Slow Down and Rediscover Your True Nature: A Hybrid iRest® Immersion with Fuyuko Sawamura-Toyota
Special Event: Reconnect with your natural, harmonious state of wellbeing
Friday 20 May to Sunday 22 May 2022
In-person (Baulkham Hills, NSW) or Livestream Online
The Yoga Institute is a proud affiliate of this nourishing immersive workshop, hosted by graduate of our Yoga Therapy Training and member of our mentoring faculty, Catherine Sherlock, and facilitated by Director of the iRest Institute Australasia, Fuyuko Saramura-Toyota.
It’s easy to get caught up in the busyness and stress of the world.
If you’re experiencing overwhelm, anxiety or exhaustion, know that these are important messengers. Perhaps they’re letting you know that the pace is too fast and the doing too intense. Perhaps they’re asking you to slow down and take time to reconnect to a sense of self, a wholeness and peacefulness, that lies deep within you.
Slow Down and Reconnect During This iRest Yoga Nidra Immersion
During this iRest Yoga Nidra Immersion you’ll be guided to rekindle and nourish this connection through the entry points of your body, breath, and mind.
Through gentle and compassionate self-inquiry you’ll learn how to befriend yourself, and in doing so, find an ease with life as it is and a felt-sense of harmony return.
No prior knowledge or experience is necessary. Come enjoy a restful, playful program for enhancing self-care, self-love, and the return of effortless wellbeing, joy, and delight!
What is iRest Yoga Nidra?
iRest Yoga Nidra is a research-based meditation, relaxation and healing protocol. It offers a portal for awakening to your essential nature, deeply calming your nervous system and integrating difficult thoughts and emotions. A beneficial personal practice, iRest meditation is also a brilliant adjunct for healthcare and healing professionals.
Research shows iRest effectively reduces stress, insomnia, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, and enhances joy, equanimity and well-being in daily life.
Through experiential practice and dynamic dialogue, you can:
- Explore the 10-Step iRest Protocol to enhance your meditation practice
- Foster wellbeing and cultivate resilience against burnout, stress, and anxiety
- Learn a few effective tools for skillfully meeting difficult emotions and beliefs in daily life
- Learn how to slow down and reconnect with yourself
- Develop and access an inner resource of wellbeing, ease, security, and peace
- Experience BodySensing in movement meditation for deep peace
- Practice BreathSensing for increased energy and deep relaxation
- Awaken to your essential wholeness
What To Expect On This Weekend
This is a 2-3 day, non-residential event to learn the practices of iRest in an highly experiential environment. At Immersions you’ll be guided first-hand by seasoned staff who will help you understand the basics and develop a personal practice.
A deep dive into the iRest teachings
This weekend immersion will consist of:
- Teachings and discussion.
- iRest group practice.
- One to one iRest practice with a partner.
- The only physical yoga movements included in the weekend are very gentle body sensing exercises.
- You will remain in control of your experience. If you are not comfortable with any of the practices, they can be modified.
Experience the 10-Step iRest Protocol
The very rich philosophy that underpins the iRest protocol, based on ancient yogic texts and the wisdom of modern psychology and neuroscience has been distilled into the 10 steps of iRest. They elicit brain wave states that evoke a profound depth of relaxation and rejuvenation.
It could be said that these 10 steps are Universal truths that lead you to peace, happiness and wholeness – to return you to your innate state of simply being – to get acquainted and familiar with that part of you that remains unbroken and is always whole and complete. It is spiritual exploration, without any trace of religion.
Details
Dates & Times:
Friday 20th May: 5:00pm – 5:45pm Registration, and 6:00pm – 8:00pm Evening programme
Saturday 21st May: 9:00am – 6:00pm All day programme with 90-minute lunch
Sunday 22nd May: 9:00am – 6:00pm All day programme with 90-minute lunch
Location:
In-person: St Josephs Baulkham Hills
33 Barina Downs Road, Baulkham Hills
(The Immersion venue is 900m walk from Norwest Metro station)
OR
Livestream Online: via Zoom
Cost: $450
Accomodation Options
Adina Apartment Hotel Norwest Sydney
More Information:
Contact your host, Catherine Sherlock at Yoga From The Inside:
E: info@yogafromtheinside.com.au
M: 0420 439 139
