Sacred Rest 2025
Breathe, Heal, Relax, and Renew…
THE DREAM SPACE APP
Relax Heal Connect
Breathe, Heal, Relax, and Renew…
Sacred Rest is a lovingly crafted lush experience of deep healing restorative yoga with Yoga Australia senior yoga teacher Rachel Hanrahan. The is a luscious workshop for all abilities that weaves a gentle fusion of restorative yoga, somatic movement, therapeutic breathing methods, crystal bowl sound healing and the evidence based iRest yoga nidra. You will access deep states of relaxation through para sympathetic nervous system restoration to allow your body and mind to access its own innate healing abilities.
Restorative practices create the rest and relaxation response in our nervous systems which help us tap into our innate ability to heal. The demands of contemporary life often has us stressed and rushed. We can experience anxiety, sleep disorders, injury and illness. Sacred Rest is designed to help bring the body back to a deep sense of healing where we can begin to repair our nervous systems. The results can be improved sleep, digestion, inspiration, health and vitality.
Join Rachel Hanrahan for a deeply restorative experience designed to nurture your body and mind. Sacred Rest combines the gentle practices of restorative yoga, therapeutic breathing, guided meditation, crystal bowl sound healing, and evidence-based iRest yoga nidra.
In this workshop, you’ll be fully supported by blankets, bolsters, and props, allowing you to release tension and relax effortlessly. Restorative poses and breathing techniques work to reset the nervous system, helping you heal from chronic stress, balance your energy, and regain vitality.
The inclusion of iRest yoga nidra offers transformative tools to help you release trauma, increase resilience, and improve both personal well-being and relationships.
Location: This in-person workshop is offered in Naarm/Melbourne, on the lands of the Eastern Kulin Nation. In alignment with Indigenous perspectives, Sacred Rest now honors the seven local seasons, moving away from Eurocentric seasonal divisions.
Restorative Yoga poses help us to learn to relax and rest deeply and completely. Restorative practices are held for an extended period of time and involve being fully supported by blankets, bolsters and other props where no effort is required.
The key to the healing benefits of a restorative practice are the supported poses and breathing practices, which help reset body and mind and heal the effects of chronic stress. A restorative yoga practice assists in balancing the body’s energy and nervous system. It releases tension of the mind and body and assists the adrenal glands to rest. All of which supports the body to heal and gain revitalised energy.
The workshop includes iRest yoga nidra an evidence based transformative practice based on the ancient teachings of meditation that promotes deep healing through integrating unresolved issues and traumas that are present in body and mind. iRest provides you with tools to help you relax deeply, release stress, increase resiliency, improve your interpersonal relationships and provide you with greater mastery and control in your life.
To find out more about restorative yoga and Rachel’s teacher Dr. Judith Hanson Lasater visit: judithhansonlasater.com
To find out more about iRest integrative restoration yoga nidra and Rachel’s teacher Dr. Richard Miller visit: www.irest.us