Richard Miller: Making Peace with Life

The Heart of Now

In episode three, Monika and Elizabeth engage in an immersive conversation with the organically joyful, undeniably wise, and playful Richard Miller about yoga nidra, non-dualism, connecting with our inner essence, the indestructible ease we all carry within us, accepting and welcoming our challenges, (re)discovering that nothing is wrong, radical truth and authenticity, making peace with life, and so much more.

About Richard Miller

Richard C. Miller, PhD, C-IAYT, ERYT-500 is the Founder, Chairman, and Executive Director of iRest Institute, Co-Founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and Founding Member and past President of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology.

He is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar, and spiritual teacher who, for over 50 years, has devoted his life to integrating western psychology and neuroscience with the ancient nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism, and Buddhism.

Author of Yoga Nidra, The iRest Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing, iRest Meditation: Restorative Practices for Health, Healing and Well Being, The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, and Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Richard serves as a research consultant studying the nondual somatic-based meditation protocol he’s developed —iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation— researching its efficacy on health, healing, and well-being with diverse populations and issues. Grounded in 35+ research studies, the US Army Surgeon General and the Defense Centers of Excellence have recognized iRest as a Complimentary Program for healing chronic pain and PTSD. Richard leads international trainings and meditation retreats on the integration of enlightened living into daily life.

Connect with Richard to learn more about iRest, his simple and accessible form of meditation designed for modern living, yoga nidra, and nonduality, or to attend any of the trainings and events he offers, including the free 10-Step iRest Protocol.

A copy of his book, Yoga Nidra: The iRest Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing is found here. And, as promised, here is The Open Secret in the book's Introduction:

"When we dwell in the pleasures of our senses, attractions to further pleasures arise. From attraction comes attachment, the desire for possession that leads to passion and burns into anger. Passion and anger cloud judgment and lead to confusion, the inability to learn from past mistakes, and the failure to choose between what is wise and what is unwise.

This is the path of separation. But when we move in the world of the senses, yet keep our senses in harmony, free from attachment to attraction or aversion, we rest in the wisdom heart of our Essential Nature, the true Equanimity of Being, in which all sorrow and suffering cease."

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