About Trauma Informed Yoga Nidra? (TIYN)

Trauma Informed Yoga Nidra (TIYN) is a guided method of meditation that promotes deep states of relaxation, induces biological sleep brain wave states and supports integrative healing from trauma and stress through a series of body, breath and awareness techniques. There are 11 systematic steps of body, breath and awareness techniques that gently guide a person into deep, subtle states of awareness. This gives access to the subconscious mind, where life-affirming intentions and personal resolutions are cultivated for positive change. A typical session lasts between 20-45 minutes, and the practitioner is invited to adopt a physical position of comfort (the traditional position is lying flat in the supine position).  The impact yields deep mind and body restoration. This process of working with the most subtle aspect of the mind disrupts trauma patterns and reorients an individuals’ felt experience of reality toward a sense of wholeness and integrates their experience in an effortless way.  Practitioners eventually access yoga nidrā in a self guided experience.

There is a shift away from doing, to being.

There is an awareness that moves from the external world, to the internal world of Self.

It is an unlearning of what is false, and a discovery and remembering of True Self, which is always whole, perfect and complete.

It is a coming home to Truth. From the Truth of knowing one’s Self, one is able to navigate life in a new, empowered way.

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Trauma Informed Yoga Nidra uses an intentional sequence of 11 practices for deep restoration and renewal.

Systematic Techniques employed in the process of TIYN:

  1.         Pre-practices: Welcoming for Social Engagement

  2.         ANS Recalibration: Somatic Exercises, Vaso-vagal Stimulation

  3.         Grounding, Body & Breath Interoceptive Awareness

  4.         Felt Sense of Security & Safety

  5.         Body Rotation (Cross Hemispheric Brain Practice)

  6.         Expiratory Guided Breath

  7.         Working with Opposites: Dis-identification Process

  8.         Working with the Bliss Body: Joy, Affirmations & Personal Intention

  9.         Abiding as Pure, Still, Spacious Awareness

  10. Re-orientation towards a felt sense of the Self as Wholeness

  11.         Post-practices for Integrative Renewal

“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial.

If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”

— Lao Tzu