​​​​​​​Cheryl Fenner Brown C-IAYT​, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Yoga Nidra: Meditation for Busy Minds

OLLI, Fall 2025

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Setting Up for Yoga Nidra:
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation that guides practitioners through a first-person experience of their body, breath, emotions, and imagination in a completely non-judgmental and compassionate manner. It serves as an antidote to the everyday suffering we all face—a brief escape from the internal voices insisting you need to do more and be more. Yoga Nidra reveals the ultimate truth...that you are already enough. In this 10-week course, we will explore the science behind Yoga Nidra and its effects on the brain. Each week, we will focus on one aspect of Yoga Nidra to understand its significance to the whole, and you will engage in guided mindfulness practices to enhance your understanding.
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PLEASE NOTE: This will be a practice-focused course; all participants must safely move from standing to kneeling to lying on the floor. 
​SUPPLIES REQUIRED: a yoga mat, two 4” yoga blocks, a blanket, an 8” yoga strap, and a chair.   

​Week 1:What is Yoga Nidra
Week 2:Setting an Intention
Week 3:Yoga Nidra and the Brain
Week 4:The Body Scan
Week 5:Breath Awareness
Week 6:Dualities
Week 7:The Mindscreen
Week 8:The Guided Journey
Week 9:Returning to Wakefulness
Week 10:Putting it All Together

WEEK 1: Immunity Yoga
Monday, May 12, 2025
Learn how to use a Neti Pot for allergies, as well as floor warm-ups, mudras, and pranayama that boost immunity. 
WEEK 2: Travel Yoga
Monday, May 19, 2025
Simple seated and standing practices to ease hips and back pain during long travel days, plus calming mudra and breath for nervous flyers.​
WEEK 3: Stay Cool​
Monday, June 2, 2025
Set an intention for the new moon and learn cooling movement, mudra and breath to reduce heat, release frustration and stay cool as a cucumber; bonus New Moon Yoga Nidra recording.  
Setting Your Sankalpa Technique and Mudras
WEEK 4: Stay Calm
Monday, June 9, 2025
Learn mind-body techniques that will keep you calm amidst the busy-ness of the summer; bonus Waxing Moon Yoga Nidra recording.
WEEK 5: Stay Collected
Monday, June 16, 2025
Restorative yoga and sound practices to leave you feeling collected and integrated in body, mind and spirit; bonus Full Moon and Waning Moon Yoga Nidra recordings.

Cheryl Fenner Brown, C-IAYT

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I began my yoga teaching journey in 2004 with a 740-hr training with Hatha teachers at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, followed by an 800-hr Integrative Yoga Therapy training at Kripalu in 2015. I am certified as an E-RYT 500 and continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance. In 2016, I was among the first teachers certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. I have taught over 9,300 hours of public classes and workshops and love teaching how posture, breath, and attention can completely transform how they feel in their bodies and about themselves. Students appreciate my deeply educational approach to yoga; I weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Encouraging each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat enables profound self-awareness. I specialize in helping people in midlife (and beyond), those with structural injuries, and cancer patients thrive.

​I began my yoga teaching journey in 2004 with a 740-hr training with Hatha teachers at Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, followed by an 800-hr Integrative Yoga Therapy training at Kripalu in 2015. I am certified as an E-RYT 500 and continuing education provider through Yoga Alliance. In 2016, I was among the first teachers certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. I have taught over 9,300 hours of public classes and workshops and love teaching how posture, breath, and attention can completely transform how they feel in their bodies and about themselves. Students appreciate my deeply educational approach to yoga; I weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Encouraging each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat enables profound self-awareness. I specialize in helping people in midlife (and beyond), those with structural injuries, and cancer patients thrive.