Podcasts about irest yoga nidra

Send us a textPre-Order my new book, Shiny Happy Singles (UK) / Thrive Solo (US & Canada) here: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/book. If you're in the UK, pre-order direct from Bloomsbury and get a 25% Discount by using the code: SHS25 at checkout! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shiny-happy-singles-9781399416436/My guest on the podcast this week is the fabulous James Reeves.James is an author and coach, as well as a world-leading teacher, and the first in Europe to deliver iRest Yoga Nidra teacher training courses, based on the ancient teachings of yoga nidra. He's also the co-author of The Book of Rest, published by Harper Collins — a book that invites us to ‘find calm in a chaotic world', and describes rest as the doorway to our internal anchor — one that can always be found and is always accessible, regardless of external events. In our conversation, James and I talk about the benefits of deep rest, whether in the form of yoga nidra, meditation, or simply sitting and staring out of the window; we also talk about how to find deep rest, learning to stop, why we are so restless and what we can do about it. Topics that we cover are:the wake-up call that made James question what he was doing with his life;the trip to India that led him to the work he now does around deep rest;his thoughts on the endless distraction that is the world today;how “I'm so busy” has become our stock response;why we find it so hard to ‘do nothing';what happens when we truly stop and have no information coming in;the difference between informal rest, and structured rest;what deep rest means to James;consciousness, and the quiet observer inside us all;accessing the part of ourselves that is always ok;how all of our emotions are instructive, and trying to tell us something;what Yoga Nidra is, and how it allows us to resolve tensions within ourselves;how simply stopping for a minute at a time can be incredibly effective;the benefits of deep rest, including lowering cortisol levels;the incredible structural changes that happen to the brain when we experience deep rest regularly;how getting enough deep rest makes us nicer humans;how James helps his clients, and his book, The Book of Rest.Check out James' website: https://www.deeprest.com/Follow James on Instagram: @jamesreevesrestingBuy The Book of Rest: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Rest-James-Reeves/dp/0008321639 Support the showPre-Order my book, SHINY HAPPY SINGLES (UK) / THRIVE SOLO (US & Canada) at: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/book Download my FREE PDF 'The Top 10 Answers To The Most Irritating Questions That Single People Get Asked On The Regular...& How To (Devilishly) Respond'? Go to: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/questions Join the waitlist for my membership, Thrive Solo: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/thrivesolo Check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thrivesolowithlucymeggeson Interested in my 1-1 Coaching? Work with me HERE: https://www.lucymeggeson.com/workwithme Join my private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1870817913309222/?ref=share Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thrivesolowithlucymeggeson/ Email me: lucy@lucymeggeson.com And thank you so much for listening!

Über die Praxis des iRest Yoga Nidra mit Nöle Giulini und die Sehnsucht nach passiven Yogastilen.

Minisode # 7 The Mindful Palace visits the Energy Centers in Your Body with the Chakra Song!7:00 total timeThis very fun, silly and centering song is for all ages! Who knew sounding out syllables could be so helpful to grounding and balancing?!Starts with a few breaths and quick vocal warm up too.Enjoy and do drop me a line at notablehealing@gmail.com with any feedback, requests, comments. Podcast at www.notablehealing.com, on Spotify, Apple, iHeart, Google and AmazonPlease like or visit Notable Healing podcasts on the YouTube channel, Notable Healing Sheila Fox, on Facebook and Instagram. And for more info on Acutonics Soung Healing, iRest Yoga Nidra meditations or dyads, and Capacitar Workshops, visit www.notablehealing.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/notable-healing/donations

Welcome to Season 3 of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast! Today Sinclair is sharing an interview with Christina Conrad, Somatic Psychotherapist and Director of Palo Santo Therapy & Wellness in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Christina has been passionate about bringing leading edge trauma healing work to her community since she returned home to Oklahoma in 2011. Her own healing journey took her down the path of psychedelic medicine, and she has spent many years studying these medicines personally and professionally as a trauma healing modality. Christina is trained in Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, iRest Yoga Nidra, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy through MAPS. Dig into this episode to learn more about trauma informed healing with medicines, and the magic of play and safety to regulate your nervous system and make space for the psychedelic experience. RESOURCES: Palo Santo Therapy and Wellness Book your free 45 min coaching session with Sinclair here: https://mysticalheartcollective.com/psychedelic-integration

iRest® Integrative Wiederherstellung- Yoga Nidra Meditation für Gesundheit, Heilung und Erwachen (https://www.irest.org). In der iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation üben wir, uns von den Identifikationen mit unseren Wahrnehmungen zu lösen. Diese Übungspraxis verbindet die Lehren der Nicht-Dualität mit Elementen der Achtsamkeitspraxis und den aktuellen Erkenntnissen der Neurowissenschaften, basierend auf der Tradition des Kaschmirischen Shivaismus und des Tantra Yoga. GRUNDLAGEN iRest® Yoga Nidra hilft uns · das Nervensystem zu beruhigen · unsere Resilienz zu stärken und · schwierige Emotionen und Gedanken zu integrieren. · Wir lernen, authentische Antworten auf kritische Momente und tiefgehende Lebensfragen zu finden. · Im iRest Yoga Nidra üben wir die Loslösung unserer alltäglichen Identifikationen unserer Wahrnehmungen. · Wir lassen Interpretationen und Wertungen los und lassen Inhalte einfach s e i n. · Eingefahrene Reaktionen, die stecken bleiben könnten, werden zu einer uns durchschwingenden Resonanz. · Unsere Beziehungsfähigkeit zu uns selbst, zu anderen und zu der Welt offenbart sich als unmittelbare Erfahrung von Geborgenheit und Ungetrennt-Sein. · Der bewusste Perspektivenwechsel bewirkt körperlich spürbar inneren Frieden. Es hat sich unter anderem bewährt in der Behandlung von: Stress, Burn-Out, chronischen Schmerzen, Angstzuständen, Schlaflosigkeit, Depression, PTBS und Suchtverhalten und wird in den USA stark in der Arbeit mit traumatisierten Veteranen der Armee („Warriors at ease“) verwendet. iRest ®Yoga Nidra eignet sich hervorragend als persönliche Praxis und kann auch höchst wirksam therapiebegleitend im Gesundheitswesen eingesetzt werden. Finde weitere Informationen und alle Podcast- Folgen auf meinem Blog www.nurdieruhe.com. Dort kannst du mir auch gerne Nachricht hinterlassen, was du dir hier als Thema wünschst. Ganz gemäß dem Motto: MAKE THE SHOW! Ich freue mich auf einen regen Austausch!

Most of us will run into unexpected setbacks in life. Today's guest Megan Kearney knows plenty about using those situations as opportunities to learn and grow stronger. An admitted type-a personality and “recovering triathlete”, Megan has been in the health and wellness industry for more than 20 years. She is a Yoga Medicine therapeutic specialist with additional trainings in mental health and traumatic brain injury resilience and iRest Yoga Nidra. When COVID-19 hit, Megan's previously successful yoga studios closed, and her marriage ended. In this episode, she talks with Rachel Land about turning these, and other, setbacks into success by practicing relentless realistic optimism. She also talks about the importance of self-care rituals, movement, getting outdoors, gratitude, relationships, journalling, therapy, and other practical ways to make space to feel and process both good and bad experiences until we feel ready to move on. Listen in to learn how to pull yourself out of 'the suck', and how to turn what we learn in that struggle into the source of our future success. If you'd like to learn more about this episode, see the full show notes, find out more about insider tips, online classes or information on our teacher trainings, come visit us at www.YogaMedicine.com. To support our work, please leave us a 5 star review with your feedback on iTunes/Apple Podcasts.

[Best experienced with headphones] To the Trees! I'm in love with nature! She gave us magic points on our bodies to press that help with pain, stress and anxiety. Acupressure, a yin practice for the whole family! Yoga Nidra means sleep of the yogi where one is deeply relaxed, yet keenly aware. A brain boost that opens neural pathways!All practices enhanced by sound healing instruments and/or music. 1:55 a Meta 1 minute Meditation – “I am here.” 3:26 Practice #1 Bend Like a Tree/Cleanse with the Rain/ Stretching and Tapping 11:33 Practice #2 Acupressure for Calming and Energy 19:43 Practice #3 iRest Yoga Nidra – a Restoring Body and Breath Scan 31:19 Ladino Song, Arvoles, Trees with Guest Flamenco Guitarist Shane Derk, recorded at Charlito's Studio, Albuquerque, NM  Plant a tree appropriate for your region! We need them!Sharing Acupressure: When doing acupressure with another person, be sure to ground and center yourself before you start by feeling into your feet and breathing deeply into your belly and chest. Visualize yourself inside of an egg of blue light. Stand or sit beside them, chair facing them. Check with them regarding the amount of pressure they desire. Hold the points until you feel the energy pulse steady and strong. When finished, feel into feet, shake hands out down toward earth and/or touch the ground. Bow to each other. Resources: www.notablehealing.com and You Tube Channel “Notable Healing Sheila Fox”Integrative Restoration Institute www.irest.org for the Inner Resource Exercise For info on the sound healing system used in this podcast www.acutonics.com Send comments to Sheila at notablehealing@gmail.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/notable-healing/donations

​​Welcome to episode 2 of the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and Meditation Podcast! At Breathing Deeply we offer Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT Advanced teacher training programs. Inside these programs, we have weekly Q&A sessions with students and Breathing Deeply founder & lead teacher. Brandt Passalacqua. This episode has been taken from a live Q&A session with Brandt and his yoga therapy students. Brandt covers a number of questions, including tips for mastering pranayama, Yoga Nidra, dealing with serious health conditions, and more. Brandt offers practical advice, tips, and valuable information about yoga therapy and practicing as a yoga therapist. This episode covers: 0:00 - Intro 0:34 - Do you have tips for breathing exercises with extended exhales? 05:15 - Why don't we use visualizations when learning Yoga Nidra for yoga therapy (versus iRest Yoga Nidra)? 11:05 - Should I give my clients a variety of yoga therapy practices? - 11.28 13:15 - How to work with clients struggling with serious health conditions such as Lupus - 13.29 16:13 - Why people struggle to have faith that yoga therapy is effective Breathing Deeply is a Yoga Therapy and Meditation School, founded by lead teacher Brand Passalacqua in 2014. We hold online and in-person Yoga Therapy Foundations and IAYT accredited Advanced Programs and retreats along with Meditation Programs, mentor certifications and holistic weight loss with Being At Peace with Food. Breathing Deeply is made up of an active and thriving community of yogis, caregivers, therapists, teachers, medical professionals, parents & children with the same intention—to serve others, lessen suffering, and co-create a new paradigm in wellness. Join us! Website: https://bit.ly/37tGSnr Insight Timer: https://bit.ly/3ifkrs2 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xnBaxz Facebook: https://bit.ly/3xlSCmh Blog: https://bit.ly/3rMo77T Breathing Deeply Courses: https://bit.ly/3ykU3CS Meditation Program 30 day free trial: https://bit.ly/3jbO6lo

Enjoy this nourishing experience of Yoga Nidra with guest Padmavati (Mary) Roberts. In today's world of overstimulation and fatigue, this practice is one of the most gentle and beautiful experiences. Padmavati, Mary Roberts, is a Sivananda Yoga Teacher and leads the Wellbeing Center at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas. Her Ayurveda studies with Drs. K.P. Khalsa, David Frawley, Robert Svoboda, Claudia Welch and Vasant Lad have sparked a love for Ayurveda. Trained by her teacher and mentor Isvari, Mary Ann Johnson, to give Ayurveda Body Treatments and Marma Therapy, Padmavati is honored to share the beautiful healing treatments with clients. She is also certified in iRest Yoga Nidra, Chair Yoga and Yin Yoga. In the Bahamas, she teaches courses and assists with Sivananda Teacher Training Courses. Her book What's Possible? Ayurvedic Odyssey: The Year Yoga Changed - My Life is the story of her year-long study in the Bahamas ashram and her journey to health and wholeness through Yoga and Ayurveda. https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Possible-Ayurvedic-Odyssey-Changed/dp/0940676486 www.BestYOULife.com www.aparnak.com www. www.aparnak.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aparna-khanolkar/support

-Annie Okerlin is an O2X Yoga Specialist who presents yoga, sleep, resiliency & iRest Yoga Nidra to tactical athletes, first responders, and veterans nationwide. -Her passion for helping the wounded warriors of today's wars led her to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2006 where she worked with the traumatically injured to include: amputees, burn victims, those with orthopedic poly-trauma, traumatic brain injuries, spinal-cord injuries, as well as unseen injuries such as PTSD.-As one of the nation's leading experts on Adaptive Yoga, she teaches nationally and internationally with The Exalted Warrior Warrior Foundation, a non-profit organization she founded in 2010, to support wounded warriors with the seen & unseen issues of traumatic injury.  -She is a Certified iRest® teacher & has also co-authored the book 'Best Practices for Yoga for Veterans'-She's a patriot and overall badassCheck out Exalted Warrior Foundation:https://www.exaltedwarrior.com/Download the O2X Tactical Performance App:app.o2x.comLet us know what you think:Website: http://o2x.comIG: https://instagram.com/o2xhumanperformance?igshid=1kicimx55xt4f

Are you ready for another episode of Live2Inspire? Please help me give a warm welcome to my guest this week, Yvette Lehmann! Yvette started her journey with curiosity about life, consciousness, and spirituality. Practicing yoga gave her ways to connect the physical body and the psychological inner being. She believes that without the emotional and mental health there can never be true physical health. It is the balance of all, that brings one back to their natural state of completeness. She is trained and certified in iRest Yoga Nidra. The understanding and application of this system changed the way she practices and teaches yoga. She applies the system to help and guide people suffering from trauma, grief, stress, anxiety, and addictions. ​Her Classes, Workshops, Meditations and Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training programs integrate the wisdom of the traditional 8 limbs of Patanjali Yoga Sutras, the Upanishads and the scriptures of the Bhagavad Gita. Yvette weaves her 20 years of experience of all the different modalities into the physical yoga practice by helping the students understand better where the traumas are stored in the body and how to navigate themselves to where they want to be. Her workshops will guide the students to learn what tools will help release the traumas hidden in the body. She offers guided group meditations to help the students apply the tools to free the traumas. She gives one-on-one sessions to go deeper in discovering the root cause of the trauma from within. Her heartfelt desire is to help all who seek to understand and know their true Selves other than the superficial ego self. Those who are looking for more can benefit from her Teacher Training programs, retreats, and intensive workshops. She lives in Kamloops with her son and serves at the Happyness Center. ​ To learn more visit: http://www.yogawithyvette.ca/

On this episode, iRest Yoga Nidra practitioner and trainer, Karen Soltes explains the power of Yoga Nidra. From exploring your inner resource, to being blissfully guided. Yoga Nidra is an evidence-based practice used widely in the VA system to help with PTSD and chronic pain. Whether you just are looking for extra rest and rejuvenation or are looking for new ways to deal with the epic challenges of 2020, this modality is right for you. Karen offers a two-hour workshop on Mind Oasis (6 Dec 2020) that is designed to reset your resiliency just in time for the holidays. It will be a wonderful introduction or reconnection to iRest Yoga Nidra. Learn More: MindOasis.org

Ik sprak met Rebecca (van Becca Yoga) open een eerlijk over haar ervaringen met intuïtief eten, over hoe yoga nidra haar hierin helpt. Maar ook over corona-kilo's, en hoe je jezelf kan helpen als je last hebt van negatieve gedachten over jouw lichaam. Vind alle besproken linkjes hier: https://blijdieetvrij.nl/yoga-nidra-intuitief-eten Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saskia_koopman/

Guided Irest Yoga Nidra

A guided iREST® Yoga Nidra with an emphasis on building your own inner resource. A tool you can build and use in meditation and throughout your daily life.

Miller is the Founder, and Director of the iRest Institute. Miller is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar and spiritual teacher. For over 40 years, Miller has devoted his life and work to integrating the nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism and Buddhism with Western psychology. Miller is also the co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is also a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology and a senior advisor for the Baumann Foundation for the study of Awareness and its impact on well-being. Author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Miller serves as a research consultant studying the iRest Yoga Nidra protocol that he has developed. iRest stands for Integrative Restoration, a modern adaptation of the ancient nondual meditation practice of Yoga Nidra. Miller researches its efficacy on health, healing and well-being with diverse populations including active-duty soldiers, veterans, college students, children, seniors, the homeless, the incarcerated, and people experiencing issues, such as sleep disorders, PTSD, chemical dependency, chronic pain, and related disorders. In this episode, we talk with Miller about the difference between Eastern and Western practices, how yoga can help us understand the wholeness of ourselves and how we can train our minds to better handle everyday stress. Listen in as we discuss Yoga Nidra and the benefits it can provide.

Turi and Karuna go for a stroll thru iRest Yoga Nidra, mantra, and the fusion of ancient practices and modern science. As a practitioner with a lot of experience serving folks with Traumatic Brain Injuries, Turi also brings a sweet perspective on how iRest Yoga Nidra can help folks living with a TBI at home, in practice, and in life. Don't have a lot of time? Skip to 11:23 for the juicy bit around iRest practices and what you can expect when you attend this 30-minute session with Turi on Wednesday evenings before bedtime (hint! A better night's sleep)! Turi guides iRest Yoga Nidra every Wednesday evening on Community Meditation, a subscription online group meditation program on Mind Oasis. Learn More: MindOasis.org

Come and be transported in our latest Voices of Yoga podcast where we are chatting with James Reeves of Restful Being, a world-leading yoga nidra teacher, the first in Europe to deliver iRest Yoga Nidra teacher training courses, who features on Ekhart Yoga sessions and is co-author of the Book of Rest. This is our Easter holidays special Voices of Yoga offering a Yoga Nidra practice (deep rest)with James to bring you a 90 mins podcast session. Disclaimer: Yoga is for everyone. However, it's important that to ensure you are ready and able to practice any type of yoga practice in a suitable and safe way that's appropriate for you. And where necessary you check with your medical practitioner/doctor to gain approval. It is recommended that you consult your physician before beginning any new exercise program and that at any time during a practice you feel nauseous, dizzy or in pain you stop and seek medical advice. We accept no liability whatsoever for any damages arising from the use of Voices of Yoga Podcasts and whilst Voices of Yoga Podcasts uses reasonable efforts to share accurate and up-to-date information it may contain some technical or other mistakes, inaccuracies or unintended errors. Voices of Yoga Podcasts cannot be held responsible for these. We will not be liable to you in respect of any personal injury or other aspect that you may suffer or directly or indirectly as a result of listening to our Voices of Yoga Podcasts including liabilities arising in contract, tort (incl. negligence) and for break of statutory duty. You may have your own opinion or experience which may be different and that is to be welcomed as part of being curious about yoga and the journey we are all on. If you have any reason to believe Voices of Yoga podcasts content is slanderous, illegal, promoting dangerous acts or in violation of copyright law, please contact us at: voicesofyoga@mail.com Namaste Lindsey & Emma - co-founders of Voices of Yoga and its predecessor YEDTalks.

Molly Birkholm is a speaker, consultant, yoga and iRest Yoga Nidra teacher trainer, trauma educator, published author, and international show host. Mollys stress management programs, resilience training, and trauma treatment programs are used by leaders and top organizations around the world, including the US Department of Defense, JPChase, McKinsey & Company, and the Young Presidents' Organization. She is the co-founder of Warriors at Ease, which has trained over 2000 teachers who share yoga and meditation to 65 military bases and VA Centers. She helped pioneer evidence-based trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation programs for PTSD in the military and other communities affected by trauma, including human trafficking survivors and homeless communities. She is also an iRest Yoga Nidra teacher trainer. Molly teaches trainings and retreats around the world, online on The Great Courses, and as a Featured Teacher & the host of the Womens Empowerment Initiative on Yoga International. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.MollyBirkholm.com Company: www.WarriorsAtEase.org Podcast: Conversations Matter Most Influential Person Richard Miller Effect on Emotions “Made me feel emotions with openness and curiosity.” Thoughts on Breathing “Breathing is everything.” “Breathing consciously has taught to how to really be alive and to connect to the life force of the universe.” Suggested Resources Book: Recognition of Your Own Heart by Joan Ravinsky App: Insight Timer, Great Courses Bullying Story “When I was a kid, I moved 10 times before I graduated from high school. Every single time, I got bullied because of the culture from where I came from.” “I kept changing to fit in. I became a people pleaser.” Free Gift Want to know the best books on Mindfulness? My guests have recommended so many great books and I've made up a short e-book to tell you about the Top 12 Mindfulness books recommended on the show. Download this free ebook here: www.MindfulnessMode.com/top12books

Welcome to Yoga Unplugged ConversationsA podcast dedicated to helping you grow, thrive and gracefully make tough life decisions, so you can lead a happier, healthier life.Host Sarah Burchard, invites special guests on the show to deep dive into real life issues, providing tools and philosophies, in order to help you navigate them with greater ease.Sarah is a freelance writer, natural foods chef and certified health coach who is passionate about promoting local businesses and food through her writing, farmers market tours and farm-to-table events under the name, The Healthy Locavore. When she is not talking food she's marketing events for Yoga Unplugged and supporting the yoga community on Oʻahu.Sarah's guest today is Jill Peterson, a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Trainer of iRest® Yoga Nidra. Jill blends psychology, iRest, energy medicine and sharing personal experiences to tackle issues with her clients and students, such as avoidance, challenges that come up during the healing process, and the consequences that arise when we choose to not address or feel our emotions. In this episode, Sarah and Jill discuss emotion management and the debilitating beliefs that most of us have about emotions. They address how Jill's unique approach will allow you to not only handle your own emotions better, but also the emotions of others. Learn why you should treat your emotions like children, what happens when you try to skip or speed through this process and why Jill doesn't want you to feel better. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amy Bull is an Integrative Health & Wellness Coach (trained by Duke Integrative Medicine), who helps people create a balanced and healthy lifestyle, filled with purpose, passion, and joy. She has 23 years of experience managing a busy lifestyle, working in the corporate world and running a non-profit organization. It can be a challenge to balance it all and not sacrifice our health and happiness. She has made it her mission to provide space to empower individuals, so they can uncover what they truly desire for their life, and begin taking action towards their optimal vision. In addition to her training at Duke Integrative Medicine, she is trained in Hatha Yoga (200HR Registered Yoga Teacher), and she is a teacher of iRest Yoga Nidra, trained by the Integrative Restoration Institute. This combination of expertise allows her to hold space for her clients in a mindful, attentive way. Integrative Health Coaching is centered on the idea of the individual becoming more mindful of all aspects of their life and how it impacts their well-being. Up Frequency believes deeply in the philosophy of Integrative Medicine, and that health and wellness is about treating the whole person, not just the symptoms of disease and illness, and that health is much more complex than just diet and exercise. Key Takeaways:"All those little steps really do matter.""Control is a total illusion.""When you come from a place of openness day to day… it’s much more peaceful.""I am successful when I am in a place of trusting myself."Amy Bull:theupfrequency.comhttps://www.facebook.com/theupfrequency/https://www.facebook.com/amy.bull.7Connect with Amber and other incredible people looking to break out of the corporate mindset by joining the More Than Corporate Facebook group: http://bit.ly/2MuWn53 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Season Three kicks off with a conversation with Gordon Ivan Townsend. He discusses iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation and Sound Sessions. Find out more about Gordon on FaceBook: Yoga, Gong & Meditation - Heart O' Texas

iRest Yoga Nidra is a modernized form of an ancient practice of healing and relaxation from the tradition of yoga and is now an evidence-based form of mind-body training which promotes deep healing, health and well-being. iRest Yoga Nidra is the result of many years of observation, research and hands-on development by Dr. Richard Miller and associates. Research trends indicate that iRest effectively alleviates PTSD, insomnia, anxiety, chronic pain, depression and chemical dependency. IRI trained teachers have successfully delivered the iRest Protocol to active duty military and combat veterans, chronic pain sufferers, the homeless, the incarcerated, health care givers and other special interest groups. Andrew is working with combining iRest Nidra Yoga with elements of the Internal Family Systems - IFS. Think of the component parts of your biological family, now imagine that those same components form an internal family system. Powerful healing can take place with this combination.

Major Points: IRest Yoga Nidra, supported by research studies, helps those with stress, anxiety, depression and is used to help returning veterans in the US with pain and PTSD. IRest Yoga Nidra is a structured relaxation practice based on the Pancha Maya Kosha model for students to find their wholeness through this practice. In the practice, students develop their own sankalpas based on a three part system. 00:47                                     This is episode 118 of Changing the Face of Yoga. And my guest today is Gina McCauley and Gina has graciously agreed to be part of my meditation theme and she has taken training and is an IRest meditation teacher. We're going to discuss Irest but let's hear a little bit about Gina. She began as a student in the late eighties, and she's been teaching since 2009. She feels there's no one practice, no one style for everyone. She offers different things for different people so that they can take what they need. She has an advanced diploma in Yoga teaching through the Academy of Yoga Learning, a graduate certificate in Yoga therapy through The Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy and is a certified Irest Yoga Nidra teacher. She's on the faculty of the Academy of Yoga Learning and Australia Institute of Yoga therapy. She runs her own teacher training and she is undertaken studies with Indian teachers, A.G. And Indra Mohan and Saraswathi Vasudevan. I hope I said that right. She's a senior registered teacher with Yoga Australia and has served on the Yoga Australia Victorian Committee. She is continually studying and practicing yoga and is currently inspired by Lee Blashki, Paul Wood and Richard Miller. Welcome. Gina. I'm so glad that you agreed to come on and talk about this and is there anything you would like to add to that? 02:32                                     Oh, well thanks Stephanie. Thanks for inviting me. When you string it all together like that, it sounds bigger than how it actually is. No I have nothing to add to that. 02:44                                     All right. It is still an impressive list. 02:50                                     Well, it makes me feel a little bit more important than what I actually am. Everybody doing their own thing to the best of their abilities. As I go through that, I do bits of training here and there that support where I'm at. So when you string it together it does sound impressive. 03:13                                     Good. I'm glad. We're going to talk about IRest and I think it will be good. I'm sure almost everyone has probably heard of it, but it probably be good to have just a little background about it and maybe what makes it a bit different from other types of meditation. 03:32                                     Yeah. Irest is Yoga Nidra, basically. It was developed by Dr. Richard Miller and Richard tells how he rocked up to a yoga class to meet people and Yoga Nidra was part of that class. He was trying to fit into a community. And it turns out that, this little class was silent. So he didn't actually get to meet any other people, but he got to meet himself with his little story that he tells through Yoga Nidra. And he knew that Yoga Nidra was the method.                                                 He just really had a deep connection to it in that first instance. And so over the years, he started practicing it and eventually started teaching it. And really that was really his thing and through, students and through other people, he was teaching Yoga Nidra to ex-serviceman. And they were going back to their peers and saying how much they were getting benefit from this practice of Yoga Nidra. And eventually the military approached him and said we have been hearing about this thing you're doing and the results you're getting. And we'd really love to, see how it works and do some studies and see if it would support other veterans. And so he started this research program in the military, but they said to him, you can't call it Yoga Nidra, you can't call it yoga because we're the military. 05:08                                     Right. 05:12                                     He spent some time with what can I call this thing, what is it? And when he came up with was essentially what they doing is, well, what he was doing was integrative restoration. So really, and that's what Yoga Nidra is - it's restoring and reintegrating ourselves to our fullness, our wholeness. He just started to call it IRest and the military loved it. They loved it, they thought it was great. They did this study and that was quite successful. And they said, oh, love this. We want to make this part of an option for returned servicemen when they come back to help support them with pain and PTSD etc. And they said, you can call it anything you like. We love it so much you can call it whenever you like that. Then Richard said, Irest Yoga Nidra is what we call it, or IRest Yoga Nidra meditation, but essentially Yoga Nidra is meditation and I love it too.                                                 It's I what I love about it is it is a beautifully gentle form of meditation. So it's not forcing the body into some position that isn't quite right. And you know, not everybody as you would know, with the people that you've been speaking to. Sometimes certain things aren't available for people. Sitting still with your legs crossed on the cushion is not available to a lot of people. So are we saying that you can't do meditation if you can't sit like that. One of the things I love about Yoga Nidra is that you can do it anywhere, anytime, any position, any way you like sitting, standing, lying, walking. And it is so beautiful and restorative. And I think personally meditation should be about that. Restoring, reintegrating, that kind of thing. The kind of practice of coming back to your wholeness. One of the things that Yoga Nidra does that helps in that journey is as people might know, it is within this framework of the Pancha Maya Koshas, the five layers or shields that veil our true nature essentially.                                                 So Yoga Nidra takes us through these five layers, which are the physical body, the energy body or the breath layer, the mind that processes that kind of information from our senses, where feelings and emotions kind of sit. The deeper wisdom mind that is that place where we have the wisdom and the Aha moments. It's also the part of the mind where we hold our habitual patterning and the joy or bliss layer that covers all of those five layers that cover out true nature. The process of Yoga Nidra, any Yoga Nidra takes us through these five layers to help us reconnect back into our wholeness.                                                 To be able to have this study though, Richard had to be very clear about a protocol. These sort of studies must have a protocol to prove your point, I guess. And so he developed some very clear processes, a 10 step process that includes the journey through the koshas to come to your wholeness. It's through this model that the IRest protocol has been developed. It's very specifically taught and trained. so shall I keep going on about that? 09:12                                     That's great. I didn't realize all this. It's the first time I've noticed IRest has Yoga Nidra after it? All right, go ahead. No, I would continue. I think it's very interesting. 09:32                                     That's a great point about not realizing that Yoga Nidra is IRest. One of the things with Yoga Nidra is it has those elements of it. And if you think about a traditional Yoga Nidra we, we do our sankalpa which is clarifying our intentions, our sankalpa, our mission or dharma if you like. It has, generally an instruction from the teacher that asks us to maybe set an intention to remain aware and awake. It's talks us through a body scan. Usually every yoga nidra has this lovely body scan associated with it. And then some kind of breathing practice like a breath counting practice and then feelings, it goes through feelings generally or something like heavy, light, hot or cold.                                                 And then in a traditional yoga nidra, you might go into something like a visualization, which is when we're working on those secret layers of the mind. But one of the things with visualization, it can be problematic with certain types of trauma A little bit of visualization; they might be walking through a forest or in a garden or in the ocean or about water. All these different kinds of associations can actually be a little bit triggering for some people. The IRest protocol has a very specific process through that area where we don't, so much do the visualisations. There are definitely some that we can but generally we're looking at the functioning of the mind in terms of emotions and thoughts and long held beliefs and we work with opposites as you do when doing Yoga Nidra. And then we come out through the process, same as you would in a normal Yoga Nidra through the intention and I guess your sankalpa and re-integration.                                                 But to make it have a specific way to train and, and to have it have a specific protocol, we kind of take out that potential trauma issue that could be triggering to some people and we add this more specific work with our emotions and with our thoughts. So really looking at our deep held thoughts and beliefs about ourselves and about the world. Seeing if there can be an alternative or an opposite to that that can help us to break free of some of that patterned conditioning. It's often part of issues when dealing with our emotions and things. Our conditioning can really get in the way of that. So it's a lovely way to help break free of that. And as I said, it's very gentle when we go through the whole relaxation process, the body scan, we're interested in people sensing what's going on in the body, re-integrating a felt sense of themselves that somatic sense of themselves, which we often come away from. We kind of tend to not listen to our messages from our body. 13:16                                     True. Especially if trauma is involved. Obviously since the military liked it, there must have been a positive result from the protocol that he put together. Can you talk a little bit about what that was like? 13:33                                     They loved it. I'm just gonna tell you a little bit here. This is from the IRS website. I'm actually just going to read straight from it. "Based on the current studies, these IRest in the military, the defense center of excellence has approved IRest as a complementary and alternative medicine warranting continuing usage for its use in the treatment of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). In addition the US Army surgeon general has listed Yoga Nidra (based on the research with IRest) as a tier one approach for addressing pain management in military care. IRest has been shown to be effective in scientific trials for conditions including chronic pain, sleep problems, depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress." So there's a lot.                                                 And then from the IRest website there's links to a whole heap of studies being done on that. Things like IRest meditation for older adults with Depression, Effectiveness of integrative restoration or IRest Yoga Nidra for mindfulness, sleep, pain in health care workers, Effects of Integrative Restoration IRest on perceived stress in in workers, Comparative effectiveness of three occupational therapy sleep interventions: A randomized controlled study. There are all kinds of different research, but the people who are really quite interested in that kind of thing and really getting to the in to the depths of it. There is lots of research now on IRest specifically because of the protocol would help people to so you could a handle on them. It’s a huge benefit. 15:08                                     Great. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. 15:12                                     The training, is quite extensive to be an IRest teacher. So you had to have had the practices obviously meditation to start with. We have level one and level two training and a certification process. The level one and level two, are very extensive, intensive week long training, a huge manual. I remember when I said I was heading off to do level one IRest training. My students are like a week of IRest. And I kind of felt the same myself for a while. Then I got there I was like, oh my gosh, this is a really full on. It's very extensive and it was great. But it was it was a full on training program. Which I wasn't quite expecting so I didn't get to spend a whole week of IRest. 16:09                                     No, doesn't sound quite relaxing. Did you go to the States for it or was it here in Australia? 16:19                                     No, I was so lucky that I got to do my level two and level one IRest training with Richard as he, I think he's only offered the training himself once and I was just fortunate enough to be able to be on both of those courses. but he doesn't do the training in Australia anymore. We have quite a few people in Australia now who can do the training. We do have training in Australia, in most of the capital cities. Fuyuko Toyota is a senior IRest trainer in Australia. She's in Brisbane; no, she's on the Gold Coast. To be honest with you. I'm not 100% sure, but I think she's on the Gold Coast. She offers trainings, Leigh Blashki also offers trainings at Irest Level one and two as well. The certification process is done through a supervisor and a mentor. It is a two year program with extensive study and in-depth training and study. My mentor was Fuyuko here in Australia, but, when you sign up for certification, you could get a mentor from anywhere around the world. 17:41                                     I used to teach seniors and I would always do a yoga nidra at the end. And I found what you said about the visualizations. I stopped saying what you had to do. I picked an emotion and say find some place where you feel happiness or where you feel calmness or where you feel joy or something. And then they would pick the environment. Some people say, oh no, I don't want to go to the beach, or I hate that, or I don't want to be on a mountain top, or you know, I don't want to do any of that. I thought yes, we better back off on that one. 18:13                                     No, exactly. You're exactly right. And one of the parts, the early parts of the protocol is this thing called your inner resource. And for me personally that has been the most powerful part of this practice. And basically it's exactly what you've just said. Its giving people, our participants, our students the opportunity to develop their skills, their own kind of special place, their own favourite place that they like to go to, to feel safe and secure. We encourage them to use their own memory, their own kind of imagination. So yeah, if they don't like mountain tops and prefer babbling brooks, then they can go for that.                                                 We encourage them through a process of  kind of questioning and interviewing to come up with something that really, really touches them internally. And the essence of that resource is not so much the memory. So we might think of something that made us feel really beautifully safe, peaceful and have a sense of well-being. But what we're actually interested in is when we bring that memory to our mind, how does that make us feel? And that is essentially what an inner resource is. So to my mind with that, you can be feeding into your inner resource just about anything that you come across that gives you that little sense of aw, that's beautiful. All that makes me feel so nice or isn’t that lovely or I feel really safe in this place or I feel really peaceful here so we can see an inner resource.                                                 Sometimes for me, the simplest thing to really help me trigger that inner resource and really bring it forward is quiet, simple things and not the great big grand things that I might've achieved. It's when I take that first sip of tea in the morning and you get Ahh, or coffee or whatever that might be. You get that sense of Ah, thank God, I've got my cuppa here. Or you get home and the dog's so excited to see you. It turns itself inside out because they are so excited or you know, that cuddle you might get from a newborn or your partner or a child. It's like, ah, this is so lovely feeling of, okay, I'm home or I'm here or this is just right, nothing else.                                                 Then we kind of realized that that really is our oh, deepest kind of truth and that is where we invite people to kind of wrangle those things in and feed them into your inner resource. And the reason we do this is so that in the practice, oh, in any time in your life when you're feeling a little bit uncomfortable, or more than a little bit uncomfortable, you've got this little tool within you that's always within you, that's always available that you can just tap into and know that there is a part of you that is unchanged, that is safe, that has this sense of well-being and peace and calm. Even though you're out in circumstances, like in the middle of a hurricane. We can have these kind of sense of deep peace within us, but it's well like everything and anything it takes practice to cultivate it. So as we cultivate that in the practice of IRest, we then have access to it more readily out in the world when we really need it. 21:51                                     Great point that, first of all, it takes practice and I agree with that. Secondly, that, if you do practice and have that available to you, that's very helpful when you really run into a lot of stress. Or whatever anxiety or just a bad day, you know, some days aren't great.  So did you teach Yoga Nidra before you got into IRest? 22:23                                     I did, yeah. And I taught that traditional, when I say traditional, probably what I taught was the Satchidanda Yoga Nidra, which I think is what most, most people are familiar with in Yoga Nidra, certainly where I coming from and all of my teachers and training is  Satchidanda Yoga Nidra, which is beautiful. And so yes, I taught that and I was always uncomfortable as a student in some of the visualizations and some of the associations as a teacher when I was teaching it.                                                 Knowing that there might've been people in the room, I remember once I had this lady who I knew had had an experience of almost drowning. I felt when we were doing the Yoga Nidra, I got to the visualization part and I didn't really realize until we were right in the middle of it, that there was this element of being in the water and then going under the water and you know, being completely safe and ok in the water. But it just really struck me that that would not be comfortable for me if I was in her position to have this kind of water visualization. And it just dawned on me in that moment that yeah, this isn't a one size fits all thing. What right do I have to be kind of imposing these things on people that may or may not be useful for them. And I think there's a fine line between it being a challenge and being useful to being a challenge and not being useful. So I don't think we can really judge that. So I came across IRest and that I discovered that through Leigh Blashki. I was just, Oh, this is so great because actually it gives people in the practice the option to choose their own so they can choose their own kind of emotion or they can choose their own feelings. But you might give them the option of choosing heavy and light or hot and cold or comfort, discomfort and that was really powerful for me. And I really have not taught that visualization in Yoga Nidra since I've learned IRest. And the people I teach it to when I started teaching it, lots of comments about how they enjoyed that. They didn't have kind of feel into that visualization that wasn't suited to them. But that they could kind of set their own framework for it really. That's powerful to people. 25:09                                     It is. Would you say that's the major difference between what we considered to be a traditional yoga Nidra and I'll leave traditional up to each individual and IRest or do you think there's other significant differences? 25:24                                     I think that is the main difference. There are other significant differences. So in that initial stage, Richard's broken the sankalpa if you like down into three parts. So whereas in the other kind of Yoga Nidra, we, the teacher might dictate what the intention is. So you might say and repeat to yourself, I'm practicing Yoga Nidra and I will remain aware and awake. That's kind of a common one that I would hear a lot and I would use a lot myself and then I would invite them to their own sankalpa.                                                 But Richard has broken that down into three. So he gives the student the option to set their own intention. So their intention might be, it might be to remain aware and awake, absolutely. But it might be: one of the things I often say is if you're here and you are exhausted and this is the only hour you have to yourself for the whole week and you need to rest, set your intention to rest deeply, there's nothing wrong with that. Having that big rest. It that might be to rest deeply, it might be to rest deeply while remaining aware and awake. It might be to explore a particular part of the practice. Maybe using the safe boundaries of the practice to experience a particular emotion that keeps arising might be a great intention. They might move into their own very specific sankalpa or we would probably call that, in the practice, it might be called your heartfelt longing or your heartfelt desire. But it's really that big picture intention of how you see yourself out in the world. What is the world asking of you? Is that kind of much bigger intention? Yeah, that's your sankalpa or your Dharma, your life purpose.                                                 It fits into that second part of that heartfelt mission, the heartfelt desire. And the third part is the inner resource. So we start there. We have that kind of initial relaxation phase that then we go through this sankalpa , the intention, the heartfelt desire and the inner resource, with a firm foundation of safety within the boundaries of the practice. Which really give people that sense of security. And I've really found that in myself that when I've got that foundation, that clear intention and clear inner resource the rest of the practice is quiet. I'll say easy. That's not really the right word. You feel quite safe working through the rest of the practice. The other thing is that the practice is pretty much always the same steps. So as a student you can feel safe knowing that after the inner resource we're going to do body sensing, and then we're doing breath sensing, and then we are doing feelings and emotions. Then we're doing beliefs. Then we're doing joy and the whole time through the practice, what's woven in is understanding or beginning to recognize that there is a part of you, the witnessing part of you, that can recognize all of the things that we're experiencing, the sensations, the breathing, the emotion, the joy that they're all changing, coming and going.                                                 And we begin to tap into our deeper awareness, which if you think of the Pancha Maya Kosha model is what those five veils, five shades are covering our true nature, that optimal awareness. Whatever you want to call that, whatever your tradition might call that central entity that the five koshas are covering. So that's the journey as we take that through this journey to this deep sense of awareness. We come out in a very clear way as well. We kind of do a little integration practice and back through the intention, the heartfelt desire, the inner resource to help them. To really anchor it and give clear bookends; the real clarity of the practice is in those 10 steps. Whereas, I had never really been trained in another form of yoga nidra that was so clear. Like there was lots of freedom I felt in the other forms of yoga nidra. And when I look back at that now, probably not much safety for students, not in the way I was teaching it at any rate because it was always different, that could change and I didn't really feel like I had that container. Whereas in IRest, I really feel that there's a clear container for holding me as I go through this process. And it's a real trust you know that as well. 30:26                                     Yeah. Because they could feel very vulnerable. I mean I always had my students close their eyes and, and just kind of relax and listen. Some, some laid down, some sat; it was up to them. I hadn't thought about it in quite that way before, but I think you have a good point. We're almost at the end of the podcast, Gina. Is there anything that you would like to go into with more depth or something we haven't talked about it all that you would like the listeners to know? 30:59                                     I think the only thing that I would add is: if this is interesting to anybody, teachers or students alike have a look on the IRS website. Because anybody who's done the IRest training is on the IRest website. So you can find a teacher in your local area. And if you are a yoga teacher, or even a psychologist, lots of psychologists do these IRest trainings as well, I recommend seeking another teacher who is teaching the student course. It's a six week course that students can do just to begin to learn about IRest for themselves. And then if that interests them, then source some level one training. If they want to come get on that path, that's the pathway. Anybody who's interested, I strongly recommend you have a fully trained IRest teacher. It can be level one, two or three. But yeah, just make sure you have an IRest trained teacher to take you through the process. It's beautiful. You'd be, you wouldn't regret it. 32:05                                     Okay. Do you teach it as part of a class or is it a separate meeting shall we say? I mean you come to teach just IRest. 32:17                                     Both. I do both. I have one class a week where it's a gentle IRest yoga nidra class.. And we would do gentle yoga and we do IRest yoga nidra and we do that every week. I also run the six week course periodically at my studio. So they are 90 minute sessions where we go into more detail about the stages of IRest and then we do an IRest practice focusing on each of the stages over those six weeks. The other thing that I do which I think really works well and I really love is I also teach a lot of yoga retreats. I love Yoga retreats. And on my yoga retreat retreats. I teach the six week course in the week retreat. So each day we're focusing on a different part of the IRest protocol and we're doing a different IRest practice each day on retreat. And I get lots of great feedback about that as well. That immersive kind of way of learning. I've been back two weeks from Fiji and I had quite a few people on that retreat. I think there was probably eight or nine people who had never done IRest or Yoga Nidra even before. Had such great feedback from them on this process of getting to know themselves. I guess essentially is what yoga nidra is about, coming back to your wholeness. That's great. That's great. 33:44                                     Gina this has been really fascinating. I have not really had much experience with IRest Yoga Nidra, but I love Yoga Nidra in general. So I think I'll do a little more research on that, see if I can find myself at one of your retreats. I like that idea of just doing it for a week I really do. Thank you so much for coming on and talking to us, the listeners. You did a really great job and I think you've explained it very well. I think I have a good grasp of what the differences might be. 34:17                                     Great. Thanks so much, Stephanie. It's been great. Thanks for inviting me and I love talking about IRest and waffle on. 34:27                                     Hey, good. All right. Thank you.  

Join Andrew and author Jennifer Dumpert in a lively discussion about Liminal Dreaming, that twilight zone of consciousness between waking and dreaming. Also known as the hypnogogic-hypnopompic state, liminal dreaming is a fascinating state where the boundaries of ego dissolve, and the mind enters a playground of transformation. Watching how the ego falls apart in this unglued state helps us understand how it comes together as we get back online in the waking state – and glue the narrative of our lives back together. The conversation begins with an overview of liminal (“threshold”) states altogether – both psychological and physical — and the revelations that unfold if one can remain lucid to these states. Jennifer discusses how Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali both used these states for creativity, and how anyone can practice liminal dreaming, which is much easier than lucid dreaming. Armed with a few tips, anybody can do it. The conversation turns to the stages of liminal dreaming, emphasizing the autosymbolic (or thought-image amalgamation) stage. Jennifer touts the benefits of developing a “crepuscular culture,” and how much we can learn from non-narrative (non-egoic) states of mind. The discussion turns to how liminal dreaming is connected to bardo tenets, and how dying itself – when one is not fully in this world nor the next – is an extended liminal space. By “surfing the edges of consciousness,” and “playing in the changing froth of perception” now, we can acquaint ourselves with similar states of mind that we will experience when we die. As the poet Kabir said of death, “What is found now is found then.” Liminality, like the bardo principle altogether, has vast applicability. Find out for yourself in this rich conversation! -- Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, and consciousness hacker. She is the author of the recently released Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep and the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming—surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states. Jennifer has lectured and led workshops at festivals, conferences, and venues worldwide. She has also authored numerous pieces about various aspects of dream work. You can read selected pieces and watch videos of presentations at Jennifer's website, http://www.urbandreamscape.com. As an active member of the Consciousness Hacking movement, Jennifer has presented at CH SF, CH NYC, and the Transformational Technology conference. She has trained in yoga nidra with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, of the Yoga Nidra Network, and with Richard Miller, of iRest Yoga Nidra. Jennifer posts a daily dream to Twitter as @OneiroFer, and has been doing so since January, 2009.

On today’s episode I talk with Fuyuko Toyota. Fuyuko has been teaching yoga and sharing non-dual wisdom for over 20 years. She is also a certified iRest Yoga Nidra Trainer, retreat leader and mentor. Fuyuko also runs a small boutique yoga studio in the Gold Coast. During this episode we discuss how Fuyuko got Richard Miller ( founder of iRest ) to come to Australia, her own journey through depression and trauma, and how yoga nidra has helped her to welcome life exactly as it is. We also discuss how to create your own inner resource. I hope you enjoy the show. If you want to learn more about the people behind the show connect with us on InstagramHost: @coragerouxStudio: @wokeyogasydney

Here is part 2 of my talk with Yasmin Lambat.   Some of the topics we covered in this talk:   Working with our physiology. Somatic Exploration to tap into the inner wisdom. Patterns in the body and the folding of our fascial fabric.   How Yoga & Pilates experiences led her to pandiculation.   Moving from the heart, intuitive movements focused on self-nurturing to calm the nervous system with “Body Yawn” Therapy.    Nervous system regulation. Going beyond SNS/PNS and the effects of hyper-arousal on the body. Discovering the "calm state".    How care & compassion help creating a “safe” state, and how refocusing her work with her clients as an “invitation to explore” has been more effective for individual expression.   We talked about iRest Yoga Nidra, the work of Richard Miller and Steven Levin’s work with Biotensegrity, exploring biotensegrity as interdependency of the WHOLE body.    Interoception & Exteroception Awareness. How the environment affects the nervous system. Effectiveness of body sensing, dance, and the effects of endorphines/dopamine-driven loud music used frequently in gyms. Cultivating interoception vs the dopamine high.   Going beyond the trauma story, working with the physiology.   You can find Yasmin Lambat at: bodysensingtherapy.com    

Dr Lauren Tober interviews Dr Oscar Serrallach, Integrative Doctor and author of the Postnatal Depletion Cure. Listen in as they speak about identifying, preventing and overcoming Postnatal Depletion, as well as iRest Yoga Nidra, Sleep and Gratitude.

In this episode you’ll learn: Stephanie’s story of her struggle with anxiety, experiencing a deep connection with everything while power walking in nature and what led her to become associated with the iRest Institute today The Panchamaya Model of Healing (aka the 5 Koshas or 5 Dimensions of Being Human) used in the practice of Yoga Therapy and how yogic tools can help you with connecting with the wisdom of the body, mood management and more The 10-Step Protocol used in iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation as a way of living and how you can tap into the parts of your brain that allow for greater insight and quiet the parts of the brain that are responsible for negative thoughts, feelings, and sensations

Richard Miller is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar, spiritual teacher and founder of the iRest Yoga Nidra protocol for healing trauma. For over 40 years, he has devoted his life and work to integrating the nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism, and Buddhism with Western psychology and neuroscience. Among his mentors were Jean Klein, T.K.V. Desikachar, and Stephen Chang.Richard is the co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. Richard is also a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology​. He is the ​​​​Author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, and The iRest Program for Healing PTSD​.Integrative Restoration Institute: iRest.orgIntro Music: All Alone by Bhagavan DasSupport the Podcast!1. Leave a review on iTunes, or share with your friends on social media2. Become a Patreon supporter at http://patreon.com/brianjamesteaching and gain access to many hours of yoga practice resources including vinyasa sequences, breathwork, chanting and guided meditations.3. Leave a one-time donation at http://paypal.me/medicinepathyogaAbout Brian JamesBrian James is a yoga teacher, integrative coach, musician and artist currently living in Montréal, Canada with his wife, astrologer Debbie Stapleton and their two Boston Terriers, Kingston and Sweetie. He has been exploring the intersection of music, yoga and shamanism for over 20 years.medicinepathyoga.combrianjamesyoga.cominstagram.com/brianjamesyogaSupport the Medicine Path PodcastSubscribe! RSS / iTunes / Google Playtags: richard miller, trauma, ptsd, yoga, tkv desikachar, jean klein, j krishnamurti, meditation, irest

Richard Miller, founder of iRest Yoga Nidra, co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT, talks with J about his many years of study and the work he has done integrating teachings for others. They discuss nondual philosophy, his relationship to TKV Desikachar, his use of Yoga Nidra in the military, making sense of the scandals, and the core principles at work in the process of healing through yoga. This episode is sponsored by Yogalifestyle.com and Karmasoft.   This episode is part of our premium podcast subscription. To subscribe and support the show… GET PREMIUM.  

Slaying your Stories Mary's mission is to see women free from the slavery of the stories that keep them from living their greatest life. Somewhere in between our understanding of the ego and our inner mean girl, there is a loop of stories that remain unconscious to most of us, that are dictating most of our daily lives! When we awaken to, witness these and meet them with love and sovereignty, then we step into the real truth of who we are and why we are here. On a deeper level, she has a divine assignment to help women set themselves free from money shame. Many women are deeply ashamed of wanting more than enough, and of charging their worth in their business. Mary believes that money stories are framing the future for our children, and we need a new collective money story. She is on a mission to create one! What we talked about: Mary shares her story and how she received her divine assignment from God How women can free themselves from their stories Her unique approach to being an architect rather than an archaeologist - she helps women build their lives rather than dig around in the dirt What sovereignty means to her and why it's so important for women to claim their role as lighthouses rather than rescue boats Why she no longer uses the word "purpose" and instead supports women in connecting with their current divine assignment How money shame is holding us back and how it differs from money blocks How to start having a conscious relationship with money And so much more!! Mary's Bio: Known for her radical honesty, spiritual self-help and alchemical approach to business, Mary Houston is an Martha Beck Life Coach, iRest Yoga Nidra teacher, Mama, Writer, and Story Slayer. She’s been a teacher, therapist & catalyst for change in the mind:body Industry for over 20 years, and has a uniquely intuitive way of working with women to free their minds from the bondage of life-long stories and cultural conditioning. Her greatest mission in this life is to contribute to the new paradigm of conscious wealth creation by helping women to discover their true souls purpose, and re-write their money story so they can earn what they want, deserve and are worth by doing what they love. Aside from being a prolific creator and insatiable learner, she's also devoted to her son and together they love traveling, dancing, laughing, exploring, photography, baking - and eating - cakes! Connect with Mary: Facebook page Download your free ebook Check out Mary's Magic Camp starting 22 August Connect with Mitle: Facebook page Website

Robin Carnes is a yoga teacher and certified iRest® Yoga Nidra instructor who hails from the United States. She is well recognized as a pioneer and innovator in the field of mind-body therapies for trauma and related conditions. Her work has been featured in media outlets such as The Washington Post, Woman's Day Magazine and Yoga Journal just to name a few! In her impressive career, she served as the lead instructor of the first Defense Department-funded feasibility study of Yoga Nidra meditation for PTSD symptoms, and also went on to co-found Warriors at Ease an organisation, which has trained over 800 certified yoga and meditation teachers to work safely and effectively in military communities affected by combat-related stress. Robin was also the author of "Sacred Circles: A Guide To Creating Your Own Women's Spirituality Group" and we learn about how this book came to be. We were lucky to catch up with her while she was in Melbourne for the Meditation Australia Conference, and we got to ask her our most burning questions on Yoga Nidra and iRest, how it works, and why it can help so many people with PTSD. Please note that there is mention of some imagery used in traditional Yoga Nidra that may be triggering for some listeners. Links: Robin's website: www.robincarnes.com iRest Australasia FB page: https://www.facebook.com/IRIAustralasia/ All iRest events : https://www.irest.us/Australasia/Events Warriors at Ease website: www.warriorsatease.org Picks of The Week: Rane - Rachel and Nic on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTt2IMqvqahaSqQa1TKWq3g Jo's pick: Straw vocal techniques https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COgiz4O4tRw http://www.voicecareaustralia.com.au/ Robin's Pick: A beginning resource to explain what White Privilege is and why White people should care The Invisible Backpack - https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack

Clarissa Hughes is the CEO and founder of The Little Breathing Space a mindfulness coaching business. She has a passion for empowering women to remove the stress and overwhelming feelings out of their lives Supporting them to navigate the demands of modern life skilfully. And helping them to develop a higher capacity to feel clear-headed, confident and thriving in a life that reflects their purpose. Clarissa been a senior manager in large corporations in the UK and Asia over 28 years. She suffered a burnout due to stress and found her way back to a calmer, more connected life through mindfulness. Clarissa is an accredited Breathworks Mindfulness practitioner, iRest Yoga Nidra teacher and has experience and an academic background in human behaviour. She has been key note speaker at women’s leadership conference and appeared in articles, podcasts, and radio interviews internationally talking all things mindfulness. Clarissa believes that mindfulness is more than daily meditation - it is a way of living with compassionate self-awareness so that we can truly thrive.

Welcome to the Process Hacker News, your weekly roundup of useful news and updates from Process Hackers who have been guests on Hack the Process with M. David Green. This week we’ve got scaling businesses, political imprisonment, self-righteous ideals, and more. Enjoy! For all the links, visit the show notes at http://www.hacktheprocess.com/process-hacker-news-for-march-27-2018/ Events On March 29, join Tara Hunt at the 4th Toronto LinkedIn Meetup where she is a featured a speaker. Tara has also announced that her husband, digital audience specialist Carlos Pacheco, is joining the Truly Social team. Media Meet Sameh Sabet, the waiter who’s changing the world by teaching Egyptian children the meaning of equality and inspiring coexistence between Muslim and Christian children. Sameh’s wonderful cause was shared by Michelle Dale. Tayo Rockson of As Told By Nomads interviewed Adam Siddiq recently to chat about Adam’s book, Shackled, which tells his grandfather’s story of going from political imprisonment to freedom. In the fourth episode of the Groundless Ground Podcast by Lisa Dale Miller, Lisa explores the subject of healing PTSD in military vets with the application of iRest Yoga Nidra, a program of her guest, Psychologist Richard Miller. Mindfulness can defeat bias, and Rhonda Magee explains how in her interview on 10% Happier with Dan Harris. Cascade SF, founded by Andi Galpern has published several new videos on YouTube about VR, blockchain and UX design. On the Enrich Your Soul Podcast, Julian Hayes II connects the importance of a good rest and a healthy lifestyle with improvement in energy levels and overall productivity. Pam Wasley reveals the how-tos of owning and scaling a business on The Nice Guys on Business Podcast. Writing We all yearn for a discourse that suits us. A new, eye-opening blog entry by Daniel Coffeen reveals how his youth was trapped in self-righteous ideas. Recommended Resources In the new episode of the Interracial Jawn Podcast hosted by Leslie Mac entitled Yada Yada Racism, you can listen to Leslie and her co-host talk about recent discrimination in the US and the world, Black Panther, and diet. Leslie was a huge influence on Michelle Kim Brian Solis, mentioned by Tara Hunt, had a chat with Dr. Heide Forbes Oste about digital Darwinism and leading change on the Evolving Digital Self Podcast. Check out the latest cartoon from The Oatmeal, which centers around belief. The Oatmeal by Matthew Inman inspired the artsy side of Sarah Cooper. Thanks for checking out this Process Hacker News update from Hack the Process. If you liked what you saw, please leave a comment to let us know what processes you’re hacking.

About 220 million people will experience a traumatic event and 20% of them will subsequently develop symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Rates of PTSD are even higher among US combat veterans. This dialogue on Embodied Contemplative Interventions features clinical psychologist and researcher Richard Miller, the Founder and Executive Director of the Integrative Restoration Institute. The episode begins with a description of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and then Richard offers an in-depth look at the iRest Yoga Nidra Program and its extensive use in military contexts and the Veterans Administration to help soldiers and veterans alleviate the negative symptoms of PTSD. For more than 40 years, Richard Miller has devoted his life and work to integrating Western psychology with the nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism and Buddhism. It is an honor to have him on the Groundless Ground Podcast. For more information on the iRest Yoga Nidra Program and access to Richard's books and videos, please visit https://www.irest.us/ Disclaimer: The information in this episode or on groundlessground.com is intended for information and entertainment purposes only, and does not claim to be or constitute therapeutic advice or mental health treatment.

Founder, Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors Integrative Restoration Institute Richard Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar and spiritual teacher. For over 40 years, Richard Miller has devoted his life and work to integrating the nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism and Buddhism with Western psychology. Among his mentors were Jean Klein, T.K.V. Desikachar and Stephen Chang. Richard is the founding president and CEO of the Integrative Restoration Institute, co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is also a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology and a senior advisor for the Baumann Foundation for the study of Awareness and its impact on well-being. Author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Richard serves as a research consultant studying the iRest Yoga Nidra protocol that he has developed (Integrative Restoration ~ iRest, a modern adaptation of the ancient nondual meditation practice of Yoga Nidra) researching its efficacy on health, healing and well-being with diverse populations including active-duty soldiers, veterans, college students, children, seniors, the homeless, the incarcerated, and people experiencing issues such as sleep disorders, PTSD, chemical dependency, chronic pain, and related disorders. In addition to his research and writing projects, Richard lectures and leads trainings and retreats internationally.

A humbling conversation with my life partner Magdalena Weinstein. She shares her path of helping herself and in turn being able to help others through her study and teaching of Yoga, Process Coaching, Irest Yoga Nidra and more. Its a refreshing take on life, goodness, wholeness and dedication. Check her out at www.magdalenaweinstein.com