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iRest Institute

2026-2027 iRest for Therapists with Stephanie Lopez ONLINE

2026-2027 iRest for Therapists with Stephanie Lopez ONLINE

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iRest for Therapists: Integrating iRest into Your Clinical Practice
Monthly, September 10, 2026 through April 1, 2027
Online via Zoom

 iRest goes beyond traditional therapeutic approaches by providing access to one's Essential Nature, allowing clients to discover an inner wisdom and wholeness that can transform self-perception and integrate parts of the self that have been hidden.

This 8-month series, led by Stephanie Lopez, LCSW, LISW-S, C-IAYT, Gestalt Psychotherapist and iRest President, is designed for therapists who want to incorporate the principles of iRest into their clinical practice or enhance their existing skills. This course will help you access Presence and expand your capacity to meet clients’ emotions and experiences without becoming overwhelmed or trying to fix and change them.

Learn about this event by opening the tabs below.

14 Continuing Education (CE) hours are available for clinical licenses for this series

TCN members receive a discount of $50. To apply, please log-in and apply the discount code: TCN50THERAPISTS26 at checkout. If you're a TCN member and logged in and your discount code doesn't work, please contact us before finalizing your purchase.

Please note: By purchasing this event, you are confirming that you have read and agree with the Agreement of Release and Waiver of Liability as seen below.

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iRest for Therapists: Integrating iRest into Your Clinical Practice 

As clinicians, Presence has a profound impact on our clients' journey. While we utilize a range of therapeutic modalities and techniques to support clients in navigating emerging material and gaining insight, it is the shared sense of Presence that fosters self trust, allowing clients to discover an inner wisdom and wholeness that may otherwise remain hidden.

We will explore the one-on-one approach of iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation, known as Co-Meditation Dyads, which transcends traditional therapeutic approaches by providing a gateway to one's Essential Nature. Essential Nature is at the heart of our core Being, an indestructible and unchanging sense of equanimity, clarity, and wellbeing no matter life circumstances. Co-Meditation Dyads are a form of somatic-based inquiry where we utilize the principles of iRest to facilitate a client’s inner exploration of emerging material. This orientation allows clients to uncover a sense of wholeness that can shift their self-perception, enabling them to integrate aspects of themselves that may have felt broken or relegated to the unconscious, fostering profound insight and transformation. iRest-based inquiry can be woven seamlessly into a therapy session as an adjunct to your current therapeutic toolkit.

This 8-month series, led by Stephanie Lopez, LCSW, LISW-S, C-IAYT, Gestalt Psychotherapist and iRest President, is designed for therapists who want to incorporate the principles of iRest into their clinical practice or enhance their existing skills. This course will help you access Presence and expand your capacity to meet clients’ emotions and experiences without becoming overwhelmed or trying to fix and change them.

Across the 8-month series participants will learn:  

Session 1 (September 10, 2026): How to introduce iRest Co-Meditation Dyads (1:1 work) as a somatic-based adjunct tool to therapy in order to deepen client insight, including:

  • Ways to orient clients to the depth of self-inquiry, inner resource, and inherent wholeness of Self, Being, and Awareness
  • What to do when a client has little interoceptive awareness

Session 2 (October 8, 2026): Being/Presence as the foundation of empathic resonance and therapeutic orientation, including: 

  • Welcoming and wholeness as foundational principles within therapeutic relationship 
  • Embodiment of Being even as the client is in the ‘becoming’ process 

Session 3 (November 5, 2026): iRest as a means to develop nervous system regulation, including:

  • Understanding iRest through the lens of Polyvagal Theory
  • Building resilience through nervous system activation while grounding in Inner Resource/Being

Session 4 (December 3, 2026): iRest as a tool to build self regulation while orienting clients to an inherent wholeness of Self, including:

  • Skillful means to help clients to track emotions, limiting core beliefs, memories, motivations, and actions through key interventions of opposites, stepping back as a witness, anthropomorphizing and inner voice dialogue
  • Tracking clients, allowing process to be client-driven and recognizing when the therapist is falling into fixing and changing mode

Session 5 (January 7, 2027): Considerations on how to navigate the marriage between somatic inquiry and more directive therapy techniques, including:

  • Learning the art of applying therapeutic interventions within the context of somatic, client-centered inquiry 
  • Curiosity, compassion, creativity, and spontaneity within sessions

Session 6 (February 4, 2027): The iRest approach to working with resistance and defenses, including:

  • Working with uncertainty and what to do when you don’t know what to do 
  • Working with emptiness/void, dissatisfaction, and impermanence  

Session 7 (March 4, 2027): iRest as a trauma-informed protocol, including:

  • Supporting clients to improve internal tracking through increased somatic awareness to decrease flooding
  • Considerations to meet, engage, and integrate traumatic memories and build healthy boundaries 

Session 8 (April 1, 2027): How iRest can be used alongside other therapy approaches such as ACT, EMDR, and IFS, which include:

  • Parts work as portals to essential qualities of the Self and Being
  • Insight and integration through welcoming, nonjudgmental presence, compassion, kindness

This comprehensive program offers therapists a unique opportunity to enhance their clinical practice by integrating the transformative power of iRest. It will nurture community engagement for iRest teachers who are also psychotherapists (LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, MD psychiatrists, PhD, PsyD).  

Note: Other clinicians such as Medical Doctors, naturopaths, RN, PT, OT, coaches may participate in the course. Please note that this program builds on existing knowledge and skills in mental health care. It is recommended that participants be skilled in working within clinical settings as this course focuses on the psychotherapeutic application of iRest. 

iRest is an evidence-informed protocol with research indicating it can be beneficial for individuals experiencing trauma, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties.

Teacher(s)

Stephanie Lopez

Venue / Platform

Online Via Zoom

Dates / Schedule

Monthly, September 10, 2026 through April 1, 2027
Online via Zoom
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

This schedule is listed in Pacific Time. Feel free to convert the schedule to your time zone by clicking here.

September 10, 2026
October 8 2026
November 5, 2026
December 3, 2026
January 7, 2027
February 4, 2027
March 4, 2027
April 1, 2027

Pricing

Regular Price: $699
Early Bird Price: $499 (Available through August 10, 2026)

TCN members receive a discount of $50. To apply, please log-in and apply the discount code: TCN50THERAPISTS26 at checkout. If you're a TCN member and logged in and your discount code doesn't work, please contact us before finalizing your purchase.

Please read our attendance and cancellation policy before you register.

Please note: If you would prefer to pay the registration fee in installments, you may choose to pay using a third-party service called Shop Pay at checkout. Shop Pay is a separate entity from iRest Institute. If using, we recommend familiarizing yourself with Shop Pay's terms and fees to ensure the smoothest financing experience possible.

Prerequisites

None.

Recommended and Required Reading

None.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

14 Continuing Education (CE) hours are available for clinical licenses for this series.

This includes psychologists (PSY) nationally, California licensed LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT's, nurses registered by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887), and Ohio social workers. For states other than California and Ohio, it is up to each participant to confirm with their state governing bodies if the CE credits of any course meet their state licensure requirements. 

You must confirm your eligibility and review important guidelines here.

CE registration information will be available within the Participant Resources Page after signing up for the series. Those seeking clinical CEs will need to register for CEs prior to September 10th, 2026.

Waiver of Liability

AGREEMENT OF RELEASE AND WAIVER OF LIABILITY

Please read carefully and discuss questions or concerns by contacting us BEFORE signing.

I hereby agree to the following: 

I understand that I am participating in an event offered by the iRest Institute (hereinafter “Institute”) that offers yoga instruction and iRest. I recognize that yoga may require physical and mental exertion that can be strenuous, and I am fully aware of the risks and hazards involved.

 I understand that yoga and iRest programs may release strong emotions and I accept this possibility and the result of such emotional release.

I acknowledge that there are risks and dangers that cannot be eliminated in this type of event, and even if a risk or danger could have been eliminated, this does not always occur.

I understand and accept that at in person events physical contact between student and instructor may be necessary. I consent to such contact as is considered necessary by the Instructor.

I represent and warrant that I am physically fit and have no medical condition that would prevent my full participation in yoga, iRest and any other Institute programs. I will advise Institute instructors of any and all physical and emotional conditions that could be affected by yoga, iRest and Institute offerings.

I agree to follow instructions carefully and to immediately stop any activity that causes me any unacceptable discomfort, emotional distress or pain. I will report any discomfort, emotional distress or pain to the instructor as soon as possible during or at the end of the program.

In consideration of being permitted to participate in yoga and iRest programs with the Institute, I agree to assume full responsibility for all risks, injuries or damages, known or unknown that I might incur as a result of participating in such activities.

I understand that yoga and iRest may produce a deep state of relaxation that can continue for many hours after the program is complete. I acknowledge that I may need to refrain from driving a vehicle after a yoga or iRest session, until I feel capable of responding to the situations that may arise while driving.

I understand that if this event is being presented in an on-line format it may not allow the instructor to watch my movements or my posture.  I accept any additional risk that may be present because of the instructor being unable to correct any movement or behavior that I may be experiencing and I agree that I will stop any movement or activity that causes me pain or discomfort. 

I acknowledge that during my participation in this event I may be filmed and/or recorded and my image and/or voice may appear in one or more videos or recordings, being produced by Richard Miller or the Institute.  I further acknowledge that one or more of the videos and/or recordings in which my image and or/voice appears may be posted to the Institute’s website and may be shown at various Institute events to support initiatives of the Institute.   I consent to the Institute posting the videos and/or recordings, which contain my image and/or voice, on its website or using the videos and/or recordings at retreats, workshops, trainings and other events where they may feel it is appropriate to promote the Institute or for any other purpose. I am aware that the videos and/or recordings may be shared with and/or sold to various people within the Institute and/or with other people who are not part of the Institute for the purpose of soliciting donations for the Institute and for other purposes and I consent to such use of my image and voice in these videos and recordings.

I release the instructor, substitute instructors, assistants, facility,  Institute and its directors, officers, advisors and employees (referred to as ‘Providers’) from all actions, causes, claims, suits, damages and liabilities arising out of, or connected with, my participation in yoga, iRest and  Institute programs including, but not limited to, personal physical, mental or emotional injury, illness (including death) and/or loss of property. I agree to indemnify and hold harmless all of the Providers.

I, my heirs, assigns, legal representatives and spouse, if any, forever release, waive, discharge and agree not to sue any of the Providers for any injuries or damages I may sustain.

I waive and release any rights I may have under California Civil Code §1542, which states as follows: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, and that if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party “

I agree that this waiver will be interpreted, as broadly as allowed by law, and that if part of this waiver is deemed invalid then the balance shall remain in effect  

I further agree that this waiver and any subsequent claims or legal proceedings will be governed by the laws of the state of California.

I freely and voluntarily agree to these terms and conditions even though I would not be able to participate without signing this waiver.  I assert that my participation and signing is voluntary and that I assume all risks.

FAQs

  • Do I need to attend each session?
    It depends. If you are not seeking clinical CEs, attendance at each session is not mandatory. You may review any missed content by watching the session recordings. However, we encourage you to attend whenever possible.

    If you register for clinical CEs, live attendance at each session is mandatory to be eligible for CEs. See the CE section for more information. 

  • Will recordings be available for me to watch later? 
    Yes, recordings will be available for 1 year after the conclusion of the event. Each session recording will be posted to this Participants Resources Portal within 24 hours of the end of the session. They are only available streaming online and cannot be downloaded.

If you have any additional questions, please contact events@irest.org.

†CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes.
For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact iRest Institute at support@irest.org. For questions about CE, contact Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
Social Workers and Counselors:
This workshop has been approved by the NASW Ohio Chapter for CEUs in Ohio. NASW is recognized as a Continuing Education Approver for social work and counselor CEUs by the OCSWMFT Board.

Have any questions about attending this event? Contact events@irest.org.