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July sunset at the western edge. Fanore More. County Clare, Ireland
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... SHIFTING SANDS AND TURNING TIDES
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…I take a pause to lay this body down upon the earth,
inviting yoga nidrā now to enter every cell.
I lay this body down to rest. The centre place is here.
To left and right, in front and back, this body can rest now.
The place I rest is centred in the sphere of sounds I hear.
Above, beneath, from north and south, the sounds from east and west
are heard within the soundscape of this yoga nidrā space.
Whatever sounds arising are the soundscape that I’m in …
(…excerpt from a Nine Verse Rhythmic Yoga Nidrā to Remind Me How to Rest. Audio track and downloadable document of the full rhythmic nidra available Uma's Patreon Page) |
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Jai Mā!
Loving Greetings to you from the shores of the wild Atlantic in County Clare where I have been quarantined and writing for the past two weeks. This exquisite beach is my place of evening pilgrimage at the end of every long writing day, and I am happy to share with you the images and words that have accompanied me in this solitary time.
YOGA NIDRA MADE EASY ... ON HER WAY!
I have been completing a 45,000 word manuscript that was just this morning delivered to the lovely team at Hay House. I am delighted to say that the extraordinary job of simplification and diligent re-visioning that Nirlipta and I have been involved in for the past few months has reached the next stage of completion.
When we were requested to turn a combined sixty years of practice and teaching into a mainstream book that would make yoga nidrā easy for everyone, it was a huge challenge. But with the guidance of Nidra Shakti, a number of elegant solutions showed up, including the realisation that to simplify is a radical job - so we have done our very best to make yoga nidra not just easy, but really for people to do by themselves, with no need for external scripts or other people's voices in their heads. It feels like a helpful piece of work to democratise this precious practice. Yoga nidrā to the peoples!
The little book includes a rhythmic yoga nidrā in verse based on a lullaby that I first wrote for the Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidrā. The rhythmic nidra makes yoga nidra super easy for everyone, and the Hay House book includes many tiny nidra songs and games that convey the essential experiences of yoga nidrā. An excerpt of the rhythmic yoga nidra is above, and I have test-driven the nidrā on the lovely nidristas in my Patreon circles, who gave it the big thumbs up, so if you'd like a sneak preview you know where to find it. The book is scheduled to be published in March 2021, and we will keep you posted on the process!
NIDRA SHAKTI
… yes I am STILL writing this enormous encyclopaedia. Jai Mā! It is absolutely a labour of love and continues on in the background. The end is in sight. We've reached the next stage of work, but as you can imagine 700 pages is a lot of work and the design process is lengthy because this is a very beautiful book. We now have over forty contemporary and traditional illustrations, sixty research papers, fifty four professional contributors and hundreds of amazing tales to tell from practitioners who have made yoga nidra part of your life. Not to mention SIX adventures of Nidrā Shakti from the earliest worlds of yoga nidrā in India.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far and supported my work on this. - I have officially now stopped writing and am in editorial mode, with the hope that this magnum opus will be available before the end of the year.
OPEN CIRCLES
Our Yoga Nidra Network open circles LINK continue to go from strength to strength, providing a lively and engaged community discussion forum for everyone with an interest in the ethical aspects of this marvellous practice. The circles are always facilitated by Nirlipta Tuli, Yoli Maya Yeh (LINK) and myself, and we continue to be inspired and uplifted by the questions that everyone brings to these very special spaces.
Free of charge to all our current students, and open by donation to anyone who has previously completed trainings with us, all other facilitators are warmly welcome too, to book themselves a place and we look forward to seeing you again tomorrow afternoon (Saturday 10 July) at 2pm or book yourself in for August's circle.
TRAININGS ONLINE AND HYBRID IN THE UK AND EUROPE
If yoga nidra is important to you and you would like to be empowered to share it, please consider signing up for one of our upcoming training courses - the August course is live online with Nirlipta, Yoli and myself.
The course in France is in-person in the Dordogne with our trusted associate Philiippe Beer Gabel, with Uma and Nirlipta 'beamed in' live each day on Zoom to run Q&A sessions.
A fully hybrid course in Weesp, Netherlands is hosted by our long term partner Dutch Suze Retera, who hosts the course in an exquisite church on the canals outside Amsterdam, and shares the teaching in person with online ZOOM lectures and practical sessions from Uma and Nirlipta. This winning combination worked so very well indeed last year that we have chosen to re-run the same format this year.
All our teacher trainings have the Total Yoga Nidra Immersion Experience Online course as a prerequisite.
PLEASE NOTE: Statement concerning Ben Wolff
We are aware of the recent “Statement of apology regarding Ben Wolff” by Gingi Lee and the team at The Shala yoga centre in London. In fact we had been in communication with Shala teachers for many months before the official statement was released.
Please note that the Yoga Nidra Network and its founders Nirlipta Tuli and Uma Dinsmore-Tuli are no longer associated in any way whatsoever with Ben Wolff, consequently we do not host or promote his work. If you wish to contact us about this matter please, please email us at info@yoganidranetwork.org.
If you would like to share this statement with people who do not receive this newsletter please feel free copy and paste the link to our wesbite here https://www.yoganidranetwork.org/blog/statement-yoga-nidra-network-concerning-ben-wolff
IN closing I would like to share my excitement that the NEW album of yoga nidrā that I created specially to support the activists and allies at Yoni Shakti: The Movement Campaign is now available for sale here -it's an excellent and supportive series of three nidras which I recorded last summer especially to renew, restore and affirm those working to change the world for the better - I hope you enjoy it - here it is.
Also - here is the final verse of the Rhythmic Yoga Nidra to Remind Me how to rest. This verse describes Completing the cycle of your process of yoga nidrā – returning to everyday attention.
…Small movements in my fingers and my toes awaken me,
I stretch, and sigh and yawn to bring myself to waking state.
Returning now refreshed, I can resume the work I do
to be useful and of service here to all who need me now.
In the service of Nidra Shakti
and with great respect and love and warm wishes for your well being
जै मा
Jai Mā
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Upcoming Total Yoga Nidra Courses
LIVE Online
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Self-led Online Learning
Total Yoga Nidra Online Immersion Experience
This course covers a combination of theory and practice to give you a sound foundation (or to deepen your existing foundation) of understanding about what yoga nidra is in the broadest sense, and how it works. To get a feel for the course, how about trying a one-hour taster session?
The Total Yoga Nidra Online Immersion Experience is also available
in FRENCH and coming soon in Spanish and Polish
Sleep Well with Total Yoga Nidra
This course provides those suffering from insomnia with an understanding of how sleep works and of how to sleep well, as well as the basics they need to apply the practice of yoga nidra therapeutically to their condition. To get a feel for the course, you can try a one-hour taster session.
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