APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
Empowered Wisdom
Yoga Nidra
Teacher Training
with Tracee Stanley and
Dr. Chanti Tacoronte–Perez
STARTS MARCH 2025
Surrender yourself to the grace of Yoga Nidra and embody the teachings that allow you to powerfully and authentically transmit transformative and healing experiences that lead to the state of Yoga Nidra.
Yoga Nidra is not about reading a script in a relaxed voice. It is the art of guiding yourself and another into the deepest state of consciousness where deep rest, spacious awareness and Presence is experienced.
Are you ready to embody the teachings that allow you to share this deep state of awareness?
Focus of the Certification Training
This virtual training is for teachers and seekers who want to explore Yoga Nidra beyond a technique—as a state of consciousness.
Our emphasis will be on:
- Sacred Self Care, Creativity, Intuition, Healing, Ritual, Nature as Teacher and Sankalpa Shakti
- Understanding the difference between Yoga Nidra and Deep Relaxation
- Creating your Yoga Nidra Nest
- Learn restorative poses to support the body for Yoga Nidra practice for pregnancy, trauma, exhaustion etc.
- Auspicious Sankalpa and Sankalpa Shakti
- How to lead yourself towards the state of Yoga Nidra
- Ritual practices including mantra, yantra, likita japa and Sankalpa rituals
- Creating a Sacred Abode of Practice
- Cultivating Devotion in Practice
- Tantric Wisdom and True Nature
- Preparatory and Post Practices: Pranayama, Joints and Glands, Point to Point, Moon Bath
- Creative exploration as a means to process the experience of yoga nidra practice
- History and mythology
- Brain Science and Sleep Hygiene
- Embodying Yoga Nidra and Taking the Seat of the Teacher
- Honoring Sacred Space
- Voice, Pacing and Personalized Scripts
- Vichara
- And more...
Training Dates
You are required to be LIVE in person for 90 percent of the training and all participants are required to be present for the entire Online Yoga Nidra Embodiment Retreat
All training sessions will take place at:
- 12pm-4pm PT
- 1pm-5pm MT
- 2pm-6pm CT
- 3pm-7pm ET
- For international participants, please click on each date, as the end of daylight savings will shift the timing depending on your timezone.
Training Dates:
- Saturday March 22
- Sunday, March 23
- Wednesday, April 23
- Saturday, May 17
- Sunday, May 18
- Wednesday, June 18
Online Yoga Nidra Embodiment Retreat:
Course Breakdown:
- 40 hours LIVE online teaching
- 10 hour Subtle Body Wisdom pre-requisite (if accepted into the training, you will receive this course to complete prior to the training, as part of your deposit)
- 38 hours home study/ mentorship/ online learning (approximately 2.5 hour a week across the 16 week course)
- 20 hours self-sadhana
108-hr Yoga Alliance CEUs
About the Prerequisite:
Subtle Body Wisdom
If you are accepted into the training and place a deposit, you will receive access to Subtle Body Wisdom, a 10-hour self-paced, pre-recorded course that explores the subtle maps of the gunas, panchamaya koshas, chakras, and prana vayus, guided by Tracee Stanley and Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez.
This 10-hour course is included in the 108 hours of the training and is also included as part of your deposit.
The training includes:
- 3-Day Online Yoga Nidra Certification Retreat
- Yoga Nidra Practice Recordings and Resources (video and mp3)
- Online Classes via Zoom
- Online Homework and Study Materials
- Yoga Nidra Journal
- 108-hour Yoga Alliance CEU
- Certification upon completion of the full program and final exam
- 3 months of FREE access to Radiance Subscription
“Yoga nidra was the first 30–day practice I did... it was life changing.“
After the first two days I noticed I was breathing more deeply, fully. I practice yoga nidra in the afternoon, and immediately I noticed I had more energy for the rest of the day. After a week I noticed I felt peaceful and content even in the middle of work and general life stress. It was like finding a magic reset button that I could press whenever I needed. At the end of the 30 days I felt an internal stillness and quiet. It was a sense of confidence or faith in self that I’ve never known before…a state of being. It was contentment beyond the everyday stresses and realities of being a working mother with young children. Yoga nidra even shifted things in a positive way in my relationships with others – my husband and my children. I was softer, more patient, more loving. I felt I had access to greater internal resources during times of stress. I am still in awe of the power of this one practice to transform from the inside out.”
—Shivani M, Certified Sankalpa Shakti Teacher
Applications are now open
Please note the submission, interview, and registration process:
1. If you are interested in this training, please submit the application.
2. Following a review of your application, we may reach out to you for an interview.
3. If you are approved to register following the interview, you will receive registration instructions.
Tuition:
- Training registration is $2,595
- Once you are approved to register, you may save your spot with a $300 deposit that will count toward the full tuition. (Deposits are non-refundable but are able to be applied to another training with Tracee and Chanti taken within a year.)
- 5-month payment plans are available and must begin no later than March 1, 2025
- Financial scholarship application will be available for approved applicants
Interested in learning more about the training?
Watch the replay of our previous live info session
Meet Your Guides
Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez is a Cuban-American artist-author, ritualist, and non-clinical depth psychologist. She believes that images speak a profound language; her life’s work is a translator of the unseen and an advocate for the imaginal. She holds two master's degrees in Engaged Humanities and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. In 2023 she completed her doctoral dissertation Navegando Liminal: Rituals to Translate the Image of the Wound. Her work and teaching follows and welcomes, imagination, creativity, dreaming, and deep rest.
She teaches workshops, and collaborative training focused on creativity, yantra painting, dreaming, intuitive movement, myth, restorative yoga, and yoga nidra. Her passion and aim are to inspire all to rediscover their creative self by weaving the blessings with the wounds while honoring the land and ancestors.
Dr. Chanti also works individually with clients using a transdisciplinary approach through creative therapeutics.
Learn more at yantrawisdom.com
Tracee Stanley (she/her) is the author of the bestselling book Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity and The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices & Rituals to Remember Who You Are (Shambhala Publications). Tracee is the founder of Empowered Life Circle, a sacred community and portal of practices, rituals, and Tantric teachings inspired by more than 28 years of studentship in Sri Vidya Tantra and the teachings of the Himalayan Masters. Tracee is devoted to sharing the wisdom of yoga nidra, rest, meditation, self-inquiry, nature as a teacher, and ancestor reverence. Tracee holds certificates from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Advanced Eco-Therapy, New Thinking, Best Practices, and Emerging Modalities and a certificate in Advanced Ecopsychology.
Tracee is gifted in illuminating the magic and power found in liminal space and weaving devotion and practice into daily life.
Learn more at traceestanley.com