Yoga Nidra Teacher Training

‘An invitation to go deeper’

This Yoga Nidra Teacher Training, is as much an opportunity to deepen your spiritual journey, as it is to experience a sense of community. This is a ten month training beginning in May 2024, Scheduled across two weekdays per month.

Excluding December 2024 as our winter break.

Our time together will hold an architecture of the divine, working with traditional Yoga methods drawn from Bihar School of Yoga, some Tantrika Practices, as well as Brahman philosophy. As expanding on a rich discovery of spiritual awakening, the application of Yoga Nidra and how to hold a group.

This will include an exam in March 2025. You will achieve an affiliated Certification.

This training will be held by Swami Hamsa Jnanananda Saraswati, who has devotedthe last thirty years to others & their spiritual evolution. Swami Hamsa is an Author,& Founder of an Ashram in the Indian Himalayas.

Born in Hampshire 1972, Swami Hamsas father was a Yogi in the 1950s, before itbecame popular. He gave her the opportunity to look East & trust her inner knowing,from a young age. She now has students across the globe in countries includingCanada, the US, Germany and Australia to name but a few.

The Retreat-New Forest is honoured to have her calm grace and offerings here, as her exclusive UK teaching venue.

For more information email us on hello@theretreatnewforest.co.uk

Swami Hamsa Jnanananda

Swami Hamsa Jnanananda is an official English Holy Person, living
Between India, Internationally & the UK in a devotional life. Her gentleness & sacred presence pervades in her offerings & Training’s. Available exclusively at The Retreat New Forest, in the UK & India.

Swami Hamsa has spent over thirty years in spiritual life, including eighteen years with a Tantrica tradition, ten years of Ashram style living, both in the UK & the Indian Himalayas. Where she built a Yoga Ashram Meditation Facility, next door to HH Dali Lama, who was her neighbour.

She took devotional life, full time in 2013 as Sannyas with Swami Nishchalananda, Founder of Mandala Yoga Ashram in Wales. Later was given Diksha Initiation as Swami in 2017 with Bihar School of Yoga India in 2017.

She has spent long retreats in solitude in the Indian jungle, living in a leaf house, developing deep connection with wild leopards and all the abundance of unexpected life there.
Born of this experience is a vulnerability & grace that touches everyone she meets.

In 2023 Swami Hamsa became "A Worlds First Woman."
As a worlds first white female Brahman, given full Brahman rites, at the Holy Water Temple Lake, of Pushkar India. A great honour.
She lives part of each year at the Royal Ghat there with the Rajrishi family who were once Gurus to the kings of India.

2023 also saw the publication of her beautiful book, a translation of the ancient Sanskrit text
The Baghavad Gita, a Gyana Yoga book, used specifically for illumination & Moksha.
Published in India & available at The Retreat, New Forest in the new year.