"In a million years, 1 tiever thought tha t I'd be teaching yoga," Lillis-Hearne says. Within a few months, she was training to be a Kri-paiu instructor herself. You have to remember that there's a part of you that's never been touched by trauma.įrom pain and confusion to a state of feeling calm, centered, and whole. Much more quickly than she'd expected, she went Very gradually, her headaches became more manageable. It opens up the awareness that you don't know everything, and that you'll have to be open to new ways of being."Īfter her first class in the Yoga Nidra program, Lillis Hearne started sleeping better, "By the second class, I knew f was at home," she says. 'As a result, a typical soldier is more inclined to have a beginner's mind. "Much of military training involves reassembling the internal mental structure to become a warrior," Money says. She says that soldiers with PTSD respond well to the practice because it draws on internal resources during the stress of military life and postbattlc trauma-related disorders. military, who is helping to integrate programs such as iRest (Yoga Nidra) protocols as an adjunctive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder. Nisha Money is a preventive-medicine physician for the U.S. Yoga Nidra may sound like an odd fit for VA hospitals, but it's finding enthusiastic quarter in a military medical establishment dealing with a huge and growing population of traumatized soldiers returning from a nearly decadelong war.
It's still whole, it's still healthy, and it's still intact. They have these thoughts and feelings and images, but they learn to remember that there's a part of them that's never been touched by trauma. But through this practice, she says, soldiers learn that they are more than all these things. It can be tricky to impart this esoteric brand of yoga thought to a military population that has seen and experienced terrible things beyond ordinary imagination, says Soltes, who teaches the iRest protocol at the Washington, DC, VA Medical Center. At the military's suggestion, he renamed it iRest, This is referred to aspuritsha, though Miller deliberately left yoga and Sanskrit terminology out of his program. It introduces the yogic concept of the observing Self, something beyond body, mind, and spirit that never changes, regardless of thoughts, emotions, or experiences. He incorporates breath awareness and "body sensing" but goes beyond that, asking participants to observe their emotions, thoughts, and memories from an objective distance. Miller's program is a 35-minutc guided meditation, initially learned lying down, and then integrated into all body positions. Miller says he designed the program to help returning soldiers find "a place of well-being that was never wounded." Richard Miller, a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and president of the Integrative Restoration Institute in San Rafael, California, has developed a protocol for the military, based on the techniques of Yoga Nidra, that is in use at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, DC the Miami and Chicago VA hospitals and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. It's not sleep as we traditionally know it, but rather a state of conscious sleep used for deep relaxation and subtle spiritual exploration. MILITARY PROTOCOL FOR YOGA? YogaNidra, oryogic sleep, is one of the four states of mind described in the Yoga Sutra.
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