Body Scan Yoga Nidra

Led by Kyla Pearce

Yoga nidra is practice that can help you achieve very deep states of relaxation by gradually moving your awareness throughout your body. This meditation practice is a body scan, one component of yoga nidra, that is a is a beautiful way to help you create a feeling of peace and balance. By focusing your attention on different parts of your body, you are cultivating your mind-body connection, and thus catalyzing more unity and harmony within yourself.

Kyla (she/her) serves as the Senior Director of Programs and Research, overseeing the design, implementation, and evaluation of LoveYourBrain programs on a large scale. By turning inward through mindfulness, Kyla believes we learn to be with our whole selves with greater compassion, which is fundamental to wellbeing and inspiring positive social change. Kyla has blended her expertise as a yoga and mindfulness teacher and practitioner, researcher, and advocate to develop evidence-based, TBI-centered yoga and meditation curricula, which she trains yoga teachers and clinicians to deliver in clinical, community, and online settings. She recently completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dartmouth College investigating the impact of yoga and meditation for people with neurological conditions, and has published broadly on this topic. She has been part of the Pearce family for years, and, following Kevin's accident, played an integral role in the launch of LoveYourBrain.