Yoga Nidra for Healing and Transformation
Learn to write and guide Yoga Nidra. Deepen and commit to your own practice.
Next Online Program
October 13-November 10, 2025
Live Zoom Calls Choose From
Mondays 9:30-11:00am PDT California Time (That's 5:30-7:00pm in London)
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Mondays 4:00-5:30pm PDT California Time (That's 7:00-8:30pm in New York)
Recordings are available if you can't make the call time.
20 hours of Yoga Alliance CE
NEW: **20 hrs APD with IAYT**
Join Liz Heffernan, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist for a FREE talk:
"The Transformational Benefits of Yoga Nidra - What Science Says"
Yoga Nidra, also know as 'yogic sleep', is a wonderful practice of deep, guided relaxation that will help you build confidence and self-efficacy, increase your resilience in time of stress, recharge your energy levels and create a wellspring of joy and well being.
Deepen Your Practice
The course will review the ancient roots of the Yoga Nidra practice, its theory, and how to adapt the practice for modern day practitioners. Establish consistency in your own practice. Prerecorded practice sessions will include gentle somatic movements and breathing exercises designed to release chronically held tension and a guided yoga nidra. On our live calls there will also be time for lecture, Q and A and group discussion.
Teaching Certification - 20 Hours of CE with Yoga Alliance and 20 hours of APD with the International Association of Yoga Therapists
Learn to write and guide Yoga Nidra practices for yourself and others through a specific 10-step process. Explore innovative approaches on how to increase wellbeing through the body, mind, heart and brain. Understand how to use Sankalpa (Intention) effectively to help bring about purposeful transformations in yourself and students.
Current Research
Current scientific research is finding that Yoga Nidra is an effective mind-body practice that helps people over-come insomnia, reduce anxiety, heal from PTSD and traumatic events, develop commitment to their life goals, and recharge their energy levels. It has also been shown to reduce mood disorders. Recent studies suggest that when compared to meditation, Yoga Nidra is potentially more effective at reducing both cognitive and physiological symptoms of anxiety.
What's Covered
- The latest research on the proven health benefits of Yoga Nidra
- Ten step framework for writing and guiding Yoga Nidra
- Therapeutic adaptations and personalization of Yoga Nidra scripts
- Exploration into the energy body including prana vayus, nadis and chakras
- Skill development for voice tone and rhythm for quality delivery
- Yoga and its frameworks for mental well-beingand the emotions
- Online practice library that includes, gentle movements, pranayama, meditations and mudra to use as a resource both your own practice and Yoga Nidra class development
- Yoga Nidra scripts
- Practice teach opportunities
- Business skills get you started offering Yoga Nidra to your community
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Current scientific research is showing that Yoga Nidra helps people over-come insomnia, reduce anxiety, heal from PTSD and traumatic events, develop commitment to their life goals, and recharge their energy levels.
Interactive Online Learning & Lifetime Access
Join us for life-changing, exciting, and accessible content with affordable, flexible, and self-paced delivery.
Content will be delivered to you in clear, concise and practical lessons. The course will include video, slides, lectures, prerecorded practices, and homework actionable items for the direct application of the techniques into your classes.
While the course is designed as a five-week course with four hours of content/practice each week, it is also self-paced so you can take as long as you like to view and practice the material.
You will have a lifetime of access to the material so you can re-learn and deepen your understanding and application of the principles again and again.
Live Zoom Calls & Uplifting Community
Our weekly LIVE calls and interactive online community provides wonderful opportunities to discuss, ask questions, support and be supported in a vibrant community of learners.
Getting to know like minded yogis just like you keeps you motivated, engaged and connected.
If you are unable to make the live zooms you may watch the recordings.
20 Hours of Study & Practice
Study with World's Leading C-IAYT Yoga Therapists and Senior Teachers
Soma Yoga Institute has a word class faculty team steeped in the traditions of Yoga. Their excellence has been cultivated through decades of enduring dedication to their own practice and in-depth study, often in a variety of lineages. Many of our faculty members are C-IAYT certified Yoga Therapists and recognized as “senior teachers”, having over twenty years of solid teaching experience combined with their long-term adhikara (studentship). Each faculty holds a role in their home community as an innovator and influencer, inspiring radical change through Yoga and playing a profound role in the holistic wellness movement. As a collective vision, we offer you an unparalleled opportunity to deepen your own practice, connect into your innermost divine nature, develop your professional credentials and teach from a place of authenticity.
Faculty Members for the Yoga Nidra Yoga Teacher Training Online include:
- Liz Heffernan, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Frequently Asked Questions
No, not at all. Interested students as well as teachers are invited to participate. You will benefit greatly from the practices and learning how to craft Yoga Nidra for your own personal transformation. If you are currently teaching yoga, you will be able to expand your offering to include Yoga Nidra.
Join the date/call time that works best for you.
Live Zoom Calls
Live Zoom Meetings: Mondays 9:30am-11:00am PDT California Time OR 4:00pm-5:30pm PDT California Time
Dates: October 13-November 10, 2025
Recordings Available.
If you can't make this time work for your schedule, you will be provided a recording to watch anytime.
The course is structured so you may move through the material and assignments at your own pace. Expect to spend about 20 hours of your time reviewing the material, interacting on group calls and completing the assignments.
Next Online Program - Two options:
Live Zoom Calls
Mondays 9:30am-11:00am or 4:00pm-5:30pm PDT California
From October 13-November 10, 2025
To locate the time in your time zone, here is an easy to use tool: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Recordings of live calls will be provided if you are unable to make the time.
Yes, we have a final quiz for students who wish to receive continuing education credits. However it is nothing to worry about and retakes are allowed.
Yes, definitely. Our graduates are offering Yoga Nidra classes to their communities with great success.
Our program is $497. We are offering a early bird discount of $100 off if you register by September 30, 2025. Click here for the early bird price.
We are so certain that you will love this training that we are offering you a two-week risk-free guarantee. If you are not satisfied with the material after the first two weeks of the course, we will refund 100% of your money - just email us by 14 days after the start of the program and complete an exit interview so we can learn how to improve our educational programs for the future. After this 14-day window no refunds are granted.
Spaces are limited. To reserve your place, please register HERE.
Once we receive your registration, we will send you a welcome letter with everything you need to prepare. We can’t wait to meet you!
We would love to connect to you. Please feel free to email us at yoga@somayogainstitute.com, text/WhatsApp us at 1-808-333-9591 anytime, to set up a phone appointment, make an appointment by clicking here or join one of our live Q & A calls via zoom. Just email us for the schedule of the next live zoom chats.
