YOGA NIDRA RETREAT – In- Person & Online
Deep Relaxation, Healing & Increasing Awareness
5 – 11 June, 2025 – Olympus, Greece
Online Course – April & May 2026
Discover the Art of Deep Relaxation
Unlock the secrets of Yoga Nidra to restore balance, calm the mind, and heal from within.
Developing Awareness
Our greatest gift in life is to become Aware, to live in the present moment. This retreat will guide you to living a life of Awareness.
Learn to Teach with Confidence
You can also gain practical skills to guide others on their journey of relaxation and healing.
A deep study into the Science of Yoga Nidra
Welcome to our Yoga Nidra In-person Retreat or our Online workshop, where we invite you to explore the profound science and ancient practice of deep relaxation and healing. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or an aspiring instructor, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to learn, experience, and deepen your understanding of Yoga Nidra— the renowned yogic practice that promotes deep rest, restores balance, and facilitates personal and also spirtual growth.
This retreat blends the science, philosophy, and practical applications of Yoga Nidra with the healing, restorative benefits it offers to both body and mind. Healing comes when we can purify the sub conscious mind, and when we learn to live in the present moment, rather than the past and future.
A true practice of Yoga Nidra develops the capacity for living life in Awareness.
What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra, often referred to as “Yogic sleep,” is a state of conscious relaxation where the body rests deeply, while the mind remains awake and aware. In this state, practitioners experience profound peace and rejuvenation, accessing layers of the subconscious mind for healing, transformation, and personal growth. On the other side Yoga Nidra is a complete path, that can actually lead behind the stages of consciousness direct to Turiya, a form of samadhi, which is the re- discovery of our natural state of pure consciousness.
Yoga Nidra is not just about relaxation; it’s a powerful tool for reducing stress, improving sleep, enhancing self-awareness, and fostering emotional balance. In its therapeutic form, it is used to promote healing from trauma, anxiety, and burnout, making it an essential practice for modern life.
What You Will Learn in This Workshop
This retreat and workshop offers a relaxing and comprehensive journey to deepen your knowledge, refine your skills, and for those that wish it can also provide you with the tools to share this profound practice with others
The Science of Yoga Nidra
Understanding the mechanisms behind Yoga Nidra can enhance the depth of your practice. In this retreat and workshop, we will explore the scientific aspects of the practice, including:
- Neurological Benefits: How Yoga Nidra activates the parasympathetic nervous system, inducing a “rest and digest” state that reduces cortisol and promotes healing.
- Brainwave States: The role of alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves in the deeper stages of relaxation and how these states contribute to stress reduction, memory consolidation, and emotional healing.
- Mind-Body Connection: The physical and psychological benefits of deep relaxation and its impact on emotional well-being, mental clarity, and overall health.
- Neuroscience of Trauma: How Yoga Nidra can help regulate the nervous system and facilitate trauma release by reprogramming subconscious patterns.
The Structure of a Yoga Nidra Session
Learn how to guide and experience a Yoga Nidra session, which typically consists of the following key components:
- Preparation and Intention Setting (Sankalpa): This involves creating a personal affirmation or intention that serves as a guiding force throughout the session.
- Body Scan: A methodical relaxation of each part of the body, helping to bring awareness and release tension.
- Breath Awareness and Pranayama: Techniques that deepen relaxation and focus the mind that also use the breath, enhancing the healing process.
- Visualization and Sankalpa Integration: Using imagery and well guided visualisations to explore the subconscious and manifest positive changes.
- Integration and Grounding: Bringing the experience of deep relaxation into conscious awareness to ensure its lasting effects.
Practical Applications and Techniques
Explore practical tools that can be incorporated into your daily life and yoga teaching:
- Stress Management: How Yoga Nidra can reduce stress and anxiety, supporting mental health and emotional well-being.
- Trauma Healing: Techniques for using Yoga Nidra to release trauma, with special focus on safety and sensitivity.
- Enhancing Sleep Quality: Learn how to use Yoga Nidra as a tool to improve the quality of your sleep and overcome insomnia.
- Guided Sessions: How to lead your own sessions and offer Yoga Nidra as a healing modality to others, whether in a one-on-one or group setting.
Teaching Yoga Nidra
For those looking to teach Yoga Nidra, this workshop will cover essential skills, including:
- How to Teach the Authentic, Traditional Therefore Scientic Method of Yoga Nidra: The are many diluted practices of Yoga Nidra available, we ensure that you learn the complete eight stages of the practice to receive the most profound results.
- Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment: Establishing a space conducive to relaxation and healing, including voice modulation and tone.
- Adapting Yoga Nidra for Different people: Learn how to modify the practice for various needs, including children, seniors, and those with physical or mental health challenges.
- Structuring Your Classes: How to design and structure a Yoga Nidra class, ensuring it’s accessible, effective, and transformative for all participants.
- Ethical Considerations and Boundaries: Understanding the importance of holding space for students in a mindful, ethical, and compassionate way.
Why Attend This Workshop?
For Practitioners
- If you’re looking to deepen your practice, relieve stress, and experience the healing benefits of Yoga Nidra firsthand, this workshop is for you. Whether you’re seeking emotional balance, better sleep, or a deeper connection to your inner self, Yoga Nidra offers transformative tools.
For Aspiring Teachers
- For those that are looking to share this practice with others, this workshop provides a comprehensive foundation to confidently teach Yoga Nidra. Gain the practical skills, scientific knowledge, and understanding of its therapeutic potential to share this powerful practice with others.
For Healing and Relaxation
- The workshop serves as both a retreat and a learning experience. It’s an opportunity to nourish your body and mind, rejuvenate your spirit, and gain valuable tools to promote healing and relaxation in your own life and in the lives of others.
Increasing Awareness
- The ultimate reason for all of our spiritual practice, and the deeper reason for our human existence, is to increase Awareness. Awareness is the light of consciousness, it is the ability to live life in the present moment – by not identifying who we are from the thought patterns of psychological past and future. It is to recognise through direct perception our true nature of stillness, calmness and pure consciousness.
Who Can Attend?
Anyone can attend either IN-person at Olympus or the Online Workshop!
This workshop is open to yoga practitioners of all levels, from beginners to advanced, as well as yoga teachers looking to integrate Yoga Nidra into their classes or therapeutic practices.
It is also ideal for individuals seeking relaxation, stress relief, and emotional healing, or anyone interested in learning how to guide Yoga Nidra sessions and incorporate this transformative practice into their personal or professional life.
The Online option is especially helpful for those unable to travel.
Highlights
Deep Immersion in Relaxation: Experience multiple Yoga Nidra sessions designed to help you release stress, restore energy, and recalibrate your mind and body.
Holistic Approach: A blend of practical instruction, guided sessions, scientific insights, and self-reflection to deepen your understanding of the practice.
Expert Guidance: Led by Yorgos Aryavrat, an experienced Yoga Nidra instructor with extensive knowledge {spanning over 35 years} of both the practice and its therapeutic applications.
Personalised Consultation: Time for one-on-one coaching to address your specific needs and goals, whether for personal growth or teaching aspirations.
Certification Opportunity: For those looking to teach Yoga Nidra, a Satya Loka school certificate will be available to support your professional development.
In-Person Daily Schedule
8:00 AM: Yoga & Pranayama
9:00 AM: Breakfast
10:30 AM: Meditation Theory & Meditation Practice
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM: Yoga Nidra Practice
1:30 PM: Lunch
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM: Yoga Nidra Practice
4:30 PM: Tea break
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Yoga Nidra Theory
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Dinner
7:45 PM – 8:30 PM: Yoga Nidra Practice
Online Live & Recorded Classes
6 Weeks over April – May 2026
Weekly : Yoga Nidra x 2 sessions,
Meditation x 1 – all guided by Yorgos
Theory and Integration Guidance with Yorgos
Access to a live Yoga Class with Radasi
YOUR INVESTMENT
6 Day Yoga Nidra Workshop
Twin room share with private bathroom- Investment includes:
- Shared twin room with attached bathroom
- 3 Daily meals and beverages and unlimited fruit or snacks
- Guidance from experienced teacher
- Printed and Digital Yoga Nidra Practice and Guidelines booklet
- Support with travel planning
6 Day Yoga Nidra Workshop
Single room with private bathroom- Investment includes:
- Private room with private bathroom
- 3 Daily meals and beverages and unlimited fruit or snacks
- Guidance from experienced teacher
- Printed and Digital Yoga Nidra Practice and Guidelines booklet
- Support with travel planning
Online Workshop
Over 6 weeks- Investment includes:
- Live Access to all 25hrs teaching material
- All classes recorded and can be accessed until 21st December 2026 on our Teachable study platform
- Guidance from experienced teacher
- Digital Yoga Nidra Practice and Guidelines booklet
PAYMENTS & CANCELLATION
To secure your spot a non-refundable deposit of €200 is required. We understand that life can be unpredictable, so in exceptional circumstances, we may consider transferring your deposit to another course or retreat within Satya Loka. However, if the deposit is made through third-party platforms, we must maintain a strict non-refundable policy.
The final balance is paid 2 weeks prior to the retreat, or potentially upon arrival.
Venue
The retreat takes place in the region of Mount Olympus, Greece, held in a beautiful venue 800 meters above sea level with breathtaking views of sunrises over the Aegean Sea and pristine landscapes. The venue, a traditional yet modernized Greek building in a small quiet village, offers stunning walks all around.
Olympus’s massif is home to unique flora and fauna, with over 17,000 plant species representing roughly a third of Greece’s flora. All the water we drink and bathe in comes from natural springs. The venue sits amid lush forests, overlooking mountains that lead into the sea, where we have our daily yoga practice, studies, and time to rest in the beautiful nature.
TRAVEL SUPPORT
The closest airport to the venue is Thessaloniki {SKG}, and the closest village to us is Leptokarya, which is easily approachable by train or bus from Thessaloniki and Athens. The distance from Thessaloniki is 1 hour and from Athens it is 4 hours depending on the wait time.
The trains are excellent, from Thessaloniki they are direct, and if travelling from Athens you change the train at Larisa train station.
The buses are reliable, cheap and comfortable and are direct from Athens, and from Thessaloniki you change in Katerini bus station.
Once at Leptokarya we are just a 30 minute taxi journey up the beautiful mountain pass.
For those that prefer you can also book easily a taxi direct to the venue from Thessaloniki airport for 130 euros.
We also create a WhatsApp group where you can co-ordinate your travel plans with other participants, and we are always happy to provide guidance and support to make sure your journey is safe and smooth.
Meet Your Teachers
Yorgos Aryavrat
From the early age of seventeen Yorgos began meditating, pursuing spiritual efforts and deepening his studies in Orthodox mysticism and gnostic Christianity. On the path of awareness he has always been interested in direct experiencing and understanding the inner life than perusing through intellect and reading. He was initiated into to the Kriya Yoga lineage and practices, which complimented and deepened his previous experiences.
Now Yorgos is an initiated teacher of Shivoham Tantra, and dedicates himself to holding in-depth meditation and Yoga Nidra retreats with his deep presence and calm nature, people simply feel at home.
Radasi Aryavrat
Radasi lives her life immersed and deeply inspired by places of pristine nature and sacred connection. She is a seasoned tantric practitioner and embodies the practices she teaches through a devoted and dedicated 28 years of Yogic exploration.
Yoga, Traditional Tantra, Meditation, Ritual, Holistic living and Mental health awareness are all merged as one pathway for revealing her own deepest nature, our natural state of presence.
She has been teaching Hatha Kundalini Yoga and Tantra since 2007, and serves as a counsellor and spiritual guide with her down to earth and loving embrace.
TESTIMONIALS
“I got so much more than what I came for. So much depth and guidance can only come from teachers with so much experience in their own spiritual path. Radasi is not just a Yoga teacher but a spiritual teacher that carries a lot of wisdom. This TTC was not only about learning about Yoga and Tantra, but an intense spiritual journey for my soul, and maybe that’s what it is all about. Learning about yourself, practicing what you teach.”
“Satya Loka represents the true connection with the ancient wisdom. In the most respectful way,
Satya Loka is giving us a chance to merge with the tantric traditions. Radasi’s path of devotion and service is her honest lifetime mission and a source of guidance. She has the ability to reach
people’s shadows and pain on a soul level and bring them to light in a very healing way. She has my respect because she walks her path while embracing her full strength and feminine essence.”
Such a special experience with Satya Loka in this beautiful venue in the mountains in Greece. Deeply honoured to have received the knowledge and wisdom and high standard teaching in this beautiful retreat of Radasi and Yorgos. I personally enjoyed the connection to nature, creative times and especially the authenticity and devotion of Radasi’s and Yorgos’ teaching. Highly recommending to everyone who is interested and open to experience traditional practices!”
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