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    Transform Lives (and Your Own) with Yoga Nidra Teacher Training

    Unlock the power of deep relaxation and guide others towards profound healing. Become a certified Yoga Nidra teacher with our comprehensive in personal training led by the esteemed Sumit Manav. Sumit’s expertise and compassionate guidance will illuminate the path of Yoga Nidra, empowering you to:
    Sarah
    Designer
    I was seeking balance and purpose in my life when I decided to take the 20-Hour Chakra Awakening Course with Sumit Manav. It was a life-altering experience! Sumit's profound knowledge, combined with his genuine compassion, guided me to discover my true self. My chakras are aligned, and my life is filled with newfound clarity and positivity.
    Michael
    CEO
    Sumit's course was a revelation for me. His teachings went beyond the theoretical, diving deep into practical exercises that helped me understand and harness the power of my chakras. I feel more connected to my inner self and have found the courage to pursue my passions fearlessly.
    Ayesha
    Enterprenauer
    I cannot express my gratitude enough for Sumit's Chakra Awakening Course. It's not just a course; it's a journey of self-discovery. I've learned to heal past wounds, release negative energy, and tap into my inner strength. I've never felt more alive and balanced.
    Rajesh
    Yoga Teacher
    As a yoga teacher myself, I was intrigued by chakras but had limited knowledge. Sumit's course deepened my understanding and gave me practical tools to incorporate into my classes. My students have noticed a positive shift in their practice, and I owe it all to Sumit's teachings.
    Sophie
    Yoga Teacher
    Sumit's course was an oasis of calm in a hectic world. I found solace and transformation in his teachings. The practices I learned have become an integral part of my daily life. I'm more grounded, peaceful, and better equipped to handle life's challenges.
    Tanu Dhawan
    Yoga Teacher
    The Chakra Awakening Course was a game-changer for me. I've experienced tangible shifts in my energy, health, and mindset. Sumit is a true master, and his course is a must for anyone looking to enhance their well-being and spiritual growth.
    • Master the art of Yoga Nidra: Learn the techniques and philosophy behind this transformative practice.
    • Experience profound inner peace: Immerse yourself in the restorative power of Yoga Nidra for your own well-being.
    • Share the gift of relaxation: Confidently teach Yoga Nidra classes and workshops, impacting the lives of others.
    Sumit Manav trained in the Himalayas under traditional yogic masters. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma from Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya (DSVV), Haridwar — one of India’s most respected centres of classical yoga scholarship — and carries BKS Iyengar certification, a credential earned by very few teachers worldwide.

    He has taught Yoga Nidra for over 25 years — in private sessions, studio classes, corporate wellness programmes, and retreat settings across Dubai and the UK. His teaching is rooted in the lineage of Swami Satyananda Saraswati and the Bihar School, the tradition from which modern Yoga Nidra practice originates. His corporate clients include Emirates, PepsiCo, Emaar, Kellogg’s, Fairmont, and flydubai.

    His approach to Yoga Nidra is classical in its foundation and precise in its application. He does not teach a modern adaptation. He teaches the original practice — with 25 years of evidence that it works.
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    This course will help you..

    • Guide others into genuine deep rest — not just relaxation, but the theta brainwave state where the nervous system actually rebuilds itself
    • Understand the neuroscience — why Yoga Nidra works, what is happening in the brain and body, and how to explain it to sceptical students and corporate clients
    • Write and deliver your own Yoga Nidra scripts — develop your voice, your pace, and your unique guiding presence
    • Apply Yoga Nidra therapeutically — for stress, anxiety, insomnia, trauma recovery, and chronic pain management
    • Build a new income stream — Yoga Nidra sessions, workshops, corporate lunchtime programmes, and retreats all command premium rates
    Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced yoga practitioner, this course is for you. Join us today and start your journey to yoga-nidra teacher training.

    Is This Course Your Ideal Journey?

    You are a yoga teacher who wants to offer something your students cannot find anywhere else in Dubai. You sense that what they need goes deeper than movement — and you are ready to learn how to take them there.

    You are a therapist, counsellor, or healthcare professional who already understands the mind-body connection. You want a tool that creates measurable, repeatable results — something you can use in clinical settings with full confidence.

    You work in corporate wellness and you are looking for the one practice that lands immediately with stressed, time-poor professionals. Yoga Nidra in a 30-minute lunchtime session delivers more nervous system restoration than most hour-long yoga classes.

    You are a dedicated practitioner who has experienced Yoga Nidra and felt something shift. You want to understand what happened — and learn to create that experience for others.

    If any of these sounds like you, you are in exactly the right place.
    • What our graduates say

    Lives Changed. Sleep Transformed.

    From yoga teachers to therapists, corporate wellness leads to complete beginners — here is what happens when people learn to truly guide deep rest.
    I have taught yoga for eight years and always ended class with a short savasana. After this training I understood for the first time what I had been rushing through. Sumit taught me that savasana and Yoga Nidra are two completely different things — and now the last 20 minutes of my class is where the real transformation happens. My students feel it. They tell me every week.
    NK
    Nadia K.
    RYT 500 · Yoga Teacher
    Dubai Marina, UAE
    I am a clinical psychologist and I attended this training looking for evidence-based tools I could offer clients struggling with insomnia, anxiety, and burnout. What I found went far beyond that. Sumit's grounding in the ancient texts combined with his understanding of modern neuroscience is genuinely rare. I now offer Yoga Nidra sessions as part of my clinical practice. The results have been remarkable.
    AM
    Dr. Aisha M.
    Clinical Psychologist
    Abu Dhabi, UAE
    I run wellness programmes for a large financial services company in DIFC. I introduced a 30-minute lunchtime Yoga Nidra session after this training and it became the most requested programme in our entire wellness calendar within six weeks. Senior leaders who had never attended a wellness session were booking it. Sumit's training gave me both the skill and the language to sell it internally. I cannot overstate the impact.
    RL
    Rehana L.
    Head of Employee Wellness · DIFC
    Dubai, UAE
    I lead sound healing retreats and had been curious about Yoga Nidra for years but never found training that went deep enough into the classical tradition. This course changed everything. Sumit's lineage goes back to the Himalayan masters and it shows in every session — the depth, the precision, the understanding of the koshas and sankalpa is unlike anything available in Dubai. I now weave Yoga Nidra into every retreat I run and it has become the element guests request most.
    SC
    Serena C.
    Sound Healer · Retreat Facilitator
    Jumeirah, Dubai
    I was not a yoga teacher when I joined this training. I was a 42-year-old executive who had not slept properly in three years. I took the course because I was desperate — not because I planned to teach. By the second day I experienced a Yoga Nidra session guided by Sumit that gave me the deepest rest I had felt in years. I cried. I did not fully understand why. I understand now. I teach small private groups once a week and every single participant says the same thing — they leave feeling like they have slept for a week. This training gave me that gift and I give it to others now.
    KT
    Khalid T.
    Yoga Nidra Graduate · Private Group Teacher
    Business Bay, Dubai
    I have taught yoga for eight years and always ended class with a short savasana. After this training I understood for the first time what I had been rushing through. Sumit taught me that savasana and Yoga Nidra are two completely different things — and now the last 20 minutes of my class is where the real transformation happens. My students feel it. They tell me every week.
    NK
    Nadia K.
    RYT 500 · Yoga Teacher
    Dubai Marina, UAE
    I am a clinical psychologist and I attended this training looking for evidence-based tools I could offer clients struggling with insomnia, anxiety, and burnout. What I found went far beyond that. Sumit's grounding in the ancient texts combined with his understanding of modern neuroscience is genuinely rare. I now offer Yoga Nidra sessions as part of my clinical practice. The results have been remarkable.
    AM
    Dr. Aisha M.
    Clinical Psychologist
    Abu Dhabi, UAE
    I run wellness programmes for a large financial services company in DIFC. I introduced a 30-minute lunchtime Yoga Nidra session after this training and it became the most requested programme in our entire wellness calendar within six weeks. Senior leaders who had never attended a wellness session were booking it. Sumit's training gave me both the skill and the language to sell it internally. I cannot overstate the impact.
    RL
    Rehana L.
    Head of Employee Wellness · DIFC
    Dubai, UAE
    I lead sound healing retreats and had been curious about Yoga Nidra for years but never found training that went deep enough into the classical tradition. This course changed everything. Sumit's lineage goes back to the Himalayan masters and it shows in every session — the depth, the precision, the understanding of the koshas and sankalpa is unlike anything available in Dubai. I now weave Yoga Nidra into every retreat I run and it has become the element guests request most.
    SC
    Serena C.
    Sound Healer · Retreat Facilitator
    Jumeirah, Dubai
    I was not a yoga teacher when I joined this training. I was a 42-year-old executive who had not slept properly in three years. I took the course because I was desperate — not because I planned to teach. By the second day I experienced a Yoga Nidra session guided by Sumit that gave me the deepest rest I had felt in years. I cried. I did not fully understand why. I understand now. I teach small private groups once a week and every single participant says the same thing — they leave feeling like they have slept for a week. This training gave me that gift and I give it to others now.
    KT
    Khalid T.
    Yoga Nidra Graduate · Private Group Teacher
    Business Bay, Dubai
    • Yoga Alliance Accredited
    • 30 Continuing Education Hours
    • Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai
    • Limited to 12 participants
    • Himalayan lineage · DSVV Haridwar
    • Course curriculum

    What You Will Learn — Module by Module

    A complete 25-hour certification structured across three core modules — combining live in-person contact hours with guided self-study to prepare you to teach Yoga Nidra with depth, authenticity, and confidence.
    Programme Hours Breakdown

    20

    Contact hours
    In-person with Sumit
    Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai

    5

    Self-study hours
    Scripts, practice sessions
    and reflection assignments

    25

    Total Yoga Alliance
    continuing education
    credits awarded
    Contact hours are delivered across an intensive weekend — Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 5pm. Self-study hours include guided personal Yoga Nidra practice, original script writing, and reflection exercises completed before and after the weekend. Both count toward your Yoga Alliance CE renewal.
    • Module 1
    • Module 2
    • Module 3

    Module 1

    Foundations of Yoga Nidra
    10 Hours
    After this module, you will be able to explain exactly what Yoga Nidra is, how it differs from sleep and meditation, and why it produces measurable physiological change — in language both students and healthcare professionals understand.
    Theory
    • The origins of Yoga Nidra — from the Tantric texts to Swami Satyananda Saraswati and the Bihar School lineage
    • Definition and philosophy of Yoga Nidra — what it is, what it is not, and why it matters
    • The five stages of the practice — physical relaxation, pratyahara, visualisation, sankalpa, and integration
    • The science of Yoga Nidra — brainwaves (alpha, theta, delta), the nervous system, and the hypnagogic state
    • The five koshas — the complete map of the Yoga Nidra journey from annamaya to anandamaya
    • The role of chakras, nadis, and the subtle body in Yoga Nidra practice
    • Sankalpa — the science of intention setting in the subconscious mind
    • Benefits for physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing — the research evidence
    • Distinctions between Yoga Nidra, meditation, hypnosis, sleep, and guided relaxation
    • Different styles and traditions — comparing classical, modern, and therapeutic approaches
    Practice
    • Full guided Yoga Nidra session led by Sumit in the classical Himalayan tradition — your first experience of the complete practice as a student
    • Asanas and pranayama designed specifically to prepare the body and nervous system for Yoga Nidra
    • Pratyahara practices — learning to guide students inward before the Yoga Nidra begins
    • Voice modulation exercises — discovering your natural guiding voice, pace, and silence
    • Journaling and reflection — processing your personal experience of the practice as the foundation for teaching it
    A note on lineage: Sumit Manav trained in the Himalayas and holds a Postgraduate Diploma from Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya (DSVV), Haridwar — the institution directly connected to the classical Indian yogic tradition. His teaching of Yoga Nidra is rooted in the lineage of Swami Satyananda Saraswati and the Bihar School. This module opens with that history — because knowing where a practice comes from is what separates a certified guide from a genuine teacher.

    Module 2

    Teaching Yoga Nidra
    10 Hours
    After this module, you will be able to write, record, and deliver your own complete Yoga Nidra script — and teach it confidently to individuals, groups, and mixed-level classes with the voice, pacing, and presence of an experienced guide.
    Theory
    • Structuring a complete Yoga Nidra session — the eight-stage framework from physical settling to integration
    • Developing your guiding voice — tone, pace, silence, and the difference between guiding and performing
    • Scripting techniques — how to write scripts that land in the body, not just the mind
    • Creating original Yoga Nidra scripts — themes, imagery, sankalpa, and personalisation
    • Adapting Yoga Nidra for different groups — beginners, experienced practitioners, children, elderly, and corporate participants
    • Utilising visualisations and imagery — the psychology of symbol, archetype, and opposites
    • Working with the sankalpa — how to guide students to find and use their own intention
    • Do's, don'ts, and safety guidelines — what to watch for and how to hold the space safely
    • Integrating Yoga Nidra into regular yoga classes, workshops, and retreats
    • Yoga Nidra for children and teenagers — adaptations, shorter formats, and age-appropriate imagery
    Practice
    • Script writing workshop — each student writes their own complete 20-minute Yoga Nidra script during the session
    • Teaching practice in pairs — guide and be guided, experiencing both roles in real time
    • Small group teaching — deliver your script to a group of 4–6 participants under supervision
    • Live feedback and refinement from Sumit — specific, detailed guidance on your voice, pacing, word choices, and use of silence
    • Recording your own script — creating a reference guide you can use and refine after the course
    • Peer review — giving and receiving structured feedback from fellow participants

    Module 3

    Advanced Applications — Therapeutic, Corporate & Specialist Contexts
    5 Hours
    After this module, you will be able to design Yoga Nidra sessions for clients dealing with insomnia, anxiety, burnout, and stress — and deliver a complete 30-minute corporate lunchtime programme ready to pitch to Dubai employers immediately after certification.
    Theory
    • Yoga Nidra for chronic stress and burnout — cortisol, HRV, and the research evidence
    • Yoga Nidra for insomnia — clinical evidence, session design, and what distinguishes sleep yoga from therapeutic Yoga Nidra
    • Yoga Nidra for anxiety — what to include, what to modify, and how to hold space for participants in heightened states
    • Yoga Nidra for trauma — trauma-sensitive adaptations, language safety, and when to refer
    • Yoga Nidra in corporate settings — designing a 20–30 minute lunchtime programme that requires no mats, no changing rooms, and no prior yoga experience
    • Sankalpa as therapeutic intention — working with the subconscious for habit change, healing, and personal growth
    Practice
    • Writing a specialised script for one of the therapeutic contexts — stress, insomnia, or anxiety
    • Designing and delivering a complete 30-minute chair-based corporate Yoga Nidra session — no mat required
    • Teaching the corporate session to the full group under observation with live feedback
    • Self-study component — guided personal Yoga Nidra practice using four different scripts across the week following the weekend, with a written reflection submitted for feedback
    • Your teaching life after certification

    What Yoga Nidra Graduates Are Doing Right Now

    Weekly Yoga Nidra classes
    Adding a dedicated 45-minute Yoga Nidra session to their teaching schedule — the class that fills first and retains students longest.
    Monthly workshops
    Running Yoga Nidra evenings for 10–20 participants at AED 100–200 per person — low overheads, high demand, fully self-managed.
    Corporate lunchtime programmes
    Delivering 30-minute chair-based sessions to Dubai employers — Emirates, banking, hospitality — where no yoga experience or equipment is required from participants.
    Premium private sessions
    Offering Yoga Nidra as a therapeutic one-to-one add-on to existing private yoga clients — a natural upsell that deepens the client relationship and increases session value.
    Retreat programming
    Leading Yoga Nidra as the daily evening closing practice on retreats — consistently the session guests rate highest and request again on their next booking.
    Online audio programmes
    Recording and selling original Yoga Nidra scripts as downloadable audio — a passive income stream built directly from the scripts written during this course.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Yoga Nidra — meaning "yogic sleep" — is an ancient practice of conscious deep rest. The practitioner lies still while guided into the hypnagogic state between waking and sleeping, where the nervous system restores deeply, the subconscious becomes accessible, and profound healing can occur. Research shows a 30-minute session can be equivalent to 2–4 hours of ordinary sleep in terms of nervous system restoration.

    This course is designed for yoga teachers, therapists, healthcare professionals, corporate wellness practitioners, and dedicated students who want to learn to guide others into deep healing rest. No prior Yoga Nidra teaching experience is required.

    Yes. On completion you receive a Yoga Alliance accredited certificate for 30 continuing education hours — valid toward your RYT renewal requirements globally.
    In person at Shangri-La Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai. Pre-course study materials are provided online.
    Yoga Nidra is distinct from both. Unlike meditation, there is no effort to concentrate or observe. Unlike sleep, consciousness is maintained throughout. It operates in the hypnagogic threshold state — scientifically measurable through theta brainwave activity — where the nervous system restores at a depth ordinary sleep rarely achieves.
    Early bird: AED 1,699. Full price: AED 2,500. Payment plans available. WhatsApp +971566241002 for details.

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