This training will provide the tools and understanding to address your own well being and the skill sets to enrich your teaching. The program is open to yoga students, teachers, and anyone wanting to deeply relax, restore, and reset the underlying rhythms of the body-mind continuum.
Instruction will include:
- How to construct a Restorative Yoga class
- How to focus on specific issues of the mind, body, and spirit
- Theories of relaxation
- Anatomy
- Understanding the parasympathetic system and the art of deeper restoration
- Adjustments
- Use of props: blankets, bolsters, blocks, etc.
- Benefits of Restorative Yoga
- Restorative vinyasa
- Restorative wall classes
- Sequences for lower back, thoracic spine, stress, rejuvenation
- Creating your own sequences
- Adding breathing, meditation, and energy work into your Restorative class
- The accoutrements: music, oils, etc.
- Using Thai Yoga movements to add confidence to your hands-on adjustments
- Using Thai Yoga to add diversity to one on one sessions