35-Hour Self-Paced Online Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
Certification & Deep Immersion
The Foundations of Transformative Rest & Skillful Guidance
Join Sagel for this immersive 35-hour self-paced online Yoga Nidra Teacher Training and explore the timeless wisdom and contemporary neuroscience of Yoga Nidra—a practice of deep, conscious rest that cultivates greater ease, clarity, and authentic joy.
Designed to support both your personal practice and your confidence as a guide, this comprehensive training offers the knowledge, practical tools, and direct experience needed to lead Yoga Nidra with clarity, presence, and authenticity.
Admission is open year-round, allowing you to begin whenever you're ready and progress through the training at your own pace. You'll enjoy unlimited access to all course materials for one full year from your registration date.
What You'll Experience
Throughout the training, you'll:
- Explore the history and lineage of Yoga Nidra while gaining a clear understanding of its philosophical foundations and contemporary applications.
- Discover how Yoga Nidra supports nervous system regulation, the release of stress and tension, and a deeper relationship with yourself through the timeless framework of the Koshas—the five layers of being.
- Learn through in-depth video teachings, guided Yoga Nidra practices, meditation sessions, reflective inquiry, experiential activities, and a dedicated seven-day home practice immersion designed to help you embody the teachings through direct experience.
Who This Training Is For
Whether you're a yoga teacher, dedicated practitioner, wellness professional, or simply someone with a sincere interest in Yoga Nidra, this training offers a carefully structured and supportive learning experience.
No prior teaching experience or Yoga Nidra training is required—only curiosity and a willingness to explore the practice.
A Thoughtfully Refined Curriculum
Over many years of teaching, mentoring, and guiding practitioners and teachers from around the world, Sagel has refined this curriculum into a heart-centered learning experience that honors the richness of the yoga tradition while remaining responsive to the needs of modern students.
Blending timeless yogic wisdom with contemporary neuroscience, the training emphasizes embodied learning, trauma-informed principles, and authentic, skillful guidance.
A Practice for Life
Through consistent practice, Yoga Nidra becomes much more than a relaxation technique. It offers an opportunity to experience deep, conscious rest, reconnect with your innate wholeness, and cultivate greater clarity, resilience, and inner peace.
Whether your intention is to deepen your own practice or lead Yoga Nidra for others, this training provides a strong foundation for a lifelong relationship with this remarkable practice.
Completion Certificate & Continuing Education
Upon successful completion of the training, you'll receive a 35-Hour Yoga Nidra Teacher Training Certificate.
Registered Yoga Teachers (RYTs) may submit their certificate to Yoga Alliance for 35 Continuing Education (CE) hours.
What Students Are Saying
"I was amazed at the level of detail in this course. I never expected to go into such depth in an online training. Thank you so much, Sagel, for creating this incredible training and for sharing your knowledge and passion in such a clear, thoughtful, and kind way."
— S.W., China
One Student Reflects
"Thank you for the online Yoga Nidra training. I have completed the whole program and have also taught a few times with friends to practice. My husband and I have done the 7-day challenge together and are continuing regular practice thanks to this program. I look forward to doing the meditations over and over. I especially liked the one about experiencing opposites and also really enjoyed the chakra one. I found the lectures interesting and easy to follow. Thanks for making these teachings accessible and thanks for the useful tools we now have. I hope my nidra practice helps to keep me healthy and centered and look forward to going ever deeper into relaxation and receptivity as I practice more."
— S.N., California
What You'll Learn
This heart-centered and immersive training weaves together timeless yogic wisdom, contemporary neuroscience, experiential practice, and practical teaching skills to support both your personal journey and your confidence as a guide.
Discover the History and Lineage of Yoga Nidra
Explore the rich origins of Yoga Nidra as a sacred practice passed down through generations. Through a deeper understanding of its lineage and historical context, you'll strengthen your personal relationship with the practice while learning to honor its source and spiritual integrity.
The Science of Deep Rest
Discover a neuroscience-informed understanding of how Yoga Nidra supports nervous system regulation, deep restoration, and somatic resilience. Explore the physiology of stress and learn how intentional rest calms the stress response while fostering greater vitality, resilience, and ease—in both your own life and the way you guide others.
Explore the Koshas
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the Koshas—the five layers of being—and discover how Yoga Nidra works across body, mind, heart, energy, and spirit. Through this timeless framework, you'll explore how the practice supports wholeness while cultivating greater peace, balance, joy, and ease.
Navigate Unconscious Patterns
Discover how Yoga Nidra offers a compassionate pathway for bringing unconscious patterns—including limiting beliefs, habitual reactions, fears, and emotional conditioning—into awareness, where they can gradually soften and release. Through your own experience, you'll cultivate greater freedom, resilience, and self-understanding while learning how to create a safe, compassionate environment that supports healing, integration, and inner growth in others.
Master the Step-by-Step Sequence of Yoga Nidra
Learn the complete progression of a Yoga Nidra practice and gain a clear understanding of the purpose behind each stage. You'll discover how the sequence naturally guides awareness toward deep rest while creating a supportive space where physical, mental, and emotional tension can gently unwind.
Work with Sankalpa as a Heart-Centered Intention
Explore Sankalpa as a deeply personal inquiry rooted in listening rather than striving. Learn to work with intention in ways that feel sincere, grounded, and responsive while discovering how meaningful change unfolds naturally through consistent practice.
Learn to Guide Yoga Nidra with Confidence and Authenticity
Work skillfully with thoughtfully crafted Yoga Nidra scripts while learning how sequencing, language, imagery, pacing, and energetic tone support authentic, responsive guidance. Develop the confidence to lead sessions that remain grounded in both the tradition and your embodied understanding.
Build a Trauma-Informed Approach to Holding Space
Integrate inclusive principles that honor the full spectrum of human experience. Learn to skillfully support everything from restlessness and resistance to emotional release and integration while creating a safe, compassionate, and responsive environment for every student.
Develop Confidence Through Teaching Practicum
Participate in a structured teaching practicum, including practice sessions with a friend or family member, to strengthen your confidence, refine your skills, and deepen your authentic presence as a guide.
Experience Yoga Nidra and Supporting Practices
Immerse yourself in three recorded Yoga Nidra practices alongside guided Yin Yoga & Meditation classes, mindfulness meditation practices, pranayama, and body-awareness techniques designed to deepen your personal practice while enriching your confidence and skill as a guide.
Complete a Seven-Day Home Practice Immersion
Engage in a structured seven-day immersion designed to deepen integration beyond the course lessons. This dedicated period of practice strengthens your personal relationship with Yoga Nidra while helping the teachings become lived experience.
Receive Complete Practice and Teaching Scripts
Receive three complete, full-length Yoga Nidra scripts (40–50 minutes each) to support both your personal practice and your teaching. You'll also receive guidance for establishing and sustaining a meaningful home practice, along with practical teaching resources to support your continued growth as a guide.
Cultivate an Embodied Personal Practice
Deepen your relationship with Yoga Nidra through consistent practice, reflection, and self-inquiry. As your own experience deepens, you'll cultivate the steadiness, clarity, and presence that naturally inform the way you guide others.
Lead Yoga Nidra with Presence and Purpose
Whether your intention is to deepen your own practice or guide others, you'll leave this training with a comprehensive understanding of Yoga Nidra and the confidence to guide with clarity, presence, authenticity, and heart.
Printed Training Manual & Course Companion
Included with your training is a thoughtfully organized printed training manual, shipped complimentary to your door anywhere in the world. Created to support your learning throughout the course, it brings together the essential teachings, reflective practices, and teaching resources in one place, becoming a trusted companion you'll return to throughout the training and long after it is complete.
Inside you'll find:
- Course presentations and teaching materials
- Interactive lesson activities and guided reflections
- Journal prompts for self-inquiry and integration
- Step-by-step practice worksheets
- Full-length, ready-to-use Yoga Nidra scripts
- Your dedicated seven-day home practice journal
- A curated Yoga Nidra resource and recommended reading guide
Your printed training manual will be shipped within 7 business days of registration, with complimentary worldwide shipping included. You'll also have immediate access to the online training, so you can begin learning right away while your manual is on its way.
After the Training
“I have gone to many different kinds of trainings in both the yoga and non-yoga worlds, and your approach to teaching is unlike anything I have experienced. You embody what you teach. You live it and understand it completely at a cellular level. It simply flows from you as effortlessly and consistently as the breath."
— K.F., Portland
Required Reading
Please have access to the following books before beginning the training:
The Heart of Yoga Nidra
Teaching Yoga Nidra Through Sequencing, Language, and Guided Meditation for Deep Relaxation and Sacred Rest
Sagel Urlacher
The Book of Yoga Nidra Meditation Scripts
30 Yoga Nidra Scripts for Deep Relaxation, Inner Peace, & Manifesting Your Joy
Sagel Urlacher
Yoga Nidra
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
All required texts are widely available through booksellers and online retailers.
Recommended Props for Your Practice
To create a comfortable and supportive space for your Yoga Nidra practice, you'll find the following props helpful:
- Yoga mat
- Two yoga blocks
- Yoga blanket (or one or two comfortable blankets from home)
- Yoga strap (or a long belt or two scarves tied together)
- Bolster (or one or two firm pillows)
- Eye pillow (optional)
Most of these props are readily available through yoga retailers, sporting goods stores, or online.
From a Yoga Nidra Training Graduate
"Sagel’s passion and wisdom are amazing. So inspiring!"
— H.G., Boston
Never has there been a greater need—or a better time—to connect with and live from our heart's deepest intentions, and to deepen our connection with others in service to this world. Moving through this training in your own space and at your own pace, you'll have the time to fully explore and experience the gifts of Yoga Nidra. The streaming lessons, Yoga Nidra practices, and guided mindfulness meditations will remain available to you on this platform for one year from your registration date.
A Graduate's Experience
“I searched the internet and found your course and it totally resonated with me. I absolutely love the content and the way you present it. Thank you, a very heartfelt thank you. I love the way that you weave all of yoga into it. Love it!!!”
— I.D.M., Australia
Your Instructor
About the Instructor
SAGEL URLACHER, M.Ed., E-RYT, YACEP is the author of Yin Yoga & Meditation, The Book of Yoga Nidra Meditation Scripts: 30 Yoga Nidra Scripts for Deep Relaxation, Inner Peace, and Manifesting Your Joy, and The Heart of Yoga Nidra. She is a lifelong educator with more than twenty years of teaching experience and dedicated practice.
Sagel offers inspiring and empowering Yin Yoga, Meditation, and Yoga Nidra teacher trainings, retreats, workshops, and classes, both in person and online.
With more than 3,000 hours of teaching yoga and meditation, Sagel brings extensive experience as both an educator and practitioner to her trainings. She has taught and collaborated with yoga studios across the country and co-led retreats at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.
She also trained in mindfulness and meditation with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, whose teachings have been a guiding source of wisdom, peace, and compassion throughout her personal practice and teaching.
Rooted in the yogic tradition and informed by Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, Sagel's approach thoughtfully integrates timeless wisdom with contemporary neuroscience to cultivate compassionate awareness, embodied presence, and authentic joy—both on the mat and in everyday life.
She guides with a heart of loving service, creating welcoming and supportive spaces for yoga practitioners, teachers, wellness professionals, and anyone drawn to the practice of Yoga Nidra and meditation.
Sharing these practices is her life's work. Having experienced their profound impact herself—and witnessed the transformation they continue to inspire in her students—she believes deeply in their capacity to cultivate greater peace, presence, resilience, and authentic joy.
Sagel is a Yoga Alliance YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider), and all of her trainings and workshops are eligible for Yoga Alliance continuing education credits for registered yoga teachers.
Learn more at www.yinandmeditation.com or contact Sagel at sagel@yinandmeditation.com.
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A Student's Experience
“The training is very well informed, your voice is so soothing, and I really appreciate the format of going at my own pace. This was a very meaningful, moving, expansive, insightful, heart-loving training for me. Thank you.”
— A.L., New Hampshire