OVERVIEW
Restorative yoga is a powerful antidote to the daily toll that stress and anxiety can take on the body, mind, and heart. This comprehensive professional training offers the skills, knowledge, and experience you need to lead your students through the holistic healing journey of restorative yoga, including:
Expert instruction in restorative postures
How relaxation affects the nervous system in positive ways and triggers the healing process
The use of pranayama, meditation, visualization, and affirmations to deepen states of relaxed awareness well-being
Sequencing, use of props, scripts, and safe physical adjustments
Ways to integrate applied anatomy and Ayurvedic principles and philosophy
Introduction to Polyvagal Theory
This course focuses on 8 key areas:
Language: Communicate with clarity
Sequencing: Decoding the relationship between poses
Self-Empathy: Trust yourself first
Props: Giving and receiving support
The Yoga Sutra: Integrate this ancient wisdom
Touch: Offering information with your hands
Ethics: Creating a true profession
Savasana: Yoga's most powerful pose
DETAILS
Dates: February 2023
Tuition: $989.00 (AYTT graduates enquire about discounted tuition and this program is included in the Atlas 500hr YTT program - Specializations)
Hours: 100hr program (50 contact hours, 10hrs of Teaching, 1 case study, research, writing, literature review
*Please note: payment is required on receipt of notification of acceptance to the program.
PREREQUISITES
200 Hour YTT &/or Physical Education or Kinesiology Degree
Basic knowledge of Anatomy & PhysiologyIf you are a graduate from another school of yoga, we will require a copy of your certificate, an up-to-date FirstAid/CPR/AED certificate and a copy of your syllabus to ensure that you have covered basic foundational principles assumed in this program. This may require that you do a small amount of work to understand basics in our teaching style.