iRest Yoga Nidra
Personalized Treatment
Integrative Restoration can be practiced on a “one with one” basis for personal healing work to resolve specific mental, emotional and physical issues. In this way you can learn the process more deeply for your own practice.
iRest is a powerful therapeutic practice that expands on the approaches of traditional psychotherapy and mindfulness. iRest holds no intention to change you, or to solve “the problem”, rather it helps you discover the truth of who you are. An agenda for change, no matter how subtle, implies that there is something wrong with you. Instead iRest gives you the tools and helps you discover what is right with you, that you are much more than you think and are in fact True Nature itself. iRest yoga nidra helps you become more present in your body and with your emotions.
iRest is designed as a spiritual practice, that is, to bring you into contact with your True Spiritual Nature. iRest uses mindfullness practices and extends them to include emotions, thoughts, images, beliefs and memories for a truly powerful therapeutic process. To get into your heart, you must get out of your head.
A Personal Reflection
Over the years I have done my fair share of counseling. One thing that I know in my bones is talk therapy alone is not enough. Merely understanding the problems, how they happened and what to do didn’t release me from their emotional grip. I learned that to heal deeply and completely one must get “into the body” to access the residual tensions and emotions. Massage therapists know this when they talk about how “the issues are in the tissues.” Combining psychological work and bodywork is a truly transformative combination. I have taken the greatest strides on my journey in this way.
In fact, one way of avoiding emotional residues is to intellectualize them. Our innate understanding of this is reflected in the expression “ you are in your head.” This is a means of “protecting” ourselves from psychic / emotional material that seems too difficult to digest. Ancient teaching stories talk about the knot in the heart or a tie pin in the collar* that symbolize the disconnection between our heads and our hearts. In the end, freedom is not attained by suppressing or dissociating. Freedom is only uncovered by “meeting, greeting and welcoming” all of the past events, (thoughts, beliefs and memories) and integrating them (by balancing them with their opposites) and finally transcending them. Our most cherished desire is to be free of suffering, which is possible only by moving through and learning that we are bigger than it. iRest is such a practice.
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