Elemental Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
with Emma LandoltYoga Nidra is an ancient practice originating from the Tantric traditions — a profound yet easily accessible pathway into deep rest, healing, and expanded awareness. Often described as the yoga of conscious sleep, it invites practitioners into the liminal space between waking and dreaming, where the body can soften completely while awareness remains gently awake.
Overview
Earth, water, fire, air – the alchemy of rest
This training is a slow, considered immersion into the practice of Yoga Nidra, explored through the wisdom and alchemy of the four elements. Earth, water, fire and air are invoked as both inner forces and external energies with a framework that meets both the science of rest and the mystery of it.
Across two days you'll learn the foundations of Yoga Nidra including its history, methods and proven benefits, alongside the practical skills to design and guide your own Nidra sessions. You'll move through the traditional Yoga Nidra journey Emma has learned from Uma Dinsmore–Tuli – prayer, settling, breath, grounding, cycles, geometric doorways, chakra awareness, sankalpa and its opposites, spaciousness, return.
By the end of the course, qualified yoga teachers will be equipped to begin teaching Nidra with confidence; committed practitioners will leave with a richer personal practice. Everyone leaves with a grounded yet expansive framework for using the elements in practice design and at least one fully formed Nidra of their own, ready to take into their teaching.
The training stands alone as a complete two–day immersion and can also be taken as Part 2 of the Elemental Mandala Vinyasa course, to support a natural deepening from movement into stillness. Take this as a YACEP–registered CPD or count it toward your 300–hour Yoga Teacher Training.
"Yoga Nidra is the sacred yoga of awakened sleep, a guided meditation for true transformation & deep delicious relaxation.”
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- £150 deposit reserves your place. Save your bank details at checkout and the balance is taken automatically 21 days before the course starts.
- Hours count towards 300–hour certification or CPD hours.
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After this training you will be...
A grounded Nidra teacher who is confident to guide others into deep rest.
Fluent in the architecture of a Yoga Nidra including breath, grounding and sankalpa.
Familiar with the elemental framework – the qualities of earth, water, fire and air, and how each one opens a different doorway into rest
A Yoga Alliance–accredited teacher ready to offer this practice with warmth, intention and care.
What Our Students Say
What our students say
"A meaningful and inspiring experience. I loved how each element brought a different energy to the practice, and Emma created a space that was both supportive and empowering. I left feeling confident, creatively recharged, and excited to teach."
Course Graduate"Full of such creativity, poetry and incredible heart."
Elemental Mandala Student"Holistic, precise, and just outright wonderful. Emma is an incredibly warm, present, attentive and skilful space holder."
Elemental Mandala Student"A beautiful course and experience as a whole. Emma was so giving, knowledgeable and generous. It was quite a thought–provoking and immersive experience – I was thinking and dreaming in elements after the course."
Ava, Elemental Mandala Student"Be ready for transformation, growth and magic – being safely held while meeting and experiencing all your elements. Emma is an authentic and generous person who guides from places she has been to."
Elemental Mandala Student"A spark which was starting to dwindle a bit has relit in the most magnificent way."
Elemental Mandala Student"Emma graciously shared such a broad spectrum of knowledge, experience and passion that sparked a million ideas in me."
Elemental Mandala Student"I entered this course to find new inspiration for my own teaching and Emma certainly delivered. Her knowledge, passion and way of teaching – as well as a manual filled with inspiration and guidelines – have given me lots of insights and ideas. Not to mention the magical practices she takes you through."
Elemental Mandala Student"Emma structured the course so well, making sure to include as much as she could for us. Her love and dedication to her practice is inspiring."
Elemental Mandala Student"Emma's beautiful authentic soul shone through and it was a pleasure to be guided by her. The Mandala teaching was strong and it was a bonus to have the Yoga Nidra experience too. A wonderful three days of pure bliss in a yoga bubble."
Ruth, Elemental Mandala Student"Emma is an exceptional teacher – highly experienced, extremely knowledgeable across a broad range of subjects, wise, warm and so generous with her tips and recommendations."
Elemental Mandala StudentYour Teacher
Your teacher Emma Landolt
There is a particular quality to Emma’s teaching with meditative movement sequences that travel a full 360 degrees around the mat, and a quiet contemplative quality that invites students to explore their inner landscape. Emma’s practice is dynamic and devotional in equal measure, weaving Vinyasa, Yin and Yoga Nidra into a unique, fluid offering. Earth, water, fire and air run through everything she teaches – not as metaphor, but as living elemental forces awakened in the temple of the body.
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- The traditional Yoga Nidra journey – prayer, settling, breath, grounding, cycles, geometric doorways, chakra awareness, sankalpa and its opposites, spaciousness, return
- Designing a Nidra session – opening a safe container, sustaining presence, closing well
- The elemental framework – earth, water, fire and air as practical tools for sequencing rest
- Sankalpa work – heart's wishes and their opposites, ethical use of intention
- Holding space for what arises in deep rest – emotion, memory, imagery
- A brief introduction to neuro science and brain waves and sleep cycles.
- The physiology of Yoga Nidra – the nervous system, the relaxation response, the sleep–adjacent states
- Why Nidra is effective – the science of deep rest and its measurable benefits
- Contraindications and adaptations – meeting students with anxiety, trauma history, sleep difficulty
- The elemental system – earth, water, fire, air – as both inner forces and external energies
- How each element shapes the body, breath, imagination and inner landscape of a Nidra
- Day 1 – Earth & Water: grounding, fluidity, the unconscious, emotional release
- Day 2 – Fire & Air: transformation, intention, breath, spaciousness, return
- The science of the elements alongside the mythology – a grounded yet expansive framework
- Nidra as a contemplative practice – non–striving, non–doing, the wisdom of rest
- The lineage – Yoga Nidra as taught through Uma Dinsmore–Tuli
- Sankalpa ethics – working skillfully with the heart's deepest wishes
- Holding space with integrity – what it means to guide someone into deep rest
- The relationship between Yoga Nidra and seated meditation
- Sankalpa – A seed sown, a prayer placed in the quantum field of infinite possibility. the heart's deepest wish stated as an already accomplished truth or fact. Manifestation magic
- Geometric doorways and chakra awareness as meditative anchors
- Opposites
- Bringing the qualities of Nidra into the way you teach generally
- Voicing a Nidra – language, pacing, tone, the use of silence
- Pacing the journey – how slow to go, when to pause, when to return
- Writing your own scripts – structure, freedom, and the line between
- Working with a mixed–experience room
- Small–group teaching practice across the two days – leading your own Yoga Nidra in a supported setting
- A short post–course assignment – a written Nidra script or voice recording
- Reflective practice – your evolving voice as a Nidra teacher
- Write a Yoga Nidra Script, voice record it and send it by the end of the week July 12 to receive feedback & certificate on July 13th
- Guided practice – receiving Nidras across the weekend, as both student and teacher–in–training
- Group and partner practical exercises with constructive feedback
- Lectures, discussion and reflective work
- Course manual
- Personal practice – sustained, between sessions, and beyond
- There will be two prerecorded yoga nidras to listen to 1 week before the course start
- Reading suggestions:
- Yoga Nidra Made Easy - Uma Dinsmore-Tuli & Nirlipta Tuli
- Nidra Shakti: The power of Rest - Uma Dinsmore Tuli
- Rest is Resistance - Tricia Hersey
- Yoga Nidra - Swami Satyananda Saraswati
- Yoga Alliance accredited course
- Certificate of completion issued on fulfilment of attendance and the post–course assignment
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