Integrative Restoration: The Ancient Practice of Yoga Nidra for Easing Stress, Healing Trauma and Awakening to your Timeless Presence [Audio CD]

Richard Miller PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 6, 2007

Integrative Restoration, or iRest, is a modern adaptation of Yoga Nidra, the ancient form of yogic meditation. iRest helps you break free of self-limiting patterns, emotions and beliefs so that you may live a contented life, full of joyful equanimity and free of conflict, anxiety and suffering. In its ultimate form, iRest reveals the secret of enlightenment and introduces you to your True Nature as joyful and radiant Presence. iRest induces deep relaxation throughout your entire body and mind and enables you to eliminate stress and resolve personal problems and trauma and neutralize anxiety, fear, anger, depression and insomnia. It teaches you how to enter deep meditation, and in its ultimate form, iRest helps you unravel the mystery of life and answer the questions,"Who am I?" and "What is enightenment?"

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Review

Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) is a collection of simple relaxation techniques based on an ancient practice of self-investigation. The aim is to uncover and release repressed unconscious material. As a metaphor, the sleeping yogi, like the rest of us when asleep, is oblivious to her limited self and the world around her; but when she's asleep, she's "awake" to her infinite Self, which is the goal of all schools of yoga. These and other principles of Yoga Nidra are explained in nearly four hours of instruction and five in-depth practices in this six-CD set. The practice itself is fairly simple. Performed sitting or reclining, Yoga Nidra employs a host of relatively familiar meditation techniques--breath awareness, body scanning, visualization, and positive reinforcement--to achieve a state of deep relaxation. In our high-stress society, this benefit in itself is worth the price of admission. You're also guided to explore the hidden recesses of your psyche in order to deconstruct false assumptions about yourself and about your relationship with the world, which, ideally, will reveal your authentic nature. Miller, a psychologist, yoga teacher, and the founder of the Center of Timeless Being in Sebastopol, California, has refined the practice and made it accessible to all. --Richard Rosen, Yoga Journal, August 2007

About the Author

Richard Miller, PhD, author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga and Integrative Restoration iRest 6-CD Set, is a contemporary spiritual teacher of nondualism. He is the founding president of the Integrative Restoration Institute and the Center of Timeless Being, co-founder and co-president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy. Richard is a consultant on research projects studying the healing impact of the Yoga Nidra meditation protocol that he has developed (Integrative Restoration iRest) with such diverse populations as US soldiers experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, the homeless and people with chronic pain. In addition to his research and writing projects, Richard leads retreats and trainings throughout North America with a focus on enlightened living in daily life.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Anahata Press (August 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893099040
• ISBN-13: 978-1893099043
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #855,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Richard C. Miller, PhD

Richard Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar and teacher. For over 40 years, Richard Miller has devoted his life and work to integrating the nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism and Buddhism with Western psychology. Among his mentors were T.K.V. Desikachar and Jean Klein.

Richard is the founding president and CEO of the Integrative Restoration Institute, co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is also a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology and a founding board member of the Baumann Institute for the study of Awareness and its impact on well-being.

Author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Richard serves as a research consultant studying the iRest Yoga Nidra protocol that he has developed (Integrative Restoration ~ iRest, a modern adaptation of the ancient nondual meditation practice of Yoga Nidra) researching its efficacy on health, healing and well-being with diverse populations including active-duty soldiers, veterans, college students, children, seniors, the homeless, the incarcerated, and people experiencing issues such as sleep disorders, PTSD, chemical dependency, chronic pain, and related disorders.

In addition to his research and writing projects, Richard lectures and leads trainings and retreats internationally.

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wishy washy, April 9, 2010

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Early "Bird" (France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Integrative Restoration: The Ancient Practice of Yoga Nidra for Easing Stress, Healing Trauma and Awakening to your Timeless Presence (Audio CD)

If you have Yoga Nidra (The Meditative Heart Of yoga) by the same author (it comes with a CD) you have all that he can give you at a much reduced cost. This CD set is the same stuff diluted in water to make it go longer and longer...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally helpful and "as advertised"., February 11, 2011

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This review is from: Integrative Restoration: The Ancient Practice of Yoga Nidra for Easing Stress, Healing Trauma and Awakening to your Timeless Presence (Audio CD)

I work with Soldiers who suffer from PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury and chronic pain (singularly and in combination). I picked up this CD set coming from a yoga perspective (on a personal level) and a clinical perspective (on a professional level). The soldiers I have met who have experience with Yoga Nidra as therapy in their formal PTSD groups swear by it in helping them reduce their stress and anxiety and heal emtional wounds. I have found it exceptionally helpful on a personal level with stress and anxiety (which comes mostly from working with patients who are medically and psychologically complex and in need of positive and effective treatment).

I have listened through the 2nd CD thus far ( I find it difficult to NOT have a visual image of what I am sensing but I am getting there) and use it on those nights when I wake up "refreshed" at 2 in the morning and can't fall back asleep. My husband is a pilot and finds it helps him also when he is having issues with stress which are effecting his sleep. When I sleep following a session of Yoga Nidra, I sleep HARD! as if I am a cinder block placed on the bed.

In addition, our 7 year old loves to meditate with mom and dad and there is nothing quicker for enforcing bedtimes! Anecdotally, I can say it helps with his mild to moderate case of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder.

As to the sound quality, it is excellent and Dr. Miller has a beautiful voice. Without a doubt and based on my personal experience, there is nothing better out there for easing stress. Because of this, I don't see any reason why it would not be effective in healing trauma (and you don't have to be a combat veteran to have that) and awakening your timeless presence.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars marvelous, December 7, 2010

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rockfan3929 "positivitude" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Integrative Restoration: The Ancient Practice of Yoga Nidra for Easing Stress, Healing Trauma and Awakening to your Timeless Presence (Audio CD)

excellent work and great content. at times i wish the audio quality of the recording were better, but you can still hear him speaking just fine.