2025 Course Dates:
25 January
22 February
22 March
26 April
(10am-6pm each day)

All sessions must be attended live.

Would you like to become confident leading longer relaxation practices? Learn to create and deliver authentic yoga nidras based on your teaching, interests & the elements/seasons? Does teaching a bespoke yoga nidra class, workshop or retreat appeal to you?

This course supports you to connect with your creativity and develop your yoga nidra expertise. You’ll get direct experience of key schools, lineages & approaches, plenty of practice and a thorough grounding in the philosophy, science and ethics underpinning yoga nidra.

During the course you will develop your proficiency in guiding clients and students in enriched rest confidently and authentically. You’ll add to your yoga teaching skillset & deepen your teaching.

Course Objectives

This 50 hour course (32 hours in person, 18 hours self study/practice) equips yoga teachers, wellbeing facilitators, educators and therapists to confidently create and share yoga nidra in tune with the elements and nature in group and 121 settings.

THEORY

You will have a comprehensive and thorough understanding of:

• The diverse forms of nidra across 5 influential schools/lineages & post lineage facilitation - Satyananda, Himalayan Institute, iRest and I AM yoga nidra & post lineage Total Yoga Nidra & Wildsong Nidra

• The comparative structures & anatomy of nidra

• The Vedic philosophy underpinning nidra practice

• Nidra & energy, the 5 koshas, Taoist 5 elements and seasons

• Nidra & physiology: what happens when we practice nidra & benefits

• Nidra & mindfulness: research studies in Nidra & benefits

• Nidra & consciousness: neuroscience & hypnosis

• Nidra & Self /spiritual growth vs politicised space of western yoga: post lineage accessible practice for all

PRACTICE

Practice-based modular learning to build confidence & experience:

• Mapping & delivery of each element of a nidra

• Creating nidras from mind maps instead of scripts so you can confidently deliver, connected with your group / students

• Repeated delivery practice within the group / partner work to embed familiarity and build confidence

• Q & A sessions to embed learning

• Developing your authentic voice

• Linking nidra to the 5 elements and seasons

• Creating your own nidras

• Tailoring nidras for and with your group / private sessions

• Propping

• Ethical guidelines for facilitators

• Marketing & sharing your new skill

SELF STUDY REQUIREMENTS

Self study is required:

• Pre-course reading/listening/practice

• Homework for group discussion and building your teaching skillset

• Regular nidra practice & journalling are essential to embody and embed a yoga nidra practice over the course duration to build direct felt experience, familiarity, skill and confidence

• At least one case study & 1-2 page report and attendance of 75% sessions live (either in person or on Zoom) is mandatory is required to complete the course & receive certification

Who is this course for?

Yoga teachers, wellbeing facilitators, educators and therapists who are looking to confidently create and share yoga nidra with clients in group and 121 settings.

Completion of Lucie’s one day Yoga Nidra Immersion – Field studies in Yoga Nidra is required. Forthcoming dates - Sunday 8th September / Saturday 30 November 2024.

When and where?

In person at Merchant City Yoga or on Zoom:

25 January 2025
22 February
22 March
26 April
(10am-6pm each day)

All sessions must be attended live, either in person or on Zoom. Attendance on Zoom is by prior arrangement with Lucie only. Up to 25% of the course can be followed on catch up owing to prior commitments / illness / work – please flag this up with Lucie as soon as possible to arrange access to recordings and ensure completion of home study.

Programme Cost £575
(Includes all materials)

You can choose to pay in full or we’re offering a payment plan to help you spread out the cost over multiple instalments, making it more manageable financially.

Payment Plan:

1) Non-refundable deposit: £150 to be paid upon registration to secure a spot in the course.

2) Instalments: The remaining balance of £425 divided into three instalments:

• First instalment £150 due one month before the course start date (24 December 2024)

• Second instalment £150 due on the first day of the course (25 January 2025)

• Third and final instalment £125 due halfway through the course duration (21 March 2025)

Conditions:

1) The non-refundable deposit of £150 is required to confirm the registration and reserve a spot in the course.

2) Failure to pay any instalment on time may result in suspension from attending the course until the outstanding amount is cleared.

3) If a participant decides to withdraw from the course after paying the deposit and/or any instalments, the amounts already paid will not be refunded unless the place can be secured from a waiting list, in which case the deposit and/or any instalments will be refunded (less a 10% admin fee).

4) Completion certificates will be issued only after the full course fee of £575 has been paid.

5) The course provider reserves the right to change the payment plan or conditions if deemed necessary, with prior notice to the participants.

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About Lucie

Lucie is a Senior Teacher in Seasonal Yoga & Associate Facilitator of Total Yoga Nidra. She first encountered this incredible healing practice in 2011. However, it was her experience of Total Yoga Nidra with Uma, Nirlipta Dinsmore-Tuli and Ben Wolff in 2016 and subsequent training & work with them, that radically shifted the landscape of what yoga nidra can be. From something read from a book to a strong, informed, flexible practice of deep healing and connection, focused on the individual with safety and support at its heart. 

Lucie co-facilitated the first Total Yoga Nidra Immersion with Nirlipta Tuli in Glasgow in February 2020 and continues her training with him in nidra & neuroscience. 2023 will see the first Wildsong Nidra immersions and training here in Scotland and she’s published on Insight Timer too.

Lucie's training and practice respects and draws on all traditions of yoga nidra. She shares nidra live, created in the moment, tailored for the group/individual, entwined in nature and the seasons. Nidra offers us the chance to come home to ourselves, to truly unite with our Self in beautifully simple and easy ways. ‘There is nothing to do and nowhere to be. It is time to come home.’