Nidra, Neuroplasticity, Mind & Brain
Saturday 10th April 2021
from 9am-12pm UK time / 10am-1pm CET
(the call will be recorded to allow global participation)
I am super-excited to announce this three-hour introductory workshop into Yoga Nidra, Neuroplasticity, Mind and Brain, with a true master of this incredible traditional healing lineage.
Yoga Nidra is the ancient science and practice of true body-mind communication and integration, allowing us to enter and direct ourselves in deep states of relaxation and healing. While similar in form to guided meditation, Yoga Nidra enables us to access our deeper neural pathways to reprogramme outdated conscious or subconscious patterns, and activate ancient DNA wisdom within our cells which has been ‘switched off’ through our over-active stress response and negative or limited thinking.
Nirlipta Tuli’s expertise in Yoga Nidra is born from his unique life path - bringing his personal journey through cardiomyopathy, autism and insomnia together with his professional experience and passion as a clinical hypnotherapist and yoga teacher and student of Indian Religion and Philosophy. He has been exploring the application of Yoga Nidra beyond stress management and relaxation to fields such as freediving, childbirth, leadership, and physical and emotional healing and trauma.
Who is Nidra & Neuroplasticity for?
This online workshop is open to anyone who is interested in exploring stress management, healing or activating their untapped potential through reprogramming their neural pathways.
Stress and anxiety, and stress-related illness are increasing hand in hand with the pandemic and development of digital connectivity, making application of Yoga Nidra techniques for wellbeing and lifestyle management more relevant today than ever. We are also becoming more and more aware of the importance of the mind-body connection in health, performance sports, business, and wellbeing; the study, practice and sharing of Yoga Nidra addresses that need.
We look forward to welcoming everyone interested in gaining more control and understanding of their mind, and body-mind connection, such as, but not limited to :
athletes and coaches (freediving or any sport)
parents, teachers, educators
anyone suffering from stress, anxiety or stress-related illness
anyone facing a life transition (birth, death, change of job, moving house, divorce…)
those with auto-immune illness, burn-out, chronic fatigue or any chronic illness
managers and business leaders
pregnant women and their partners
yogis, meditators, mindfulness or spiritual practitioners and teachers
those healing emotional, mental or spiritual trauma, or facilitating such healing
What will I get out of this workshop?
This introduction to Yoga Nidra and Neuroplasticity will give both a thorough overview of the theory and science behind our mind and brain function and development, and an embodied experience of Yoga Nidra practices and their effect of integrating different aspects of ourselves through deeply relaxing meditative nidra.
Specifically, these aspects to be integrated are our sense of Self, individuation of the Mind, and physiology of body and our three brains; head, heart and enteric.
You will learn a distinct sequence of practices, and experience their beneficial effects, supported by an overview of the method and theory of its application. Each participant will come away with a foundational understanding of the brain in its relation to meditative nidra, and be able to apply them in their own life, training, relationships and wellbeing.
What are the benefits of this practice?
Participants report sleeping much better, feeling less overwhelmed and having a greater sense of calm and space for themselves. You will be able to self-direct yourself into Nidra states for whatever it is that you wish to achieve.
Very often stress and anxiety due to modern life and challenges, are exacerbated by a sense of helplessness as to how to overcome these conditions - Yoga Nidra practices empower everyone to take control of their mental and emotional states. This in turn directly affects the overall wellbeing on the physical and spiritual levels.
What you will need
As this is an online experience, you will need to ensure your personal home space is set up correctly. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of this beautiful workshop:
make sure you will be undisturbed for the full three hours - create a quiet, cosy space for yourself and let family members or housemates know that you will be meditating, and to please keep quiet and not disturb you
switch your phone off for the duration
create a cosy ‘nest’ for your nidra experiences - a yoga mat, soft blankets, warm shawls, socks, eye pillow, cushions or bolsters to support your legs or lower back, a pillow that is ‘just right’…
bring pen and paper for note-taking during the theory if want
make a thermos flask of herbal tea or hot water to sip throughout the workshop
honour this experience by creating a special, sacred space, using candles, flowers, incense or whatever feels right for you
eat a very light breakfast, or no breakfast at all if you’re comfortable fasting for the morning
bring a curious mind and an open heart. There will be opportunities for questions and sharing so come with any issue that you’d like Nirlipta to help with
Register for Nidra & Neuroplasticity
A message from Nirlipta and Sara
“[I attribute these teachings]… to the downloading from my mind of a series of mature, profound and powerful practices, a result of thirty years of having dealings with nidra in one form or another and a combination of suddenly having a very oxygenated brain, delivering a variety of sequences with very little in the way of conscious mental cognition and cogitation being involved. My mind suddenly started working in a very intense way almost without me knowing it. Things that I had never really thought about started to come into my consciousness almost fully formed to the point where I started thinking about why hadn’t I seen things that now seem so obvious to me. I wondered if others would gain meaningful experiences if I shared these with them. They seem to have done so and so now, I see it as my mission to continue to develop and disseminate these and the other practices which I have been receiving from my deeper, unconscious mind because I believe at a gut level that they will help give significant meaning and purpose to people in their lives.”
“When I discovered Nirlipta’s work I felt a thrill of recognition - his experience of ‘receiving’ these teachings of meditate nidra practices resonated absolutely with my own experiences of ‘realising’ absolute truths about humans and our deep body-mind-spirit integration through the ocean. I am deeply honoured to host this workshop and introduce you to a true master of this lineage, which I deem to be essential for balanced modern living.”
More about Nirlipta Tuli
Nirlipta has been practicing and teaching yoga and nidra for over thirty years. For over a decade he has been training facilitators of Total Yoga Nidra with his wife Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and a team of collaborators, and also develops and teaches meditative nidra sequences and practices. He is currently writing a comprehensive manual, A Compendium of Total Yoga Nidra, how it works, ways of facilitating it, as a thorough resource for nidra facilitators and therapists. It will take some time.
Nirlipta is founder and co-partner of Sitaram Partnership and also Yoga Nidra Network. Nirlipta's particular interest lies in the therapeutic applications of yoga nidra, where he focusses on insomnia and sleep related issues, lucid dreaming, dealing with stress, enhancing productivity for individuals and groups, and pain related issues. Much of this has been informed by his own experience, using yoga nidra to manage a life lived with cardiomyopathy, autism and insomnia. He offers mentoring and pastoral care to other yoga teachers and to students on all Total Yoga Nidra courses and events.
Before creating Yoga Nidra Network Nilripta worked as a registered clinical hypnotherapist. He trained at the London College of Clinical Hypnotherapy and has specialist training in perinatal hypnotherapy. He is a full member of the British Society for Clinical Hypnotherapy and also an associate member of the British Association of Clinical Psychotherapy.
At the heart of his unique hypnotherapy practice was a specialised approach to perinatal hypnotherapy, including work with birth trauma resolution and the release of fears and anxieties around childbirth. Nirlipta has been practicing yoga since 1988 and teaching since 1990.
He has yoga teaching diplomas from three different yoga teacher training organisations: Bihar School of Yoga, British Wheel of Yoga and Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres. He has also has undertaken further training in pregnancy yoga, yoga therapy and the health and safety aspects of yoga teaching. He has particular expertise in teaching yoga practices for positive mental health, stress relief and relaxation. Nirlipta also holds an MA in Indian Religion and Philosophy from the School of Oriental and African Studies.