Mona Anand’s ISHTA Yoga Nidra Training
January 22 - 25, 2026
Thursday evening, Friday - Sunday
Early Bird pricing through December 20th and space in-studio is limited, Training can be taken both in-studio and online.
A Transformative 4-Day Immersion
Join Mona Anand for a transformative 4-day immersion experiencing Yoga Nidra as a powerful tool for releasing tension, supporting deep relaxation and sleep, awakening creativity, and reconnecting to your deeper purpose. In this training, you learn to access the expanded state of awareness that Yoga Nidra opens — a state where deep rest, insight, and healing naturally arise.
This immersion blends ancient yogic wisdom with modern science to explore the subtle body, sleep cycles, and the profound restorative state experienced in Yoga Nidra. You’ll learn to inhabit the hypnagogic state — the luminous threshold between wakefulness and sleep — a state that offers access to the subconscious and unconscious - to release of physical, mental, and emotional holding.
Why take this Training? Yoga Nidra offers:
A powerful antidote to chronic stress, anxiety, and exhaustion
Tools for sleep issues and deep relaxation
Access to expanded states of consciousnes
A way to release tension stored in the body and min
A pathway to creativity, clarity, and intuitive insight
A method that supports both personal healing and professional teaching
In This Training, You Will Learn:
An in depth experience and study of each of the nine step system of yoga nidra developed by Mona and ISHTA founder Alan FInger.
The philosophy and science behind Yoga Nidra
How Yoga Nidra works on the subtle body
The science of sleep cycles + brainwave states
How deep rest releases physical, mental, and emotional tension
How to guide others into the hypnagogic state
How to design, sequence, and guide short, mid length, and long Yoga Nidra practices
How to integrate Yoga Nidra into asana, restorative, and yin yoga classes
How Yoga Nidra supports creativity, clarity, and ease
Open to all practitioners. Yoga teachers receive 25 YACEP CE credits.
This is a 25 hour training, including pre-recorded training content. A complimentary month of Yoga Nidra with Mona on Teachable (Mona’s monthly online subscription) is also included for all participants.
Dates: Thursday - Sunday, Jan 22 - 25, 2026
Times:
Thursday (Online), 6:30 - 9 pm.
Friday (In-studio or Online), 9 - 12 pm + 2 - 4:45 pm.
Saturday (Online) 9 - 11 am + 12:30 - 4:45 (In-studio or Online).
Sunday (In-studio or Online), 12 - 5 pm.
Where: 816 Broadway + online
Price: EB $495. Regular $595. Use code EB100 in checkout for early bird pricing. For more information, or to sign up with special ISHTA member or Acharya pricing, please email rumika@ishtayoga.com
“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. When the transmission is yoga nidra there is something almost other-wordly that occurs.” - Tisha Ford
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.
“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
Testimonials
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“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
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” 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
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”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, Marama Trainer, Yoga Teacher
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“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
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“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
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“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
