Yoga Nidra: A Somatic Approach to Deep Rest

Yoga Nidra is not an escape from the body, but an intimate journey through it.

Rather than simply relaxing, Yoga Nidra becomes an exploration of embodied consciousness. Guided with precision and care, students enter the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep, where deep restoration, clarity, and inner listening naturally arise.

In this training, you will:

• Learn key somatic movements that prepare the body for Yoga Nidra.
• Discover how releasing the joints, fascia, bones, and connective tissues supports profound rest.
• Learn to guide awareness from the body’s surface toward its deeper layers of perception.
• Develop precise language for softening the skin, peripheral nerves, and sensory system.
• Explore the release of the face, jaw, eyes, inner ears, cranial sutures, and membranes surrounding the brain.
• Learn to guide students into the liminal state between wakefulness and sleep.
• Cultivate the confidence to create and lead complete Yoga Nidra experiences.
   

Who is this for?

This six-session online training is designed for yoga teachers, movement educators, therapists, healthcare professionals, and dedicated practitioners who wish to deepen their own experience of Yoga Nidra while learning to confidently guide others.

What will you get?

• A beautifully designed digital manual
• Guided home practices between sessions
• Opportunity for questions and discussion during each session

Replay

Please note ALL Live Zoom sessions and classes will be recorded should you be unable to attend any live streams. All live session recordings are available to you for 3 months after the last class concludes.

Certification

Certificate of Completion (12 Continuing Education hours, if applicable) and can be applied towards the required hours for the Prajna Yoga 300/500-Hour Program.

Meet the Teacher

A gifted orator, Tias brings metaphor and imagination to his classes. He weaves together poetic language, embodied wisdom and subtle body awareness in all his classes.  

Tias synthesizes years of study in classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist studies, somatic practices and anatomy in his dynamic and original style. He began studying Iyengar Yoga in 1984 and lived in Mysore, India in 1989 studying Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with Pattabhi Jois. His teaching includes precision of alignment, anatomical detail and meditative awareness. He is the founder of SATYA, Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga, a somatic practice that complements yoga. 

Tias is a long time student of the meditative arts and Buddhist studies beginning with Vipassana and continuing in Tibetan Buddhism and Zen. Tias earned a Master’s degree in Eastern Philosophy from St. John’s College in Santa Fe. Tias Little makes his home under the big skies of Santa Fe New Mexico where he co-directs Prajna Yoga with his wife Surya. 

Tias is the author of five books, The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop, Yoga of the Subtle Body, The Practice is the Path (Shambhala Publications), and In the Space Between: The Poetry of Embodiment.