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iRest Yoga Nidra: Resilience for Everyday Stress

In this course you will learn the practice and full benefits of iRest Yoga Nidra. iRest Yoga Nidra helps you tap into a place that is calm - even when life is anything but. It is a simple form of meditation, based on traditional Yoga Nidra yet designed for modern day living. It is easy to do and can be done by anyone. Some people use iRest Yoga Nidra to learn to relax. Others use it to help with insomnia, stress, or heal serious trauma. With regular practice, iRest Yoga Nidra gives you the tools to tap into an inner safe haven and to experience true interconnectedness, health and joy.

Stress Sleep Stress & Anxiety Visualization Health & Happiness Relax Secular Yoga Nidra Secular Mindfulness Mindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Richard Miller

San Rafael, CA, USA

Richard Miller, PhD, is a world-renowned spiritual teacher, author, yogic scholar, researcher, and clinical psychologist, who has dedicated his life to helping people awaken to their essential wholeness and well-being. Dr. Miller has combined traditional yogic practice with psychology and neuroscience to create a form of meditation called iRest Yoga Nidra. Dr. Miller has authored numerous books, is the founding President of the iRest Institute, and the co-founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapy. He teaches iRest workshops and retreats internationally.

10 Days

14.4k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Stress

English

Lesson 1

Nourish Your Intentions

Intentions are powerful agreements you make with yourself, and express during your meditation and in your daily life. In this first session you will learn to discover your unique intentions and how to use these intentions to support you through a successful meditation and to achieve your goals, day by day.

Lesson 2

Aligning with Your Heartfelt Desire

In this session we will explore the second step of iRest: affirming your deepest Heartfelt Desire. Your Heartfelt Desire is the life force within you that gives rise to your heart's deepest calling, and brings forth your inner felt-sense of purpose, meaning, and value.

Lesson 3

Tap into Your Inner Resource of Unchanging Wellbeing

We all have hardwired within ourselves an inner resource of unchanging well-being that we can call upon at any time. This Inner resource is a state of body and mind in which you feel whole, healthy, and deeply connected to yourself and everything around you. In this session you will learn how to tap into this powerful ally that enables you to feel grounded, and at ease within ourselves no matter what circumstances we face.

Lesson 4

Listening To The Wisdom Of Your Body

In this session we will build on the first three resolutions of meditation practice by exploring BodySensing - the ancient practice of recognizing and responding to sensory information, to help you experience physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. You will learn how to use BodySensing to calm your central nervous system, achieve deep physical and mental relaxation, and grow your capacity to experience health and happiness.

Lesson 5

Tune into Your Breath to Find Inner Peace

In this session we will explore BreathSensing to help focus your attention, soothe your nervous system, calm your thinking mind, and support your ability to tap into your Inner Resource of unchanging well-being, so that you can dive ever more deeply into the felt-sense of equanimity and peace during your practice of meditation.

Lesson 6

Welcoming Opposites of Emotion

In this sixth step of the iRest Meditation Protocol we will explore how to connect and orient to our emotions and to access the information you need, not just to survive, but to thrive in ways that keep you in harmony with yourself and the world around you.

Lesson 7

Welcoming Thoughts as Messengers

The seventh step in iRest Meditation teaches skillful means for dealing with all cognitions - be they thoughts, memories, beliefs or images and teaches you how to stay calm when your thoughts are intense and reactive. inviting you to pause, and gain insight before responding. In this session you will learn how to welcome your thoughts as messengers that help you to engage responsive actions and discover your value, meaning and purpose in the world.

Lesson 8

Welcoming Joy

The ability to feel joy is something we're all born with - joy is always present within us, patiently waiting for our attention. In this session you will learn how to access feelings of joy at any time. Regularly experiencing joy can strengthen your immune system; boost energy and diminish your perception of pain, anxiety, fear, and depression.

Lesson 9

Finding Lasting Peace

In this session we will take all we have learned to date and explore the ninth step of iRest: Welcoming Essential Nature, Itself. Together we will explore the stages of remembering and embodying Wholeness and explore qualities of our Essential Nature: unqualified Awareness and undivided Wholeness.

Lesson 10

Living Each Day with iRest

The benefits of iRest Meditation are designed to be experienced in every moment of daily life - on and off your meditation cushion - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the rest of your life. In this final session you will learn ways to make iRest meditation a way of living your life - wherever it takes you.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 147 community questions and 40 audio replies from Richard Miller. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Jeff

October 29, 2025

Just awesome. Healing. Insightful. Integrating. Profound.

Carol

September 17, 2025

Wonderful course. I am going to do it again.

Alyson

April 27, 2025

I loved this course and Richard's way of presenting it. I note some frustrations about not "getting" some of the steps in practice, which i will continue to be with as a messenger unrul some meaning arrives. Thank you so much. I am interested indeepening my practice of irest and will look into retreat options.

Aaron

February 25, 2025

Very good course. Highly recommended. Thank you 🙏

Fungi

February 15, 2025

Good course that taught me a different aspect of yoga nidra. Nice to have the theory and then practice. Thank you.

Mike

January 23, 2025

An insightful course with a slightly different take on things.

Belinda

November 17, 2024

Absolutely wonderful. Am going back to day 1 tomorrow. I’ve loved it all but feel there’s so much I will have missed. Thank you so much.

Sim

October 27, 2024

Truly loved this, thank you Richard. I learned so many ‘tools’ that have been timely reminders to introduce during my day. I shall continue to practice these and hope to repeat the course soon to deepen my practice. I look forward to seeing what unfolds, as the changes this week have, so far, been profound 🙏🏽.

Kim

October 13, 2024

I loved this program. Each lesson built upon the previous, which was helpful. I wished the sessions were longer.

neslihan

September 6, 2024

I know iRest much before. But this way of learning erase all the question marks in my brain. Thank you and Dr. Miller.

Teresa

September 5, 2024

soothing boi e

Jeremy

August 15, 2024

Amazing. Thank you xx

Hannah

July 9, 2024

Excellent teacher

Hedy

March 30, 2024

I will do this course again as the learning is profound

Beth

March 17, 2024

Excellent! Best meditation course I've ever done!

March 5, 2024

I love Richard's voice, but I'm not sure I totally grasped the point of iRest or how it differs from any body-scan-type of meditation.

andrea

December 21, 2023

This course had great impact on me. I am going to listen it again. Thanks

Lindsey

November 30, 2023

Experienced much aliveness and sensation interwoven with feelings of calm and spaciousness

Wendy

October 21, 2023

I learned many effective and fun tools to help healing and awareness

Paulina

September 20, 2023

Loved it. Every session touched something inside my soul. Thank you

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