Welcome to your Yoga Nidra Teachers Training Lv 1 Exam! There are 50 questions. You must get at least 40 questions correct to pass. Your results and personalized certificate will be emailed to you after submitting. 1. Name and Email 2. What is Buddhi? Intellect An enlightened being Atman All of the above 3. The two most basic components of yoga nidra are _____ and ______. Restfulness and sleep Body scan and sensations Awareness and relaxation Shavasana and body scan 4. In Yoga Nidra we are cultivating: Restfulness Serenity Awareness Health 5. What does pratyahara mean? Witness consciousness Intuition Instinct Sense withdrawal 6. Pratyahara is not a technique, but a result of the previous stages of the practice. True False 7. What is the name of the fourth kosha? Vijnanamayakosha Anandamayakosha Anamayakosha Manomayakosha Pranamayakosha 8. Physical tension is related to which kosha? Manomayakosha Anamayakosha Pranamayakosha Anandamayakosha 9. Emotional tension is related to which kosha? Anamayakosha Pranamayakosha Manomayakosha Vijnanamayakosha Anandamayakosha 10. Mental tension is related to which kosha? Anamayakosha Vijnanamayakosha Manomayakosha Pranamayakosha 11. What are samskaras? Desires Thought patterns Actions Impressions 12. "Anything in life can fail you, but the ______ made during yoga nidra can never fail you". ~Swami Satyananda Techniques Sensation Formula Sankalpa 13. The purpose of the ______ is to create strength in the structure of the mind. Practice Sankalpa Body scan Points of contact 14. The fourth state beyond the changing outer dimensions of the physical, subtle and causal bodies is called... Sukshma Turiya Sthula Karana 15. During Yoga Nidra your participants must never move or scratch their body. True False 16. Name one practice in Yoga Nidra for the Anamayakosha... Breath awareness Body scan Psychic symbol Sankalpa 17. Name one practice in Yoga Nidra for the Pranamayakosha... Breath awareness Anuloma viloma Conscious breathing All of the above 18. Name one practice in Yoga Nidra for the Manomayakosha... Anuloma Viloma Points of contact Sensations Body scan 19. Yoga Nidra requires no belief or blind acceptance of a dogma. True False 20. What are the three states of yoga nidra? Relaxation, sleep and unconsciousness. Sleep, conscious dreaming and sleepless sleep. Physical relaxation, mental silence, psychic perceptions. Illusion, delusion, and awareness. 21. During yoga nidra there is no need for physical presence between the teacher and the practitioner. True False 22. In yoga nidra the sound link acts as... Asana Pranayama Dharana Ashtanga 23. To be an excellent yoga nidra teacher ______ is required. Loudness Intuition A yoga studio Total mastery 24. You cannot command an effect, such as silence, but must lead them through the process of creating the cause for that effect to occur. True False 25. What single asana helps to prepare for yoga nidra by tensing and relaxing the whole body? Sirshasana Shavasana Naukasana Pawan Muktasana 26. Shavasana is an advanced yoga pose that anyone can do. True False 27. _______ means the taking of 'food' for the senses is prevented. Yoga nidra Pratyahara Sankalpa Witness consciousness 28. According to Samkhya philosophy, the mind and the thoughts that appear in the mind are also considered a part of prakṛti (matter). True False 29. According to Samkhya philosophy what is Purusha? The indweeling soul That which is seen The intellect The body/mind complex 30. What is the guna of balance, auspiciousness, compassion, clarity, and positivity? Tamas Rajas Sattwa 31. What is the guna of activity, chaos, passion, and impulsivity, worldliness? Tamas Rajas Sattwa 32. What is the guna of darkness, ignorance, dullness, laziness, lethargy and negativity? Tamas Rajas Sattwa 33. What is the Samkhya term for "person", "spirit", or "the indwelling being", which is featureless consciousness, an inactive passive witness and unchanging? Karma Prakriti Purusha Buddha 34. This is the practice of not identifying with the mind and not indulging in thought from the first person perspective. Here we remain a detached observer to the play of consciousness occurring during the three states of mind. Sakshi Bhava Kaivalya Nidra Asmita 35. It is not important to do breath awareness before conscious breathing exercises. True False 36. When do you do the second sankalpa during Yoga Nidra? After body scan Before breathing practices Before and after the visualization sequence Before extroverting the senses at the end 37. This exercise is building new neural pathways, which gradually empower your participants to go beyond the realm of conventional human sufferings and develop detachment and equanimity. Body scan Breath awareness Polar Opposite Sensations Visualizations and Psychic Symbol 38. The second of the three states of yoga nidra is called ______ because we learn to enter the state between sleep and wakefulness without loss of awareness. Conscious dreaming Unconscious sleep Hypnosis Trance 39. This exercise is a method of using the symbol or image as a catalyst to provoke a reaction in the unconscious parts of the mind. Visualization Sankalpa Points of contact Breath awareness 40. The mind stores information in the psyche in symbolic form. True False 41. The symbols visualized during yoga nidra can act by direct association with the samksaras, or by an _______ association. Indirect Sensual Psychic Abstract 42. Your _____ is the link that your listeners are maintaining a connection with in order to descend into deeper levels of the psyche. Foot Gaze Voice Presence 43. All the various forms of suffering, whether physical, emotional, mental or psychological only afflict you when you identify with _______. Your cat The body and mind The spirit The nonmanifest 44. From physical awareness to pranic awareness your participants remain in the domain of the ________. Conscious mind Subconscious mind Unconscious mind 45. From pranic awareness to mental awareness they enter the realm of the _______. Conscious mind Subconscious mind Unconscious mind 46. From psychic awareness to homogenous awareness your listeners enter in the ______. Conscious mind Subconscious mind Unconscious mind 47. The waves or patterns of manifested consciousness are known as ______. Ripples Vrittis Raga Dwesha 48. Sleep is not a vritti, it is not considered one of the modifications of consciousness. True False 49. There are many similarities between deep sleep and samadhi, what is the main difference? Awareness in maintained during samadhi A trance state is entered into during samadhi During samadhi the breathing stops During samadhi there is no consciousness 50. At the end of your visualization sequence, story or guided meditation you should chose one object and continue repeating the instructions to focus on it for the duration of the session. What is this one object called? Sensations Psychic passage Psychic symbol Samskara Time's up
