iRest Yoga Nidra Level 1 Trainings are designed to provide you with the basic principles, history, theory, practice, and delivery of iRest. This will allow you to incorporate the simple 10-step iRest protocol into your personal life, professional teaching, and/or clinical practices.

This training is a multi-day practical and experiential program that teaches the research-backed 10-Step iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation protocol. It offers you all of the tools and experience required to deeply enrich your personal practice and teach the fundamentals of iRest to others.

This training is a dedicated time to embark on a journey to discover your unwavering inner resource of wellbeing and unlock simple and profound tools that transform how you meet yourself, navigate life and learn to support others to do the same.

What will I learn?

• How to better understand your thoughts, emotions, and difficult experiences so that you can use them as messengers toward inner freedom and renewed ease.
• How to move beyond attachment and identification with your body, mind, and experiences to uncover feelings of peace, wholeness and authenticity.
• How to apply the 10-step iRest protocol in your own life and deliver it as an offering to individuals and groups.

By the end of the training you’ll be confident and competent in your personal practice and ability to guide and teach others.

Attendance Options:

SYNCHRONISTIC PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT: Live, in real time (in person or online) participation is required to receive an iRest Level 1 Certificate of Completion and classification as an iRest Level 1 Teacher. Attendance will be tracked during each session.

Participants have the option to register for either In-Person OR Online Zoom (Synchronistic in real time)

• In-Person: Soul of Yoga Institute, 701 Garden View Ct Encinitas, CA 92024
• Online via Zoom

Please note you must choose In-Person attendance OR Online attendance- these are not interchangeable.

Tuition:  

Early Bird Price: $1,495 USD (Available through May 9, 2026)
Regular Price: $1,695 USD

Required Reading and Listening

• Please read Yoga Nidra: The iRest Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing by iRest Founder Richard Miller, and listen to the accompanying audio recordings. The book includes access to digital downloads of the recordings (see page 7). This foundational text introduces the principles and recordings you’ll explore more deeply during the training.

Recommended Reading and Listening

To further support your preparation, we encourage you to explore these additional resources:

• 42 iRest Yoga Nidra Meditations with Richard Miller, a collection of audio recordings that guide you step-by-step through the entire protocol. The scripts for these recordings can be found in The iRest Program for Healing PTSD: A Proven-Effective Approach to Using Yoga Nidra Meditation and Deep Relaxation Techniques to Overcome Trauma by iRest Founder Richard Miller.
• Integrative Restoration: iRest Yoga Nidra with Richard Miller, a collection of six guided recordings available as digital downloads, offering additional opportunities to experience the depth and range of iRest.

Faculty:

Ford Peck is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Yoga Therapist, and has been a teacher of yoga and meditation for over 30 years. After years of exploration in nondual traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, and with teachers both in the US and in India, he found himself drawn to the depth and practicality of the teachings of iRest. He is a Senior iRest Trainer as well as an iRest Mentor and Supervisor. His passion is supporting students to find peace with their human experience and a true sense of being at Home in their non dual ground of Being.