3 Day 40-Hour Hybrid Nidra Yoga Teacher Training in Northern Ireland, UK
Hybrid Yoga Teacher Training UK
An immersive Yoga Nidra teacher training weekend is imbued with what the Irish call “imbas”, great knowledge, poetic talent, and inspiration through “Aisling” or dreaming with Yoga Nidra. The online training should be completed after the in-person training ends.
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Highlights
- Self-paced 14-hour online yoga teacher training
- 3-day 26-hour residential yoga teacher training
- Eligible for registration with Yoga Alliance upon completion for both parts
- 2 nights on-site training accommodation
- Daily meals during residential training
- All teachings and ceremonies
Types
3 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Facilities
- Dining area
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lounge
Your classes and workshops during the onsite training will be held in the Hayloft studio with its spacious Scandi feel and beautifully pitched ceilings. In your downtime, you can take a breath out on the tree-lined land, explore the witches' kitchen garden and wild meadows, or relax in the old coach house used for outdoor dining, summer workshops, and fire pujas.
Your accommodation is based on two or three people sharing per room. The cozy, bespoke bedrooms at Mother of the Woods are inspired by different Celtic goddesses. Additionally, they provide two indoor lounge areas for relaxation and a communal dining space known as ‘the morning room’.
Program
Certifications
The course/hours count as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®) only. You will receive a certification upon completion of the course.
How the training works
This advanced Yoga Nidra meditation training includes the weekend immersion in Northern Ireland and online video content and coursework to complete a Continuing Education 40-hour certification. The onsite part of the course will be held between May 17th and 19th (26 hours). To fulfill the requirements of this comprehensive 40-hour advanced yoga teacher training, participation in the in-person Ireland immersion is complemented by preparatory engagement with online videos, recordings, and coursework.
The online portal opens its doors on April 1st and will remain accessible until October 1st (14 hours including non-contact study time). This extended timeframe ensures you are prepared for the in-person content and gives you time to engage with it at your own pace, allowing for a truly integrative experience. Inside the online portal, you will find:
- Over 10 hours of recorded Yoga Nidra education, featuring Dharma talks on yoga philosophy
- Yoga Nidra meditations with transcripts
- Two comprehensive digital Yoga Nidra coursebooks
- A beautiful Yoga Nidra script guide
Daily schedule for residential training
Please note this is subject to slight changes.
Friday, October 24th
- Arrival from 10:00
- 11:00 - 12:30 Welcome and orientation
- 12:30 - 13:30 Light lunch
- 14 -14:30 Workshop: Intro to Nidra
- 14:30 - 15:00 Nidra practice
- Break
- 15:15 - 16:30 Workshop: Intention setting with Sankalpa and understanding Nidra Shakti
- 16:45 - 18:00 Nidra practice and Q&A
- 18:00 - 19:30 Dinner catered by The Edible Flower
- 19:30 - 21:00 Workshop: Inner sanctuary workshop, nurturing safety inside out
- 21:00 - 22:00 Goodnight Yoga Nidra: Dreamtime practice and blessings with Mugwort tea ceremony
Saturday, October 25th
- Light breakfast, teas, and coffee
- 08:00 - 09:30 Morning practice: asana (yoga), pranayama (breathwork), mantra (Sanskrit chanting), and Nidra session
- 09:30 - 11:00 Workshop: Anamaya Kosha: Yoga Nidra tools and techniques for the physical body: Settling and welcoming
- 11:00 - 11:30 Teaching practice time in small groups to integrate what you have learned
- 11:30 - 13:00 Hot brunch catered by The Edible Flower
- 13:00 - 15:00 Workshop: Pranamaya and Manomaya Kosha: Yoga Nidra tools and techniques for the energy body, breath, and mind practices
- 15:00 - 15:30 Teaching practice time in small groups to integrate what you have learned
- 15:30 - 17:00 Workshop: Vijnanamaya and Anandamaya Kosha: Yoga Nidra tools and techniques for the subtle or wisdom body and Shamanic dreaming
- 17:00 - 17:30 Teaching practice time in small groups to integrate what you have learned
- 17:30 - 18:00 Yoga Nidra practice
- 18:00 - 19:30 Dinner catered by The Edible Flower
- 20:00 - 21:30 Workshop and ceremony: The Earth’s dreamtime: sacred plants and vision questing with Yoga Nidra ceremony
Sunday, October 26th
- 09:00 - 10:30 Morning practice: asana (yoga), pranayama (breathwork), mantra (Sanskrit chanting), and Nidra session
- 10:30 - 11:30 Brunch catered by The Edible Flower
- 12:00 - 14:00 Workshop and Nidra
- 14:00 - 15:30 Time to prepare and write your own Yoga Nidra (assignment given at orientation)
- 15:30 - 16:30 Practice teaching assessment in groups
- 16:30 - 17:00 Closing ceremony
- 17:00 Peace and blessings to you and departure
Course information
This Yoga Nidra teacher weekend invites you to deep dive into an embodied experience of the profound wisdom and power of Yoga Nidra. Learn the yogic philosophy and mythology that underpins the art of Yoga Nidra and hone your skills to confidently guide transformative Yoga Nidra sessions for others. Set yourself apart as a yoga teacher, therapist, coach, or counselor by utilizing the powerful technique of Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) with your students and clients. Embark on a transformative journey through the layers of your being, from the physical to the soulful and beyond.
You will ground yourself in ancient yogic philosophy, exploring and experiencing the fundamental yogic teachings around source or witness consciousness, the Koshas (layers of being and embodiment), Sankalpa (intention setting), the neuroscience of sleep and meditation, and how to nurture the nervous system. You will learn the fundamentals of Yoga Nidra with practical tools and techniques, and integrate this knowledge into crafting unique, trauma-informed practices.
Nestled in picturesque Irish countryside in the rolling drumlins of Co Down, Mother of the Woods Retreat (the venue) will be ablaze with the full beauty of Autumn. In the Irish medicine wheel, known as the Celtic Wheel of the Year, you will gather at Samhain which is considered energetically and spiritually the most powerful time of the year. For the ancient ones it was a potent time for divination and dreaming when the veils between this world and the mystical Celtic “otherworld” were at their thinnest.
This makes it a really powerful time for dreamwork practices, such as Yoga Nidra to connect to the ancestors, to listen to the land speak, and to enter Celtic dreamtime like the ancient druids and poets of Ireland. Celtic wisdom teachings and stories will be woven throughout the immersion. You will experience two native Irish plant ceremonies exploring the relationship between plant medicines, sleep states, mythic imaginings, and creative visioning.
For those wishing to connect to the wisdom and magic of the lands, the ancestors, and the spirituality of mythical, mystical Ireland, there is also an option to embark on a Celtic Sacred Site tour on Monday 28th October. Yoga Nidra is a secret doorway into revelation.
Develop these essential tools
- Yoga Nidra mastery: Develop a heart-centered approach to confidently create and guide deeply relaxing and healing Yoga Nidra sessions
- Creating safe, trauma-informed practice: Learn the art of holding space and how to curate a nurturing, trauma-informed space for clients and students to find safety and inner connection
- Embodied wisdom and Somatic awareness: Connect with your body's wisdom to guide from a rooted and embodied space, holding the field of awareness that is Yoga Nidra so that you can authentically help students embody and navigate their own inner landscapes
- Mindful presence and authenticity: Cultivate mindful presence and authenticity, fostering openness, healing, and growth
- Emotional resilience and sanctuary: Learn techniques to create an atmosphere of trust and healing, empowering students to face life's challenges with strength and grace
- Compassionate intuitive guidance: Foster empathy and unwavering trust in your intuition to guide students on unique transformational journeys, ensuring they feel seen and respected
- Soul path alignment: Guide students to align with their soul paths, finding purpose and meaning
Topics
- Yoga philosophy on source consciousness and the embodiment process (koshas)
- Cosmology and mythology of Yoga Nidra and Nidra Shakti (the ancient goddess of sleep)
- How to work with effective and transformational intention-setting within Yoga Nidra known as Sankalpa
- How to set up and hold the space of Yoga Nidra as a safe healing container in a trauma-informed way
- Step-by-step tools and techniques for confidently guiding Yoga Nidra
- How to hold the energetic field of Yoga Nidra and the importance of tone and voice
- How to create your own unique Yoga Nidra practices
- The differences and similarities between hypnosis and Yoga Nidra
- The neuroscience of sleep and meditation
- Brainwave states and how they compare to ancient yogic wisdom
- The different lineages of Yoga Nidra
- Learning through experience - small group practice teaching
- Experiencing a variety of lineages, styles, and methods of Yoga Nidra
- Tapping into the wisdom of altered states with Yoga Nidra and plant intelligence
Instructors
Simone MacKay
Simone MacKay (E-RYT / YACEP) is a seasoned yogini who has taught yoga and trained yoga teachers in various locations around the globe for over two decades and will assist you in exploring the higher levels of this ancient practice. Simone is an expert in yoga Nidra and has trained directly with Richard Millar in Irest, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli in Total Yoga Nidra, and Kamini Desai in The Amrit Method. Simone holds a safe space with humble grace and that comes from compassion and a wealth of experience.
Location
Onsite training
The residential training is held at a beautiful, spacious, 300-year-old Irish farmhouse nestled in two and a half acres of ancient trees and wild meadows, in the rolling hills of County Down situated in the North of Ireland. It is located in a small townland, 20 minutes outside Belfast called ‘Cargacreevy’ which translates from the old Irish ‘Carraig na craoibhe’ as ‘Rock of the great tree’.
Trees and rocks were sacred to the ancients and central to Celtic mythology and spirituality. They were often gathering places for rituals known as ‘nemetons’ meaning ‘sacred grove’ or ‘sanctuary’ making this hidden, rural gem the perfect place to connect with nature, the wisdom of the land, and your own essential nature. There is not a more charming retreat venue in Northern Ireland.
Distances
- Cargacreevy - 20 minutes
- George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD) - 30 minutes drive
- Belfast International Airport (BFS) - 40 minutes drive
- Dublin Airport (DUB) - 1 hour 36 minutes drive
Food
Your meals during the in-person training included in the price will be a highlight of this immersion with professional chef Erin Bunting, founder of The Edible Flower on site, providing delicious, grounding, and seasonally-inspired menus to accompany your time together.
Erin is a professional chef, TV cook for Ireland AM, recipe developer, food stylist, and edible flower enthusiast, trained at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School in East Cork and is the author of The Edible Flower, a guide to Cooking and Growing Edible Flower (as featured in Vogue, Sunday World, Country Living, The Irish News, Times and Examiner, Washington Post to name a few).
Erin has a real gift for making wonderfully complex layers of flavor and produce feel unpretentious and at the same time exquisitely beautiful and delicious. Inspired by the Celtic Wheel, her cooking is seasonal, utilizing the best of local produce and infused with a little bit of magic in every mouthful.
The following meals are included:
- Dinner
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Whole food
Things to do (optional)
On Monday, October 27th, you can join a Samhain rituals sacred site tour. Learn the ritual traditions and lore of ancient Ireland at the most potent time of the year Samhain, the Celtic Day of the Dead, and the origins of Halloween. Connect to the wisdom of the ancestors on this Samhain Sacred Site Tour through an exploration of sacred spaces, storytelling, fire, and music. This is not a requirement to complete your Yoga Nidra certification but is sure to be an enriching journey that you will dream into for years to come.
What's included
- 3 days of residential yoga teacher training
- Certification
- 2 nights in-person training accommodation
- All chef-prepared meals for in-person training
- All teachings and ceremonies
- Self-paced online content
What's not included
- Airfare for the residential training
- Airport transfers for the onsite training
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer not provided
Belfast International Airport
24 km away from your destination
Transfer not provided
George Best Belfast City Airport
13 km away from your destination
Transfer not provided
Dublin Airport
122 km away from your destination
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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