yoga Nidra is the only known way to rest the unconscious mind. It is a state of conscious sleep in which a person is both alert and deeply relaxed on a physical, nervous system, mental and emotional level.
We store our trauma in our body, in our unconscious, because it is too uncomfortable and overwhelming to stay present with it at the time. Trauma disconnects us from ourselves and our sense of wholeness. Yoga Nidra can be a practice that brings us back.
For thousands of years, meditation masters have used the methods of sleepless sleep (Yoga Nidra) to learn the secrets of the self, to discover depths of the sciences and arts, and to rejuvenate and heal themselves.
This course is for you if savasana is your favorite part of yoga class, if you are tired, and want an effective rejuvenation practice, and if you want to relax and access deep stillness in your mind.
Our consciousness during Yoga Nidra functions as a deep level, which increases the capacity of the mind. In the state, we improve our power of focus, connect with our higher self, and increase well-being. It becomes easier to access your intuition to make decisions. Find answers to philosophical questions, learn, and maintain a positive state of mind. Reducing stress through Yoga Nidra supports and improves physical and mental health.
In Yoga Nidra, we reach the Delta waves of deep non-REM sleep, while simultaneously remaining fully conscious. We discover how to get the deep rest we need each day while reducing our need for sleep. The quality of rest we experience in Yoga Nidra is completely different from ordinary sleep.
We teach what we know to the depths we have experienced. Through our own deepening experience of Yoga Nidra, we offer students focused guided practice, and attuning with the stillness of our own energy field.
You will enjoy this whether you are a student who wants to learn more and deepen into stillness, or a teacher who wants to bring this into your classes. This is not a demanding six week course. This is an opportunity to learn practice and rest into stillness.
COURSE COMPONENTS
Education: what is yoga nidra; brain wave states; recent research; prosody; regulating the nervous system, disconnection from body, fight/flight/freeze; how trauma affects the brain and access to deeper states of consciousness.
Practice: live guided practice during class; class and practice recordings; transcripts.
Homework: daily experience of the yoga nidra practice of the week
Teaching: trauma-informed safety; guiding students from the beginning centering practice through asana to set up optimal conditions for a deep experience of yoga nidra in closing shavasana; short experiences of yoga nidra in other settings like school or workplace; enhance the client experience if you are a massage therapist or other healer; when teaching breathing, relaxation and healing to the public.
(ALL CLASSES LIVE ON ZOOM WITH REPLAYS FOR ALL SESSIONS)
ABOUT LYNN
Lynn Fraser brings the depth of 25 years experience to teaching meditation and yoga. She specializes in holding safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her online groups and classes. Lynn lives near her family, ocean and forest in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lynn is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition, and founder of the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma.
January 9 - February 13, 2024
Tuesdays 7-8:30pm EST
Yoga Nidra is the only known way to rest the unconscious mind. It is a state of conscious sleep in which a person is both alert and deeply relaxed on a physical, nervous system, mental and emotional level.
We store our trauma in our body, in our unconscious, because it is too uncomfortable and overwhelming to stay present with it at the time. Trauma disconnects us from ourselves and our sense of wholeness. Yoga Nidra can be a practice that brings us back.
For thousands of years, meditation masters have used the methods of sleepless sleep (Yoga Nidra) to learn the secrets of the self, to discover depths of the sciences and arts, and to rejuvenate and heal themselves.
This course is for you if savasana is your favorite part of yoga class, if you are tired, and want an effective rejuvenation practice, and if you want to relax and access deep stillness in your mind.
Our consciousness during Yoga Nidra functions as a deep level, which increases the capacity of the mind. In the state, we improve our power of focus, connect with our higher self, and increase well-being. It becomes easier to access your intuition to make decisions. Find answers to philosophical questions, learn, and maintain a positive state of mind. Reducing stress through Yoga Nidra supports and improves physical and mental health.
In Yoga Nidra, we reach the Delta waves of deep non-REM sleep, while simultaneously remaining fully conscious. We discover how to get the deep rest we need each day while reducing our need for sleep. The quality of rest we experience in Yoga Nidra is completely different from ordinary sleep.
We teach what we know to the depths we have experienced. Through our own deepening experience of Yoga Nidra, we offer students focused guided practice, and attuning with the stillness of our own energy field.
You will enjoy this whether you are a student who wants to learn more and deepen into stillness, or a teacher who wants to bring this into your classes. This is not a demanding six week course. This is an opportunity to learn practice and rest into stillness.
COURSE COMPONENTS
Education: what is yoga nidra; brain wave states; recent research; prosody; regulating the nervous system, disconnection from body, fight/flight/freeze; how trauma affects the brain and access to deeper states of consciousness.
Practice: live guided practice during class; class and practice recordings; transcripts.
Homework: daily experience of the yoga nidra practice of the week
Teaching: trauma-informed safety; guiding students from the beginning centering practice through asana to set up optimal conditions for a deep experience of yoga nidra in closing shavasana; short experiences of yoga nidra in other settings like school or workplace; enhance the client experience if you are a massage therapist or other healer; when teaching breathing, relaxation and healing to the public.
(ALL CLASSES LIVE ON ZOOM WITH REPLAYS FOR ALL SESSIONS)
ABOUT LYNN
Lynn Fraser brings the depth of 25 years experience to teaching meditation and yoga. She specializes in holding safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her online groups and classes. Lynn lives near her family, ocean and forest in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lynn is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition, and founder of the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma.
January 9 - February 13, 2024
Tuesdays 7-8:30pm EST
Yoga Nidra is the only known way to rest the unconscious mind. It is a state of conscious sleep in which a person is both alert and deeply relaxed on a physical, nervous system, mental and emotional level.
We store our trauma in our body, in our unconscious, because it is too uncomfortable and overwhelming to stay present with it at the time. Trauma disconnects us from ourselves and our sense of wholeness. Yoga Nidra can be a practice that brings us back.
For thousands of years, meditation masters have used the methods of sleepless sleep (Yoga Nidra) to learn the secrets of the self, to discover depths of the sciences and arts, and to rejuvenate and heal themselves.
This course is for you if savasana is your favorite part of yoga class, if you are tired, and want an effective rejuvenation practice, and if you want to relax and access deep stillness in your mind.
Our consciousness during Yoga Nidra functions as a deep level, which increases the capacity of the mind. In the state, we improve our power of focus, connect with our higher self, and increase well-being. It becomes easier to access your intuition to make decisions. Find answers to philosophical questions, learn, and maintain a positive state of mind. Reducing stress through Yoga Nidra supports and improves physical and mental health.
In Yoga Nidra, we reach the Delta waves of deep non-REM sleep, while simultaneously remaining fully conscious. We discover how to get the deep rest we need each day while reducing our need for sleep. The quality of rest we experience in Yoga Nidra is completely different from ordinary sleep.
We teach what we know to the depths we have experienced. Through our own deepening experience of Yoga Nidra, we offer students focused guided practice, and attuning with the stillness of our own energy field.
You will enjoy this whether you are a student who wants to learn more and deepen into stillness, or a teacher who wants to bring this into your classes. This is not a demanding six week course. This is an opportunity to learn practice and rest into stillness.
COURSE COMPONENTS
Education: what is yoga nidra; brain wave states; recent research; prosody; regulating the nervous system, disconnection from body, fight/flight/freeze; how trauma affects the brain and access to deeper states of consciousness.
Practice: live guided practice during class; class and practice recordings; transcripts.
Homework: daily experience of the yoga nidra practice of the week
Teaching: trauma-informed safety; guiding students from the beginning centering practice through asana to set up optimal conditions for a deep experience of yoga nidra in closing shavasana; short experiences of yoga nidra in other settings like school or workplace; enhance the client experience if you are a massage therapist or other healer; when teaching breathing, relaxation and healing to the public.
(ALL CLASSES LIVE ON ZOOM WITH REPLAYS FOR ALL SESSIONS)
ABOUT LYNN
Lynn Fraser brings the depth of 25 years experience to teaching meditation and yoga. She specializes in holding safe, trusted space for healing trauma in her online groups and classes. Lynn lives near her family, ocean and forest in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lynn is a senior teacher in the Himalayan Yoga Meditation tradition, and founder of the Stillpoint Method of Healing Trauma.