Amanda Penalver

Amanda Penalver, known to many students as Mandy, is a meditation, yoga and conscious dance teacher based in Surrey, England, with more than twenty-five years of teaching behind her. She founded True Rest, her own approach to guided deep relaxation, which grew out of the tantric practice of yoga nidra and uses breath, mindfulness and body sensing to help people stop striving and simply rest in being. Her teaching puts weight on self-compassion, embodiment and a felt connection with the sacred.

Amanda teaches True Rest classes online each week and in person at workshops, and offers private sessions over Zoom or face to face near her home. She runs day retreats in the Surrey countryside and residential retreats for women in Spain that combine gentle yoga, qi gong, dance, breathwork and sound. She also records guided meditations for Insight Timer and other apps, creates custom recordings for individuals and businesses, and leads wellbeing workshops for companies. On Insight Timer she teaches a ten-day course on the value of a regular daytime nap.