Yoga Nidra Teacher Training (Level 1)
A 30-hour training with Melanie Cooper, E-RYT500, who has over 20 years of Yoga Nidra teaching experience. Explore the main modern schools and find your own Nidra voice.
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With over 20 years of Yoga Nidra teaching experience, Melanie has developed this in-depth training to help teachers connect with this magical practice and fall in love with sharing it. She has trained more than 1,000 teachers in Yoga Nidra, so you’re in safe and experienced hands.
Nidra can help us de-stress, sleep better, boost creativity and meditate deeply. It is the ultimate inclusive practice, for every body. It can be a class of its own or the close of a Yin or flow class; a 5-minute body scan or a 45-minute journey through the stars.
Melanie brings a fresh, open, non-dogmatic look at all the main modern schools, and encourages you to find your own Nidra voice.
Why this course is so popular
- An open, non-dogmatic approach
- A focus on trauma sensitivity
- Support to unlock your creativity and write your own scripts
- A focus on the fascinating neuroscience behind the practice
- Fun and accessible
- A fully comprehensive manual
Course content
| Topic | What you’ll explore |
|---|---|
| A non-dogmatic approach | The main techniques and modern schools of Yoga Nidra, compared so you can find what works for you |
| Scripts | Ready-made scripts in different methods, and ideas for writing your own |
| The structure | Each stage of the practice, the intention behind it and its effect on body and mind |
| Modifications and contraindications | How to adapt your teaching for different students |
| The science | Brainwaves, hypnagogia, basic brain anatomy and states of consciousness |
| History and philosophy | Where the practice comes from |
| Stress | How Nidra works with stress |
| Your own practice | Establishing a personal Nidra practice |
Who is it for?
The course gives teachers more tools, broadening both your teaching skills and the groups you can work with. Perhaps you trained in a dynamic style and want to add a slow style to your teaching.
Meet Melanie
Melanie Cooper is E-RYT500 in Flow, Nidra, Yin and Anatomy, and the author of Teaching Yoga, Adjusting Asana. She began teaching in 1997, discovered Yin in 2000 and Nidra even earlier.
She began teaching on teacher trainings in Goa in 2010, ran her own 200-hour trainings in London from 2015, and partnered with The Shala in London in 2018 to offer joint 300-hour trainings.
Fees
| Option | Price |
|---|---|
| Pay in full | £495 |
| 3 monthly instalments | £495 in total |
| Early bird | 5% off with a code |
| Alumni (20+ CPD hours with us) | 5% off with your code |
You’ll receive a manual and a certificate.
Cancellation policy
All money paid is non-refundable and non-transferable, except in reasonable and extenuating circumstances and at the course director’s discretion. If you are absent through ill health, a doctor’s certificate is needed and only a transfer to a later date will be considered. 100% attendance is required, and there are no partial refunds for hours missed.
Tutor: Melanie Cooper
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