CPD05 Restorative Yoga Teacher Training: Restorative Yoga Therapy

Practice is not about what you get, it is about what you give. Whether you are driven or resistant, the medicine is the same: do what is truly possible with unwavering commitment to giving yourself to the moment. Without this intention, practice becomes another task to be completed, and it loses its ability to transform. And, transformation, or freedom, is the reason for all discipline.

Judith Hanson Lasater

Bridging the gap between a strong yoga class and a seated meditation class, restorative yoga is an evidence-based practice providing a level of rejuvenation that many within our chaotic society cannot access in other ways.

Sleep deprived, exhausted, and overworked many clientele within our society come seeking a sense of relief from chronic illness, inflammation, anxiety, depression, or a sense of unease. Learning to teach restorative practices and to focus classes on the benefits of self-care enables a richness within the practitioner’s services that allows for integrative well being in their clientele.

Moreover, restorative yoga has the capacity to completely tone the nervous system, and deep interoceptive awareness is developed to transform suffering. Restorative yoga is a magnificent and empowering therapeutic tool that awakens the energetic systems of the mind-body developing a heightened sensitivity and a gentle self-compassion; this then, intrinsically enhancing holistic wellbeing making it incredibly accessible to many people.

This intensive provides an immersive embodied learning experience that enables all yoga practitioners to have a first-hand proficiency and adept understanding of psychosomatic medicine and the healing process. Such includes short, medium, and long hold poses, sequencing, correct prop usage for individual anatomy variances, accurate and precise alignment tutelage, touch adjustments, methodology of pranayama and the physiology of relaxation.