SILVER MEDAL WINNER LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS 2026

"A comprehensive-even definitive-guide, both wonderfully practical and deeply profound. It's joining Urlacher's Yin Yoga & Meditation as a textbook in my yoga teacher training!"
-Sage Rountree, PhD, Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses

Guide meaningful, transformative Yoga Nidra with confidence and skill.

This comprehensive, accessible guide takes you deep into the heart of Yoga Nidra and its many dimensions, so you can skillfully and confidently lead meaningful and transformative sessions and enrich your own practice. It gives you a clear framework for understanding both the why and the how behind Yoga Nidra, along with the practical guidance and tools you need to develop and guide profound sessions that are attuned to your students' needs.

Grounded in yoga philosophy and informed by modern neuroscience, this book offers an integrated understanding of the wisdom, structure, and many possibilities of this luminous practice of deep rest and renewal-empowering you to bring your sessions to life and make skillful choices in how you guide.

You'll find step-by-step guidance for leading each stage, adapting scripts, and crafting your own to reflect your authentic voice. Experiential practices invite you to explore, embody, and integrate the teachings. Trauma-informed, inclusive principles equip you to adapt the practice and meet your students where they are. As your relationship with Yoga Nidra grows, you'll discover its invitation to inner awakening, connection with your innate wholeness, and the simple joy of being-and create space for others to do the same.

The Heart of Yoga Nidra is an invaluable resource for yoga teachers, practitioners, wellness professionals, and anyone drawn to sharing Yoga Nidra-inside you'll find:

A clear framework for understanding how Yoga Nidra works-and how to adapt, create, and guide transformative practices.
Step-by-step guidance for every stage of Yoga Nidra, including its purpose, sequencing, and sample language.
The science of deep rest and how Yoga Nidra supports nervous system regulation, builds somatic resilience, and fosters healing.
An exploration of the koshas as a map for the practice, illuminating our multidimensional nature.
Practical guidance for confidently adapting scripts or creating your own stage-by-stage, with tools for weaving themes and imagery, working with sankalpa, and drawing on a library of symbols mapped to the stages.
Trauma-informed and inclusive practices for holding supportive space across the full range of experience-from restlessness and emotional release to integration.
Tools for skillfully and safely tailoring Yoga Nidra for any experience level, intention, duration, or setting.
Intentional language and responsive guidance for navigating real-time teaching.
Reflective inquiries and experiential pauses to explore your inner landscape and bridge philosophy with teaching.
A personal practice pathway to deepen your practice and root your teaching in lived experience.
Yoga Nidra scripts of varying lengths, body scans, breathwork, chakra elements, and class planners for personal practice and teaching.

For practitioners and teachers at all levels, The Heart of Yoga Nidra is an essential yoga teacher training resource and a lifelong companion as you prepare, practice, and teach.

You may also enjoy The Book of Yoga Nidra Meditation Scripts and Yin Yoga & Meditation, complementary guide by bestselling author Sagel Urlacher.