Yoga Nidra is a rejuvenating, restful practice for inducing mental, emotional & physical relaxation, with the power to expose our innate reservoirs of creativity, clarity, and self understanding. Meaning “sleep of the yogi” in Sanskrit, yoga nidra guides students through awareness of sensations, emotions, and beliefs using a systematic method developed thousands of years ago. This meditative class is conducted with students lying down or sitting comfortably and requires no previous yoga experience. Want to know more? look here.

to make my life a little easier i am now maintaining the yoga nidra class schedule on the contemplate this event calendar. the calendar is shown on the top left of every page on the ct site which contains info on contemplative practices. Hope to see you at a class soon.
sue

I discovered hatha yoga in 1999 as a Software Engineer with an aching back. Since leaving the 9 to 5 world in 2003 I have continued to practice and teach yoga while perfecting the art of doing less. While I am trained to teach hatha yoga (Willow Street Yoga’s 400 hour Anusara Teacher Training) my passion for teaching has been ignited by Yoga Nidra - a fabulously rich and powerful meditation technique in which I have found a home. I study with a teacher that I am happy to have stumbled across many years ago in Berkeley California during my coding days. Richard Miller was teaching a weekend workshop that I mistakenly signed up for thinking it was a yoga workshop. I struggled through the seated meditation portion of the weekend but was blown away but the Yoga Nidra chunk. That was in 2001. As luck would have it Richard taught his first ever Yoga Nidra Teacher Training in Maryland in 2006 and I enrolled without hesitation. It was a completely amazing experience and one that left me with no doubt that this was something I’d like to continue practicing and teaching for many years. Richard’s research into the benefits of yoga nidra in populations suffering from post traumatic stress disorder has been quite successful and is being expanded - read about it here.

Wondering whether you might benefit from yoga nidra? Pretty much anyone can benefit since the tools apply to any situation in life and show us how we can be more at ease, content, and focused in daily living. The tools yoga nidra teaches are especially valuable if you find yourself stressed, anxious, having trouble sleeping, wanting clarity, seeking peace, interested in a mindfulness practice, healing from an injury or disease, or simply wanting a happier life.

If you’d like more information on Yoga Nidra or would like to schedule a workshop, small group class, or private session please don’t hesitate to contact Sue either by phone (443 722 0189) or by email - you’ll have to construct an address using yoganidra [at] sueborchardt [dot] com since placing a link here will have me swimming in spam. Sue Borchardt offers Yoga Nidra and Hatha Yoga classes in Baltimore, MD but is also happy to travel outside the area to teach.