iRest Instructors' Development Course

Calgary, Alberta : September 2008 through May 2009

Welcome to our Yoga Nidra home practice website!

Here you will find an archive of iRest / Yoga Nidra scripts and recordings by our classmates.

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iRest Dyads
by Anne Douglas

iRest Dyads : Simple and Rewarding

Part 1: Essential Dyad Process

Anne presents the essential iRest dyad process, in terms of energetics and language, and explains its use in yoga therapy. Note: the microphone was tuned to her voice only, therefore Q&A have been edited out.

Intended audience: Yoga therapists; iRest teachers-in-training

Recorded: November 18, 2008
Running time: approx. 49 minutes

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Demonstration

Anne conducts a dyad with Teeya Scholten to illustrate the simplified process presented in Seminar 1.

Recorded: November 18, 2008
Running time: approx. 43 minutes

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For more information and scripts, please contact Anne directly

 

Part 2: Opening to Presence in Dyads

Anne discusses the exploration of opposites and pure being in dyads.
Note: the microphone was tuned to her voice only, therefore Q&A have been edited out.

Intended audience: Yoga therapists; iRest teachers-in-training

Recorded: March 24, 2009
Running time: approx. 50 minutes

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iRest Trauma Treatment Protocol
by Richard Miller and Teeya Scholten

The Trauma Treatment Protocol (TTP) is a structured dyad designed to explore the sensations, emotions and thoughts associated with past trauma, and neutralize some of their effects through the play of opposites.

Please contact the Integrative Restoration Institute for more information.

Interweaving Awareness of Being in the iRest Procotol
Suggestions from the Class

Updated May 19, 2009

Focus of Attention

• Contrast background and foreground, noticing what does not change.
• The point between inhale and exhale; establish this early on, and ask participants to pause there and notice the stillness.
• Feel the silent reverberation at the end of an exhale.
• Breathe into the space around the body.
• Feel the space around the body. Feel space touching back.
• Global body feeling.
• Feel the vibration within the body.

Suggested Wording

• "Spacious"
• "Step back"
• Identify that aspect of the self that never changes; then choose a word meaningful to the participant(s), e.g.
  • "Witness"
  • "Awareness"
  • "Stillness"
• Richard Miller's suggested conclusion: Meet, greet and respond from that place of stillness

Sound

• Listen to crystal bowls.
• Listen to chimes die away to silence.
• Transition from speech to silence: shed words, speak slowly, descending in tone and loudness toward a pause of silence, e.g.
  • "Pure awareness is utterly still, silent ... awareness ... still ... ... silent ... ... ... "