Your tiredness has dignity to it! Do not rush to pathologise it, or push it away, for it may contain great intelligence, even medicine.

You have been on a long journey from the stars, friend. Bow before your tiredness now; do not fight it any longer.

Come, sit by the fire of Presence. Let the body unwind; drop into the silence here. Forget about tomorrow, let go of the journey to come, and sink into this evening’s warmth.

Sacred Exhaustion – Jeff Foster

Somah Journeys’ Yoga Nidra teacher training Bali offers practices grounded in nature based and shamanic teachings, for a fully integrated, soulful approach to this full body, conscious relaxation process.

On this Yoga Nidra facilitators training; experience deep restoration and radical awakening.

Explore the nature of consciousness awareness through modern day neuroscience and ancient tantric teachings and learn to induce trance, rewire neural pathways of the brain, erase limiting belief systems and how to plant the seeds of the purest, most powerful intentions at the most receptive moments for radical transformation long after the nidra practice is complete.

Discover your own unique spiritual authority, present moment awareness and become empowered to empower others to find their own inner guidance and liberation.

Information

This Yoga Nidra immersion offers an experiential approach to learning and is open to teachers seeking advanced yoga teacher training certification as well as therapists, counsellors, parents, dedicated yogis, healers, those in need of deep rest (so that’s everybody!) .

During this training you will learn the history, theory, structure, and practice of Yoga Nidra, as well as the tools and techniques required to confidently create and deliver your own original guided meditations.

Hosted in a brand new luxury, perma-culture retreat centre tucked away in the heart of Bali’s luscious, tropical countryside, we will take an experiential and non-linear approach to learning. Immersing ourself far away from the hustle and bustle of the tourist trail we will deeply retreat ourselves amongst nature to explore our own true nature of inner peace and steadiness. Our chef prepared vegetarian meals will be grown right here on the land so that all we have to do is rest deeply and be cradled in the arms of Nidra Shakti.

Yoga Nidra brings a new layer of understanding to our yoga practice, on and off the mat. Especially helpful for those who are challenged by traditional forms of formal meditation, this guided, shamanic technique brings you deep into the essence of who and what you truly are in an incredibly accessible way. It truly is a profound and transformative meditation practice to relax and heal with many proven therapeutic benefits.

With stress now proven as the leading cause of most disease, anxiety and depression at epidemic levels and with 1 in 3 chronically sleep deprived – rest has become more than a radical act but a life saver. Yoga Nidra could well be the antidote to modern day living and is currently the fastest growing yogic practice.

Rooted in Eastern Tantric philosophy, Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep” is both an ancient meditation practice and a state of awareness. It is a secret doorway to having direct access to our own divine intelligence and liberation that already lie within. These same notions are also reflected back within the shamanic approaches across cultures. Vision quests, dreamwork and shamanic journeying.

In this Yoga Nidra facilitator training Bali you’ll learn practical, accessible tools for slowing the mind and body down into deeply restorative states of consciousness.

Tap into your own creativity, insight and intuition to create original yoga nidra practices that help others find deep rest and dissolve physical, mental and emotional blockages.

We offer a step-by-step, and non dogmatic approach to understanding the various systems and lineages of Yoga Nidra. On this TTC you will learn the structures that make a Yoga Nidra inside out, as well as the energetic and spiritual aspects of the practice so that you are able to deliver with confidence a responsive and intuitive meditation of your own creation.

What's Included

Shared accommodation & chef prepared organic vegetarian meals
Daily asana, pranayama mantra
The Science of Sleep – Neuroscience and brave wave activity behind Yoga Nidra and how the practice can rewire neural pathways to help combat trauma, stress and negative and limiting self beliefs
Pranayama techniques for soothing, calming and settling
Energetics: Understand and work with the yogic Koshas (layers of being) and learn to adapt and respond when guiding practices as well as understanding Nidra as a form of Shakti (energy)
Sankalpa – how to set and work with effective intentions and intuitive listening
Dreamwork
Native and Celtic Medicine Wheel teachings: Using the intelligence of the natural world a Sacred Compass as a tool to understand energetic patterns and cycles
Shamanic journeying and trusting inner guidance
History, philosophy and development of Yoga Nidra
Restorative asana for savasana: Learn how to prop different positions for optimal Yoga Nidra positions for everybody
Pre and post practices of Yoga Nidra: Asana, pranayama and self massage practices that complement Yoga Nidra
Working with visualisations: Learn a range of different traditional and creative scripting options, contra- indications, appropriateness and therapeutic value
How to create your own Yoga Nidra: cultivate your own unique and creative Yoga Nidra experiences, including the use of poetry, song and music
Yoga Nidra and Bhakti Yoga – and the correlation between the two
Develop and implement your own Yoga Nidra practice
Understand and engage with the therapeutic benefits of Yoga Nidra

Certification

This training can be taken by anyone as a stand alone module without the need for any previous qualifications. A Somah Journey’s Yoga Nidra Facilitator certificate will be awarded at the completion of the module.

For yoga teachers the Yoga Nidra TTC can be taken as 1 of 3 modules for those wishing to complete a 300 hour advanced yoga teacher training with Somah Journeys. A previous 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training certification is required for this option.

Somah Journeys offers an advanced 300 hour yoga teacher training program of your own design. By deepening your practice in 3 specialised areas through our range of 100 hour modules, in collaboration with Tina Nance Yoga Therapy (TNYT), you can create your own advanced Yoga Alliance approved TTC.

100 hour yoga teacher certificate training. 100 CE credits for Yoga Alliance (YACEP).

Schedule

Our schedule will vary depending on the needs of the group and with some days having additional ceremonies into some evenings.

06:30 – 09:30am Morning practice

09:30 – 11:00am Breakfast

11:00 – 1:30pm Workshop

1:30 – 2:30pm Lunch

2:30 – 6:30pm Afternoon session

Opening circle: We will start at approx 3pm on arrival day

Closing ceremony: We will close by approx 12noon on departure day

In our exclusive perma-culture retreat centre nestled in the Balinese countryside we will start our days off with a morning practice of asana, breathwork meditation and of course yoga nidra.
We will be served an organic chef prepared breakfasts, lunches and dinners, grown on the grounds for full pranic restoration in between diving in to the practices, theory and magic behind this ancient meditation practice.
We want our students to experience the full depths of the practice from its therapeutic purposes and deep restfullness and awareness to its potential for potent spiritual awakening so you can expect plenty of guided yoga nidras from across a range of different schools and styles and be bathed in sound and song healing as well as plenty of self quietude and reflection time.

Logistics

Our brand new retreat centre is located in the stunning Balinese countryside. Although there is a shop on site please be advised to try and bring everything that you need with you.

As the retreat centre is based on an organic ayurvedic farm they request that all guests only use natural products and toiletries

Transportation: We are approximately a 1 hour drive from Ubud centre

On arrival day a group pick up can be arranged through the retreat centre from the airport that morning and Ubud centre at lunch time.

Please note this will be an additional cost depending on numbers of the group

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“To rest is a radical act of self care” Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Somah Team

SPECIAL GUEST TEACHERS

Special guest teachers will join us to give expert classes and workshops

EMMA LOVE
CELTIC YOGINI

Founder of Essential Nature Yoga, Irish nomad and Celtic Yogini Emma Lowe facilitates Yoga and Yoga Nidra practices which merge yoga and nature based wisdom. She has been Communications and Creative Director and assistant facilitator with Somah Journeys since 2018.

With a background in creative and performing arts, Emma engages music, song, folklore and story telling for the purpose of personal and cultural healing in her offerings. She is also a poetic writer, photographer and painter. Since childhood Emma has been engaged in using these mediums for the purpose of peace and reconciliation through various cross community projects in Ireland.

Similarly, Emma sees yoga as a vehicle for personal and social change and is passionate about practices that support women’s health including her popular Yoni Nidras.

Emma’s work is informed by native plant medicines of the Amazon basin, and has received medicine songs and red road teachings during her time in South America, which inspired her to study and share her own ancestral roots through Celtic Shamanism, spirituality and Celtic Medicine wheel teachings.

Essential Nature Yoga

SIMONE MACKAY
SOUL GUIDE

A nomadic Canadian raised and educated in Switzerland, Simone worked as a counselor working with women affected by violence, before adopting the simple, free and romantic life of a traveling Yogini, studying and teaching yoga throughout the greater Asian realm for many years before establishing the School of Sacred Arts in Bali and SOMAH, an off-shoot in the direction of her deeper passions.

Increasingly drawn to nature-based spirituality, Simone passionately utilizes both yogic and shamanic tools in support of growth and transformation, holding space with gentle grace in SOSA/SOMAH’s trainings, workshops and retreats around the world.

SOMAH
School of Sacred Arts (SOSA)

A Few Good Words

Simone MacKay, is one of the wisest and humblest beings I have been gifted with coming across on this path. Truly embodying all that she shares, she serves as an inspiration as much in the way that she IS in the world and the things that she doesn’t say as much as in the things that she does. Simone held a powerful yet gentle space for me to shift and sift through a lifetimes worth of conditioning and limiting beliefs and reminding me of my own intrinsic connection to nature and all of ‘Life’. Simone’s guidance and support in both Yoga and Yoga Nidra combined with the deeply powerful lessons I experienced from the Plant Teachers allowed me to reach and transform the make-up of my inner world and forever have changed how I see and interact with the outer world. I am beyond grateful for Simone’s teachings, compassion, love and nurturing presence, the roots of which run deeper in my heart than I can express and from which I have gained unparalleled insight, strength and growth. A true soul guide, gently guiding me home. Even through the darkest times, Simone helps me to remember Life's beauty and gifts, including my own.

EMMA LOWE, IRELAND

I traveled down to Peru for an all-inclusive yoga retreat involving, a sweat lodge, yoga, hiking, meditation, a day of silence, and 2 ceremonies with the plant medicine, Ayahuasca. It was led by well-traveled guides with tons of experience and international contacts. They are yoga teacher trainers who have experienced just about everything in their realm. Guided by their courage and passion I felt like I received 10 years of therapy in a matter of 10 days.

MATT LOVITT, USA

I just completed a 100-hour retreat - Yin yoga plant medicine module in Peru. It was one of the best learning experiences of my life. Truly magical. Simone is a wonderful teacher and facilitated the retreat with exceptional detail and grace. I would highly recommend to anyone curious about exploring this kind of path. With great love.

NAOMI GASKIN, CANADA

Simone is a very special teacher and creates an incredibly safe, transformative and ceremonial space. I could not be more grateful. My experiences with her have changed my life for the better forever and while this work can be incredibly hard at times because you never know what the plants have in store for you, it was just the journey I needed. Simone is a wonderfully nurturing guide and puts so much heart and care into creating experiences that allow you to go inward and be your own medicine for healing. She's very special and I would recommend her immersions to anyone.

NIKKI CURTIS, USA

I can't tell you how happy I am to have the Peru experience Simone facilitated. I am constantly being brought back to the Maloka as a kind of mental safe place. I can still see, smell, and feel it so vividly. Now that I am firmly back in my regular life, I have found such great tools from my integration. My meditation has never been stronger, and my overall compassion and love for others has been broadened. Again, many many thanks for what you do!

SETH MARCUS, USA

This journey can best be described as a rebirth. You will dissolve and surrender leaving only your true nature exposed and vulnerable yet free to flourish and grasp into the very core of your existence. This immersion is powerful beyond measure and offers a unique experience of entering highly altered states through yoga nidra and plant medicine, which can have a profound impact on every aspect of your life. There is so much wisdom to be found throughout this retreat and the effects will last far into the future. Simone MacKay pours every bit of her heart into this amazing immersion and you feel the commitment and love from the first minute you arrive and in a base of trust you couldn't even imagine. Simone and her team create an atmosphere that allows you to fully commit and flow into the vibe of these ancient practices. If there is one word to describe this immersion it would be ‘authentic’. We recommend for anyone interested in deep self-exploration and connection to our mysterious earth to do this - we promise you will never regret taking the time and courage to do this work for yourself.

Nicolai Borre Christensen & Cathrine Hansen, Denmark

I really wanted to experience in this unique way, the depth of my soul. The experience was pure magic. And pure reality. I felt safe, loved and held the whole way. I felt that I could trust Simone and that anyone she called into her circle could be, in the true sense of the word, a guide. The plant medicines have their own way of working. However, it’s critical to have gatekeepers on this side of it all that with a steady hand and open heart, guide you through the doorway, down and in. Gently. And with care.Would I do this again? 100 times yes. Would it be with Simone? 10000 times yes. Jump! Or walk slowly. Whatever your way, the medicine, and these skilled guides can hold you.

ANDREA GABONI, USA

Simone is f*$!king insanely good at weaving together beauty & truth in to the unconscious of other beings, so they can see it, that it’s inside.

JAMIE, USA

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