Who This Yoga Nidra Workshop Is For…

This Fredericksburg Yoga Nidra workshop is well-suited for:

• Individuals experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, or burnout

• People recovering from trauma or chronic stress

• Those seeking trauma-informed yoga or somatic therapy alternatives

• Highly sensitive individuals or nervous system-aware practitioners

• Anyone wanting deep rest without physical strain

  ** No yoga or meditation experience is required. All practices are invitational and adaptable.

Workshop Overview: Nervous System Healing Through Rest

Each session in this Yoga Nidra therapy-informed workshop builds on the last, creating a sense of continuity and trust while supporting long-term nervous system regulation.

Session 1: Grounding and Safety

• Focus: Establishing internal safety and predictability

• Nervous System Target: Parasympathetic activation

• Participants are guided toward a felt sense of safety and stability, laying the foundation for deep rest.

Session 2: Letting the Body Rest

• Focus: Releasing chronic tension, fatigue, and hypervigilance

• Nervous System Target: Down-regulating chronic stress responses

• This session supports physical and emotional restoration through sustained rest.

Session 3: Reclaiming Choice and Agency

• Focus: Restoring autonomy and inner authority

• Nervous System Target: Vagal tone and self-efficacy

• Participants reconnect with their capacity for choice, boundaries, and self-direction.

Session 4: Integration and Gentle Forward Movement

• Focus: Applying nervous system regulation to daily life

• Nervous System Target: Integration of regulation with action

• The final session supports carrying calm, awareness, and self-trust into everyday experiences.

Are you ready to deepen your self-awareness and bring more peace and creativity into your daily life?

What Is Yoga Nidra?

Yoga Nidra is a meditation-based nervous system regulation practice that activates the parasympathetic nervous system, supporting rest, recovery, and emotional processing. Unlike traditional yoga classes, Yoga Nidra is practiced lying down or seated comfortably and requires no physical movement.

This trauma-informed Yoga Nidra workshop emphasizes:

• Safety and predictability

• Choice and autonomy

• Gentle awareness of the body

• Nervous system education and integration

This approach makes Yoga Nidra especially supportive for individuals healing from trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, or emotional exhaustion.

Yoga Nidra: The Importance of Integration with Mental Health Therapy

1. Promotes Deep Nervous System Regulation

Yoga Nidra, most commonly thought of as a deeply restful, guided meditation, allows the body

and mind to enter a state between wakefulness and sleep. In this deeply relaxed state,

the parasympathetic nervous system becomes dominant.

• Yoga Nidra helps counteract chronic stress, trauma responses, and anxiety.

• It supports physiological calming, reducing heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol levels.

• The practice of Yoga Nidra helps access a grounded, regulated state that increases receptivity to therapeutic work.

2. Facilitates Access to the Subconscious

Unlike traditional relaxation, Yoga Nidra leads practitioners through systematic awareness of

the body and breath, often incorporating visualization and intention-setting (Sankalpa).

• This creates a bridge between conscious and unconscious processes, allowing clients to safely explore emotional material that may be difficult to access in other ways.

• It supports trauma integration by fostering nonverbal processing, which is a crucial complement to cognitive approaches.

3. Supports Trauma Recovery

For trauma survivors, Yoga Nidra provides a non-invasive somatic entry point for healing.

• It allows clients to experience body awareness without triggering the hypervigilance that can arise in more active practices.

• Studies show that body-based mindfulness practices help re-establish a sense of safety in the body, which is essential for trauma recovery.

• It aligns well with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and trauma-informed frameworks, where inner parts can be noticed compassionately without judgment.

4. Improves Sleep, Mood, and Emotional Regulation

Yoga Nidra helps address common symptoms like insomnia, depression, and anxiety by

teaching the body how to enter deep rest.

• Regular practice improves sleep quality and reduces rumination, promoting mood stabilization.

• It enhances interoceptive awareness, allowing one to notice and manage emotional and physical cues of distress.

5. Encourages Mind-Body Integration

Psychotherapy often focuses on cognitive and emotional processing, while Yoga Nidra

supports somatic integration, helping align cognitive mental insights with body-based calm.

• This balance strengthens self-awareness, reduces dissociation, and cultivates a felt sense of safety and wholeness.

• Yoga Nidra provides an embodied practice that can be used independently between sessions.

6. Accessible for Diverse Populations

Yoga Nidra requires no movement and can be practiced lying down or seated, making it

accessible for ALL.

Trauma-Informed, Therapy-Aligned Care

This workshop is led by Camille LoRocco, MSW, a trauma-informed clinician who integrates nervous system science, somatic awareness, and gentle therapeutic practices. Camille’s approach prioritizes emotional safety, consent, and respect for each participant’s lived experience.

This series is not a fitness-based yoga class, but a therapeutic, nervous-system-focused Yoga Nidra experience aligned with modern trauma treatment principles.