Yoga Nidra

In a week I will be traveling to the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA for a five day Yoga Nidra training with Richard Miller (www.nondual.com).  Richard Miller is the author of the book/CD from Sounds True called Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga.  I will be attending the Level I Training.  Level II will be in January in Maryland.  By completing both levels I will be well on my way to becoming a Certified Yoga Nidra Instructor.  

Yoga Nidra is a meditation practice that has two phases.  Phase one is the constructive phase -- you focus on various "bodies" or sheaths and rotate awareness through the opposites of sensation, emotion, thought, etc.  The second phase is the deconstructive phase -- you shift emphasis from the content of awareness to Awareness itself.  Yoga Nidra is a nondual approach to meditation in that it helps you to expand your capacity to embody Awareness -- Presence, Unchanging Equanimity, Unconditioned Mind -- in your day-to-day life. 

I feel that my training in Yoga Nidra will greatly enhance my practice of The Work of Byron Katie (personally and professionally) and will enable me to take my therapy practice to a whole new level.  I want to start a "deconstructive therapy group" where the participants will learn how to use both The Work and Yoga Nidra to deconstruct the stories and stressful beliefs that obscure the truth of who they are. 

I am sure that there will be more to come on my experience at Kripalu when I return...