Put these dates in your diary for the upcoming season These workshops are for people with or without yoga or meditation experience. You may be needing a guided space for rest, and deep rest is possible. You may be a little or a lot experienced in nidra and use the space for affirming or exploring your sankalpa or heart’s prayer too. The workshop includes Yoga nidra is a guided lying down meditation for transformative rest and constructive dreaming. Nidra means sleep. In yoga nidra you retain awareness while allowing the mind waves to slow to the frequencies of dream and deep sleep. Your system is able to rest deeply while accessing the subconscious. Unless you actually fall asleep, which can be blissful and needed. With practice, this becomes less often. With practice you can use nidra to enquire about or affirm your path. New to online yoga sessions with Fiona? Please click on the blue button to complete a new student form and arrange a call or zoom session for a pre-class consultation. This not only gives you a chance to explain your needs, wants and any health conditions, but also helps establish rapport between us. In addition, it is a requirement for online sessions. NEW STUDENT Pre-class Consultation Read more about Yoga Nidra You will need
This is our monthly online Friday Night Nidra in rhythm with nature 7 – 8.30pm for transformative rest and constructive dreaming
£15 or £22.50 for two people from the same room **£12.50 or £18 if you book by the preceding Monday**
For nidra in person, come to weekend or day retreats maybe a bespoke retreat or in the weekly gentle online class to be sure of knowing the all Nidra offerings Sample May Evening nidra from the podcast, Yoga Nidra from Viveka Gardens
Online Yoga Nidra Workshops
*A yoga mat, blanket or soft surface to lie on
*A bolster or roll pillows in a towel or small blanket, or put the bundle in a pillowcase, or roll up a heavy blanket. Two such bundles would be good, but can probably manage with one especially if you are more on the short and slim side
*eye pillow or scarf to cover your eyes (optional)
*layers of clothes and an extra blanket for warmth
*pets, partners, children to leave you alone!Friday Night Nidra Online
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Insomnia sufferers keep coming back for the great nights’ sleep that follow
Thank you so much for the Yoga Nidra session. I had an amazing sleep last night. I noticed during the nidra that I felt my heart area becoming warm. Maybe this is fanciful on my part! But I went with it and it felt – for the want of a better word – reassuring. Margaret, Cork
Thank you so much for last night (Friday Night Nidra). It was truly both amazing and beautiful. I was so relaxed, and still am, listening to the birds this morning. It seemed such a deep experience and I slept for hours afterwards. Julie, Okehampton
That was super relaxing thank you. I have no doubt it did me the world of good and I definitely feel rested. You have a lovely way of of teaching nidra. A lovely way to begin some time to unwind from an extremely stressful period. Much thanks Ruth, Oxford
I have participated in two online Yoga Nidra evening sessions via Zoom. Fiona creates a calm and caring atmosphere, offering thoughts on a particular theme and providing a caring and accepting space for participants to share their thoughts. We are also encouraged to do whatever we need to be as comfortable as possible. After some gentle yoga postures Fiona guides us through the Nidra, where it is possible to enter a state of deep relaxation as well as a special place between sleeping and being awake. Both times I went to bed soon after completing the Nidra, and I slept deeply and far better than usual. The next day I felt less anxious and my body felt nicely rested without the usual little aches and tensions. The Yoga Nidra is a very special experience mentally and physically, and I thoroughly recommend it. S, Normandy
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