100 Hour Yoga Nidra Teachers Training

Pathways Academy of Life presents a 10-day curriculum in the ancient art of yoga nidra, exploring its traditions, psychology, philosophy, and techniques for self-realization. This training offers a practical way to bring timeless teachings into modern life, supporting greater balance, inner peace, and fulfillment. It reflects the understanding that we are multi-dimensional beings of mind, body, emotions, and soul, with the subtle body playing a central role in our overall wellness and sense of wholeness.

At the heart of the course is the idea that lasting inner peace begins with changing how we see and respond to life. The training invites participants to understand the subtle body and its workings more deeply, including the role of the subconscious mind as the storehouse of life experiences, impressions, and psychic scars. You will explore how the subconscious shapes our persona, influences our reactions, and can be healed through direct positive suggestion. The conscious mind, analytical and rational, will also be examined as part of this process.

Through yoga nidra, participants learn how to withdraw the conscious mind and plant healing suggestions directly into the subconscious. These suggestions are offered in the positive, as if already fulfilled, and through repetition they become powerful tools for transformation. The training also introduces the language of the subconscious, including images, symbols, feelings, words, and repetition, along with the effects of this practice on how we experience life.

Who is this for

This training is designed for those who want to transform their lives, awaken and merge with their soul, deepen their understanding and experience of yoga, and heal themselves and others through the wisdom of the ancient yoga nidra tradition. It is also ideal for teachers who want to take their work to a deeper level and support students in healing how they see and react to life.

The cost is R18 500.00 and includes accommodation, all meals, daily teacher training and certification, daily yoga classes, course materials, training manual, class videos, yoga nidra audio recordings, and weekend excursions.

The Curriculum

• The meaning, philosophy, science, and ancient secrets of yoga
• Patanjali’s 8 limbs and Sutras
• The mind: yoga psychological study
• The power of the subconscious and reprogramming the mind for transformation
• The subtle body
• The chakras
• The 5 kosha bodies, nadis, kundalini, aura, ida, pingala, and shushumna
• Energy balancing and pranic healing
• Meditation
• Yoga nidra theory, birth, and tantric origin
• Experiments with yoga and impressing the mind
• Brain wave states: Beta, Theta, Delta, Alpha, siddhi consciousness, and the hypnagogic state
• The art of relaxation, effective rest, and the secret of transformation
• Training the mind and creating a receptive mind
• Understanding human nature
• Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi
• Withdrawing the mind
• Yoga nidra and the brain
• Yoga nidra in restoring health
• Methodical, scientific techniques and their psychological effects
• Symbols of the unconscious, visualisation, and imagery
• Attitude of a witness
• Releasing samskaras and cutting cords
• Emerging into Samadhi and transcending limitations
• Awakening perception, mindfulness, and sankalpa
• Meditation: 20 techniques
• Student presentation of yoga nidra to the class
• The Bhagavad Gita
• Getting started, goal setting, and class setting
• Spiritual Life Coaching

Trainer’s Qualification

Jennifer Fitzsimmons is the founder of Pathways Academy of Life, Pathways Country Yoga Retreat, and Children Of Unity Foundation NPC in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where she hosts yoga teacher trainings, workshops, yoga retreats, and classes. She is also the author of several published books, including Pathway To Wellness, Yoga Nidra and The Ancient Secret Of Life, Children’s Yoga Nidra – The Enlightened Super Souls, and Children of Unity And Their Super Powers. As a qualified Life Coach, she specializes in helping people create greater wellness and fulfillment.

Jennifer is a qualified and registered yoga teacher through Ishta School of Yoga and Health, and she is also a qualified Kundalini yoga teacher. She is registered with Yoga Alliance America as an E-RYT500, with World Yoga Alliance as a CYT500, and with Pathways Academy of Life as a CYS. She is a full member of The Yoga Teacher Fellowship of Southern Africa and the International Yoga Federation, and she earned a Life Coaching Diploma with full distinction through The Life Coach Institute in the UK. She is also a Teacher Trainer.

With 27 years of yoga practice and 26 years of teaching experience, Jennifer has trained teachers for the past 20 years. Her path began with self-healing, which inspired her to share this ancient tradition. Her intention is to guide people with life-changing tools that support self-realization and a deeper understanding of purpose. She has also completed a collection of voice-guided yoga nidra meditation, relaxation, and visualization recordings, and believes that self-experience and deep passion are essential to any qualification.