Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training
with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Beverley Bruce and Nirlipta Tuli
This course trains yoga teachers and others to teach and facilitate Yoga Nidra with confidence in class settings, one-to-ones, and for a range of therapeutic applications. Uniquely amongst Yoga Nidra trainings, it offers Total Yoga Nidra, a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to Yoga Nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges a variety of different levels of experience during Yoga Nidra.
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Encounter Yoga Nidra in its totality
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Explore the multiple forms and levels of this remarkable yoga practice
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Become empowered to deepen your own intuitive practice of meditative Yoga Nidra beyond the limits of standard trademarked and traditional forms
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Understand the full living range of different methods, lineages and levels of Total Yoga Nidra
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Experience Total Yoga Nidra as a living intelligence of the heart, an adaptogenic practice of deep healing and self-discovery
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Grow in confidence to share responsive and appropriate Total Yoga Nidra practice with students and clients
This training is designed by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli, who together have over forty years experience of practice, teaching and working therapeutically with all forms and levels of Yoga Nidra, is a uniquely comparative and creative, experiential course. It offers both practical training and personal and professional development.

Part 1 of the Total Yoga Nidra Teacher Training 2020 - ONLINE
Price: £590 (British Pound) = ca. NOK 6650
Dates: August 1st - 6th
Course info: Total Yoga Nidra Network offers a live online training running from August 1st - 6th (Part 1) and August 28th-31st (Part 2). Read more at their website. It is possible to do only Part 1 online, and to do Part 2 at Venabu in Norway. The price for Part 1 online is half of the price listed on the website £1118/ca. 13 300 NOK/2 = ca. 6650 NOK.
Registration for Part 1 online: Please send an e-mail to: bookings@thesource.co, to be signed up and to get payment info. If you would rather do both Part 1 and 2 online, you can sign up yourself at their website paying the full cost (£1118 = ca. 13 300 NOK).
Pre-course work requires participation in the Total Yoga Nidra: Immersion Experience. We recommend the online version on yoganidranetwork.org.
Part 2 of the Total Yoga Nidra Teacher Training 2020 at Venabu Mountain Lodge
Price: Tuition + accomodation for Yoga Nidra Part 2 (including mentorship prior to the retreat): NOK 6.900
Dates: October 4-8, 2020
Starting: October 4. at 14:00
Ending: October 8. at 14:00
The second part of the Total Yoga Nidra Teacher Training is only for students who have done Part 1.
Venue: This Total Yoga Nidra Training Part 2 will be held at Venabu Mountain Lodge, which is a 20 minute ride from Ringebu train station.
Travel information: Take the train from from Oslo, Trondheim or Åndalsnes. We will arrange pick-up at the train station.

What is Total Yoga Nidra?
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Total Yoga Nidra is a comprehensive, inclusive and non-dogmatic approach to yoga nidra that respects and explores not only a range of practice methods, but also acknowledges and supports a variety of different levels of experience during yoga nidra. Total yoga nidra empowers you to encounter yoga nidra in its totality: as an adaptogenic meditative practice without limits in terms of its capacity to heal, nourish and liberate. -
Most people who are familiar with yoga nidra have listened to some kind of pre-recorded audio track(s), but might not have had the opportunity to encounter the practice live from a teacher in a group setting; and although many people may have experienced a live group yoga nidra, where a teacher delivers a standard script to a group of students, this relaxing experience is very different from practising yoga nidra that has been specifically tailored for a particular individual, for example in a one-to-one setting. This experience in turn is different from the encounter with yoga nidra that comes during a practice that is co-created by teacher and student together, with the specific intention to meet the student precisely where s/he is right now, both in language and method of practice, and in terms of the level at which that practice can be most appropriately met. -
And whilst all of these experiences of yoga nidra certainly bring huge benefits, an entirely different set of possibilities open up when yoga nidra is set free from the need to have any external auditory guide of any kind. At this level of self practice, the protocols for practice are so deeply familiar to the practitioner that when we simply lie (or sit) quietly, then the practice can be invited to unfold silently, in the voice of our own intuitive inner guide.
What you will learn
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to devise and deliver Total Yoga Nidra practices appropriate to your needs and those of your students and clients; -
a clear practical understanding of the structure and function of Total Yoga Nidra, including models of best practice, and techniques to be avoided; -
a practical understanding of the key principles of yogic psychology and philosophy relevant to the practice of Total Yoga Nidra; -
a contextual understanding of the development and history of Total Yoga Nidra across different lineages; -
to share Total Yoga Nidra with an informed sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual experiences of those receiving the practice; -
to teach a range of restorative yoga asanas suitable for use during yoga nidra practice; -
to teach within the appropriate safety guidelines for this type of yoga practice.
Topics covered include
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Understanding the structure and variations in approaches to, and levels of, Total Yoga Nidra practice -
Clinical hypnosis, self-hypnosis and yoga nidra – a full exploration of the relationship between these practices -
Further explorations in history and development of yoga nidra: nyasa, tantra, Satyananda Yoga, Himalayan Institute, Richard Miller, Swami Veda Bharati, Swami Jneshvara Bharati -
Deeper explorations of yoga philosophy and cosmology in relation to Total Yoga Nidra -
Exploring research on yoga nidra exploring the value of understandings from neuroscience, clinical psychology, psycho-neuro-immunology and physiology in relation to the function of yoga nidra, including stress and the relaxation response -
Restorative asana: refinements on propping poses for yoga nidra -
Sankalpa: resolution and intention setting, listening to inner guidance, framing and using Sankalpa within and around yoga nidra -
Breath awareness /pranayama: specific use within the structure of yoga nidra session, and to support the practice of yoga nidra -
Visualisations: a range of different traditional and creative scripting options, contra- indications, appropriateness and therapeutic value -
Creativity and innovation: devising your own Total Yoga Nidra experiences; metaphor, poetry and grammar for enlightened communication -
Responsiveness: tailoring script to needs of target populations, bespoke scripts: utilising client images in yoga nidra -
Self-development: sample practices, support for self-reflection and growth -
Dharana: yoga nidra as an aid to improve concentration -
Dhyana: yoga nidra as the meditative heart of yoga -
Living yoga nidra: practical and effective integration of yoga nidra into daily life -
Total yoga nidra as a therapeutic tool
Pre-coursework
* a similar workshop previously
Accommodation cost at Venabu:
NOK 3.600 for accomodation in a double room.
NOK 4.000 kr for accomodation in a single room.
This includes three nourishing meals, tea and snacks/fruit.
Accomodation fee will be invoiced in August 2020.
For more information about the venue,
please see www.venabu.no
Registration for Part 2:
Sign up and pay tuition 6900,- below. Accomodation fee will be invoiced in August 2020.
There will also be the option to complete the full training online if we are unable to meet in October due to Covid restrictions, or if you simply prefer to continue with the online course.
Teachers
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
Beverley Bruce
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Beverley Bruce specialises in therapeutic applications of breath, movement, meditation and rest, creating a nurturing and supportive space for each individual to honour their needs as they find their way to feeling resourced and balanced, at any stage of life. She combines her extensive experience across the fields of yoga, psychotherapy, somatic therapy and yoga therapy in both private practice and group classes. In all of her sessions, she encourages kindness, compassion, and deep listening within, sensing and following what feels right for each of us. For her, Yoga is really a practice of awareness and coming home to ourselves. Beverley is inspired by therapeutic practices which resource and balance us, and loves sharing creatively blended forms of the healing practices of Restorative Yoga, Total Yoga Nidra, YogaSOMATICS and Womb Yoga. She is currently completing a Professional Doctorate in Psychotherapy with the University of Edinburgh, where she has been exploring the bridge between psychotherapy and yoga. Beverley has studied Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater to an advanced level, YogaSOMATICS and Somatic Bodywork with Ateeka, and Total Yoga Nidra and Womb Yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, whom she assists in trainings and workshops around the world. www.b-ing.co.uk
Nirlipta Tuli