Yoga Nidra Club
Yoga Nidra Club
One evening a month.
The next one is 13th September 7.00pm-8.30pm
Shirley House, Psalter Lane
Yoga Nidra has been one of my favourite practices on both a personal and a teaching level for many years. I know it’s the highlight of many that come to my classes and retreats and so I thought I’d create a special Yoga Nidra Container, once a month, for us to come together and lie down on the floor.
I have long practiced Yoga Nidra with the wonderful Uma Dinsmore-Tulli and highly recommend her work and her book as well as her extensive library of Yoga Nidra that she offers on her website.
Practicing Yoga Nidra, in person, together is extremely potent and liberating. It can be sometimes extremely difficult to rest. Insomnia, anxiety, stress and even exhaustion itself can prevent us from resting adequately. We may wake up from sleep exhausted, nothing may seem to work, we may feel creatively, emotionally exhausted as well as physically.
Sometimes we may believe we have to earn our rest. Or somehow we have to always keep going, keep moving, keep trying or keep producing. We may have all sorts of attitudes and thought about our ability to rest or whether we even deserve to rest.
What is yoga nidra?
Yoga Nidra is an effortless and nourishing yoga practice that involves no physical movement. The body is fully supported in a position of rest and warmth. Nothing is required of you, nothing is to be achieved, you cannot get the practice right and you cannot get it wrong. This is simply a practice to lie down on the floor and listen.
You may drift off entirely, you may listen to every word that I say or you may find yourself somewhere in between those two polarities. Every eventuality is welcome.
Yoga Nidra supports relaxation, rest, sleep and through this it also supports clarity, creativity and helps people connect to their bodies and perhaps their body’s intuition too.
Studies have shown that Yoga Nidra has many therepeutic effects including reducing stress, anxiety, insomnia and PTSD as well as hormonal imbalances, chronic pain, migraines and noncommunicable diseases. It can even help with things like high brlood pressure and cardiovascular problems.
It can also help improve mental and social well-being.
As this is a practice of supported stillness all can acccess it. If you find it difficult to be still and find stillness quite anxiety inducing, but feel like you’d like to lean into this practice then please do get in touch with me beforehand to see how I might be able to work with you.
The word Yoga, in Sanskrit, means Union and the word Nidra means the yoga of sleep. I feel like connected, conscious sleep is quite a fitting description.
Yoga Nidra Club
Every month we will meet at Shirley House, Psalter Lane for an evening of Yoga Nidra.
7.00pm-8.30pm
We may move our bodies a little first, practice some breathwork or practice a restorative pose before we drop into Yoga Nidra. This may help us to meet the energy and emotions that we arrive with so that we can settle into Yoga Nidra.
I invite private journalling and blurt-writing after the practice also. Nidra can help us access clarity, vision and a deep inner knowing.
Each session is deeply supported by cosy blankets, bolsters, cushions as well as warming teas and snacks, candles and invitations to nourish all of our senses.
You don’t have to bring anything unless you’d like to. But cosy jumpers and socks are always recommended.
All are absolutely welcome.