Total Yoga Nidra
Teacher & Facilitator Training
In Person / Online Hybrid
with Yoga Nidra Network co-founder Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Suze Retera
Part 1 - In Person
Wednesday 09 - Sunday 13 April 2025
10:30 - 18:30 CET
De Pastorie, Hartveldseweg 24, 1111 BG Diemen-Amsterdam
Part 2 - Live On Zoom
19 May 2025 | 18:00-21:00 CET
The Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training 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.
- Encounter yoga nidra in its totality
- Explore the multiple forms and levels of this remarkable yoga practice
- Become empowered to deepen your own intuitive practice of meditative yoga nidra beyond the limits of standard trademarked and traditional forms
- Understand the full living range of different methods, lineages and levels of total yoga nidra
- Experience total yoga nidra as a living intelligence of the heart, an adaptogenic practice of deep healing and self-discovery
- 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.
What to expect
This is a intensive course delivered two parts. Part one in person in Amsterdam and part 2 live on Zoom.
Also included in the cost of the course are 3 video recorded Total Yoga Nidra Open Circles.
You must have completed the pre-requisite Total Yoga Nidra Online Immersion course and before beginning this course.
You will get:
- 5 full days of in person training
- access to our friendly and accessible online learning sanctuary
- access to recordings of three online Total Yoga Nidra Open Circles.
- downloadable yoga nidras for pre-course listening
- a comprehensive reading list
- a comprehensive training manual
- 60 hours of study, practice, training and support to nourish your growth into a confident and committed teacher and facilitator of Total Yoga Nidra
- development of a daily Yoga Nidra practice
- practical guidance
- structured learning
- opportunities for questions and discussions with course leaders
- supportive opportunities for practice with peers
- direct feedback and refinement of teaching skills
- access to downloadable recordings of all live nidras delivered on the course
- two online follow-up tutorials
- support to conduct an in-depth case study in an area of your own interest
After the course, you will get:
- Certificate of Graduation
- Access to our Graduate Circle
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Listing on our Teacher's Directory
Course Dates, Times and Location
This training is delivered in two parts and consists of:
- 5 days in person training in Amsterdam
- Yoga Nidra sharing on Zoom on Monday 19 May 2025 6-9pm CET
- 3 online Total Yoga Nidra Open Circles video recordings
Training Part 1 - In Person in Amsterdam with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD and Suze Retera
De Pastorie, Hartveldseweg 24, 1111 BG Diemen-Amsterdam
Training Part 2 - Live On Zoom
Monday 19 May 2025 | 6-9pm CET
Attendance at all of the above sessions is a course requirement.
You must have completed the pre-requisite Total Yoga Nidra Online Immersion course and before beginning this course.
What will I learn?
This course aims to:
- provide a structured programme to support regular personal practice of Total Yoga Nidra, as the foundation for comparative analysis of the effects and potential applications of the practice.
- provide an holistic, comparative, creative, investigative and sustained examination of the practical application of Total Yoga Nidra for personal use, in yoga classes and in one-to-one sessions.
- enable you to use yoga nidra safely, creatively and appropriately in classes and for one-to-ones, both online and in person.
- encourage a critical awareness of a range of different approaches to yoga nidra in order to empower students to evaluate others' perspectives and develop a clear rationale for your own approach to the uses of Total Yoga Nidra.
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develop a creative response to the needs of clients and students, enabling you to create and tailor Total Yoga Nidra scripts appropriate to specific circumstances and requirements.
During the course, you will:
- learn to devise and deliver Total Yoga Nidra practices appropriate to your needs and those of your students and clients.
- gain a clear practical understanding of the structure and function of Total Yoga Nidra, including models of best practice, and techniques to be avoided.
- gain a practical understanding of the key principles of yogic psychology and philosophy relevant to the practice of Total Yoga Nidra.
- gain a contextual understanding of the development and history of Total Yoga Nidra across different lineages.
- learn to share Total Yoga Nidra with an informed sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual experiences of those receiving the practice.
- learn to teach a range of restorative yoga asanas suitable for use during yoga nidra practice.
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learn to teach within the appropriate safety guidelines for this type of yoga practice.
Is this course right for me?
This course is open to anyone with an interest in facilitating yoga nidra. You do not need to have a 200 hour yoga teacher training to join.
You must have completed the pre-requisite Total Yoga Nidra Online Immersion course and before beginning this course.
How will I be assessed?
Assessment for this training is in two parts:
Yoga Nidra Practice
In part 2 of the course (online), you will deliver a 15 minute yoga nidra to your tutor and peers and receive direct feedback.
Case Study
You will complete a case study outlining the delivery of a series of 4 yoga nidras designed to support a person or group of people. The deadline for submission of the case study is three months after the end of the course.
Meet the Facilitators
The lead tutors are Yoga Nidra Network founders Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD and Nirlipta Tuli MA.
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD
Bursaries
We are pleased to offer a limited number of 50% bursary places on this course. To find out more and to complete an application, please see here.
Course hours: 60
Accreditation:
The International Association of Yoga Therapists
On successfully completing all course requirements, you will receive a Yoga Nidra Network certificate of completion.
