Yoga Nidra Teacher Training

Foundational Training:

  • January 22-25th, 2025

Yoga Nidra and Chakras Trainings:

  • March 5-6th, 2025 Muladhara Chakra

  • April 16-17 Svadhistana Chakra

  • May 14-15 Manipura Chakra

  • June 11-12 Anahata Chakra


All trainings are held at ISHTA Yoga in New York City and Live Streamed Online!

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A Deep Dive into the Transformative Practice of Yoga Nidra

Mona’s yoga nidra trainings are way more than learning how to teach yoga nidra. They are a transformational experience where you release layers of inner tension and come out feeling lighter, with more wisdom and insight. This training is your opportunity to go beyond the surface and study directly with a master teacher whose work has reshaped how Yoga Nidra is taught and practiced.

This in-depth course is designed for yoga teachers, dedicated students, and wellness professionals who want to expand their understanding of Yoga Nidra and experience its full potential for healing and transformation. Yoga Nidra is a multi-layered practice that can be used to release subconscious and unconscious tensions, manage stress, anxiety, and insomnia, and access expanded states of awareness.

"I’m so grateful to have taken Mona’s Yoga Nidra training at ISHTA. It deepened my personal practice and gave me the tools to bring yoga nidra into my teaching. Mona provided clear insights into each step of the practice, along with the science behind it, and offered various sequencing options for different needs. We explored therapeutic applications like PTSD, chronic pain, and sleep issues, and had plenty of chances to practice and experience the work firsthand. Mona’s knowledge, creativity, and joyful presence made the training truly inspiring. Thank you, Mona."

Dionyssia Fillios

What You’ll Learn in This Training:

  • The Science of Yoga Nidra

    Explore the latest research on how Yoga Nidra impacts the brain, nervous system, and overall well-being, supporting everything from stress reduction to emotional regulation and better sleep.

  • How to Structure a Yoga Nidra Practice

    Through direct experience, discussion, and practice teaching, you’ll learn how to skillfully guide others through these steps that have been perfected over years of practice and teaching.

  • Our 9-Step Yoga Nidra System

    Take a deep dive into the signature nine-step Yoga Nidra system developed by Mona Anand and Alan Finger, designed to guide students through the layers of consciousness for deep rest and transformation.

  • Integrating Yoga Nidra into Your Classes

    Discover how to weave Yoga Nidra into your asana and Restorative yoga classes, enhancing both the physical and meditative aspects of the practice.

  • Designing Custom Yoga Nidra Practices

    Learn to tailor Yoga Nidra for specific needs, including stress management, emotional well-being, depression, anxiety, and insomnia.

  • Yoga Nidra for Pain Management

    Understand the therapeutic applications of Yoga Nidra and how it can be a powerful tool for deep rest and recovery.

Developing “Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra

Together with ISHTA Founder, Alan Finger, I developed a nine-step system of yoga nidra called Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra, which we have integrated into the ISHTA 500-Hour Training. I have also created specialized yoga nidra courses, including a 30-hour Foundations Yoga Nidra course, a Yoga Nidra and the Chakras course, and a Yoga Nidra and Ayurveda course. These trainings were initially designed to teach teachers how to guide yoga nidra, but the profound shifts I’ve witnessed in participants have been incredible. As they dive deeper into each of the nine steps, they are able to release past experiences that have colored the lens through which they see life, let go of layers of tension—some conscious, many unconscious—and access an expanded state of awareness. Participants gain clarity about their inner purpose at this stage of life, reconnect with the joy that resides within them, and experience a lightness of being often obscured by the stresses of daily life. The transformation occurs on all levels, leaving them more grounded, clear, and fully aligned.

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Specialty Yoga Nidra Trainings

  • Modeled on Mona Anand’s signature Restorative / Yoga Nidra Chakra Balancing Series, this training will teach students how to recognize chakra imbalances and develop Yoga Nidra practices to find balance.


    The training will delve deeply into the issues associated with each chakra and how to use all of the tools of yoga including asana, restorative poses, pranayama, mantra, visualization and yoga nidra to find balance. Each day will focus on a specific chakra and will include:

    • A practice taught by Mona with asana, restorative postures and all nine steps of yoga nidra designed for a specific chakra

    •  Opportunity to design and practice teaching yoga nidra and receive feedback on sequences

    • Develop short, mid length and long Yoga Nidra practices for a specific chakra

    • Lecture and discussion group on how to recognize imbalances in a specific chakra

    • Discussion on how to sequence asana and restorative postures for specific chakra imbalances

    • How to integrate pranayama, mantra and visualization for specific chakra imbalances

    Prerequisites
    Students must have completed Mona’s Yoga Nidra Teacher Training or Mona’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra Workshop. 

    *No further discounts are available. All specialty training program tuition is non-transferable and non-refundable. Minimum 8 people required to run this training.

  • Modeled on Mona Anand’s signature Restorative / Yoga Nidra Chakra Balancing Series, this training will teach students how to recognize chakra imbalances and develop yoga nidra practices to find balance.

    • Muladhara. “Mula” means root. The Muladhara Chakra is where our primordial instincts reside and it is the energy center that roots us into this plane of consciousness.

    • Svadhisthana. Sva means the place of self. It is where our past experiences and memories that lie in our unconscious are stored.

    • Manipura. The practice will focus on balancing the Manipura Chakra which is our power center and where our ego resides. This chakra governs our energy level, will power and our sense of self.

    • Anahata. Anahata (heart) Chakra is the energy center that governs relationship in our lives. When balanced our lives are balanced and we are both compassionate and self-loving.

    The training will delve deeply into the issues associated with each chakra and how to use all of the tools of yoga including asana, restorative poses, pranayama, mantra, visualization and yoga nidra to find balance. Each day will start with a two-hour practice, followed by a discussion on the practice and lectures on being able to recognize imbalances on that specific chakra.

    Each day will focus on a specific chakra (Muladhara, Svadhisthana, Manipura and Anahata) and will include:

    • A practice taught by Mona with asana, restorative postures and all nine steps of yoga nidra designed for a specific chakra

    • Opportunity to design and practice teaching yoga nidra and receive feedback on sequences

    • Develop short, mid-length and long yoga nidra practices for a specific chakra

    • Lecture and discussion group on how to recognize imbalances in a specific chakra

    • Discussion on how to sequence asana and restorative postures for specific chakra imbalances

    • How to integrate pranayama, mantra and visualization for specific chakra imbalances 

  • In this Mini- Training / Immersion, learn how to adapt the nine steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra for Pitta / Vata / and Kapha conditions. In Ayurveda, physical and mental diseases are believed to be caused by imbalances in the five elements that make up who we are: earth, water, fire and space.

    • The training will focus on how to use each of the steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra for specific dosha imbalances.

    • The training will also include a discussion on how to develop short, mid-length, and long Yoga Nidra Practices for different imbalances.

    • Trainees will get the opportunity to design and practice teaching different length Yoga Nidras.

    • Trainees will learn how to use pranayama, asana, and visualizations for different dosha imbalances.

    • This training is designed for students, teachers, health care workers, and anyone interested in Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga and the science of wellness.

    • Learn how to recognize your own imbalances and use the tools of asana, restorative, visualization, pranayama, and yoga nidra to find balance.

  • This training is one part in a three part series. In this Mini- Training / Immersion, learn how to adapt the nine steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra for a Pitta condition. In Ayurveda, physical and mental diseases are believed to be caused by imbalances in the five elements that make up who we are: earth, water, fire and space.

    • This training will focus on how to use each of the steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra for a Pitta Condition

    • Training will include a discussion on how to develop short, mid-length, and long Yoga Nidra Practices for a Pitta Condition

    • Trainees will get the opportunity to design and practice teaching different length Yoga Nidras.

    • Trainees will learn how to use pranayama, asana, and visualizations for a Pitta Condition

    This training is designed for students, teachers, health care workers, and anyone interested in Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga and the science of wellness. Learn how to recognize your own imbalances and use the tools of asana, restorative, visualization, pranayama, and yoga nidra to find balance.

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  • Tisha Ford

    ISHTA Yoga Teacher, RYT-500

    "When the yoga nidra training was announced, I couldn't sign up quickly enough. After having completed the 300hr ISHTA training with Mona as my mentor and having a taste of "Mona Anand's ISHTA Yoga Nidra" technique as part of that training, I was eager to spend more time with both. The transmission of this work from Mona to her students is nothing short of magical. Her tremendous knowledge and insights of yoga coupled with her well-known humor is a potent combination. However, when the transmission is yoga nidra there is something almost other- wordly that occurs. Her passion for this work is in every word she speaks, whether one is being guided through a yoga nidra by her or is in the midst of learning this powerful technique from her. The class content was interesting and thorough and Mona creates a warm and engaging environment that allows for an even more satisfying learning experience."

  • Robin Benitz

    Yoga Student

    "As a student, I regularly attend Mona’s classes and workshops and have benefitted from Mona’s Yoga Nidra Trainings enormously. It is a simple and profound tool to help my nervous system, body and mind relax deeply. I use yoga nidra to re-charge, to relax before sleep and after I wake up if I have had a restless sleep. Yoga nidra has helped me with my regular yoga practice, with connecting to meditation and is one of the reasons I can live in an intense city like NYC with grace. For those wanting to deepen their practice, as a sweet alternative to meditation, and for an effective, simple relaxation tool, this is it. The trainings are essentially a retreat for 3 days with life changing benefit."

  • Sarah Finger

    Yogiraj, Managing Director ISHTA Yoga

    "I highly recommend Mona Anand's ISHTA Yoga Nidra training to anyone who wants to learn more about this powerful practice. Mona's knowledge of the science, energetics, and healing qualities of Yoga Nidra is incomparable to anyone else's in the field. Her love & passion for yoga is only surpassed by her generosity of spirit. Learning from Mona is an absolute delight."

  • Michael Ryan

    Massage Therapist

    "Words cannot express the gratitude I have for your training this week. You encompass such great wisdom, and you are a true yogi. You opened my eyes to the magical wonders of Nidra."

  • Shailly Agnihotri

    ISHTA Yoga Teacher, RYT-500

    "Thank you. The scope of the series is so comprehensive, expansive and seamless and the depth of knowledge and wisdom informing the artful teaching so integrated that I am in awe. I thank you.  Even the 3 hour class yesterday with the expanded yoga nidra after the asana flow (with restorative!) was a master class in the art of teaching various modules from such a depth of understanding that their connection itself was manifest. In gratitude. "

  • Mark Waterman

    Massage Therapist, Marama Trainer, Yoga Teacher

    "What a great training! Packed with well rounded information about Yoga Nidra. Fun, inspiring, and easy to incorporate into my teaching and my own practice. And FUN, did I mention fun?! Mona is a fantastic teacher."

  • Jenny Bloom

    ISHTA Yoga Teacher, RYT-500

    "The Yoga Nidra Teacher Training is the most valuable speciality teacher training I have taken. As a yoga teacher, the tools offered by Mona Anand in this training have been very important in many parts of how I structure my classes, from how I bring my students into a state of focus and good feeling, to the final relaxation. My Yoga Nidra practice has transformed my life, I am able to calm down and sleep better, as well as be more present in daily life. I am so grateful that this training is offered."