Specialist in Restorative Yoga

Yoga Teacher Training

50hr Specialist Course

Supporting you to Support your Students

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Combine Restorative Yoga CPD & Yoga Nidra CPD & An Assignment to become a certified Specialist in Restorative Yoga

2nd & 30th November 2024 AND 1st March & 5th April 2025

 
 

What makes Embodied Restorative Yoga so Powerful

Restorative Yoga is primarily about the nervous system.

Taking time, giving and receiving support, using props, weight and covering encourages the body and nervous system to give way, and release. Another way to phrase this is to allow time for the body to move from the symptomatic to the parasympathetic state.

Then benefits of this shift are received by all the other systems within the body,

  • The Respiratory System

  • The Cardiovascular System

  • The Muscleker Skeletal Systems (particularly the Fasha)

  • The Immune System

  • The Digestive & Elimination Systems

  • The Reproductive System

  • Especially the Endocrine System and

  • The Nervous System

In this course you will discover how to read the cues directly from the nervous system, bypassing the other layers (particularly the ‘should’, ‘could’ and ‘must’ )

This deep relaxation will refresh and restore the body and mind. Its effects are longer-lasting and deeply felt.

This often results in better sleep, better digestion & elimination and an overall better sense of self, leading to better boundaries and self-care.

A restorative class is a perfect reboot to the end of the week. Teaching a restorative class can have the same effect on your nervous system as your students, therefore holding the potential to also offer you healing at the end of the week. For almost 10 years my Friday night restorative class … was my favourite way to end the week.

The Prayer of the Embodied Restorative Yoga Teacher

Give me the Clarity to see the Potential

The Confidence to adjust ‘just enough’

And the Wisdom to trust the ‘AH’

What makes Yoga Nidra so Powerful

Yoga Nidra is a highly flexible form of meditation and self-inquiry. It works at all levels of being, our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts, our feelings, and our true nature. By dancing at the levels of consciousness which become available to us as we move between the alert, deep rest, and sleep we can access aspects of ourselves that we may not allow to come forward during our busiest daily lives.

In Yoga Nidra, we explore some or all of the following steps:

  • Connect to Your Heartfelt Desire

  • Set an Intention

  • Find Your Inner Resource

  • Feel Your Body

  • Become Aware of Your Breath

  • Welcome Your Emotions

  • Witness Your Thoughts

  • Experience Joy

  • Find Lasting Peace

  • Reflect on Your Practice

 
“The more I work with people the more I see our need to have a space and time to allow our bodies and minds to unwind.
The space the COVID pause created has now been filled with more activity than ever. Meanwhile, the stress we held as individuals and as a global society is now finding expression.
Now more than ever we can benefit from an opportunity to rest and restore.”
— Laura Wynne

At Aruna Yoga’s Restorative Yoga Certified Short CPD Course for Yoga Teachers

This is an Embodied Yoga Training Course, and as such parts 1 and 2 will be the main focus and will be experiential. The aim is to truly and deeply understand the goal of a restorative pose and the effect of the optimal support for a person in a particular pose. Secondly to be able to read the student and the room so as to offer appropriate time to settle and truly allow the unwind process to happen.

 

Day 1 & 2:

(Restorative CPD course - 2nd & 30th November 2024)

What it is and why bother

  • What is emboied restoritive yoga

  • How does it differ from Yen Yoga or using props in a Hatha class

  • Why it is beneficial

  • The power of rest and restore

  • The Nuts & Bolts

    • Restorative poses - static & moving

    • How to use props effectively - filling the gaps, the power of weight, staying covered

    • Transitions without disturbance

  • Opportunities to offer Embodied Restorative Yoga

    • Integrating restorative poses into a class

    • How to plan a full restorative class and a 7-week course

    • Planning a longer offering - Workshops or Retreat

Assignments:

There will be 3 projects in total

Day 3 & 4:

(Yoga Nidra CPD course - 1st & 29th March 2025)

What it is and why it is so powerful

  • What is yoga nidra

  • What are the different schools or protocols

  • Why it is beneficial

  • The power of deep rest

  • The Nuts & Bolts

    • Explore the steps of the Protocol.

    • Explore how they can be used and adapted depending on what the intention is, the situation, the time available, and the experience of the practitioners

    • Develop your own personal practice

    • Develop a number of scripts for different situations/intentions

  • Opportunities to offer Yoga Nidra

    • Integrating Yoga Nidra into a Class

    • How to plan a full Yoga Nidra class or a 7-week course

    • Planning a longer offering - Workshops or Retreat

  • This is an Embodied Yoga Training Course, and as such parts 1 and 2 will be the main focus and will be experiential. The aim is to truly and deeply understand the goal of yoga nidra and its effects.

  • There will be a project between day 1 &2

  • Another one between day 2 &3

  • And your final one between 3& 4

 
 

About Laura

Laura has thought a weekly Restorative yoga class, monthly workshops and retreats for about 10 years. Initially weighed down with bags of props she eventually built her own studio so as to have a home for all the ‘stuff’. Irionaclay that is when she started using fewer props.

Laura combines her yoga therapy training with her somatic informed embodied yoga training and her vast experience to offer a unique take on restorative yoga that has been popular with her students from the first night.

Having honed and developed her craft she is now delighted to share them with you.

Certification

This course is Certified by Aruna Yoga Academy and qualifies you for 40hrs Further Training for Yoga Teachers with Yoga Alliance

Attendance on all days and completion of all projects are necessary for certification.

Prerequisites

Completion of 200hr Yoga Teacher Training

Investment

  • Full price (for 4 training days) €520

  • EARLY BIRD €480

PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE - €120 x 4 months

I’ve already completed/booked one of the CPD training courses… can I still do this?

YES! Simply book the remaining course and send us an email to make sure you get the information about the pre course project. (laura@arunayoga,ie)

For example, If you have already enrolled in the Restorative CPD course simply book your spot on the Yoga Nidra CPD course

If in any doubt, pop us an email (laura@arunayoga.ie)