Yoga Nidra and the Chakras: From Inner Vision to Universal Consciousness
Registration opens Monday October 12

Ajna Chakra Training - Oct 29 + 30
Sahasrara Chakra Training - Nov 19 + 20

Reconnect with your own essence through Ajna, then explore your connection to the wider ocean of consciousness through Sahasrara. Join either training individually or take both. 

AJNA - INSIGHT, INTUITION & VISION

Our reality is shaped by what passes across the screen of our mind. Ajna, the third-eye chakra, is the center of insight, intuition, and vision—the starting point for envisioning what we wish to bring into our lives. Manifestation begins with visualization: before we can bring a possibility to life, we must be able to imagine it. By becoming aware of the thoughts and images we return to, we can begin to choose what we play across that inner screen and take a more conscious role in creating our reality.

Thursday evening’s Restorative / Yoga Nidra to Balance Ajna is one of Mona’s signature Restorative / Yoga Nidra workshops. It combines gentle asana and yummy restorative poses to the sound of a soothing sound bath, with optional gentle hands-on adjustments and the aroma of essential oils for in-studio participants, followed by a long practice integrating all nine steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra. The practice invites awareness inward toward Ajna to quiet mental clutter and clear the screen of the mind. Online participants are welcome.

Friday afternoon’s three-hour training includes reflection on the workshop, a shorter practice, and exploration of how to adapt all nine steps to balance this energetic center. Learn to create practices for yourself or your students, including shorter practices you can integrate into your classes and daily life.

SAHASRARA - CONNECTION, WISDOM & INSPIRATION

In the yogic understanding, Sahasrara, the crown chakra, connects our individual awareness with the unified field of consciousness—the ocean of which each of us is a drop. Through this connection, we invite wisdom, inspiration, and joy into everyday life, bringing our inner and outer worlds into resonance.

Thursday evening’s Restorative / Yoga Nidra to Balance Sahasrara combines gentle asana and yummy restorative poses to the sound of a soothing sound bath, with optional gentle hands-on adjustments and the aroma of essential oils for in-studio participants, followed by a long practice integrating all nine steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra. The practice moves through the chakras along the spine, inviting balance in each energetic center, opening us to the ocean of consciousness, and bringing that connection back into our lives. Online participants are welcome.

Friday afternoon’s three-hour training includes reflection on the workshop, a shorter practice, and exploration of how to adapt the nine steps of Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra to balance the chakras and support connection through Sahasrara. Learn to create practices for personal use or teaching, bringing the experience of wisdom and inspiration into everyday life.

EACH TRAINING INCLUDES A FOLLOW-UP Q&A
Join Mona on Zoom on a Saturday morning approximately two weeks after each training. Bring questions arising from your own practice or your experience sharing the practices with students.

Reach out to rumika@ishtayoga.com with questions.

REGISTRATION
One chakra: $195 | Both chakras: $375
Special savings for ISHTA Members, trainees, ISHTA Acharyas, and returning participants (savings will be reflected at checkout when signed into your Momence account)

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Helen Keller 

A training rooted in Mona’s lifetime experience with Yoga Nidra

This training is grounded in Mona’s 40 years of relationship with Yoga Nidra — beginning with her first experience of the practice as a teenager growing up in India. Over the past two decades, she has devoted herself to studying, practicing, and refining this work, co-creating the nine-step system of Yoga Nidra developed by Mona and ISHTA founder, Alan Finger.

This method supports deep rest, expanded awareness, and the release of past, present, and even future impressions. Students often describe feeling lighter, clearer, inspired, and more deeply connected to their own inner guidance.

Testimonials

  • “I highly recommend Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra training to anyone who wants to learn more about this powerful practice. Mona’s knowledge of the science, energetics, and healing qualities of Yoga Nidra is incomparable to anyone else’s in the field. Her love & passion for yoga is only surpassed by her generosity of spirit. Learning from Mona is an absolute delight.”

    ~ Sarah Finger, ISHTA co-owner and Yogiraj

  • ” Words cannot express the gratitude I have for your training this week. You encompass such great wisdom, and you are a true yogi. You opened my eyes to the magical wonders of Nidra.”

    ~ Michael Ryan, Massage Therapist

  • ”What a great training! Packed with well rounded information about Yoga Nidra. Fun, inspiring, and easy to incorporate into my teaching and my own practice. And FUN, did I mention fun?! Mona is a fantastic teacher. ”

    ~ Mark Waterman, Massage Therapist, Marma Trainer, Yoga Teacher

  • “I am so grateful for having taken Mona’s Yoga Nidra training at ISHTA! I have a regular practice of yoga nidra, both when I take her classes and in my own practice. So, being able to delve more deeply into the practice was a gift for me. Mona’s training is immensely beneficial to yoga teachers, who want to incorporate yoga nidra in to our classes, as well as students who simply want to incorporate yoga nidra in to their own lives. In the training, we were given a lot of really helpful information on the individual steps that make up yoga nidra, as well as scientific reasons behind why and how it works. All fascinating! Also, Mona offers a lot of sequencing options as well as suggestions for shorter and longer practices. I was so happy to learn more about how to use yoga nidra in the context of energetic imbalances as well as therapeutic applications like PTSD, chronic pain, and emotional and sleep issues. We had lots of opportunities to practice on each other, which was so helpful. We also had daily yoga nidra practices, which allowed us to experience all we were learning first hand… Plus they were led by Mona, which is a treat unto itself. Mona manages to. weave all of this wonderful information together in a fun, practical, and very creative manner. Her brilliance in her knowledge of all these areas is so profoundly inspiring and her enthusiasm and presence are always a sheer delight. Thank you, Mona”

    ~ Dionyssia Fillios, ISHTA Yoga Teacher, RYT-500

  • “The Yoga Nidra Teacher Training is the most valuable speciality teacher training I have taken. As a yoga teacher, the tools offered by Mona Anand in this training have been very important in many parts of how I structure my classes, from how I bring my students into a state of focus and good feeling, to the final relaxation. My Yoga Nidra practice has transformed my life, I am able to calm down and sleep better, as well as be more present in daily life. I am so grateful that this training is offered.”

    ~ Jenny Bloom, ISHTA Yoga Teacher, RYT-500

  • “When the yoga nidra training was announced, I couldn’t sign up quickly enough. After having completed the 300hr ISHTA training with Mona as my mentor and having a taste of “Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra” technique as part of that training, I was eager to spend more time with both. The transmission of this work from Mona to her students is nothing short of magical. Her tremendous knowledge and insights of yoga coupled with her well-known humor is a potent combination. However, when the transmission is yoga nidra there is something almost other-wordly that occurs. Her passion for this work is in every word she speaks, whether one is being guided through a yoga nidra by her or is in the midst of learning this powerful technique from her. The class content was interesting and thorough and Mona creates a warm and engaging environment that allows for an even more satisfying learning experience.”

    ~ Tisha Ford, ISHTA Yoga Teacher, RYT-500