Join iRest® founder Dr. Richard Miller for an eight-week course to reset your nervous system for more vibrant health, heal physical and emotional trauma, and open to your most fulfilling and meaningful life.
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Every session includes guided iRest Yoga Nidra practices. Each practice will take you into deeper levels of relaxation and awareness.
Enjoy two exclusive iRest meditations with Richard to support your practice
Hi, I’m Dr. Richard Miller. I’m a spiritual teacher, author, yogic scholar, clinical psychologist, and the founder of iRest Yoga Nidra—a simple yet profound practice for connecting with your essential nature and innate sense of unbreakable well-being.
No matter what your outer circumstances are . . . what trauma, addiction, or hardship has plagued your past . . .
When you live from this place, you experience life in a different way. Personal empowerment, creativity, and resilience arise naturally, along with your spiritual unfolding.
I’ve created this iRest Yoga Nidra Immersion in partnership with Sounds True to bring you the in-depth teachings from my weekend intensives wherever you are, whenever you need them.
When you sign up, you’ll receive lifetime access to the entire course, along with two exclusive bonus gifts.
Based on ancient yoga traditions and adapted for modern life, iRest is an accessible and effective path of meditation developed over decades of practice, study, and research.
Over the years, I’ve seen iRest help veterans and victims of human trafficking truly overcome their post-traumatic stress (PTS) and reclaim their lives, and I’ve watched it help longtime yogis and meditators access even greater spiritual awakening.
I’ve seen people resolve chronic pain, heal from addiction, get off medication, shed unhealthy patterns, enjoy more clarity and creativity, process grief, and access profound states of oneness.
iRest works. But rather than continue to list all the benefits myself, I’d like to let some of my students do the talking:
“I’ve tried so many kinds of meditations previously that seemed to make me more agitated because of my fight-or-flight symptoms. iRest Yoga Nidra is the only one that seems to help . . . I wish every single therapist, doctor, and healer would take this course.” —J.H., San Francisco, CA
The iRest Yoga Nidra Immersion is based on decades of my own personal practice, study, and teaching, as well as extensive empirical research. I invite you to join me for this life-changing—and often life-saving—meditation program.
With restful awakening,
Richard Miller, PhD
Somatic meditations to shift your energy and rewire your brain for greater well-being.
What is your heartfelt reason for being here? Know your mission and live it every day.
Trauma-sensitive practices to reconnect with the part of you that is whole and unharmed.
Guided practices to enter into deep states of relaxation and sleep throughout the night.
Tap into your body’s innate ability to heal itself—physically and energetically.
New depths of spiritual awakening unfold as you experience true union with all that is.
iRest was developed by Dr. Richard Miller. Richard is a world-renowned spiritual teacher, author, yogic scholar, researcher, and clinical psychologist who has combined traditional yogic practice with Western psychology and neuroscience. He is committed to bringing the healing benefits of iRest to all segments of the population. In addition to founding the iRest Institute (originally named the Integrative Restoration Institute), Richard is also the cofounder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and founding editor of the professional journal of IAYT.
You’ll receive weekly lessons with Richard and his teaching partner, Stephanie. Each lesson includes multiple high-definition videos, information-packed teaching sessions, and full guided practices.
During two Q&A sessions previously recorded during live broadcasts, Richard answers students’ most pressing and personal questions from the course material, as well as provides inspiration and support for your Yoga Nidra journey.
Richard has recorded two exclusive 25-minute audio meditations just for this course: “Being Peace While Navigating Oceans of Change” and “Yoga of Sleep and Dream.”
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All orders are processed on a secure server. If you prefer to order by phone call 1 (800) 333-9185.
If you are not 100% satisfied for any reason, simply return it for a full refund for up to one year.
All orders are processed on a secure server. If you prefer to order by phone call 1 (800) 333-9185.
If you are not 100% satisfied for any reason, simply return it for a full refund for up to one year.
During our eight weeks together, we’ll explore the core principles and practices that lay the foundation for iRest—including the yoga roots from which it emerges and the comprehensive research supporting its effectiveness. You’ll be given everything you need to develop a nourishing practice on the mat, along with an understanding of how to integrate your practice into daily life.
Our first session introduces you to the foundations and history of iRest Yoga Nidra meditation. You’ll explore the yogic origins of this ancient practice, as well as what makes iRest uniquely adapted to modern life. As Richard says, iRest is a collection of “tools for life, the owner’s manual we wish we would’ve received as children.” In this session, you begin learning how iRest can support you in becoming the living potential of yourself—whole, happy, peaceful, and fulfilled.
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What would happen if you treated everything as a messenger? What if you welcomed every thought, feeling, or occurrence, whether joyful or difficult? This is one of the key concepts you’ll explore during Session Two. This session covers core concepts of meditation in general, and iRest Yoga Nidra specifically. You’ll learn powerful techniques that will have an immediate impact on your meditation practice, whether you’re a complete beginner or have been practicing for years.
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In Session Three, you’ll learn how to expand upon the foundational 10-step iRest protocol to meet your unique needs in any given moment, with whatever is happening in your internal and external worlds. We’ll pay particular attention to how your practice can support your everyday life, as well as what might arise as you move through each kosha—the bodies, or subtle layers, that create your sense of identity. You’ll also begin to develop greater intimacy with your physical body—encountering sensation, opening to pleasure, and experiencing the flows of energy that enliven you.
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Session Four explores one of the most unique components of iRest—actually engaging with, rather than simply observing, the thoughts, sensations, and feelings that arise during meditation. To encounter what arises within you from neither disassociation nor enmeshment, but rather from a place of open curiosity and equanimity, is an art that will serve you throughout your life. The practices in this session will help you cultivate an unshakable foundation of resilience.
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What effects does iRest meditation have on your body and brain? In this session, you’ll explore the physical ways iRest changes your brain and nervous system, giving you a glimpse into just how incredibly powerful these practices are. You’ll also gain an understanding of core principles related to change, awareness, and resistance. Finally, you’ll learn to awaken your body’s innate intelligence and your own intuitive wisdom.
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It is now time to allow pure joy to erupt into your practice and your life. At this point, you’ve moved through layers of physical sensations, breath, energy, emotions, thoughts, and consciousness. In Session Six, we turn to your body of joy, well-being, and bliss. This is the anandamaya kosha, the body of innate and essential joy that is your true essence. When you learn to weave this layer of your being into your life, you find that resilience, creativity, and meaning naturally flow forth. This session also explores the ways imagery can direct you back to your essential nature.
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In Session Seven, you’ll dive into the final stages of iRest—awakening to your full potential, your birthright, and your inheritance as a human being. Through each step of iRest meditation, you’ve entered into deeper and more subtle levels of your awareness. Now, after the bliss and joy of the previous step, you encounter the last, most subtle remaining places of separation. As you meet the final areas of your resistance, you naturally open into your wild, vital, and dynamic essential nature, at one with the cosmos from which you came. At this stage, your waking life is forever changed by what you experience during your meditations.
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As this eight-week iRest intensive comes to an end, your personal journey begins. In Session Eight, we explore how the awakening and awareness you experience during your iRest practice helps you effortlessly live as an authentic human being during your everyday life. During this final session, you’ll integrate all you’ve learned so far, explore additional ways to customize your practice, and look at next steps for your Yoga Nidra journey.
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iRest Yoga Nidra is truly for everyone. Richard has spent decades studying the effects of this work with a variety of populations—from longtime Buddhist meditators looking for more expansive awakening, to soldiers seeking help for PTS. This particular online course will be of interest to anyone who wants to improve health, sleep better, heal trauma, and deepen their path to spiritual awakening. Yoga teachers, healers, and spiritual guides who want to work with diverse populations and understand more effective ways to work with trauma will also be served by this course.
iRest brings together a unique combination of traditional Yoga Nidra, neuroscience, and nondual wisdom. A few of the elements that set iRest apart are incorporating the homunculus theory, the brain’s map of our sensory experience; the ancient art of welcoming; connecting with your Inner Resource and innate sense of well-being; and working with opposites somatically, emotionally, and mentally. iRest has undergone extensive empirical studies as well, which has contributed to its evolution and effectiveness.
Absolutely! You can explore the iRest Yoga Nidra Immersion risk-free for an entire year. If this course fails to meet your expectations for any reason, simply contact Sounds True’s customer service for a full refund.
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All orders are processed on a secure server. If you prefer to order by phone call 1 (800) 333-9185.
If you are not 100% satisfied for any reason, simply return it for a full refund for up to one year.
All orders are processed on a secure server. If you prefer to order by phone call 1 (800) 333-9185.
If you are not 100% satisfied for any reason, simply return it for a full refund for up to one year.
The Diamond Approach is offering live, online Inquiry groups to accompany this course at a discounted rate — $100 for eight, 90-minute sessions, where you’ll take turns with other students working one-on-one with an expert teacher. This is completely optional and available after purchasing Presence.
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