AMRIT YOGA FOUNDATION INC

Stress is more prevalent than cancer or heart disease. It suppresses the immune system and it is the underlying root of anxiety, depression, insomnia and Attention Deficit Disorder.

Yoga Nidra holds the master key to reverse this attack on your body, mind, and spirit. It has the power to take you to the innermost, deepest levels of relaxation where your whole body and being is permeated by peace of mind and profound stillness. Yoga Nidra unlocks the mystical, integrative powers of the subconscious and your higher centers of consciousness to effortlessly erase your most tenacious, self-destructive habits and behavior patterns held unconsciously in your physical, mental, and emotional bodies.

Focusing on the Third Eye activates the pineal gland, causing it to secrete melatonin, a hormone known to induce restful sleep, reduce high blood pressure, increase immune function and prevent premature aging. The Amrit Method of Yoga Nidra harnesses the power of integrative intention to rebuild your health, love life, family life, and professional life, and to actualize your intentions, visions, and prayers.

Professional applications:

Yoga teachers and studio owners can extend their services to those students who are unable to do a traditional yoga practice.
Massage therapists, healing professionals can extend their therapeutic services to a greater circle of clients.

The Integrative Amrit Method of Yoga Therapy is a total body stretch and energy opener. It uses wall, prop and assisted poses to help you move into areas of stiffness, constriction and tightness and pain that you normally avoid. Avoiding areas of tension keeps the tightness intact and allows the body to continue to build up tension and exacerbates misalignments in the body.

This course will provide you with a natural extension to discover their ultimate completion of everything you have studied and practiced about the Integrative Amrit Method of Hatha Yoga.

Our advanced teacher training is the natural succession for the dedicated Integrative Amrit Method of Yoga Level I practitioner, who has already experienced profound shifts in life.

This course includes added postures, locks (bandhas), and advanced pranayama (breath meditation) practiced with inward focus which magnifies and amplifies the presence of prana, initiating pranakriyas.

Pranakriyas unveil the innermost depth of Amrit Yoga, where you experience the harmonious interplay between energy (prana) and the mind (chitta).

In part II of this program, deepen and extend your experience of asana (postures) as a doorway to connect with prana.

Learn how to help more experienced yoga students develop the skills to detect the movement and flow of prana and design asana flow sequences to cultivate the prime conditions for your students to connect with prana.

Prerequisites: I AM Yoga Nidra™ Professional Training
This Advanced Yoga Nidra Training builds on and deepens the understanding gained in Yoga Nidra Professional Training. Using scriptural teachings of the Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras, and unique insights from our Lineage, we will explore the original teachings of Yoga Nidra as an esoteric and ancient mystical practice. You will understand more about the anatomy of the koshas and how they relate to the wisdom body, the ego and the Self.
New techniques for yourself and your students will include new body rotation sequences, awareness of space inside and outside the body, listening with the body, techniques to gain control over the involuntary nervous system, kosha experiences and prana/mother divine yoga nidra. You will also learn basics of yoga nidra as a form of yoga therapy; using protocols to aid those seeking emotional integration and solutions for trauma, PTSD and other forms of energetic blockages.
We will have a more in-depth look at visualizations and image techniques — understanding how they relate to the mental and wisdom body, when to use them, and how to deliver them so they do not bring in the thinking mind. Finally, you will receive not only the advanced deck of yoga nidra cards, but a unique yoga nidra deck for kids! You will learn how to be creative in delivering yoga nidra to kids and how to give to various age groups.
Some specific topics we will be exploring are:
• Yoga Nidra as a therapeutic yoga technique for emotional integration and guidance
• The latest scientific research
• How to best bring yoga nidra to kids
• Two practices of yoga nidra per day
• Integral daily silent time to deepen and open to Self