Im teaching another Yoga Nidra Workshop on Sunday October 19 4:30-5:45pm at Siesta Yoga in Los Feliz! sign up at siestayoga.net. Another way to increase the bodys ability to heal from trauma! iRest® (Integrative Restoration -Yoga Nidra) is a profound, yet accessible, meditation practice that originates from Tantra Yoga. iRest® systematically combines deep relaxation, affirmation, breathing, visualization and self-inquiry which work together to facilitate the integration of body, mind, and spirit. iRest® differs from other meditation practices in that you are invited to relax in a comfortable resting position, such as lying down or seated in a chair while being guided verbally by a teacher or a recording. The practice awakens the realization of ones deepest desires and great potential for healing. During iRest® meditation, sheaths or layers of Being are openly explored with no goal except to simply be with whatever arises during the process. These sheaths (also called koshas) include the physical body, the energy body, the sensation, feeling and emotional bodies, the bodies of thought and imagery, and the bodies of bliss and personal ego identity. By revealing our innate wholeness and belongingness, iRest® helps us understand that it is the misperception of the mind that leads us to believe we are separate and limited entities. Yoga means the joining together of two things. Nidra, as defined from Sanskrit, is sleep. Yoga Nidra could be called the sleep of the yogi, however, in truth the yogi is wide-awake. Yoga Nidra reunites us with our True Nature or Pure Being that is ever-present underlying all circumstances of our lives and is always awake in every stage of consciousness. Based on this ancient practice of Yoga Nidra, Richard Miller, PhD. has developed a protocol for the contemporary western world called Integrative Restoration or iRest®. Miller, a doctor of psychology with thirty years of clinical psychotherapy practice and academic research focused on yoga practices, is the co-founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and the Institute of Spirituality and Psychology. Millers studies show success using iRest® at Walter Reed Army Hospital with active duty soldiers suffering from PTSD, insomnia and anxiety from wartime experiences, as well as various sites around the United States with the homeless, college students, children, and other populations suffering from a multitude of ailments including depression and anxiety, chronic pain, and sleep problems.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:24:45 +0000
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