"In a gentle way,
you can shake the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

 

YOGA NIDRA CLUB & LIBRARY
BareSole Yoga is going on the road until September 2023
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The Yoga Nidra Club:  Awaken to your Abundance!
with Nadia Puttini, MA, C-IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist,
and Total Yoga Nidra Facilitator

June 13th - July 4th 2023 (4 weeks)  
Cost: $40 *
Registration for all 4 required

" Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your wild and precious life?"
-  Mary Oliver -

Summer is a time of abundance and richness, ripe fruit, radiant light, bright flowers, expansion, creative energy.  It's fiery, bold and outgoing.

In Ayurveda we believe that opposites balance each other.  Therefore, a cooling, quiet practice such as Yoga Nidra is a perfect complement to the summer hustle and bustle (like watermelon :-) and to the increasing hotness and business of life.

So, set up your space in  a comfortable, cool environment and join us on this next 4 week series that includes both stillness and active practices.

 

Your Yoga Nidra Club membership includes:

    • One weekly 20 minute freshly recorded Yoga Nidra: 
      the theme of these Nidras is welcoming abundance, receiving, gratitude, juiciness, lushness, visioning, the inner garden.
    • One weekly 10-15 minute yoga video including cooling pranayam, inversions, restorative/yin, and mudras with sound healing.
    • An inquiry pertaining to the Nidra to invite self-reflection, svadhyaya, a pillar of yoga practice.
    • A weekly newsletter with information and inspiration

      Videos and audios will be available for 6 months. 
      All the audios and videos will be embedded in this Newsletter, on Tuesdays:   simply click play on the videos to access the content.

 

So, what is Yoga Nidra, really?

Yoga Nidra is both an ancient and modern guided meditative inquiry also called a guided mindfulness practice.  Nidra (which literally means sleep) invites us to find a very comfortable restorative position (the yoga nidra nest) and simply flow with the facilitator's words.

Yoga Nidra takes us on a journey through the dimensions of our being, the 5 koshas (the physical body, the breath, the mind and emotions, our innate wisdom and bliss), effortlessly guiding us into a state of non-doing.

Ultimately, it is designed to experientially restore our knowing of True Nature.

Studies have shown that Nidra elicits brain waves at each stage:  it takes us from the beta waves of wakefulness into the subtler alpha, theta and delta waves of dream and deep sleep.  Here, we are however conscious.  It is in that liminal space, the in between where creativity, problem solving, emotional integration, and deep states of consciousness can be accessed.

Not unlike meditation, Yoga Nidra is a self-regulation practice, i.e. it increases our ability to regulate our inner states, feelings and emotions as a response to outer circumstances.  Our tolerance toward change increases and our resistance and reactivity lessens.  We know where we belong. 

As a long time meditator I find this practice refreshing, soothing, grounding and deeply nourishing.

The benefits that have been studied and that I observe in myself and in the people I work with are:

  • reduced muscular, mental and emotional tensions
  • decreased anxiety and symptoms of PTSD
  • increased relaxation and stress reduction
  • improved sleep
  • increased energy
  • increased focus, concentration and memory
  • increased creativity and inspiration
  • aids in management of pain, heart disease, asthma, hypertension,...
  • a greater sense of wellbeing, peace, and joy


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Nadia Puttini, owner of BareSole Yoga, holds a MA in Expressive Therapy from Lesley University, is an experienced E-RYT 500 registered Kripalu Yoga Teacher, and a C-IAYT certified yoga therapist with more than 4000 hours teaching and client hours.  She fell in love with meditation at the age of 12 and practiced intensively for a decade, gradually integrating the study of the body through improvisational movement and yoga while continuing her exploration of meditation.   Some of her favorite meditation teachers are Jonathan Foust, Richard Faulds, Sally Kempton, Richard Miller, Adyashanti, Eckart Tolle and others. Nurturing the integration of body and mind is one of her greatest passions.

YOGA NIDRA VIDEO

Yoga Nidra intro, benefits and a 25 minutes welcoming nidra practice, 60min.


Yoga Nidra and brain science;  the power of sankalpa;  a 25 min. spacious nidra practice; 60 min.


Yoga Nidra and meditation:  what do they have in common;  a 25 min. nidra for healing; 60min.


Yoga Nidra and what it is, really;  a 25 min. nidra for stillness; 60 min.


YOGA NIDRA AUDIO


A Welcoming Yoga Nidra, 23min


Yoga Nidra
on quietness and stillness, 20min


Yoga Nidra
on cultivating intention, 20min


Yoga Nidra on the wisdom
of spaciousness, 15min

 

* Fees are Non-Refundable

DISCLAIMER:  Not all yoga exercises are suitable for everyone and this or any yoga or fitness program may result in injury. To reduce the risk of injury, consult your physician and closely monitor your participation based upon your individual capacities. The creators, producers, and distributors expressly disclaim any liability for personal injury, losses, or damages related to this program and the exercises and instruction it contains.

Nadia Puttini o nadia@baresoleyoga.com