Deep Rest Home Retreat – A Day of Yoga Nidra and Home Rest Practice Toolkit

With James Reeves ONLINE

Join James Reeves from the comfort of your own home to transform your capacity to rest deeply in your everyday environment. 

We all know we need rest. But in this fast-paced world, how good are we at actually taking it, day by day? 

Join us for a deeply restorative Yoga Nidra day retreat, designed not only to give you a game-changing experience of profound rest on the day, but also to set you up comprehensively with a deeply nourishing home rest practice beyond the retreat day itself.

Including access to James Reeves’ signature online audio programme, Rest Now (worth +€35.00) this day retreat offers everything you need to transform your relationship with rest – and with your home as a restful place. 

Dissolve the need for a holiday, a getaway or an expensive price tag to serve as a permission slip to simply stop and let mind and body rest. Ease back into the truth that you can find rest here and now, without great cost, elaborate planning or escapism. Be guided into practices that cut through the noise of goals and ambitions revealing deeper quiet and stillness, and go beyond practices or habits that have become rest-disguised recreation. 
Something so much simpler, deeper, richer and more immediately available is right here waiting for you – join us to uncover it!

• Learn to set up a straightforward, returnable and nurturing rest space in your home, and spend a tranquil day with James as your guide. 

• Explore luxuriously paced and expertly crafted yoga nidra and rest practices designed to down-regulate your nervous system.

• Effortlessly befriend yourself, mind and body, to gain access to peace, calm and inner spaciousness. 

• Learn how to break free from guilt about stopping, resolve the anxiety of FOMO, heal time-scarcity around making time to do nothing, and befriend the unknown as you ease into a state of profoundly deep rest. 

• Discover a profoundly spacious, quiet, still and restful inner state that is yours to claim and come home to whenever you need to.

• Reconnect to the knowing that taking ‘time out’ actually improves our capacity to manage our ‘time in’ and enables us to show up more mindfully and generously.

• Get the best of both worlds with a Live online experience to hold you accountable and in connection with like-minded people, and experience a self-paced journey in your own time, moving through the structured Rest Now course. 

If it’s been a while since you sighed the sigh of relief of having some you-time, then this retreat is for you. If you crave more down-time in your day-to-day life, this retreat is for you. If you want to break through your resistance to rest and dive into the peaceful ocean of calm beneath the surface tension of ‘not getting around to it’, then this retreat was made for you. If you struggle to unplug, limit distractions, or to deal with the anxiety around what will happen or who you will become if you (even temporarily) sidestep the zeitgeist’s relentless focus on productivity, then this retreat is for you. 

This event has been designed not as a ‘one-off’ experience of yoga nidra, but as the catalyst for a journey beyond (insert date) that empowers you to embark on your own guided and supported home rest practice.

With over 20 years’ experience leading rest practices, James is a thoroughly experienced facilitator and practitioner of Yoga Nidra. Known for his down-to-earth approach, warmth, humanness and personability, he is recognised internationally for his compassionate, grounded and welcoming presence.

• Details about the day

  This event will be hosted online, via Zoom. You will receive recordings from the day, for your own use and review, and to recreate the essence of this day if you wish to.

  ‘Rest Now’ Audio Companion Course
  
  Your ticket to the day retreat and recordings includes access to James Reeves’ signature audio course, Rest Now, which offers you a comprehensive introduction to yoga nidra and comprises eight MP3 recordings (four introduction talks and four full length practices), and an accompanying 30 page rest guide in PDF format, designed to help you deepen your experience of rest.

  Rest Now will support you beyond the Day Retreat Event to:

  • Create your own desert island in life, without the need to get away from anything or anyone

  • Unravel from guilt and shame about stopping

  • Be better able to face that restless part of you that might seem ever more present whenever you do try to stop (such as a ‘monkey mind’)

  • Experience how a meditative state does not require you to have any knowledge or skills

  • Come to know the part of you that is always at rest, so that in frantic or unsettled periods of life you can call on this restfulness, even amidst the storm

  • Experience how rest can, contrary to expectations, increase your productivity and energy levels

  • Notice the opportunities amidst your current day-to-day life to enjoy the benefits of a natural pause - i.e. see that you might not necessarily have to ‘create’ space in your life, just notice where it is already

• Suggestions for how to get the most out of this day:

  • Ensure you can find a place to rest, without being disturbed by family members, house mates etc. Make agreements that you’ll be left undisturbed for the day with the people you share space with, ahead of time. 

  • Have a comfortable palace to rest. Blankets, pillows, cushions, candles, incense, eye pillow (if you like them), other props that would support you to be comfortable.

  • Be willing to stay off of email, instagram, facebook, google and other tech stimulus for the entire day.

  • Rest between sessions. Please take nature walks, drink tea, sit on the sofa, gaze out the window. Be willing to refrain from work calls, family communication, emails, online shopping and other distractions for the entire day. 

  • Be willing to experience restlessness as part of the day. Unplugging from the demands of life can leave us feeling fidgety, restless, preoccupied and with a noisy mind. This is completely normal.

  Trust yourself to experience the day as it comes – don’t put yourself under pressure to ‘soak it all up’, remember everything or take notes. Rest back into the knowledge you have the recordings and Rest Now resources to support your ongoing integration of the retreat and any featured content.

Dates & Times: Sunday 25 January 2026 | 10.00-16.00 CET
Location: ZOOM ONLINE (the Zoom link will be sent closer to the event)
Price (includes vat):
Early bird specials:
€59 until 1 October
€73 until 1 November
€86 until 1 December
€99 Regular

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