![]() For example, while traditional Yoga Nidra does includes the use of a Sankalpa, a powerful vow or resolve, in iRest, Sankalpa is explored as three distinct steps – the Heartfelt Desire, reflecting our heart’s longing and what we deeply wish for our lives – how does life live through you? The Intention for the practice today, and also, uniquely, we cultivate an Inner Resource – a safe haven within your body where you experience a feeling of security, calm and well-being. There are significant further differences between iRest and traditional Yoga Nidra too. iRest helps you investigate all that you take yourself to be – body, senses and mind, and then invites you to experience yourself, knowingly as a nondual, unchanging, and wakeful Presence in the midst of the changing circumstances of life. IRest instead offers tools to help you inquire into your current, unique experience of feeling and sensing, and to welcome whatever is arising and is present. Many traditional forms of Yoga Nidra offer a guided meditation where you are told what to feel, sense, visualise and so on. These days the iRest organisation prefer to describe iRest as a path of meditation as well as a Yoga Nidra practice. What makes iRest different from other styles of Yoga Nidra? It is practiced and taught by thousands of people worldwide in a wide range of settings, including health centres, schools, community centres, yoga studios, correctional facilities and military hospitals. IRest was developed by Dr Richard Miller, a spiritual teacher, author, yogic scholar, researcher and clinical psychologist, who combined traditional yogic practice with Western psychology and neuroscience. When practiced regularly – a little and often – iRest enables you to meet each moment of your life with unshakable peace and wellbeing, no matter how challenging or difficult your situation. IRest is a meditation practice based on the ancient tradition of Yoga Nidra and adapted to suit the conditions of modern life. You can read more about iRest on the Yoga Lunchbox here.īut perhaps the iRest website () describes it in the best way: For so long it was her deep heart’s desire to bring this transformational practice to Australia, and to New Zealand and recently also to Japan, Hong Kong and further afield in Asia. It has been phenomenal to witness Fuyuko’s journey with the iRest path of meditation over these ten years. Now we are like brother and sister on the Yoga path! Over the three weeks, we developed a beautiful appreciation for each others’ teachings, and a delightful friendship which has only deepened through the years. We were both assisting our teacher Donna Farhi on a long 21-day training and I was immediately drawn to Fuyuko for her warmth, her humility and humour and her deep, compassionate wisdom. ![]() Ten years ago I had the great pleasure to meet Fuyuko Toyota. Fuyuko Toyota, certified iRest ® Yoga Nidra Senior Trainer, Retreat Leader and Supervisor and Mentor. ![]()
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