iRest Guided Meditation 8 Week Series
Andrea Blackington
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- Attend live or preregister and get the replay to watch for up to 3 months.
- We encourage you to attend the full series to get the most benefit out of your exploration through each body layer, or kosha, though there is the option to register for individual sessions.
- If you sign up for single sessions and decide you would like to purchase any earlier sessions, please email us and we can bill you for them and Andrea can give you access to the replays.
iRest Yoga Nidra is a guided self-inquiry practice that helps us remember our ever-present wholeness and wellbeing. In this series, we will be moving through the koshas, or energy bodies, week by week to become more familiar with how they function as well as taking time to explore the emerging material in each. By starting with the most dense kosha, the physical, up through the mind and into higher less dense planes, we learn to experience ourselves as a vast being presence with ever changing moods and patterns passing through as messengers. Over time, we become more attuned to the deep presence of who and what we are, allowing us freedom from our commonly held beliefs and limitations, freeing us to explore a greater awareness of spontaneity, creativity, and understanding.
This series is offered in a group setting, but iRest can also be explored more deeply in one-to-one sessions or given for self-practice by gathering tools to build one’s own inner network of available resources. By practicing little and often, the experience expands itself as we interweave an unlimited presence and sense the vastness of our connection to our shared existence.
Each class builds upon the previous classes, starting with a foundational cultivation of a sankalpa, an intention that includes an internal resource as well as unfolding heart-felt calling. We welcome the group experience to be a place for shared inquiry, seeing, allowing, and discussion which can often support further possibilities of acceptance, allowance and creativity in one’s own journey.
Andrea Blackington
Andrea became a Registered Nurse in 2005 and in 2010 was drawn to the healing properties of yoga by the cultivation of spirituality through body awareness. She has been a dedicated practitioner of metaphysical studies since. While deepening into her own journey, she began blending her passion for healing and intuitive development both in her work as a nurse, as well as a restorative yoga and meditation teacher.
She is certifed in Therapeutic Yoga with Cheri Clampett and has studied Yin yoga and Taosist studies with Biff Mithoefer. She is certifed at the 500 hour level in Yoga of Energy Flow Teacher with Daniel Orlansky, trained in Applied Yoga Anatomy with Doug Keller, Ayreveda with Kate O'Donnell, and Yoga Philosophy with Chip Hartranft. She is also certifed in Meridian Yoga with Daniel Orlansky, Restorative Yoga with Jillian Pransky as well as Billie Jo Joy, Thai Yoga Massage with Jennifer Yarro, and Reiki 1 & 2 with Bindy Johnson. She has studied Qi gong with teacher Daisy Lee and is involved in ongoing studies in iRest Yoga Nidra with Jennifer Cabanero and Stephanie Lopez.
Currently, she practices as a level 2 iRest facilitator in group and private practice. Andrea's development as a spiritual guide, teacher and healer continues to expand and she welcomes you to join next to her on your path.