Course Overview
Open to yoga teachers and serious yoga practitioners alike, this course offers a wonderful platform to increase your experience, knowledge and understanding of the restorative yoga practice. Marked for its physical and psychological health benefits, Restorative yoga is growing increasingly popular as we continue to experience a rising amount of stress in the West. In our common state of constant “doing”, restorative yoga gives us the perfect opportunity to slow down, restore and come back to our inate state of “being”. In slowing down through the use of supportive postures using props such as bolsters, blankets and blocks, our bodies and minds are given permission to rest and observe stillness, offering the chance for deep relaxation to occur. 

​During the course you will experience and learn about restorative yoga through practical sessions as well as theoretical lectures equipping you with the skills and tools to effectively design classes and workshops to share this nourishing practice with your students. You will learn about the physiology of the nervous system, the stress response and how to help students activate the parasympathetic response through your classes. As a practice in its own right, the adaptive nature of restorative postures make this style of yoga easily accessible to most people making is a great addition to add to your teaching tool belt.
Key Learning Outcomes
The topics covered will include:
  • Comprehensive selection of Restorative yoga postures with detailed benefits and contraindications
  • Modifications of specific asanas using a variety of props - including blocks, straps, bolsters and blankets
  • Principles, theory and background of Restorative Yoga 
  • How to create effective class plans and sequences
  • How and when to incorporate restorative postures into a general class
  • Understanding of the relaxation response and the nervous system
  • How to create and hold space for your students and the use of language and silence 
  • Guide students using Pranayama and Meditation techniques for deep relaxation
Details
Location: Zenko Yoga Buddina
Trainers: Helen Boniface
Time Commitment: 15 contact hours, 5 non contact hours
Price: $300 (stand alone module)

​Dates: 
Friday 3rd May 2019, 5.00pm - 9.00pm
Saturday 4th May 2019, 11.15am - 3.15pm
Sunday 5th May 2019,  9.30am - 3.30pm
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