9/5/2023 0 Comments Try irest nowA sense of incredible joy arose-a sense of well-being. All sense of conflict internally fell away. In that moment, my thoughts and my emotions-it felt like they all harmonized. And then, basically, took us into sensing the awareness-the field of awareness in which all these thoughts were arising. RM: I was lying on the floor and she took us through a form of sensing our body, being with our different feelings and emotions and thoughts, and playing a little bit with opposites of emotions and thoughts. You’re in a yoga class for people who are brand new to this term “Yoga Nidra.” What did you experience in that yoga class? What happened? So, it’s been a lifelong-I would say-love affair. But, we’ve got the essential program in place and the research that’s been done on it. That’s where it is today, from 1970 until today-where we’re still tuning it. Then in 2004, when the military approached me to actually do research on my protocol, it really was a time to pull all the aspects that I had put together into a manual and to a book, and really bring it all together so I could have a manualized practice where I could train teachers out of a certification program. So, I began to really adapt the practices in a more secular form of inquiry-using the traditional steps of Yoga Nidra, but really using them as portals that my students could begin to use to inquire into their own sense of self and healing that they needed to come to-whether it was psychological, physical, spiritual, or had the whole aspect of awakening to our essential nature. In the ‘70s, as I started to learn it and began to teach it-working with my students seeing that there were a lot of cultural aspects to the practice from the East that weren’t really suitable for the Western archetype that we carry in our psyche. I saw it as a very comprehensive, in-depth form of meditation-that I could see all the different principles and all the different contemplative traditions within this one approach. So began a decades-long inquiry through my own practice, working with teachers, reading deeply into the literature, looking into this practice that’s called Yoga Nidra. This spontaneous intention-vow, however you might want to frame it-rose in me as I came home that evening to really begin to explore what just happened to me and what this process that I was just put through. It had such a profound transformative effect on my life in that one instant. At the end of the class, the teacher took us through a rudimentary Yoga Nidra. In 1970, I was introduced to a rudimentary form of the practice in the first ever yoga class that I ever took. To begin with, Richard, I’m wondering if you can share with our listeners how you first developed iRest Meditation. Here’s my conversation with Richard Miller: We also explored some of the core principles of iRest Meditation, including learning to welcome all experience and understanding what Richard calls “the law of awareness.” Finally, Richard took us through an iRest meditative practice in which we discovered an inner somatic resource and learned to simultaneously welcome opposite feelings-and the impact doing so has on our state of being. Today, Richard and I spoke about iRest Meditation for working with military personnel to heal trauma and PTSD. With Sounds True, Richard has published several titles, including a new audio training series called iRest Meditation and a classic book-and-CD package called Yoga Nidra. Recognized as a leading authority on the practice of Yoga Nidra, he has founded and cofounded several key organizations including the International Association of Yoga Therapy, the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and the Integrative Restoration Institute. Richard is a master of yoga and meditation who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. Tami Simon: You’re listening to Insights at the Edge.
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