you're called to guide from aliveness.

Maybe you're in a healing or wellness space and ready to deepen your understanding to go deeper. You feel the pull toward guiding others and recognize that meaningful leadership begins with self-inquiry. This is a container for deep exploration; a space to slow down, witness yourself, and meet the poetry of your own life through the practice.

Either way, you are not here to perform wellness.

Wherever you are on your journey, this training invites you into the ongoing practice of embodiment: cultivating a way of being rooted in presence, authenticity, and lived experience.

why nova nidra

This training recognizes that learning to guide others involves more than simply understanding techniques or practices. It includes the internal work required to truly hold space where you can finally take care of yourself before serving others— cultivating steadiness, presence, and the ability to guide from a place of genuine connection and meaning.

Throughout the training, you'll explore the history, philosophy, neuroscience, and art of scripting. Alongside this foundational knowledge, you'll be invited into a deeper process: learning to guide the practice and lead in your life from an embodied place that is authentically your own.

experience transformation

You will complete this training with a strong and authentic guiding voice rooted in your own lived experience and understanding. Your relationship with the practice will deepen, as will your connection to your own mind, body, and nervous system.

Along the way, you will build a comprehensive technical foundation in the history, philosophy, koshas, neuroscience, energetics, voice mastery and art of scripting, equipping you to teach with clarity and confidence.

Most importantly, this training invites you into an embodied relationship with peace—one that extends beyond the practice itself and into the way you live, lead, and move through the world.

What’s included

4 self-paced modules weaving together the wisdom and practice of Yoga Nidra — history, philosophy, neuroscience, the koshas, energetics, and the art of scripting.

• 4 in-depth self-paced modules weaving together the wisdom and practice of Yoga Nidra — history, philosophy, neuroscience, the koshas, energetics(including the chakra system), and the art of scripting.

• Weekly live sessions with Ayla Nova that are interactive, restorative, and spacious. Replays available for everything.

• Experiential practices and guided reflection are built into the learning, not just theory.

• A private community space for dialogue, integration, and mutual support throughout the training.

• One full year to complete the program at a pace that honours your life.

• A final assessment — a recorded Yoga Nidra session and script submitted within one year of starting.

• 100 hours total. Yoga Alliance CEU eligible.

  
  

how it works

The training runs across a 3-month live container with Ayla, supported by self-paced material you work through in your own time. Live sessions are weekly, and everything is recorded. You don't have to choose between your life and your training — the structure is built to hold both.

The journey moves in two parts.

The first is about living the practice — deepening your own relationship with Yoga Nidra before teaching it.

The second is about leading — stepping into your voice, presence, and capacity to guide others. A Rite of Passage ceremony marks the threshold between the two.

You have one full year to complete everything, including your final assessment.