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Certified Yoga Nidra Facilitator Course: Professional Skills (Udemy.com)

Get certified as a Yoga Nidra Facilitator: Learn structure, pacing, cueing, aftercare with classical trauma-aware tools

Created by: Devatma Saraswati

Last updated November 2025

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What you will learn

  • How to facilitate your own yoga nidra sessions
  • How to write your own scripts
  • The theory of yoga nidra and yogic meditation

How it compares

Against the other 59 rated Udemy courses in Meditation & Mindfulness on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 62% of them
  • Reviews555#33 of 60 by number of reviews
  • Length5.8 hourslonger than 76% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 64% of them

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Course Description

This course is for yoga teachers who want to expand their services and for therapists or coaches who wish to apply Yoga Nidra in appropriate, non-clinical contexts. You will learn to plan, guide, and review complete sessions using a reliable structure (setup → guidance → re-ground → aftercare), adapt for groups or one-to-one work, and write your own cohesive scripts from scratch using a visualization-first method. A certification pathway is available through a post-course examination. External links for the examination and resources appear only in the Bonus Lecture to comply with platform policy.

What You Will Learn (Outcomes)

  • Facilitate confident, professional Yoga Nidra sessions with clear pacing, cueing, and aftercare.

  • Use a repeatable session structure: setup → guidance → re-ground → aftercare.

  • Adapt facilitation appropriately for group classes and one-to-one sessions.

  • Write cohesive scripts from scratch using a visualization-first approach that creates thematic unity.

  • Apply traditional terminology and sequencing (rotation of consciousness, breath awareness, feelings and sensations, visualization, sankalpa, externalization) with clarity.

  • Implement explicit, trauma-aware protocol notes: consent language, choice in cues, exits, and scope-of-practice boundaries.

  • (Optional) Complete the certification pathway via a fifty-question examination described in the Bonus Lecture.

Who This Course Is For

  • Yoga teachers and recent 200-hour graduates seeking practical facilitator skills and continuing education (approximately twenty hours; please verify recognition with your registry).

  • Therapists and coaches who wish to integrate Yoga Nidra methods in non-clinical settings with clear scope-of-practice boundaries.

  • Serious practitioners who want to learn the craft of guiding others using traditional methodology.

Requirements

  • Basic familiarity with yoga or meditation is helpful but not required.

  • A quiet practice space for recording or guiding.

  • An optional microphone if you plan to create guided audio sessions.

Course Positioning and Methodology

  • Emphasis on traditional yogic methodology, clear language, and professional pacing.

  • Not positioned as sleep-only or sleep-focused; applicable across studio, community, workplace, and one-to-one contexts.

  • Explicit trauma-aware protocol notes are included to support safer facilitation.

Instructor Credentials (Proof)

  • Trained with senior swamis of the Bihar School of Yoga; lived and studied at the ashram of Swami Satyananda in 2008–2009.

  • Sixteen plus years teaching and facilitating Yoga Nidra, among the earliest to publish guided sessions online.

  • More than fifteen million views on a public video channel featuring guided practices and teachings.

Certification Pathway (Read This Before Enrolling)

  • The course includes a pathway to become a Certified Yoga Nidra Facilitator issued by Sri Mantra and signed by the instructor.

  • After completing the curriculum you can access the Bonus Lecture for the external examination portal.

  • The examination has fifty questions. Upon passing, a certificate will be automatically generated and emailed.

  • All external links are provided only in the Bonus Lecture to comply with platform policy.

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Instructor Details

Devatma Saraswati

Although always inclined towards spiritual pursuits Devatma began his devotions to spirituality after an intense spiritual awakening at 17 years old.

His Kundalini Shakti was then awakened through shaktipat by a siddha guru at age 24. This led him on many extended journeys through India and South East Asia studying with several great masters who trained him in the esoteric teachings of Yoga, Tantra, and Vedanta as well as Taoism and Buddhism.

He started teaching online by creating his own yoga school named Tripura Yoga, where he finds great spiritual and personal meaning by sharing the knowledge that was shared with him!

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Reviews

4.7

555 ratings on Udemy

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By Saylee Raje on 9/9/2023

Loved the depth and detail covered in this course. I like it how he encourages us to not compromise and really follow the discipline of each stage without being "too nice" / lenient. It is not simply a relaxation exercise but real serious work on so many levels of your being. (the different koshas), and being open to uncomfortable emotions surfacing before they are released and transcended.

By Adil Moffett on 1/24/2023

I love this course !!! It offers a wealth of information and has been extremely valuable to me personally already. I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks that have for some reason worsened lately and I have been using what I learned in this course to help ease it. I never expected to use this for panic attacks but I'm glad I did. Thank You Instructor Devatma Saraswati for sharing your knowledge !

By Daya Morgon Lupinacci on 5/30/2021

I'm sincerely impressed with the quality of this course. I've been teaching different styles of yoga for a few years now and recently started to offer Yoga Nidra sessions based on Swami Satyananda's resources, I'm happy to say that, through this training, I gained significant knowledge on how to write proper and effective Yoga Nidra scripts, besides learning tips on how to improve my delivery as a facilitator. It is clear the instructor of this course has experience, knowledge, and respect for the tradition and practice of yoga, and his approach to teaching this course was effective and insightful. Suggestion: It would be wonderful if the Tripura School offered a certificate of completion for this course :) Om Shanti

By Nona Fragnière on 2/10/2021

Yoga Nidra changed my life, I could learn and experience a deep state of relaxation I had forgotten. As a yoga teacher, I wanted to deepen my knowledge and understand the purpose of each step in Yoga Nidra in order to write my own effective scripts for my students. With this course, I had the opportunity to understand the link between Yogic philosophy and the practical steps of a class. Thank you!!!

By Jacquelyn Haley on 12/14/2020

I very much enhoed this course with Devatma and it was great to see him talking along side his power points. Such a gentle calming way and expalins everything in depth. I am Hypnotherapist and wanted this qualifcation to go along side my mindfulness prac and yoga life course to to offer work shops and classes at a local wellbeing centre. Its the perfect compliment to what I do.

By Alexis Jones on 7/14/2020

As far as the topic goes, I feel incredibly confident that I can lead a successful yoga nidra meditation as well as comfortable writing scripts. The way he broke everything down and explained Why and How the meditation is structured was amazing. The only reason why I didn’t give 5 stars is because the last module are 3 yoga nida sessions that he facilitates and he just talks waaaaaay too slow. One meditation is literally an hour and a half long. Yoga nida shouldn’t be any longer than 45 min in my opinion or else the mind will fully wander and the whole point of the session is lost. But besides that if you want to learn how to get into teaching Yoga Nidra this is definitely a course Id recommend

By Darcy Ecoma Verstege on 6/11/2020

The content of the course is very clear, to the point and indeed useful when you want to facilitate yoga nidra sessions! I really appreciated the information being summarised on slides. The course would've felt more authentic and easy to listen to if the teacher would've gone off-script every once in a while, instead of reading everything from his paper. Also, the guided yoga nidra sessions are almost an exact copy-paste from the scripts in the Yoga Nidra book by Swami Satyananda Saraswati (Bihar school of yoga).

By Sasha Amber Baldwin on 1/19/2020

Exactly what I was looking for, perfect introduction into leading Yoga Nidra sessions. Really informative and not at all waffle-y! I practice Yoga Nidra regularly and it truly is a powerful meditation tool, looking forward to being able to share it with others after this course.

By Deborah Ohara on 9/1/2019

I really enjoyed the Yoga Nidra Facilitators course: Teacher Training program. It went into such in depth information that I found fascinating. I really liked learning the Sanscrit terms for different parts of the session, too. Thank you for an awesome experience, and I know I will refer back to the information when I write my own Yoga Nidra sessions.

By Carol McClenahan on 4/8/2019

this was a very thorough and well organizd course. I really liked how it was organized and included al aspects of genuie yoga nidra. Two small things: there were some misspellings in the read along boxes and the voice of the Indian woman in the practice sessions was annoying.

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