The Ancient Art of Yoga Nidra

with Kira Simone

Friday, October 17 - Sunday, October 19, 2025

18 Hours

Delve into your inner world via the practice of Yoga Nidra! Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep”, but it is a much richer practice than just taking a nap. In this course, we’ll experience and learn how to lead effective guided meditations through the five Koshas, or layers of consciousness. This course is for yoga teachers and anyone who wants to explore the deeply restorative benefits of a guided Nidra practice.

What You’ll Learn:

• The ancient history of Yoga Nidra, how it has evolved, and what modern science has to say 

• Understanding the five Koshas

• A basic scaffold for building unique and effective Nidra Sessions

• Techniques for ensuring a grounding experience for practitioners

• How to use words to invite healing experiences within the imagination

Pricing:

• $425 for just this module

• $4,200 for all modules

About Kira Simone:

After graduating with a BA in theater in 2005, I got my first taste of yoga when I was visiting my very bossy aunt in Hawaii. She made me get up every morning and do a 90 minute Hatha practice with her- it was hard, and I hated it! When I left Hawaii a few weeks later, though, I felt different: stronger, taller, and a lot calmer.

Back home in New York, I discovered Vinyasa at a local studio and realized that yoga could be like a spiritually transformative dance.
Beyond the obvious physical benefits, it changed my life by helping me regulate my emotions and find freedom from outside pressures.

I did my first teacher training in 2010 at Sonic Yoga in NYC and I've been teaching for a living ever since! Additional trainings since then include biomechanics, Reiki, Yoga Nidra, Thai Partner Yoga, etc, but my most valuable education was to take extensive post-graduate classes in psychology and anatomy/physiology, and then to shadow an occupational therapist for 100 hours, which taught me how to safely offer self-care to a spectrum of special populations.

I love guiding a roomful of people through breath, movement, and their imaginations. These days I also love to guide other yoga teachers in honing their craft. Watching both students and teachers alike blossom into new versions of themselves is the most fulfilling work I could imagine!

In my free time, I love to write fiction, canoe in the Adirondacks, and hike with my husband and daughter. If you can't find me, I'm probably hiding out in my Jeep and singing awkward 80s rock ballads.

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