Yoga Nidra - Awakening into the Self
Now available as a recorded event!
Dru Yoga Nidra is the silence that follows OM. It’s a journey that leads to samadhi and ultimately to turiya itself. In other words it’s a path to the state of enlightenment.
These very special two days of practice give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the bliss of relaxation, and at the same time discover how to use the state of profound rest to achieve your goals, transform old patterns, develop radiant health.
As you travel through the sessions, you'll find that the experience, philosophy, science, and practice of these ancient teachings have the potential to awaken you to the essence of your being.
This 2-day online-immersion is for people who want to discover that the art of 'doing nothing' can lead to 'being more'! It will help you discover how Yoga Nidra is not only a practice of a technique but also as an utterly remarkable state of consciousness.
You will discover the difference between nidra and deep relaxation - and enjoy the benefits of both. You will explore the necessary preparations to set you up for a successful yoga nidra experience, and you’ll be taught the various ways to practice and also how to anchor your experience - honouring that this is a process that can transform your life.
During our time together our focus will be on the healing, spiritual awakening and self-empowerment aspect of Dru Yoga Nidra.
You'll be lead by Nanna Coppens, Padma MacIntyre, Rita Goswami and Andrew Wells. Nanna brings her vast experience in yoga therapeutics and restorative yoga, Padma her profound, compassionate understanding of how yoga can restore health in every aspect of life. Rita's huge knowledge of yoga vedanta will help you understand just why yoga nidra consciousness is so very powerful, and Andrew brings his experience pioneering Dru detraum techniques in post-conflict zones.
With them, you'll discover how yoga nidra is a life-changing tool that brings resilience and ease to the body, mind and spirit.
Yoga nidra is now offered by the NHS and health professionals for boosting health and wellbeing.
Important health note:
Please note that these techniques are powerful and are not recommended for people with medically significant mental health conditions (eg PTSD etc) unless you work one-on-one with a yoga therapist.
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A big huge thumbs up here for the APD course. It totally blew my mind.
It was such a pleasure to be guided through postures that I thought I knew well, only to discover that they had even more power than I could ever have imagined possible, when you work through them on each Kosha level.
At times when I'm feeling stuck or uninspired / bored with in my practice, the tools I learnt on the APD course always, without fail, have the ability to out me back on track.
The course was so wonderfully presented, a brilliant mix of guided practice and space to explore for yourself.
I also came away from the experience a much more confident and skillful teacher, and have been able to facilitate my students in deepening there practice as a result.
I find myself eternally grateful to Andrew and the whole APD team for developing and refining this course, it's beyond doubt helped me to develop and refine my own practice.
On the 5 day spirituality challenge leading up to this course, I realised I did not love myself. Since starting on the Spirituality of Yoga course and working with the practices, I have experienced a deep cellular healing, a shifting in my emotions, deepening into a sense of peace and quiet control/flow of life.
I have had so many realisations on this course; one in particular was a feeling of falling in love with my practice...and wondering if this could lead to an unconditional love commitment to myself to uphold a deeper consistent practice?....
Another insight was a deep self acceptance of where I am at now, giving myself permission to listen to my inner promptings and act on them; rather than see myself as failing when I don't meet my rigid expectations. A bit of freedom..
This course is a must for any spiritual seeker who is looking to deeply anchor and regularly maintain their spiritual practice. You will never look back as you create your own spiritual unfoldment and community to support and carry you forwards. I so look forward to our continuing journey. Thank you to all our Tutors for their sincere, joyful and ongoing commitment to helping us achieve spiritual greatness.
As a qualified Dru Yoga teacher, I thought I had a good understanding of asana and the koshas - which of course I did, but the APD course has taken that level of understanding and more importantly my personal experience of my yoga practice to a different level.
The course took me on a journey through the koshas in a way that not only increased my awareness of how I experience asana but also how to use asana to reshape my experience. With the support and guidance of the tutors, I was able to revisit the asana I previously avoided which has contributed to my body being stronger and more flexible than at any time since my twenties - and I now love to practise those asanas.
Emotionally, it has helped me process difficult emotions such as grief and shown the way to change self-limiting beliefs. For me, the real gift of the course was the tutorials which became the foundation for building a supportive sangha of wonderful yogis which continues to exist. It was during these sessions of deep personal sharing that our fantastic tutors were able to share further their incredible wisdom and answer the many questions that inevitably spring forth in any process of swadhyaya - I highly recommend this course!
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