In this 15-hour training, you will experience the resonance of inhabiting your body as your home, with deep stillness and opening. You will know how to create and offer this for others. Expand your yoga practice, feel the transformative effects of true renewal, and learn to sequence and teach Restorative and Yin Yoga classes with confidence and equanimity. In addition to understanding the archetypes of all restorative poses (forward folds, backbends, twists, etc.), you will learn the following:
How to structure balanced restorative and yin classes and customizing therapeutic practices for private students
The target area(s) of each pose and the ideal level of sensation
Ways to address specific needs, such as pregnancy and injuries, knowing contraindications and modifications
Techniques that help weave together the physical, emotional, and energetic components to offer students a holistic experience of themselves
How to incorporate restorative poses into more active/Power Yoga classes
Hands-on adjustments that emphasize students’ safety, energetic and physical alignment, and support the function of each asana
The purpose of props – when to use them, which ones to incorporate with which poses, and how they help maximize a restorative practice
Benefits of Restorative and Yin Yoga and how to explain them to your students – as well as the differences between the two
Yin Yoga focuses on the lower body, especially the hips, pelvis, and lower back, and stretches the connective tissue around a joint. Poses, which typically have different names than those used in Power and Restorative Yoga, correspond to specific energy channels (meridians and chakras). Yin practices include rebound periods of stillness between poses, do not incorporate adjustments, and poses are typically held for three to five minutes.
Restorative and Yin Yoga are accessible to everybody, from beginners to advanced practitioners, and support radiant living, vitality, and the capacity to be present. These practices reduce stress, fatigue, pain and stiffness, and improve mobility, endurance, digestion, immune function, fertility, and lead to increased comfort as well as sense of wellbeing and self-care.
*This course is also open to students with a steady practice who wish to learn more about Restorative Yoga
Cost: $295 Early Bird Rate (before November 15)
$350 after November 15
RECOMMENDED READING (not required):
Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times, by Judith Hanson Lasater
The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga, by Bernie Clark
The Psoas Book, by Liz Koch