RESTORATIVE PART ONE - Teacher Training/Practice: 

One can’t be relaxed and anxious at the same time

YOU WILL LEARN:

• • • Essential Nature Restorative Yoga Sequences – General, and focused on twists, backbends, etc.*
    • Passive Restorative sequences for total activation of the relaxation response*
    • Classical Passive poses*
    • Multidimensional nature of restorative experience*
    • Contemplation & journaling*
    • Integrative process throughout the training*
    • Manual enhancements and adjustments for teachers to deepen the student’s experience*
    • Integrating sound, music, and silence*
    • Mediation techniques: focus, witness, combined/ the breath*
    • Introduction to exploring and integrating the 5 Koshas, 3Gunas and 7 Chakras*

Teaching Methodology: covered in part 1 and 2

• • • What constitutes a restorative pose?*
    • How to develop flows & sequences*
    • Frequency & duration of restorative practice*
    • Physical alignment*
    • Enhancing alignment with Essential Nature, the Divine, Grace, as well as physical alignment*
    • Relationship with the teacher’s personal practice*
    • Self-observation of teacher’s alignment*
    • Choosing and using  props*
    • How to evaluate your class*
    • Neutralizing the spine to maintain the natural curvature prior to savasana*
    • Using savasana as the bridge from active practice to understand & experience all other restoratives*
    • Creating & holding the energetic space for whatever comes up for the individual students*
    • Honing proprioceptive observation skills - intuitive, visual, student’s response*
    • Individualized variations & adjustments, choosing verbal and nonverbal communication & observation*
    • Communicating with students on many levels - energetically, verbally, physically*
    • Use of the teacher’s authentic voice - tone, volume, speed, and content

Anatomy and Physiology: 

• • • Physiology of relaxation
    • Beginning Anatomy of the nervous system
    • How to express the goals, physiology, and efficacy of restorative yoga in simple terms
    • Difference between relaxation and meditation

Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle & Ethics:  

• • • Shiva-Shakti Tantra
    • Goddess stories and applications to your life
    • Contemplation & journaling
    • Relevance of the teacher’s personal practice

Practicum 

• • • Observing, assisting, co-teaching, and teaching