Upcoming Sessions

Introduction to iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation: A Trauma-Informed Practice

Yoga Nidra is a form of guided mindfulness meditation that offers many tools for navigating our internal emotional landscape amidst these challenging times and throughout our lives. It is a systematic process for leading the body and mind into receptive states of relaxation and deep presence.  Through this process we are able to access inner healing and the pure awareness of being.  Yoga Nidra is a powerful tool to help reduce stress, overcome insomnia, solve problems, resolve trauma, and neutralize anxiety, fear, anger and depression.  It is a process we can use to integrate emotions and thoughts, befriend ourselves, and enter into a deeper connection with all that is.

In this online series we use the Integrative Restoration (iRest®) approach to Yoga Nidra.  Each class includes brief discussion, mindful chair yoga, short “micropractices", and a guided Yoga Nidra session (seated in a chair or lying down). Participants receive handouts and guided recordings to support home practice. The recorded practices are available through Dropbox.  Please join us!

Prior to the beginning of the series, there will be an individually scheduled Zoom meeting (15 min) to better tailor the class to the needs of the group. 

Corinne Peterson has been teaching yoga since 1994. She received her first yoga instructor certification through the Temple of Kriya Yoga (1995) and a subsequent certification as a teacher and yoga therapist through the American Viniyoga Institute (2006). Corinne has a gentle teaching style influenced by 20 years of study in the traditions of Viniyoga, Kriya and Iyengar yoga. She is certified in iRest® Yoga Nidra through Richard Miller, PhD and the Integrative Restoration Institute. Corinne also received training in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga through the Trauma Center at the Justice Research Institute founded by Bessel van der Kolk. She holds a masters degree in public health in the area of health education and promotion, and has been a nationally certified massage therapist since 1997.