Replenish Body, Nourish Soul: Sunday Morning Bliss
When was the last time you gave yourself a moment to practice "being"? Being fully absorbed in the present moment while relaxing the body and senses?
This session is designed to help you release tension, calm the mind and reconnect with yourself, while exploring a specific theme to enrich your yoga practice and your daily life
Yoga Nidra - The conscious Sleep Courses of the Yogi
16th November 2025 – From 9:00 to 13:00 at Yoga 7
Today, many yoga practitioners speak of Yoga Nidra as a simple relaxation exercise in Shavasana. Yet for the Himalayan masters, Yoga Nidra is a vast discipline. It’s much more than a technique, it’s an experience.
In this workshop, we’ll delve into the mythological background to yoga nidra, the sacred texts, the definition of yoga nidra. Above all, we’ll practice some of the preparatory exercises that lead to Yoga Nidra.
What to expect?
Move, breathe, relax and meditate.
And leave the class feeling good
and uplifted 🌸
Yoga Nidra for Conscious Sleep and Relaxation
Yoga nidra is often mentioned as a tool to improve sleep quantity and quality, reduce stress, and calm the nervous system. Although true, this is a reductionist way of looking at yoga nidra.
Yoga nidra is one of the branches of yoga philosophy that has been used by sages for millennia as a way to relax and recharge. And it has been used by yogis/yoginis as a way to heal, train, and transform the mind, expand awareness, and spiritually awakening.
The definition of yoga nidra (conscious sleep) used in our tradition is the experience of producing delta brain waves, and is at the same time being fully conscious of the surrounding events. We also consider that a lower state of yoga nidra begins with theta brain waves for intuitive creativity.
In the Himalayan Yoga Tradition, we start by learning to relax the physical body (annamaya kosha), then we systematically increase our awareness and relax other layers of our being—energy, mental, and intelligence bodies (pranamaya kosha, manomaya kosha, vijanamaya kosha)—until we reach anandamaya kosha, the bliss body. For masters, this process can take 1 minute; for some very few lucky ones, only 30 minutes. Those who practice relaxation regularly might achieve it in 60 minutes. For the majority of people, it takes more preparation to master this process. It is a blissful practice to progressively let go of the different layers of ego. The good news is that everyone (beginner or advanced practitioner) can benefit from this practice.
Join Our Yoga Nidra Classes and workshop training
Contact us to know when our deep relaxation classes take place.
To dive deeper: There is a training workshop this November 16 at Yoga7 (1205 Geneva) – Register here.
Corporate: We can also bring the class to your meeting room. This will foster a tranquil atmosphere throughout your Geneva workplace meeting.
TALK TO ME
Learn Yoga Nidra as taught in the Himalayan Yoga Tradition (AHYMSIN)
My journey into the world of yoga nidra started in 2010, when I was guided by a teacher from the Satyananda tradition. I remember being so impressed by the outcome of the workshop that I bought a CD with the guided practice. Sometime later, I got to experience the practices of irest yoga nidra of Richard Miller.
However, it was the teachings from Swami Rama and Swami Veda Bharati that inspired me the most. Swami Veda was a master of yoga nidra. He began using it spontaneously when he was 12 years old – read his personal account here. And then practiced yoga nidra in his 20s to learn English and teach in the UK. Much later in his life, due to his heart condition, we would see him stop a lecture, say, “Just give me a minute,” and dive into yoga nidra in support of his heart.
Swami Veda told us numerous times that he had used this state to learn English, Spanish, and Italian so that he could guide meditations in these languages. He also used state 2 of yoga nidra for creative work, writing poetry, creating a constitution, or solving a problem. State 3 of yoga nidra, as he detailed, was to enable rest, increase self-awareness, and enable spiritual awakening. While living in his Ashram, I had the opportunity to intensively practice his teachings. There is no doubt that yoga nidra can improve our concentration and help us, as yoga and meditation practitioners, to explore other states of consciousness.
These classes are beneficial for beginners as well as advanced students. While the beginning student will relax and recharge, the advanced student aims at staying awake, aware of the stage 3 of yoga nidra.
Personalized Yoga Nidra Sessions Near You
If you wish to be privately guided, just send me a message. I guide one-to-one sessions online and Monday afternoons in Eaux-Vives Geneva.
Benefits of Practicing Yoga Nidra Regularly
Yoga Nidra Benefits
Practicing regularly transforms your whole being. The physical body relaxes and the pranic body recharges, the mind is calmer, focused and learns to discriminate to to concentrate.
Recommended readings
Start Your Yoga Nidra Journey - a step by step
- Join regular yoga classes to learn to relax your body as you move and become comfortable with the process of relaxation.
- Book a free call (15 min) for personal guidance and start practicing regularly.
- Join the next yoga nidra workshop in Geneva
- Join our community and receive regular updates from us.
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR
Maria Miguel Ribeiro PhD
Hatha Yoga and Meditation
My search for peace and silence started in 2010. I longed for peace and liberation from the oppression of my own mind. The journey lead me to meet to study with great masters.
The timeless wisdom shared by these masters and their lineage of teachers inspired and transform my own life. From an academic researcher working on sustainability to become an avid practitioner of yoga and meditation.
Today i am passionate about sharing these teachings. I inspire seekers to discover the bliss of a quiet mind and the pure inner joy that results from this work.
